Overview
Provide technical expertise on agribusiness development, value chain strengthening, and market systems to support inclusive, sustainable, and nutrition-sensitive food systems, particularly within livestock, poultry, and apiculture value chains.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical expertise on agribusiness development, value chain strengthening, and market systems.
- Provide technical support on agribusiness and market development for small livestock, poultry, and apiculture value chains.
- Integrate gender-responsive agribusiness activities into District Development Plans and depot and nursery business plans.
- Develop practical cost-recovery and revenue-generation models.
- Support women to establish market linkages for eggs, meat, honey, and other livestock products.
- Promote collective marketing and bulk sales approaches.
- Deliver training on business skills.
- Establish and coordinate linkages with local and regional buyers.
- Monitor sales performance, farmer incomes, and market demand.
- Strengthen capacities of government counterparts and farmer organizations.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years (with Master’s degree) or 10 years (with Bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible experience in agribusiness development, value chain strengthening, or market systems programming.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work related to agribusiness development and agricultural value chain strengthening (e.g., livestock, poultry, or apiculture), including collaboration with government institutions, cooperatives, and smallholder farmer groups across different project locations or programme areas.
- Extent and relevance of experience in developing and strengthening livestock, poultry, apiculture, or smallholder-based value chains.
- Extent and relevance of experience in integrating gender-responsive approaches into agribusiness and market development initiatives.
- Extent and relevance of experience in supporting agribusiness integration into local planning frameworks.
- Extent and relevance of experience in delivering business skills training (bookkeeping, pricing, negotiation, financial literacy, customer relations).
- Familiarity with rural enterprise financing and cooperative governance models.
- Familiarity with and Knowledge of agricultural value chain development.
- Strong understanding of inclusive and nutrition-sensitive food systems.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree) in Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Marketing, Rural Development, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field. A Bachelor’s degree in the above fields with additional years of relevant professional experience may be considered.
