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.

Market and FSC Business Development Specialist x 1
Location: Kabwe

Key Responsibilities
Shall be responsible for capacity building and oversight to District based project staff to effectively provide business training and mentorship to FSCs and to create support environment for FSC enterprises to sustainably deliver market value services to target farmers

Education
• A degree in agribusiness, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration or equivalent rural economic development related discipline.
• At least 5 years private sector work experience in Business/ Entrepreneurship skill development among rural SMEs.
• Understanding of project management and the market-systems development approach to will be added advantage
• Preferred skills and attributes
• Training/coaching/mentoring/ Facilitation skills
• The ability to work independently, think innovatively and strategically and work effectively within a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient in relevant Office software such as word, excel, and PowerPoint.
• Exceptional networking and relationship-building abilities.
• A valid Driving license (Manual Vehicles).

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Job application procedure
Application should be in e-mail with the CV as the only attachment.
• Clearly reference the project and position you are applying for.
• Only applicants with the necessary experience and qualifications should respond to this advert.
• Female candidates are encouraged to apply
• Applications should be mailed to zambiarecruitment@ideglobal.org by 24th June 2022.

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