Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, March 01, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Deliverables:
• Review and Profile target POs (using CPI tool) to identify their capacity needs, and initiate an organizational development process to improve their governance and management capacities to become bankable and sustainable businesses.
• Facilitate the POs to formulate strategy plans to guide their operations, identify demanded services by their member farmers and undertake growth (joint selling, Buying and membership) outreach programs.
• Work with POs management and HiH EA team to Set 3 – 6 month’s growth target milestones.
• In collaboration with the Business Development Officers; Organize financial literacy programs with POs to help smallholders understand how to manage their enterprise finances, appreciate use financial services including insurance and facilitate them to form viable SACCOs in their respective localities.
• Guide in development fundable investment plans for financing by mainstream financial institutions subsidized agricultural financing programs.
• Guide CBOs to public participation channels to ensure the member’s voice is heard by relevant stakeholder and decisions made in their locality have their considerations included.
• Assist FOs management to conduct simple stakeholder analysis to help them understand how their activities can influence or be influenced by different stakeholders, signing of collaborative/joint agreements.
• Promote gender inclusivity in the CBOs with a focus to joint decision making and participation of women in CBO leadership and activities.
• Work with the program manager to collect and document lessons and best practices, organize sharing and learning platforms for FOs, and publish best practices.

Expected Outputs:
• Growth in joint buying of inputs by POs members by 20% ( farmers and volumes) each season or every 6 months
• Growth in joint selling of harvested produce by 30% ( farmers and volumes) each season or every 6 months
• Promote diversification by producer organizations ( Minimum 2 value chains per PO)
• Enhance proper governance and leadership structures within the POs
• Signed collaborative agreements between POs and relevant stakeholders ; at least one agreement every season

Person Specification
• At least a diploma in agribusiness, agricultural economics, development finance or any other related field.
• At least 5 -years of working experience with Producer Organizations (Cooperatives and CBOs), farmer SACCOs or in agricultural financial institutions facilitating access to finance.
• Experience with commonly used tools for value chain analysis and finance, business appraisal and business planning.
• Experience in conducting stakeholder analysis with smallholder producer organizations.
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating linkage of value chain businesses to the appropriate markets and market information sources.
• Solid understanding of agriculture, small, medium and micro enterprises, economics, monitoring and evaluation and value chains.
• Demonstrated experience in conducting monitoring and evaluation of smallholder producer organizations promoting value chains (preferably both crop & livestock).


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Job application procedure

Electronic submission of proposals will be made to procurement@handinhandea.org  by 8th March 2023 at 1700 hours EAT.

Any questions before submission of the EOI should be sent directly to procurement@handinhandea.org  latest 6th March 2023.


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