Overview
The Officer - Private Sector Partnerships will serve as the primary technical focal point for private sector engagement and partnerships within the Technical Support Unit (TSU). The role involves identifying, mapping, and engaging private sector actors across priority value chains to facilitate coordination and support the development of strategies and action plans.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary technical focal point for private sector engagement and partnerships.
- Identify, map, and engage private sector actors across priority value chains.
- Facilitate coordination between private sector partners, NRLM/SRLMs, women’s collectives, FPOs, and other ecosystem actors.
- Support establishment and management of partnership platforms, working groups, and collaboration forums.
- Undertake market scans and value chain-specific private sector mapping.
- Support development of value chain–specific private sector participation strategies and action plans.
- Provide inputs to gender-inclusive business models, sourcing frameworks, and aggregation strategies.
- Support integration of climate-resilient practices and DRE-based solutions.
- Contribute to design and operationalization of innovation challenges.
- Support structuring, negotiation, and facilitation of partnerships between private sector actors and women’s collectives/FPOs.
- Provide technical inputs to development of partnership frameworks, MoUs, and collaboration guidelines.
- Support convergence with financial institutions, impact investors, and blended finance mechanisms.
- Ensure partnerships are aligned with programme objectives, gender principles, and NRLM operational systems.
- Provide strategic advisory support to MoRD, NRLM, and SRLMs on strengthening private sector engagement.
- Support capacity building of government counterparts and ecosystem actors on inclusive sourcing, gender-responsive procurement, and partnership management.
- Contribute technical inputs to policy discussions, guidelines, and toolkits.
- Advise on risk mitigation, incentive alignment, and sustainability of private sector partnerships.
- Prepare periodic technical progress reports on private sector engagement and partnership development.
- Support documentation of partnership models, case studies, and best practices.
- Contribute to development of guidance notes, toolkits, and knowledge products.
- Plan, organize, and facilitate stakeholder consultations, technical workshops, and market linkage events.
- Support organization of private sector–collective dialogues, buyer–seller meets, and sector-specific engagement forums.
- Coordinate with the Communication Specialist to ensure visibility and learning from private sector partnerships.
- Support inputs to digital dashboards and MEL systems to track partnership performance and outcomes.
- Support monitoring of private sector partnership outcomes and contribute to adaptive learning processes.
- Identify scalable partnership models and contribute to recommendations for replication.
- Support cross-state and cross-value chain knowledge exchange on inclusive market engagement.
- Ensure provision of top-quality advisory services and facilitation of knowledge building and management.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience in private sector engagement, market linkages, inclusive business development, or value chain partnerships.
- Demonstrated experience of working with agri & food business, FMCG & Retail, Warehousing & commodity procurement companies at national or global scale.
- Experience in engaging and negotiating with private sector actors.
- Experience coordinating, facilitating, and managing stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Business Administration, Rural Management, Economics, Agribusiness, Development Studies, Public Policy, or a related field is required, or
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
