Agri-business & Market Systems Officer

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Business, Economics, Rural Development or related field.
  

• Experience working with farmer groups, cooperatives and private sector actors in Uganda.
  

• Knowledge of market development approaches, financial inclusion, business development services and collective marketing.
  

• Experience linking smallholder farmers to off takers, agro processors and financial institutions.
  

• Practical experience supporting youth entrepreneurship, apprenticeship programmes and enterprise incubation.
  

• Ability to work with Village Savings and Loan Associations and financial literacy programming.
  

• Experience collecting market related data and supporting monitoring and reporting requirements.
  

• Fluency in written & Spoken English.
  

• Support capacity building for farmer groups on harvesting, post-harvest handling, value addition, marketing, and business development services.
  

• Organise annual youth skilling and apprenticeship programmes to enhance employable skills in service provision, value addition, logistics and agri-transport operations.
  

• Facilitate the formation and strengthening of farmer groups and cooperatives, ensuring functional governance structures and readiness for market engagement.
  

• Link farmer groups to financial institutions to access credit, savings opportunities and support for Village Savings and Loan Associations.
  

• Facilitate aggregation, bulk marketing and collective bargaining to improve market competitiveness.
  

• Identify private sector actors including off takers, agro processors and input suppliers and support development of market linkages and memoranda of understanding.
  

• Support the establishment and operation of aggregation points or marketing hubs in the settlement.
  

• Promote value addition microenterprises and support youth and farmer entrepreneurs to develop viable agribusiness ventures.
  

• Facilitate business to business networking and partnerships between farmers, aggregators and private companies.
  

• Coordinate training on enterprise planning, financial literacy, cooperative development and market-oriented production.
  

• Support access to climate smart and energy saving technologies such as solar drying units and improved cookstoves where relevant to market functions.
  

• Collect and maintain accurate data on market linkages, enterprise skills development, youth participation and private sector partnerships.
  

• Provide timely inputs for monthly, quarterly and annual reports including documentation of market linkages and enterprise development achievements.