Summary
Date Posted: Friday, November 03 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Job Description
Overview of the Position
The Project Officer is part of an SNV Country Organisation and is appointed to one or more projects in the country.
The Project Officer - Agribusiness has the responsibility to provide technical support for the development and implementation of business cases in the CRAFT Project whereby climate smart agriculture interventions are integrated into the value chain from an agronomic, financial and inclusion perspective. Prioritised value chain commodities are pulses, oilseed, potato, and grains.
The CRAFT project officer - Agribusiness will support the closure of all BCs, support knowledge harvesting and documentation, as well as support the various project closure events planned for the period. The project officer – Agribusiness will support data analytics and contribute to knowledge management.

Roles and responsibilities
• Supervise, coach and mentor CRAFT Agribusiness partners implementing CSA practices and technologies and ensure successful implementation.
• Support agribusinesses and partners in promoting, market uptake and scaling of evidence-based climate smart technologies and innovations, integrating renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions along the chains.
• Contribute to climate risk assessments of entry commodities (pulses, oilseed, potatoes, and cereals) and others in the farming systems.
• Support CSA implementation through a contextual analysis, assessing the barriers for uptake of climate smart agricultural best practices and innovative practices, and formulate recommendations for smallholder farmers, SMEs, financial institution, and governments.
• Contribute to development and implementation of tailored CSA training and coaching programs for small holder farmers (including women and youth), extension services providers (public, private, NGOs etc.), farmer cooperatives on climate-proofing agricultural production systems for selected value chains.
• Support in the development of services providers business cases and scaling successful ones especially inclusion of inclusive and innovative water and energy efficient technologies.
• Facilitate and/or contribute to development of strategic partnership and collaboration in the areas of climate-smart agriculture.
• Support enabling environment function in collaboration with appropriate institutions.

Additional requirements:
• Good report writing skills with proven ability to compile case studies, practice, and policy briefs and (other) documents for learning and sharing.
• Computer skills and software applications (email, word processing, spreadsheets, statistical programs).
• Skills in teamwork, facilitation, and training.
• Sensitive and committed to gender equity and diversity.
• Willingness to travel to all project locations.
• Excellent organizational, negotiation, influencing and advisory/coaching skills.
• Strong work ethics, high level of confidentiality and Integrity.

Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Agriculture, Business Administration, and management. .
• Minimum four (4) years relevant work experience, ideally with private sector and public sector partnerships.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 48

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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