Location:Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with frequent in-country travel
Start date:July 2011 (contingent upon securing new funding)
Duration:5 years
Background Information:
TechnoServe is an international business development organization whose mission is to help entrepreneurial men and women in poor areas of the developing world build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth.
Our approach is based on hiring high-performing people who share our vision of private sector solutions that create long-term transformation in people’s lives. We believe in hard work, creativity, and leveraging the dynamism of talented people. We are committed to innovation, learning, and results. Our global team is drawn from world-class industry and management consulting firms. We are work in nearly 30 countries in Africa, Latin America and India.
The Livestock Growth Program (LGP) is a comprehensive, transformative, five-year program that aims to increase productivity & competitiveness of selected livestock value chains in Ethiopia to the benefit of smallholders.The LGP focuses on three value chains: (1) dairy, (2) meat and (3) hides, skins & leather.
Role and responsibility:
The Dairy Enterprise Development Expert will be responsible for activities related to the creation and implementation of value chain development strategies. In this senior leadership role, he/she will work with project’s technical teams, various livestock related private sector actors and service providers and livestock related government technical officials.
While final technical areas and specific responsibilities will be defined upon securing of funding from USAID, following are the key expected areas of focus for this position:
Value chain strategy development
- Develop clearly articulated and fact-based strategy for dairy, meat and hides, skins & leather value chain interventions in collaboration with other implementing partners, ensuring that strategy supports overall broader program objectives and goals for meat and animal, dairy and hides, skins and leather value chains
- Lead rigorous and ongoing industry assessments to identify new industry and client opportunities, with a focus on end-market analyses
- Maintain understanding of current global best practices related to market-drivenvalue chain development and the specified livestock value chains, ensure that these are shared with staff and partners and actively incorporated into strategies and work streams
- Break down strategies into well-defined work streams and ensure that the scope and projected impact of all work streams are correctly defined and understood
- Ensure that all work streams have a detailed work plan which identifies, prioritizes and sequences the activities required for successful delivery
- Ensure sufficient resources are mobilized
- Develop and sustain trust-based relationships with key stakeholders, including other initiatives and interventions
- Leverage knowledge of key stakeholders to secure buy-in to ideas and initiatives
- Provide intellectual leadership in helping team members identify and develop business and industry-wide value chain improvement strategies
Education:
- Masters degree in livestock, agriculture, agribusiness, agricultural economics, or related field is required.
- 10+ years of professional experience in livestock sector value chain development with a major emphasis on: value chain facilitation, agribusiness, marketing and financial services and private sector development;
- 5+ years managing for-profit agribusiness or value chain related private sector institution.
- Experience managing USAID-funded value chain initiatives an advantage
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated advanced ICT skills.
- Established relationship with and/or substantive knowledge of international agribusiness firms.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Entrepreneurial and self motivated
- Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken English, Amharic a plus, but not required
- Experience with gender mainstreaming in livestock/agriculture projects is added advantage.
Fees and expenses: Negotiable.
Deadline for application: April 20th, 2011, However, applications will be considered as they are
received.
Qualified candidates should mail or email their CV/resume along with a cover letter to:
TechnoServe Inc.
P.O. Box 100598
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Email: madmin@tnsethiopia.org and hoh@tns.org
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