Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, November 01, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Under the supervision and guidance of the Project Coordinator.

Required Tasks:
• Lead in analytical and business strategic work pertaining to small holder commercial agriculture, agribusiness and rural enterprise development;
• Develop new business partnerships, manage the existing ones and review the running partnerships.
• You will be required to recruit new business partners and identifying future opportunities for impact across the Programme impact areas;
• Be part of designing and analyzing market-related studies in areas of operation and pick key programmatic lessons and opportunities for efficiency in market;
• Assist SG2000 Country Office teams to evaluate business models and market linkage approaches;
• Support the SG2000 Country Office team to work with farmers, farmer organizations and Village Saving & Loan Associations (VSLAs) to create new and/or diversified market linkages and build partnerships; Identifying capacity & training needs and techniques for selected agricultural value chains that improve smallholder farmers' food security, yields, product quality, nutrition and incomes;
• Develop and enhance working partnerships in areas of mutual interest across the value chain with donors and other external public or private organizations,
• Participate fully in the preparation of work plans and budgets, reports and updates on business development strategies and activities;
• Support in developing and piloting public-private partnership models;
• Perform any other activities as and when required by Management.


Academic Qualifications and Work Experience
Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture Economics, Agribusiness, Rural Development or any other related field.
At least 5 years of work experience working in related field.

Personal Competencies:
• High Degree of Integrity
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and computer Skills
• Proven ability to adapt to a multi-cultural setting
• High degree of innovation and concern for high technical and quality standards
• Should have strong oral, analytical, writing and presentational skills.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Send by E-mail only: An Application letter, a two-paged CV and scanned copies of ONLY Relevant academic credentials as one attachment not later than November 11th 2022 to:
The Country Director, Sasakawa Africa Association,
E-mail: saa-uganda@saa-safe.org  / jnakiminyi@saa-safe.org 
Sasakawa Africa Association is an Equal Opportunity Employer; Women are highly encouraged to apply. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.


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