Private Sector Partnership Specialist in the Rice Value Chain in Tanzania

Category : Consultant

Location/City : 1 - Dar es Salaam

Id : 3189

ACDI/VOCA seeks a Private Sector Partnership Specialist in the rice value chain for the ongoing $30 million NAFAKA project in Tanzania. The USAID-funded project focuses on sustainably reducing poverty and hunger by improving the productivity and competitiveness of value chains that offer income opportunities for rural households. The Private Sector Partnership Specialist will focus on developing a strategic partnership framework around the rice value chain in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania.

He or she will promote public-private partnerships in the rice subsector, working with local small-scale, emergent and larger-scale producers and agribusinesses, government agencies and international organizations to achieve environmentally and socially responsible commercial growth. The position is likely to be based in Dar es Salaam, with frequent travel required to other project sites within Tanzania.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a partnership framework to respond to rice value chain constraints and opportunities.
• Facilitate and coordinate partnership opportunities, linking private sector partners with access to finance and innovation grant funding to drive strategic opportunities.
• Identify key areas of potential scale up in core value chain activities in the rice subsector to foster small, medium and larger-scale farmer and agribusiness development.
• Work with the NAFAKA team to develop innovation grant opportunities to catalyze value chain upgrading with private sector players, overseeing the process from RFP/RFA development through implementation.
• Provide guidance to NAFAKA and other donor programs on developing outgrower models and other lead-firm models for engaging smallholder farmers of staples in formal market relationships.
• Working with the monitoring and evaluation unit, identify appropriate metrics for measuring results in strategic partnerships.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree or other advanced degree in agriculture, management or business-related field.
• Minimum seven years of experience in the private sector developing commercial initiatives in the rice subsector in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Minimum seven years of experience in leadership roles within agribusiness, marketing and/or international organizations.
• Evidence of facilitating creative public-private partnerships in sub-Saharan Africa with a focus on developing agricultural value chains that foster smallholder farmer inclusion.
• Outstanding communications skills (oral, written, presentational) in English.
• Kiswahili preferred.

Please apply by August 30, 2013. No phone calls please. Only finalists contacted. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. EOE.