Partnership Development Officer- Value Chain

 

Details

Employer Name: CARE Tanzania

Organization Type: NGO

Role: Management

Position Type: Full Time

Location: Lindi
                    Other Lindi District

Application Deadline: 03-03-2017

Listed on: 21-02-2017

Description

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place .special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire \ communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community- based efforts to improve basic education, 'prevent the spread of disease, and increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity, and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivor’s war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.

Partnership Development Officer- Value Chain based in IRINGA- ONE
POSITION
SUBJECT: APPLICATION CODE - CTZWEZESHA 005

JOB SUMMARY
CARE International in Tanzania expects to implement the value chain based project called Alizeti; Usawa na Thamani (ALUTA) which aims at improving the livelihoods and income of small-scale farmers, particularly women and youth, through facilitating strong linkages among actors within sunflower market systems, thereby contributing to Tanzania's National Sunflower Strategy and economic development. •Implemented in lringa Rural and Wagingo'mbe districts in Iringa and Njombe regions respectively, ALUTA targets to reach 8,000 small holder women farmers composed of at least 70% women organised in approximately 275 groups. CARE's work in ALUTA hinges upon the critical focus of working with input supplier> (seed), producers (farmers), productive services (finance, insurance and extension services), public services (extension officers), and processors, to increase the capacity of all actors within the chain, as well as strengthen linkages between actors to enhance product quality and strengthen market systems over the long-term.
The prime role of the Partnership development officer - Value Chain will be ' to facilitate market linkages, i.e. working alongside the farmers and private sector to connect the market through providing supportive role in facilitation, networking, building coalitions as well as building knowledge and skills of small holder farmers and small scale processors for increased benefit from their engagement in the sunflower value chain.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Facilitate linkage of small holder farmers with service providers to include seed/input supplier>, extension services, crop and credit life insurance and weather information
• Strengthening the market system via identifying market barriers and determine the best approach, with private partners, on how to overcome those barriers.
• Facilitate farmer / VSLA groups' access to formal financial services through linking them with Financial Services Provider
• Facilitate capacity strengthening of small holder farmers and small scale producers through identifying their capacity gaps as well as developing and implementing capacity building strategy
• Support learning, evidence generation and documentation to feed into policy processes

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor degree in either/or Agriculture Economics, Marketing
• Business Administration and Economics.
• At least 3 years' experience in Value Chain, marketing or private sector experience, out of which at least one year of supervisory responsibility.
• Demonstrated strategic planning and organizational skills,
• Strong team-building and team-work qualities.
• Knowledge and skills on VSLA methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability in financial management

Application Instructions

Applications must be received by CARE CoB, 03 March 2017 at 1700hrs. Only a letter of application and CV without supporting documents such as certificates should be sent by email to The Human Resources Manager through APPLY below. NOTE: All application should indicate Subject! Application code of the particular position in the subject line, Copies may be posted to CARE International in Tanzania, Box 10242, Dar es Salaam. .