Key responsibilities:

Interface with local service providers in the monitoring of the project’s delivery and support them in outreach and engagement activities to identify youths interested in agriculture and employment opportunities within the sector. Represent the project at the provincial and district level, supporting closer engagement and alignment with communities, leaders, and local government. (District Commissioners, Ministry of Youth & Sports, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).

• Engage and facilitate engagements between young people and market actors such as traders, processors, community leaders, private companies and farmers.
• Ensures quality delivery of project implementation by maintaining checks and balances on-site.
• Support Local implementing partners in the training programs to equip youths with essential agricultural skills, including crop cultivation, livestock management, agribusiness entrepreneurship and marketing.
• Support Local implementing partners in facilitating mentorship and apprenticeship programs to provide hands-on learning experiences for youths in agriculture
• Support activities and engagement at local and national level to expose youths to various aspects of the agricultural value chain and potential career paths.
• Provide guidance and support to youths in developing business plans, accessing financing, and launching agricultural enterprises.
• Disseminate market information and knowledge.
• Establish and strengthen linkages between producers, buyers, and other market actors. Organize fairs, market visits, and business-to-business meetings

Qualification requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in Agriculture, agribusiness, or related field. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications. 5+ years of demonstratable relevant experience.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in private sector and/or NGOs working focused on MSD (facilitation and providing technical supports), agribusiness and/or financial services.
• Good understanding on the Markets4Poor approach and Markets development facilitation including coaching, relationship building, communicating, entrepreneurialism/business understanding and innovating.
• Experience in the private sector and ability to apply market driven solutions and non-traditional thinking skills to achieve development goals.
• Experience in setting up, developing and managing private sector or market development programs.
• Demonstratable experience in gender equality and social inclusion and youth empowerment and entrepreneurship programming.
• Proven experience in market systems analysis and research and ability to read market trends and design proactive interventions to enable MSMEs to seize market opportunities.
• Proven experience in collaborating and cooperating with stakeholders for the collective achievement of common-purpose results and activities.
• Experience in resilience building programming
• Monitoring, evaluation & continuous learning, and reporting.

Personal skills:

• Strong analytical and risk assessment skills, including financial modelling skills.
• Pro-active work attitude and ‘can do’, solution-oriented attitude.
• Ability to build productive internal and external working relationships.
• Displays a strong service and client orientation
• Strong team player.
• Good networking skills.
• Strong skills in planning, administration, organising and prioritising.
• Risk aware and able to escalate issues when necessary.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
• Affinity with SNVs mission.