Reports to: Program Manager
TechnoServe Background:
TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries. We are a nonprofit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. With more than four decades of proven results, we believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.
Position Description:
The Food Processing Specialist will provide on-the -ground technical advisory services to selected food processors at country level. In coordination with the Senior Food Processing Specialist, this role will develop and deliver standardized trainings to address technical fundamentals of food processing. S/he will collaborate with other team members in-country and across the project, to ensure coordinated and impactful implementation.
The Food Processing Specialist will be an integral member implementing the revised AINFP strategy which includes working with transitional and accelerator clients, as well as foundational clients. The FPS will focus predominantly on developing packages of support for foundational clients (cooperative unions, small scale / regional processors).
Responsibilities:
Food Processor Selection
Food Processor Assessment
Processor Relationship Management
Ensure execution and delivery of technical support to clients covered under the MoU with the Cooperative Union and sector Associations
Technical Assistance
Sector Wide Trainings
Market Linkages
Knowledge Management, Learning and Communications
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