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 Business Development Officer (BDO) will work closely with the Dairy Quality Assurance Officers and Social Capital Development Coordinator to provide leadership to business development activities to build the capacity of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) to be sustainable business entities with functional structures able to improve the incomes of their members by providing services and a reliable marked by entering into agreements with off-taker Processors to supply them with high quality milk. S/he will collaborate with dairy farmer Producer Organizations (POs), processors, Dairy interest Groups (DIGs) and dairy boards to enhance value-chain actors benefits and leverage service delivery at each level of contact with both farmers and customers. She will provide technical assistance to FPOs to enter into bulk purchase agreements with large scale processors and support all the entities to fulfil the mutually agreed agreements.
She will also work closely with or through partner processors' (Milk Com and Shambani Milk) and private sector players input suppliers, financial service providers), government agencies and development partners to design and implement appropriate business development interventions that improve the business performance of the FPOs, DIGs and individual farmers within cho cluster

ESSENTIAL CHARACTER TRAITS: Proactive, creative thinker, a team player and able to structure and manage complex tasks

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelors' Degree or equivalent in the fields of Agriculture Economics, Business Administracion, Rural Development Enterprise Development, Animal/ Veterinary Science or other related field, plus two (2) years field and technical experience with commercial sector, agribusiness development in a mix of economic growth crade, value chain competitiveness, investment promotion, or agriculture 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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