The Government of Rwanda has received credit from the International Development Association (IDA) towards the cost of the Land Husbandry Water Harvesting and Hillside Irrigation (LWH) Project. The Land Husbandry Water Harvesting and Hillside Irrigation (LWH Project) is one of the development initiatives designed under the Ministry of Agriculture Animal Resources (MINAGRI), and party funded by the World Bank in order to tackle the issue related to food insecurity and rural communities’ livelihoods income.
For this purpose, the Government of Rwanda has received a credit from the International Development Association (IDA)], to finance the LWH Project and now seeks to recruit competent persons to fill the following positions :
5. Rice Commodity Specialist.
Overall Function of the Position
- Reporting to the Head of the Commodity Chain Department, the responsibilities of the Rice Commodity Specialist are as follows :
- Overall coordination of all activities in the rice value chain.
- Participate in designing capacity building plan for rice cooperatives managers on rice value chain development and commercialisation of rice production.
- Liaise with the technical teams in the ministry to stream line inputs distribution and ensure timely use of inputs by rice cooperatives
- Design and coordinate training on use of contract farming, buffer stocks and use of voucher systems.
- Liaise with financial institutions to provide financial services to rice cooperatives during harvesting and marketing period.
- Collection and validation of data on production and marketing of rice and to compute profitability of the rice commodity seasonally.
- Undertake a brief market assessment for rice commodity chain to identify local, national and regional trends, market size, supply and demand gaps, imports and, distribution networks
- Identify and define lacking competitiveness drivers (chain constraints), analyze opportunities for value chain development and recommend policy measures and support programmes to be undertaken in order to enhance the competitive performance of the sector.
- Formulate the rice value chain upgrading strategy including required interventions and related investments and planning of actions
- Liaise with MINICOM and RDB to ensure that the rice traders and millers dealing with farmers are authorised and have up to standard milling requirements
Qualifications and experience
- A masters degree in Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics or Rural development
- 3 or more years of work experience in the agricultural sector and should be conversant with business development
- Experience in cooperative dynamics
- Experience in value chain development
- Ability to design and develop training manuals on marketing and value chain development
- Should be a good team player
The following are the general Terms and Conditions of Service for the posts :
Remuneration : the project will provide a competitive package. Successful candidates will sign a 2 years renewable contract on satisfactory performance.
Interested candidates should deliver Written Applications letter and a latest copy of CV should be addressed to the Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Box 621, Kigali, and delivered to the Single Project Implementation Unit (Land Husbandry Water Harvesting and Hillside Irrigation (LWH) and Rural Sector Support Project (RSSP) head offices at Kacyiru not later than Thursday 19th,April 2012, at 4.30pm (16h30).
Ms. Jolly DUSABEProject Coordinator
LWH/RSSP Projects
B.P. 6961 Kigali ;
Email : lwh@minagri.gov.rw
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