Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Heifer Project International is a global non-profit, humanitarian development; organization founded by Dan West in 1944 dedicated to ending hunger and poverty and caring for the Earth by empowering smallholder farm families around the globe become self-reliant and attain sustainable livelihood through economically viable animal agricultural enterprise. The global headquarters is located at / World Avenue, Little Rock Arkansas, USA.
One of the recent projects in its program portfolio is The Tanzania Milk Processing Project (TMPP), an ambitious 18 Months Project designed to increase the incomes of smallholder dairy farmers in Tanzania through better access to reliable, high-value markets while ensuring processors have access to increased supply of high-quality milk in Njombe, Rungwe, Tanga, Kilimanjaro, Arusha and Morogoro. In responsive to this project needs, the Country Program is seeking to recruit competent candidates for the following positions .

FUNCTION: The Assistant Business Development Advisor (ABDA) will support in providing timely and effective implementation of project activities and achievement of the business development goal of the project. S/he will be responsible for supporting the Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) and the Dairy Interest Groups (DIGs) to increase the collection of high quality milk to meet the needs of off-taker processors while providing technical support to FPOs to be functional and sustainable enterprises with the relevant systems and structures to provide services to their members. The job entails over 80% field-based activities working closely with, dairy interest groups and FPOs to enhance value-chain actors' benefits; and leverage service delivery at each level of contact with both farmers and customers. This position may also involve close collaboration with farmers' groups, input suppliers, large processors and development partners on the ground in order to implement appropriate business development interventions within the cluster to increase milk collection and overall business performance of the FPO$.

ESSENTIAL CHARACTER TRAITS: Proactive, able to generate innovative solutions, a team player and have good

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelors' Degree or equivalent in the fields of Agriculture Economics, Business Administration, Rural Development, Enterprise Development or other related field, plus One (1) year field and technical experience with agribusiness development in the commercial sector, value chain competitiveness, or agribusiness development

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified
Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

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Job application procedure
Potential candidates are encouraged to apply by sending application letter enclosed CV and certificates/ testimonials Application should be channeled by mail to Godlove.Mville@heifer.org  cc Joyce.Mbise@heifer.org . All applications should write the job Title they are applying for as subject.

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