TechnoServe Senior Business Advisor Job in Kenya - Agribusiness Development Program

Senior Business Advisor
 

Agribusiness Development Program / Kenya Market Assistance Program
 

General Information: TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries. 

We are a non-profit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. 

Our work is rooted in the idea that given the opportunity, hardworking men and women in even the poorest places can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. 

With more than four decades of proven results, we believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.

Project Description: TechnoServe is supporting the implementation of the Kenya Market Assistance Program (MAP), which is DFID’s program for promoting employment and income generation in selected market systems in Kenya. 

MAP’s goal is to improve the efficiency and performance of select market systems that are important for poor people, by addressing systemic constraints. 

The output will include more sustainable systemic changes - improved delivery of core market and supporting functions, crowding in of relevant market players and functions in the selected market systems. 

TechnoServe has been contracted by MAP to develop and implement the program’s dairy sector strategy, targeting improved breed, feed and veterinary services as well as increasing dairy product sales through more effective supply chain management. 

MAP expects that the impact of its dairy strategy will be felt across Kenya’s wider population of 1.6 million smallholder dairy farmers.

Primary Purpose: We require a Senior Business Advisor (SBA) to facilitate activities related to a portion of deliverables under the KMAP Dairy Sector Strategy, including specific outputs and outcomes as determined by the Senior Business Manager. 

The SBA will work closely with dairy stakeholders, input providers and subcontractors. 

The Senior Business Advisor will be responsible for project planning and oversight, quality implementation, supervision of contractors and interns, monitoring and evaluating project effectiveness.
 

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in agricultural development, economics, business administration and/or related fields.
• A minimum of five years’ experience in the area of market and agricultural value chains development, from input supply and production to sales and marketing
• Knowledge and practical projects experience in the application of the Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach.
• Support to smallholder farmers in micro/small enterprises for market and business development
• Experience of working with farmer organizations, producer groups and sector/sub sector associations
• Track record of building and managing strong client and stakeholder relationships with farmer groups, private sector and government;
• Scaling up of successful innovations; and monitoring and evaluation of market systems

Application Instructions
 

Qualified and interested applicants should submit a Word-formatted single document consisting of cover letter and resume to ke-recruit@tns.org. 

Please identify the position for which you are applying in the subject line. 

Only applicants meeting minimum qualifications will be considered or contacted. 

No phone calls please. 

Deadline for applications is 1700h Friday 21st February, 2014.

TechnoServe is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Women are encouraged to apply.