Summary
Date Posted: Friday, February 02 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Description
• SNV Rwanda is recruiting a Senior Production Advisor for an anticipated award in youth employment in agriculture value chains. The incumbent should be a professional with experience and expertise in agricultural production targeting horticulture and poultry value chains.
• The position holder will be responsible for the overall technical leadership in the production and management of Horticulture and poultry value chains. He/she will provide guidance and backstopping to the project partners to ensure that the production components of the program are of high quality in adherence to industry standards and recommended good agricultural and animal production practices. This includes the formulation and implementation of training materials on good production practices particularly in Good Agricultural Practices for targeted horticultural crops and good management practices for poultry business models, imparting knowledge and skills in value addition and post-harvest loss and waste reduction and providing support to young people and youth-led agro-enterprises intending to improve inclusiveness and competitiveness of targeted value chains. S/he will facilitate access to requisite inputs and work closely with the entrepreneurship advisor to organize young people for efficient production and marketing and develop strong partnerships with financial institutions and relevant service providers to ensure the success of the target young farmers and agro-enterprises. S/he will support young farmers, youth-led enterprises, and their groups to improve productivity, enhance efficiency, and overall production practices for profitable agri-preneurship.
• The function holder reports to the Project Manager and will utilize Local Service Providers to assist with service delivery and the growth and expansion of marketed products of farmers and agribusinesses that are involved in regenerative agricultural production.

Job Specifications:
• Contract Type: Full time, National Employment
• Duty Station: Kigali – Rwanda
• Reports to: Project Manager
• Direct Reports: Agronomists
• Contract Type and Duration: Two years with the possibility of extension based on performance
• Anticipated Start Date: asap

Key Tasks
Advisory Services
• Provide technical expertise to partners and SNV staff on appropriate production practices for profitable horticulture and poultry value chains through training, and demonstrations among others.
• Provide technical support to young farmers and youth-led enterprises in climate-smart and regenerative production practices across the value chains including efficient use of inputs, good agricultural practices, post-harvest handling and hygiene, sanitary and phytosanitary and biosecurity measures to mitigate risk and optimize benefits from targeted value chains.
• Provide technical advice on planning, production, marketing, and financial management and overall management of youth-led agro-enterprises in targeted value chains.
Knowledge Development
• Build the capacity of youth in horticulture and poultry for profitable employment in the agrifood sector through training, coaching and mentorship as well as other extension providers, ensuring the integration of best production and post-harvest practices for enhancing value of their products.
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with SNV staff, national and local authorities, international and national organizations as well as technical focal points in agriculture.
• Support development of appropriate tools and models to create and enhance value in horticulture and poultry enterprises and facilitate.
Project and Process Development
• Provide primary technical direction to the project production processes with a special focus on climate-smart and regenerative agricultural production.
• Coordinate all planned activities with the project team including partner organizations, youth entrepreneurship advisors, M&E experts, donors, and other development agencies to ensure consistency with sector priorities.
People Management
• Steer direct reports and coach associated partners/ external stakeholders on quality within the context of project assignments.
• Act as a technical expert in the content area, apply process improvements in projects, and coach colleagues and associated partners both professionally and operationally on the quality of context within the project.
Positioning
• Identify and analyse seasonal trends and predictions, opportunities and threats and channels communication accordingly.
• Actively participate in strategic positioning meetings and acts as a knowledgeable face of the SNV organisation to the client.
• Analyses, understands and develops (local) networks with relevant stakeholders, identifies new clients.
Business Development
• Build, maintains and utilises relationships with relevant stakeholders, represents SNV and identifies opportunities for Business Development policies and procedures.
• Initiate assignments on a local/(sub)national level, supports proposals and develops technical processes during the inception phase of projects.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural production, Horticulture, crop science , or related field Development
• At least 5 years of experience working on international development programs to improve production and incomes through market systems with an orientation of farming as a business.
• Demonstrated experience of successfully steering horticultural production and linking farmers and agribusinesses to markets.
• Demonstrated experience in building the capacity of farmers, and cooperatives in climate smart agriculture.
• Proficiency in English is required( written and spoken).

Competencies:
Conceptual thinking : Having and gaining insight into situations, problems and processes. Deconstructing problems and systematically investigating the various components. Having a complete picture of the context and overview of the whole problem.
Coaching : Encouraging and guiding employees in order to make their performance more effective and to enhance their self-perception and problem-solving skills.
Focus on quality :
• Familiarity with results chains and monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
• Familiarity with inclusive business models and application to resource constrained small holder farmers.
Result orientation : The ability to take direct action in order to attain or exceed objectives.
Persuasiveness : The ambition to win over other people for one’s views and ideas and to generate support.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• The application file containing the following documents should consolidated in one PDF file & submitted to the Country Director via our recruitment portal - via Smart Recruiters at https://smrtr.io/j5WR7  , no later than February 18, 2024.
• Note: Note: This is national employment, so qualified Rwandan candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• The application file includes: Motivation letter, updated CV which has 3 professional references, including current and previous direct supervisors with their full names, phone number and email address.

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