Recruitment at a USAID-funded Agriculture Competitiveness and West Africa Trade Hub (AgCompete/WATH) Project
Employment Nigeria
02-Apr-2018
NIGERIA ,
Agriculture
Tetra Tech, aconsulting, engineering, program management, construction management, and technical services provider is recruiting to fill the position below:
POSITION : Senior Technical Advisor and Specialist - Agriculture Competitiveness (AgCompete) Project
Description
- Tetra Tech is currently accepting expressions of interest from qualified candidates for Senior Technical Advisors and Specialist positions on the upcoming USAID-funded Agriculture Competitiveness and West Africa Trade Hub (AgCompete/WATH) Project in Nigeria.
- The purpose of the AgCompete/WATH Project is to improve private sector competitiveness by increasing the agricultural productivity and profitability of smallholder farmers in Nigeria, and by promoting West Africa’s regional and international trade.
- The Activity comprises of three main components:
- Design of a Competitiveness Fund for private sector partnerships;
- Administration of the Competitiveness Fund to develop private sector partnerships and provide grants; and
- Technical assistance (TA) that directly supports, coordinates, and organizes qualifying recipients (i.e., partners and grantees) to achieve USAID’s trade and food security objectives.
- The Trade Hub will contribute to both USAID/Nigeria’s Feed the Future objectives related to increasing the agricultural competitiveness of smallholder farmers in Nigeria as well as USAID/West Africa’s objective to increase broad-based growth and resilience.
Tetra Tech is currently accepting applications for specialists in one or more of the following sectors:
- Agricultural value chain development, including specialists in aquaculture, cassava, cocoa, maize, rice, sorghum, and/or soybean value chains
- Agricultural production, access to inputs, and extension
- Post-harvest handling and processing, including warehousing and storage
- Agricultural product marketing
- Agribusiness development services
- Cross-border trade in agricultural products
- Enabling environment analysis and reform related to agricultural finance, production, marketing, and/or trade
- Food safety, sanitary, and phytosanitary measures
- Agricultural Market Information Systems
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Access to agricultural finance
- Capacity building for producer organizations and agribusinesses
- Gender, youth, and social inclusion
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- ICT for agriculture
- Grants management
Qualifications
- At least five years of professional experience in one of the above-mentioned specializations required
- Experience on a donor-funded project required, and a USAID-funded project preferred.
- Academic degree in a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
- Effective oral and written communications and presentation skills required.
- Professional proficiency in English required.
- For some specializations, experience working for a private enterprise in agriculture, agribusiness, agricultural marketing, business development services, or finance is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement activities within respective technical areas and in collaboration with local partners, beneficiaries, and project staff, as well as other pertinent USAID and donor-funded implementing partners.
- Provide technical leadership, management and supervision within respective technical areas, ensuring that activities are properly targeted, technically sound, and compliant with USAID and other regulations.
- Participate in internal grant review committees and grants management and monitoring.
- Support project monitoring, evaluation and reporting activities, and financial planning and budgeting activities.
- Engage in discussions related to respective technical areas with stakeholders, including USAID and local government officials.
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