Terms of Reference (TOR) for hiring an experienced Individual

Consultant to Provide Training on price risk management (PRM) to coffee washing stations

Title: Consultant for training partner coffee washing stations and exporters on price risks management (PRM)

Location: Huye (19 participants) and Karongi (22 participants) 

1. TechnoServe Background:

TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries. We are a non-profit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. Our work is rooted in the idea that given the opportunity, hardworking men and women in even the poorest of places can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities.

We recognize that maximizing the inclusive economic growth requires the full and unencumbered participation of women. This requires us to not only systematically integrate gender in our project participation, but also within all levels of our staffing. For more information, visit www.technoserve.org

 Program Description:

TechnoServe seeks to recruit an experienced individual consultant to provide training on coffee price risk management (PRM) to coffee washing station managers/owners. The consultancy is supported by the EU and JDE Peets funded Rwanda Ikawa Nziza Cyane (Best Quality Coffee) Program which aims at improving the performance of an inclusive, sustainable and profitable value chain for high quality coffee.

• Position Description:

The consultant will need to provide training materials and in-person support to 2 full day training sessions for 41 coffee washing station managers/ owners from 6 Districts of operation namely Karongi, Nyamasheke, Rusizi, Nyamagabe,Huye and Gisagara in the area of price risk management to include (1) awareness of key risks in the coffee sector (2) mitigation strategies, and (3) rules of thumb for the negotiation and management of coffee sales contracts. 

Training will take place at 2 sites: Karongi for 22 participants in the West and Huye for 19 participants in the Southern province. Transport for the consultant will be catered for by the project.

1. Scope of the Work

The main duties of the consultant consist of:

• Prepare training documentation as pertains to coffee washing station PRM needs and opportunities (includes best-practice recommendations)
• Conduct training of coffee washing station managers and create action plans for the harvest season.
• Prepare a report with key recommendations and PRM strategies for participating CWS.

This consultancy will be conducted for a total of 8 working days as presented in the table below: 

1. Expected Deliverables:

The consultant is expected to deliver the following documents:

1. Training materials including best practices for CWS Price Risk Management
2. Report with key recommendations for participating CWS.

The report will be submitted to TechnoServe/Rwanda INC in both hard and soft copies and all deliverables will be the property of the project.

Required Skills and Experience:

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and skills:

• The candidate must have at least bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics, Agribusiness, Economics, commerce, Marketing, Food sciences or related fields with at least 10 years of working experience in coffee related businesses.
• The consultant must have proven practical experience in the coffee value chain especially familiarity in the areas of price risks management and access to market.
• Good understanding of the challenges, opportunities and regulatory framework in the coffee value chain of Rwanda
• Having techniques and methods for teaching adult people
• Ability to prepare training modules and presentations with strong communication skills
• Having conducted similar technical assistance is an added advantage.
• The candidate must be able to communicate in both oral and writing of English and Kinyarwanda languages

Success Factors:

Competency is a combination of knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) directly related to successful performance on the job.

Core Competencies include:

• Diversity/Inclusiveness: Demonstrates an understanding and appreciation for diversity and supports diversity efforts. Interacts effectively with and inclusively with people of all races, cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, ages, and genders.
• Communication: Expresses ideas effectively in individual and group situations. Listens effectively; shares information, ideas and arguments; adjusts terminology, language and communication modes to the needs of the audience; ensures accurate understanding; acts in a way that facilitates open exchange of ideas and information; uses appropriate non-verbal communication.
• Decision making/Problem Solving: Is able to analyze situations, diagnose problems, identify the key issues, establish and evaluate alternative courses of action and produce a logical, practical and acceptable solution.  Is able to make effective decisions on a day-to-day basis, taking ownership of decisions, demonstrating sound judgement in escalating issues where necessary.
• Results Oriented/ High Quality Deliverables: Stays focused on the efforts necessary to achieve quality results consistent with programmatic or departmental goals. Demonstrates the ability to achieve effective results; works persistently to overcome obstacles to goal achievement. Accomplishes tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks.

• Evaluation Criteria

• Application Instructions: 

Qualified and interested applicants should submit a non-returnable single Word-formatted document consisting of cover letter, resume, technical and financial proposals to the following link:https://recruiting.ultipro.com/TEC1006TESER/JobBoard/18180d88-ced0-4361-bd09-d5eef66dab24/Opportunity/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=9c8ec1ae-d0f7-4f2e-870c-97608f64c8e4 before January 6, 2023.

For questions, please make sure you fill in between 1 and 5. For each question, if you agree with the question or your answer is absolute yes put a 5 and if you doubt yourself in regard to the question not sure 100% you’ll choose below 5 and 1.

For additional inquiries please send them to RW-info@tns.org