Business Advisor - Horticurity Project - Kaduna

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Agronomy, Agribusiness, and Agric Economics with minimum of 2 years’ experience working with rural communities and supporting producers and micro retailers in the fruit and /or horticulture value chain in Nigeria. Alternatively, 4 years’ experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of the fruit and horticulture value chains in Nigeria
• Ability to engage and advise a broad range of stakeholders, including senior management of private sector companies, community leaders, and others;
• Demonstrated experience in data collection and analyses.
• Demonstrated experience with digital training and delivery mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience in report writing.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and train in the Hausa or Igbo language.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to engage and advise a broad range of stakeholders on the field.
• Must have strong interpersonal skills.
• Proven skills with Microsoft Office software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). Knowledge of the use of Comcare, KoBoCollect will be an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Agronomy, Agribusiness, and Agric Economics with minimum of 2 years’ experience working with rural communities and supporting producers and micro retailers in the fruit and /or horticulture value chain in Nigeria. Alternatively, 4 years’ experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of the fruit and horticulture value chains in Nigeria
• Ability to engage and advise a broad range of stakeholders, including senior management of private sector companies, community leaders, and others;
• Demonstrated experience in data collection and analyses.
• Demonstrated experience with digital training and delivery mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience in report writing.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and train in the Hausa or Igbo language.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to engage and advise a broad range of stakeholders on the field.
• Must have strong interpersonal skills.
• Proven skills with Microsoft Office software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). Knowledge of the use of Comcare, KoBoCollect will be an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills.

Project Inception Phase:

• Area mapping, mobilization and recruitment of program beneficiaries using set criteria.
• Support the project manager and MEL in developing the project work plan and MEAL tools
• Support the rapid assessment and baseline evaluation activities.
• Identify local community trainers in the assigned communities.

Project implementation:

• Lead on community sensitization, mobilization and enrollment of smallholder farmers and micro retail vendors playing in the fruit and horticulture value chains.
• Supervise the local community trainers and ensure that their capacity is deepened through train-the-trainer sessions, and green and brownfield days.
• Support the project manager in developing training materials for the production cycle of the focus value chains in fruits and horticulture.
• Support the LCTs during step-down training and monitor attendance according to the program guidelines.
• Lead on the implementation of simple storage technology such as the zero-energy cooling chamber (ZECC) and other simple innovative technologies.
• Support the enrolled micro retailers in completing the online modules and graduate them into the aftercare phase.
• Support the PM in identifying online market platforms that connect producers to off-takers and onboard the agreed number of beneficiaries on the platforms.
• Monitor all innovative pilots and ensure data quality
• Support the PM in identifying private-sector organizations that would partner with the project
• Support all monitoring and evaluation activities, surveys and reporting as well as develop success stories and lessons learnt.
• Understand, respect and promote Techno Serve’s values, vision, and strategy in the implementation of assigned duties.
• Perform other duties in line with the evolving needs of the program.