KOICA Nigeria is looking to recruit suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Agriculture Value Chain Expert

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Temporary

Academic Qualification

• Master’s Degree in Crop or Agric. Extension, Crop Production and 5 years’ experience
• Bachelor’s Degree Crop or Agric. Extension, Crop Production and 7 years’ Experience
• Practical experience supporting the development of farmers and farmers’ enterprises
• Demonstrated capacity to work with private sector players (financial institutions, exporters, buyers, traders, transporters, input suppliers or processors)
• An understanding of climate-smart agriculture principles is preferred
• Relevant experience Agric value chain

Experience:

• Operationalize overall enterprise and marketing development strategy; encompass market led / value chain development approach to be integrated in all outcome areas
• Under the supervision of the Agribusiness Advisor; facilitate development of commercial/business linkages
• Contribute to designing a strategy to strengthen linkages between stakeholders – governments’ representatives and the private sector
• Infuse commercial orientation in projects activities and undertakings;
• Facilitate, identify, and maintain strong partnerships with private sector organizations, cooperatives partners throughvalue chain platforms
• Contribute to the formulation and delivery of training modules for project staff related to the key decision-making tools for market analysis and program intervention design
• Motivate the project farmers for collective marketing
• Ability to design, apply and implement project management tools, including for example work breakdown structure and Gantt charts
• Experience of assisting capacity building of Women’s groups / Farmer cooperative
• Experience working an International Organization or INGO
• Increase the income of farmers or beneficiaries through improving the value chain

Competencies:

• Strong organizational and project management skills, including budgeting, due diligence, and reporting
• Good communication skills and ability to interact with a variety of stakeholders in both the private and public sectors
• Ability to undertake technical policy-focused research related to value chains and business operations
• Excellent research skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong communication skills
• Proficiency should be in English
• Willing to travel within Nigeria

Salary

• $1,200 monthly.

Application Closing Date
14th November, 2020.