Overview
Provide analytical and technical support on agrifood lending and value chains for technical assistance activities in food and agriculture.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in and lead multidisciplinary teams to assist governments in identifying and preparing investment and finance support initiatives.
- Provide technical expertise for studies, strategies, and investment plans.
- Support the development of inclusive and sustainable food systems.
- Formulate and deliver capacity development initiatives.
- Prepare documents according to FAO, government, and financing partner requirements.
- Support task organization, consultant selection, and quality assurance.
- Promote international cooperation and collaboration.
- Establish and maintain relationships with FAO units and offices.
- Participate in resource mobilization activities.
- Provide guidance to junior staff.
- Support the implementation of the TERRA programme.
- Ensure communication with counterparts CDP and DG INTPA.
- Conduct assessments of agrifood portfolios, strategies, and lending practices of financial institutions.
- Identify technical assistance needs of financial institutions.
- Participate in teams to enhance financial institutions' ability to lend to the agrifood sector.
- Prepare Terms of Reference for assignments and identify qualified specialists.
Required Experience
- Seven years of relevant experience in the practical application of agrifood lending, value chain analysis and development, agribusiness and market development, agrifood processing, including experience in the formulation and/or implementation of agricultural investment and finance solutions in developing countries and/or countries in transition.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions.
- Extent and relevance of experience in technical fields related to agribusiness development, agrifood finance, rural finance, value-chain development and analysis, business planning, agriculture marketing, blended finance and private sector development.
- Extent and relevance of experience in participating in multidisciplinary teams for the preparation of strategies and sector studies as well as formulation, implementation support or evaluation of agricultural investment and finance support solutions, with a focus on rural finance, value chain development and agribusiness, as well as experience in working directly with the private sector and with commercial financial institutions.
- Extent and relevance of experience in the formulation and delivery of capacity development in the areas of agriculture, rural development, natural resource management, agro-processing and blended finance.
- Knowledge of the stakeholder context including partners and institutions in the blended finance and agrifood finance space (including Development Finance Institutions and commercial financial institutions), as well as CDP and the European Union.
- Demonstrated experience in dealing with government officials, development partners, financial institutions (experience working for a financial institution is an asset) and other country stakeholders.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in agriculture, agro-industry, business administration, economics, agricultural economics, agribusiness, finance, political sciences or a closely related field.
