Call for Applications – Anticipated agriculture program for Ethiopia

Job Description

Call for Applications
DAI, a global consulting firm headquartered in Washington, DC area seeks to fill multiple positions to support an anticipated five-year USAID-funded agricultural growth program in Ethiopia focused on increasing the capacity and productivity of targeted agriculture value chains. The opportunity is currently at the proposal development stage. Long-term and short- term positions under the program will be filled by experts in the following technical areas:

• Value Chain Development – demonstrated experience in production, post-harvest handling, processing, financing, storage, transport, packaging relative to the key national agriculture products, including: teff, maize, chickpeas, sesame, wheat, horticulture, oilseed, livestock, dairy, poultry, and honey.


• Agriculture Enterprise Marketing – demonstrated experience in commercial operations and marketing, product R&D, market R&D, agribusiness and business planning, especially in the formal national agriculture product markets, and including exports.


• Investment and Financial Services – demonstrated experience in working with financial institutions (banks and MFIs) to develop financial products for agriculture value chains; creating favorable policy and enabling environments for investment in agriculture production, processing, transport and storage.


• Institutional Development – demonstrated experience in assessing organizational capacity using standard tools and analyses, as well as designing and delivering tailored capacity-building programs for governmental, non-governmental and private sector agencies, organizations, businesses and associations.


• Nutrition through Agriculture – demonstrated experience in delivering improved nutritional outcomes through agriculture value chains, designing nutrition-sensitive interventions, behavior change communications, analytical methodologies for evaluating nutritional outcomes, and creating favorable policies supporting improved nutrition.


• Gender in Agriculture – demonstrated experience in mainstreaming gender in development programs, especially related to agriculture development, household livelihoods and nutrition, and including analytical methodologies for evaluating gender outcomes at the household and institutional levels and designing and leading innovative messaging strategies for households, women, and youth.

Job Requirements:

Candidates with credentials in the above areas, as well as candidates with strong experience in supporting USAID programs are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates must have university degrees in agriculture, business administration, finance, law, economics, communications, health and behavioral or social sciences; a minimum of 8 years of experience in implementing nationally relevant programs in agriculture for government, private businesses or non-governmental organizations; and working ability in English and Amharic.

Closing date: Nov 20,2015

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How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should send their expression of interest and CV by e-mail to:EthiopiaAg@dai.com. Application deadline: Friday, November 20, 2015. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for in-person interviews in Addis Ababa in November and December 2015.

Please do not apply online if other application instructions are stated.Please do not accept payment requests at any of the recruitment phases!

Job Categories: Agriculture Jobs. Job Types: Full-Time. Job expires in 30 days.

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