Summary
Date Posted: Friday, March 21 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Purpose of this job:
The Agribusiness Officer will lead and oversee all agribusiness components of the Vijana Kilimo Biashara Project (VKB). This position aims to ensure that agribusiness development activities align with the project’s objectives of enhancing youth and women engagement, increasing incomes, and promoting sustainable agricultural practices. The Agribusiness Officer will be instrumental in linking farmers to markets, enhancing value addition, and building the capacity of farmer groups to operate as competitive agribusiness entities.

Responsibilities:
Technical and Implementation Support:
• Provide strategic direction for the agribusiness components of the VKB Project, ensuring alignment with project goals and stakeholder expectations.
• Identify and implement innovative agribusiness models to enhance the competitiveness of project beneficiaries in the sorghum and sunflower value chains.
• Facilitate market access by linking farmers and farmer groups to local, national, and international buyers.
• Support value addition initiatives, including processing, packaging, and branding, to improve the marketability of sorghum and sunflower products.
• Work closely with private sector actors, farmer organizations, and agribusiness service providers to strengthen value chain linkages.
• Design and implement training programs for farmer groups on business planning, financial literacy, marketing, and cooperative management.
• Develop tools and materials to improve record keeping and decision-making among farmer groups.
• Create tailored business plans to support the growth and success of small, medium, and micro agribusinesses.
• Coordinate the aggregation of produce from smallholder farmers to ensure consistent supply volumes for market demand.
• Establish and strengthen aggregation centers to streamline collection, sorting, and distribution processes.
• Collaborate with farmer groups to improve quality control and storage practices at aggregation points.
• Build partnerships with government agencies, financial institutions, NGOs, and other stakeholders to support project implementation.
• Represent the VKB Project in forums, workshops, and meetings related to agribusiness development.
• Collaborate with the M&E team to track progress on agribusiness activities and assess their impact on project outcomes.
• Prepare and submit regular progress reports, including success stories, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Promote the adoption of innovative technologies and practices that enhance productivity and profitability.
• Ensure that agribusiness initiatives are environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive.

Safeguarding Responsibilities:
• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and
• exploitation to achieve the programmer's goals on safeguarding implementation
• Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do the same

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. A Master’s degree is an added advantage.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
• Strong understanding of gender issues in agriculture and rural development.
• Experience in gender training and capacity-building initiatives.
• Proficiency in data collection, analysis, and reporting with a focus on gender- disaggregated data.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
At least 5 years of experience in agribusiness development, value chain analysis, or market linkages, agricultural financing, preferably in projects targeting youth and women.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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