Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Background
Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA) through the World Food Program has made resources available to iDE Zambia for implementation of a One Year Farmer Service Centres program in selected districts of Central, Lusaka and Copperbelt Provinces. FtMA is a consortium of six organizations (World Food Programme, AGRA, Bayer, Rabo Bank, Syngenta, and Yara), with a shared mission of making markets work better for smallholder farmers (SHFs). FtMA is envisioned to be an inclusive, open platform that seeks to leverage existing structures to catalyse solutions and coordinate partners across the agriculture and food system using the Farmer Service Centre (FSC) model.
This (FSC) program will continue to build on the investments already made by the Alliance Members and FtMA in Zambia. The FSC approach will directly engage the private sector to better support last mile services to smallholder farmers thus increasing their access to market linkages, inputs, finance and improved technologies, knowledge of relevant agri-technologies and cultivation techniques, such as conservation farming, and will improve our farmers’ produce quality and standards with farmer data capture and value add services through digitization.
FtMA’s Planned Results
Impact: Improved livelihoods and resilience of rural smallholder farmers in Zambia and enhanced agribusiness efficiencies
Impact Indicators:
• Increase in farmers’ average household-level income
• Increase commercial viability of Farmer Service Centres
Outcome:
Smallholder farmers increase their uptake in quality services to increase productivity, resulting in an increase in value of their outputs being marketed through the Farmer Service Centre.
Interventions
• Farmer Service Centre (FSC) identification and network building.
• Market linkages and aggregation via the Farmer Service Centre Model
• Farmer mobilization/on boarding and service provision through FSC model
• Data management and Digital solutions
iDE Zambia is inviting applications from qualifying candidates for the following positions.

District Coordinators – Scaling Up Nutrition Phase II – (SUN II)
iDE Zambia is a branch of the larger International Development Enterprises structure that employs market-based approaches and the power of entrepreneurship to create competitive, resilient and inclusive income and livelihood opportunities for poor rural households in the Agriculture and WASH subsectors. iDE Zambia has been contracted by the World Food Programme (Wfp) to be an implementing partner on the ‘Support for Scaling Up Nutrition Phase II – SUN II for the First 1,000 Most Critical Days program II (MCDP II)’. The assignment contributes to the following MCDP II results:
CSP Outcome 2 – Vulnerable people in Zambia have improved nutritional status in line with national targets by 2024
• Output 1 – Smallholder farmers benefit from enhanced financial services to increase their income and resilience
• Output 3: Targeted communities benefit from increased access to nutrition products through strengthened private sector value chains for nutritious foods
CSP Outcome 3 – Smallholder farmers in Zambia, especially women, have increased access to markets, enhanced resilience to climate shocks and diversified livelihoods by 2030
• Output 2. Smallholder farmers benefit from knowledge and technology in postharvest management to enhance their resilience to shocks and increase their incomes
To achieve the stated results iDE Zambia will coordinate and support implementation of the following activities at district level working under a multi sectoral team approach:
Economic empowerment for women of reproductive age (WRA) with a focus on promoting aligned and productive Village Savings and Lending Associations (VSLA) and access to financial education, services and products;
Support the integration of Nutrition SBCC in VSLA and it roll out.
Food safety and preservation to increase availability, access, quality and safety of nutritious foods at household level.
Support private sector engagement to promote local and community based nutritious food development, processing and marketing;
iDE Zambia now seeks to recruit staff at the level of District Coordinators in the following district:
a) Luapula Province; Chiengi
• Qualifications
• Minimum of a degree in one of the following: – Development studies, Nutrition, Agriculture entrepreneurship or their equivalent.
• Minimum of 3 years working experience in promoting sustainable livelihoods among the rural in the area of food and nutrition security and/or agriculture entrepreneurship among the rural poor
• Experience in training and working with multisectoral teams will be added advantage.
• Those who do not meet the above minimum qualifications need not apply as they will not be selected.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Application letters and CVs to be sent via e-mail to the following address: zambiarecruitment@ideglobal.org
• Letter of application should clearly be referenced as Application for position of District Coordinator’ specifying the district of interest’
• Closing date for receiving applications is 17th June, 2022.
• To apply for this job email your details to Zambiarecruitment@ideglobal.org

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