Jobs at:
Agricultural Business initiative (aBi)

Vacancy title:
Technical Expert Social & Environmental Responsibility

Deadline of this Job:
12:00pm on 11th November 2016

Duty Station:
Uganda

Job details:
The Agricultural Business initiative (aBi), a group of registered companies namely aBi Trust and aBi Finance Ltd, is a multi-stakeholder entity co-founded in July 2010 by the Governments of Uganda and Denmark through DANIDA and the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development respectively, with the objective to promote “Private sector agribusiness development to enhance wealth creation”.

The development objective of the aBi Trust is building a self-sustaining export-led economy in which the benefits are shared by all Ugandans, and its immediate objective is to strengthen the competitiveness of Uganda’s agricultural and agro-processing sector. It does this through Value Chain Development (VCD) of six value chains (Coffee, Cereals, Pulses, Horticulture, Dairy and Oil Seeds) and Financial Services Development (FSD).

aBi Finance Ltd is the investment arm of aBi that aims to enable the Trust to meet its programme activities in a sustainable manner by offering financing for agribusiness development through Lines of Credit, Agribusiness Loan Guarantees and the Construction Guarantees Fund. aBi is looking to recruit for the following positions;

Technical Expert Social & Environmental Responsibility
The Technical Expert Social & Environmental Responsibility role is accountable for leading aBi in understanding and implementing best practice in Social & Environmental Responsibility ; ensuring that aBi continuously develops new and more effective approaches to have a positive impact on sustainable growth of the agricultural sector in Uganda.

Job application procedure
Please make applications by clinking on the link http://abitrust.hrmagic.ug/careers and follow the instructions.

Deadline for all submissions is 12:00pm on 11th November 2016. Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted. For more information, please visit our website www.abi.co.ug/?page_id=4892