Agribusiness Specialist-Deputy Team Leader

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Job Summary

Agribusiness Specialist-Deputy Team Leader

Duties & Responsibilities

Main Duties/Responsibility:
• Report to the Team Leader, and when acting team leader to Project Director on all Project related concerns and issues.
• Develop with the team Leader, PMO and staff, the project inception plan.
• work closely with the Team leader in organizing the technical and financial components of the Project
• Prepare annual implementation work plans with PMO input, and provide oversight in implementing these plans.
• Supervise under direction of the team leader, the work of the consultant team.
• Establish and train PMO where required in the procedures that will be followed in working with agribusiness enterprises and associations.
• Provide technical input into the training plan.
• Establish processes for regular planning, implementation and review meetings, with PMO, and with counterparts in agribusiness.
• Provide oversight on the procurement plan and implementation progress.
• Provide technical input into agribusiness areas under the project, and value chain development, and the design work for the small scale market infrastructure being undertaken by the design engineer.
• Provide technical input into the market infrastructure activities, in particular the small scale market infrastructure, including the institutional aspects.
• supervise the work done by the international and domestic technical specialists
• provide input into the quarterly reports of the Project
• Provide input into the annual, mid-term, and final reports

Job Requirements

Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, or Business, with post graduate qualification preferred.
• At least five years of experience as an agribusiness specialist, and experience in management, and in managing or as a deputy team leader project teams working.
• Experience in business planning and in developing value-added activities within priority value chains, and preferably in managing agribusinesses.
• Experience in managing agribusinesses preferred.
• Good writing and communication skills in English and in Pashtu and Dari.

Submission Guideline

Submission guideline

Interested and qualified Afghan National candidates are requested to send soft copy of their updated CV along with covering letter to Program Services Manager ops.psmteam@gmail.com or ops.executivedirector@gmail.com

Functional Area

Agriculture

Countries

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