Overview
Provide technical leadership and expertise in farming systems, value chain assessment, market development, agribusiness planning, stakeholder engagement, and sustainable enterprise development to ensure value chain interventions contribute to livelihood improvement and biodiversity conservation.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess gender sensitive, biodiversity friendly and climate resilient agricultural and forestry practices and livelihood approaches.
- Review lessons learned on farming and forest use systems and practices.
- Review agriculture and forestry markets and value chain of the Highlands Region.
- Support the preparation and implementation of value chain baseline assessments, analyses, and other studies.
- Prepare Concept Notes on sustainable livelihood initiatives and priorities.
- Support contractual preparation and engagement of identified partners and service providers.
- Support the monitoring and reporting on deliverables of engaged partners and service providers.
- Facilitate and coordinate stakeholder consultations, workshops, training sessions, and awareness-raising activities.
- Identify gaps, constraints, and opportunities within selected value chains and develop actionable improvement plans.
- Conduct value chain analysis applying FAO’s youth-sensitive and gender-responsive value chain methodology.
- Engage with local value chains stakeholders, agripreneurs and their associations/local service providers, NGOs/INGOs, CBOs, groups and local governments.
- Develop the capacity and capability of partner organization staff to deliver extension services.
- Support partners/service providers to identify and build the capacity of farming families and their forest and farm producer organisations.
- Support agripreneurs in the preparation, development and implementation of grant proposals and business development interventions.
- Timely planning and implementation of project outputs related to sustainable agriculture and value chain development.
- Coordinate and align joint work planning and field activities with the FAO LEED programme.
- Support project staffs and consultants and manage related project risks.
- Perform any other tasks and duties as maybe required.
Required Experience
- A minimum of seven (7) years of relevant professional experience with a proven track record in implementing projects covering a broad range of agriculture, agribusiness and value chain development issues, of which a minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience in capacity building and training delivery in Papua New Guinea.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in agriculture, agribusiness and value chain development.
- Extent and relevance of experience in agriculture, agribusiness, value chain assessments, value chain analysis, value chain improvement planning, market systems development, agribusiness planning and enterprise development, and project implementation.
- Extent and relevance of experience in gender-responsive and youth-inclusive (GEDSI) value chain development, including the promotion of gender-sensitive, biodiversity-friendly and climate-resilient agricultural production and value chain approaches, as well as capacity building and stakeholder engagement.
- Familiarity with farming systems, agricultural production systems and value chains in Papua New Guinea, including experience working with government institutions, producer organizations, community groups and development partners.
Qualifications
University degree (Bachelor's or higher) in Agriculture, Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Value Chain Development, or a closely related field.
