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Business Development Officer – Livestock for Livelihoods UK NGO Jobs – Farm Africa
Job Title: Business
Development Officer – Livestock for Livelihoods
Organization: Farm
Africa
Duty Station: Moroto,
Karamoja, Uganda
Reports to: Project
Coordinator – Livestock for Livelihoods
About US:
Farm Africa, founded
in 1985, is an international non-governmental organization working in Uganda,
Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. We drive agricultural and environmental change to
improve lives. Our strategy has three pillars: agricultural expertise, management
and preservation of ecosystems, and the power of business to drive prosperity.
We believe Africa has the power to feed itself and are helping make this happen
by establishing and spreading the best farming and forestry techniques so that
poor farmers and herders have more food to feed their families and to sell. We
help smallholders manage their natural resources sustainably so that they can
withstand climate change challenges and shocks and ensure their families have
enough food in the future as well as now. Farm Africa works in partnership with
communities, government, local and international organizations, and the private
sector to innovate, learn and share best practices for maximum impact of our
projects.
About Project:
Farm Africa has the
ambition to be the leading European NGO specialising in Agriculture, Natural
Resource Management and Market Engagement. Farm Africa is mid-way through
delivering our £5m Livestock for Livelihoods (L4L) programme in Uganda’s
Karamoja sub-region and Ethiopia’s South Omo zone funded by the UK government
(UK Aid). Under this programme Farm Africa is working with local civil society,
SMEs, cooperatives and farmer organisations to develop market systems that
support livestock services and enterprises for 21,000 women, contributing to
women’s economic empowerment, reduced poverty and improved nutrition of women
and children. The project is addressing market failures in animal health and
breeding services to improve livestock productivity, building capacity and
assets of herders, establishing trade and enterprise opportunities and
improving household nutrition practices through behavioural change. It will
also demonstrate how nutrition interventions can build on women’s economic
empowerment to contribute to both increased income and improved household
nutrition.
Job Summary: The Business Development Officer – Livestock
for Livelihoods (BDO) will be responsible for building the business and
commercial capacity of a wide range of stakeholders engaged in the L4L project.
These stakeholders will include, amongst others, agrovets, community animal
health workers (CAHWs), goat breeding associations, marketing associations and
VSLAs. The BDO will also be responsible for capacity building the wider field
team on market-based approaches to development and business development, as
well as ensuring best practices in these areas are integrated into all field
activities. In addition, the BDO will contribute to Monitoring, Evaluation
& Learning (MEL) activities, particularly with regards to developing and
disseminating record keeping tools for the different stakeholders engaged in
business-focused activities.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Delivery of markets
and business-focused activities to a wider range of stakeholders in line with
L4L project implementation plan:
- Ensure that business development (BD) related project activities are
implemented and outputs achieved as planned and within the agreed budget
including: - Delivery of BD training and ongoing BD support to agrovets and vets
- Training agrovets to deliver training on private veterinary service
provision to CAHWs, and supporting and facilitating the dissemination of
training to CAHWs - Supporting the establishment of private sector buck breeding
services, and in particular working with the supported PS breeding
stations to build their business acumen and business management skills - Supporting the establishment of district-level community-led
commercial goat breeding associations and delivery of business
development training to them - Supporting the establishment of marketing associations and delivery
of business development training to them - Delivery of business development and good governance training to
VSLA members - Ensure that Farm Africa Approaches to business development, access
to finance and trade facilitation are used to guide high-quality delivery - Ensure that business development and markets focused activities are
aligned with, and mutually supportive of other interventions in the same
areas - Work with the Project Coordinator (PC) and the Project Accountant
and Administrator (PA&A) to ensure all activities are planned and
conducted according to the organization and the donor financial and
procurement requirements and procedures.
Support project
management and coordination
- Support the PC & PA&A with activity planning and budgeting
as requested - Keep abreast of business development activities being implemented by
other partners operating in a similar intervention area and sharing this
information with the PC and wider team as appropriate - Proactively identify and monitor any risks to non-delivery and,
where required, develop and implement action plans to address issues
identified. - Support the PC to identify and analyze the causes of spend variances
to the budget and make recommendations on actions to be taken as required
Monitoring,
evaluation and reporting
- Contribute to internal and external reporting, with a particular
focus on collecting and collating information from enterprises, private
sector actors and VSLAs supported by the project - Regularly report on implementation learnings, and make
recommendations on areas for improvement or changes in delivery strategy
to the PC - Contribute to the implementation of the Monitoring, Evaluation &
Learning Plan (MLP) – and in particular support with developing data
collection tools that will gather relevant data from the different
enterprises engaged in the project. - Contribute to quarterly internal progress reviews and annual project
performance reviews and workshops - Collect information for stories, case studies and lessons learnt on
market linkages and business development
Play a key role in
delivering the wider objectives of both the L4L programme, and Farm Africa’s
work in Uganda.
- Participate in project team meetings and planning sessions as
requested by the PC - Work with AFRII (implementing partner) to ensure collaboration
between delivery of nutrition-focused and business development activities - Support the wider L4L Uganda project delivery team to integrate
market approaches within work plans and stakeholder engagements. - Work in close collaboration with the BDO L4L Ethiopia Team –
ensuring that knowledge, learnings and tools are shared across the two
project locations - Maintain regular and effective communications with the wider project
team, Uganda Country Office and implementing partners. - In consultation with the PC, act as an ambassador, promoting the
project and the work of Farm Africa, including hosting visitors, speaking
at workshops, conferences and meeting donors and other officials as and
when required. - Contribute to the development of relevant Farm Africa policies and
strategies.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Farm Africa Business Development Officer
– Livestock for Livelihoods job placement must hold a Bachelor’s degree or
equivalent in a relevant subject such as Agricultural Economics, Rural
Development, Business or Economics - Detailed understanding of participatory community based project
approaches, gender mainstreaming in development and economic opportunities - At least three years’ experience working for an INGO or
agri-business - Experience in designing and conducting business development
trainings for micro-enterprises or SMEs - Experience of providing mentoring and hands on business development
support to informal enterprises and micro-businesses growth of businesses
within the agriculture in rural areas - Experience of developing record keeping tools for micro/small
enterprises - Experience of supporting the development and growth of VSLAs
- Experience of managing your own workload – including scheduling and
planning project activities - Experience of collection and collation of data for monitoring,
evaluation and project reporting purposes - Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and
communities based on trust and collaboration - Excellent communication skills – with the ability to train and
inspire a wide range of different stakeholders - Excellent organisational skills – with the ability to effectively
plan and manage your own work load - Good Excel & Word skills – with the ability to create record
keeping tools for use by SMEs - Fluent written and spoken English
- Ability and willingness to travel widely and frequently both within
and outside the Karamoja sub-region - Willingness to ride a motorcycle in the field, with a valid riding
permit.
Desirable:
- Further relevant academic qualification in a relevant subject such
as Agricultural Economics, Rural Development, Business or Economics - Experience of working within the livestock value chain and/or with
veterinary service providers. - Experience of working in Karamoja, or in a pastoral or agro-pastoral
context. - Experience of providing mentoring and hands on business development
support to informal enterprises and micro-businesses within the livestock
or veterinary sectors - Experience of conducting market assessments – ideally focusing on
the livestock value chain and/or veterinary drugs and services - Experience of delivering activities focusing on the economic
empowerment of rural women - Experience of designing or delivering interventions in a way that
specifically encourage or maximise the participation of women - Experience of budget monitoring – and identifying and reporting on
expenditure variances - Fluency in Karamojong
How to Apply:
All candidates
should send an updated CV, salary history, and a two-page supporting statement
detailing how you meet the person specification to ugandarecruitment@farmafrica.org
including ‘Business Development Officer- L4L Project’ in the subject line.
Please DO NOT send
additional documents such as certificates and references with your application.
Successful candidates ONLY will be required to provide these documents during
the referencing process.
First round interviews
will take place w/c 30th September 2019 at Farm Africa’s country
office in Kampala. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Deadline: 20th September, 2019 by 5.00pm EAT
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