Value
Chain Competitiveness Specialist – STTA
Chain Competitiveness Specialist – STTA
Location: Africa
Location
Details:
Lilongwe, Malawi
Details:
Lilongwe, Malawi
Division: Posting Date:
7/24/14
7/24/14
Job
Code:
1595
Code:
1595
DAI
is an employee-owned global development company. For 40 years, we have worked
on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and
economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective
governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter
in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions turn ideas into
impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and innovation
across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability operations,
democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and
agribusiness, private sector
is an employee-owned global development company. For 40 years, we have worked
on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and
economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective
governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter
in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions turn ideas into
impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and innovation
across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability operations,
democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and
agribusiness, private sector
development and financial services, economics and
trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control, water and natural resources management,
and energy and climate change. Our clients include international development
agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and
philanthropies, and national governments.
Description
Value
Chain Competitiveness Specialist
Chain Competitiveness Specialist
Feed
the Future Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains / Malawi
the Future Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains / Malawi
Seeking
Consultant available for
Consultant available for
Short-Term
Technical Assistance Engagement
Technical Assistance Engagement
DAI
is an employee-owned global development company. For more than 40 years, we
have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling
fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient
markets, ineffective governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering
results that matter in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions
turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and
innovation across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability
operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and
agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and
trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control, water and natural resources management,
and energy and climate change. Our clients include international development
agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and
philanthropies, and national governments.
is an employee-owned global development company. For more than 40 years, we
have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling
fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient
markets, ineffective governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering
results that matter in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions
turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and
innovation across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability
operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and
agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and
trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control, water and natural resources management,
and energy and climate change. Our clients include international development
agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and
philanthropies, and national governments.
Background
DAI
is currently implementing 3-year, $24.6 million dollar USAID funded ‘Feed the
Future: Integrating Nutrition into Value Chains’ (FtF-INVC) program. The goal
of FtF-INVC is to advance the vision of Feed the Future and Global Health
Initiative in Malawi by implementing agriculture and nutrition interventions
that will sustainably reduce rural poverty and improve nutrition. The delivery
of targeted technical assistance assists civil society, working through local
partners (farmer associations) to help improve smallholder production,
productivity, prosperity including value adding support, and the private sector
and government, to realize the advantages of greater collaboration,
commercialization, and competitiveness across three targeted value chains: Soy
bean, groundnuts, and dairy.
is currently implementing 3-year, $24.6 million dollar USAID funded ‘Feed the
Future: Integrating Nutrition into Value Chains’ (FtF-INVC) program. The goal
of FtF-INVC is to advance the vision of Feed the Future and Global Health
Initiative in Malawi by implementing agriculture and nutrition interventions
that will sustainably reduce rural poverty and improve nutrition. The delivery
of targeted technical assistance assists civil society, working through local
partners (farmer associations) to help improve smallholder production,
productivity, prosperity including value adding support, and the private sector
and government, to realize the advantages of greater collaboration,
commercialization, and competitiveness across three targeted value chains: Soy
bean, groundnuts, and dairy.
The
project is expected to lead to agricultural transformation across the three
value chains resulting in the achievement of the following objectives:
project is expected to lead to agricultural transformation across the three
value chains resulting in the achievement of the following objectives:
- Improved
productivity (land, water, labor) through soil and water management
practices; - Increased
competitiveness of the legumes and dairy value chains to mitigate food
insecurity and increase incomes of the rural poor; - Reduced
chronic under-nutrition; - Improved
value chain competitiveness and nutrition outcomes through the fostering
of innovation in adaptive technologies and techniques that will increase
participation of the poor in agriculture-led growth; and - Enhanced
capacity of local organizations and institutions developed to promote
sustainability and climate change resilience.
DAI
is seeking a short-term, resident Value Chain Competitiveness Specialist to
play a lead role on a project based in Lilongwe, Malawi. The VC Competitiveness
Specialist will design and lead activities with project partners to build the
competitiveness of staple food value chains to increase household production of
nutritious crops and milk and improve the nutritional status of mothers and
children less than five years of age. The position is available immediately,
August 2015 and runs through April 2015.
is seeking a short-term, resident Value Chain Competitiveness Specialist to
play a lead role on a project based in Lilongwe, Malawi. The VC Competitiveness
Specialist will design and lead activities with project partners to build the
competitiveness of staple food value chains to increase household production of
nutritious crops and milk and improve the nutritional status of mothers and
children less than five years of age. The position is available immediately,
August 2015 and runs through April 2015.
Responsibilities:
- Manage
the development and implementation of upgrading plans in soybean,
groundnut and dairy value chains with a focus on improving smallholder
crop and livestock productivity and net revenues using market-led
approaches; - Supervise
the work of three (3) value chain specialists and associated staff; - Facilitate
market driven linkages between smallholder farmers, input/output dealers,
wholesalers, processors, and marketers; - Oversee
agricultural production activities, focused on ‘best bet’ agricultural
technologies with national-level working groups to spur sector-wide
innovation with project partners; - Lead
value chain training and ensure the diffusion of value chain diagnostics,
mapping, action planning, and business-to-business matching capacities; - Facilitate
implementation of approved work-plan activities through implementing
partners to improve the competitiveness of staple food value chains; - Promote
bank lending to agricultural enterprises, including increasing the
products that are used for financing beyond inventory credit and warehouse
receipts - Improve
marketing systems with stakeholders involved in three value chain
associations and increase the use of business service providers to improve
marketing plans, working with selected food processors, implementing
partners, and suppliers. - Provide
technical guidance and capacity building services to grantees/implementing
partners; - Provide
technical input to initial environmental assessments and relevant
environmental risk management and mitigation plans for project-supplied
grants; - Monitor
and report progress towards achievement of established targets and
objectives utilizing indicators agreed in the Monitoring &Evaluation
plan.
Qualifications:
- At
least six years of professional work experience in value chain
development, with a minimum of 5 years in the private sector. This
experience should include capacity building with community-based
organizations (e.g. out-grower operations, co-ops, producer associations,
marketing associations), improving market linkages with value chain
actors, and improving value chain actors’ access to financial and business
development services; - Experience
developing and strengthening agribusiness activities supporting
smallholders; - Experience
working in Eastern or Southern Africa preferred; - Past
experience leading and building the capacity of agricultural value chain
teams to meet program deliverables and due dates; - Knowledge
of financial analysis for farm management, non-farm rural enterprise,
agribusiness and/or food marketing companies; - Demonstrated
experience with gender mainstreaming in agriculture projects; - Excellent
verbal and written communications skills (writing samples are required),
and strong facilitation skills; - Must
be a team player ; - Previous
experience on USAID-, DFID-, GIZ-, or EC-funded agricultural/agribusiness
development programs, including contributing to M&E, quarterly and
annual reporting, and designing and leading program activities; and - Master’s
degree in agriculture, agribusiness, agricultural economics, or other
related field is required; or equivalent work experience.
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