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| Agribusiness Assistant | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Balkh, Nangarhar, |
| Categories | Business Development, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2023-05-06 | Close Date | 2023-05-14 |
| Vacancy No | Balkh AFN-1322, Nangarhar AFN-1323 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 2 | Contract Duration | One Year-Extendable |
| Education | Bachelor degree in Agriculture, Horticulture | Experience | At least two years of experience in agribusiness and value chain development, and best agronomic practices. |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | As per RoP salary scale |
About Company
About Roots of Peace: Roots of Peace is a humanitarian organization that has worked in war-torn countries around the world with our partners to remove the remnants of war, landmines, and unexploded ordinances, and restore the land in order to rebuild peaceful communities for generations to come. For the past twenty years, the Roots of Peace award-winning “Mines to Vines” approach has impacted one million farmers and families, enabling exports worth over $150 million to international markets. Since beginning our work in Afghanistan in 2003, Roots of Peace has worked with agricultural value chains in every province of the country resulting in 100,000 tons of exports, creating over 9,000 full-time agribusiness jobs that benefited more than 38,000 families from these value chain approaches. From farmers to exporters, Roots of Peace develops entire agricultural value chains by implementing the ROP Development Model which is designed to serve as a catalyst to generate a much broader impact industry-wide - improving incomes for smallholder farmers, bringing peace to rural communities, transforming national industries.
Job Description
The Agribusiness Assistant will:
- Identify agribusinesses who have the potential for operations expansions and are willing to work with CBARD in targeted regions. These would include inputs suppliers, traders, food processors, and related agri-business firms.
- Manage interventions at the Provincial, district and community levels that promote linkages between farmers, local suppliers and markets.
- Arrange market linkages meetings between businesses, firms and local farmers.
- Provide training and technical assistance to beneficiaries on various topics including business development, post-harvest activities, food processing and marketing.
- Identify, train and support traders and food processors in efforts to become an established and profitable business.
- Assist in preparing feasibility studies and market information reports to assist in project decision-making on important services for firms’ business development needs.
- Support the team in disseminating information to project beneficiaries on best agribusiness practices.
- Develop strong working relationships with major fresh, dried fruit, medicinal export firms, and domestic processors and link them to the program target areas.
- Work with program client farmers and traders to identify potential improvements in production and marketing practices that will result in higher quality products that generate increased financial returns to both merchants and farmers.
- Familiarity with standard production practices in all the critical functions required to harvest, package, store, ship, and market agricultural produce.
- Integrate gender activities into all interventions where possible.
- Support CBARD Agribusiness Officers to manage interventions at the district and community level that promote linkages between farmers, traders, local suppliers and markets.
- Take part in regular field visits to assess and monitor the progress of project activities and organize necessary support activities to address any challenges observed.
- Review, improve and coordinate agribusiness activities with CBARD team members, farmers and client agribusinesses.
- Any other tasks or duties as assigned by the supervisor
Job Requirement
- Bachelor degree in Agriculture, Horticulture with at least two years of experience in agribusiness and value chain development, and best agronomic practices.
- The candidate should have good communication skills, and fluency in English, Dari and/or Pashto.
- Experience in identifying potential agribusinesses for partnering to assist farmers mainly in CBARD-targeted communities.
- A good knowledge of instructing farmers and small businesses on improved business development skills.
- Training experience with farmer groups, and businesses; ability to motivate beneficiaries to consider new ways of operating their businesses.
- Familiarity working within community organizations to support and improve family livelihoods.
- Computer skills - fluency with MS Word and Excel.
Submission Guideline
Important Note: Applicants should copy and paste the relevant Vacancy Announcement Number, Position Title, and Province Name (mentioned below) into the email subject line when submitting their application. Please do not add any other information in the subject line of your email except the Position title, Vacancy Number, and province name. Applications received without a VA Number will not be considered.
1. Agribusiness-Balkh(AFN-1322)
2.Agribusiness-Nangarhar(AFN-1323)
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