Selected climate smart products and services based on cost-benefit and effectiveness of climate adaptation for smallholder farmers.
Selected business cases based on performance and potential for inclusive growth.
Continued data capture and analysis to inform lessons learning in support of scaling up.
Specific tasks:

Coach and support the highest performing BCs with growth potential to improve their performance and their impact for smallholder farmers in terms of income and farming practices.
Incentivise and coach strategic service providers to scale selected CSA practices and technologies together with agribusinesses.

Work with soil testing companies, quality seed distribution companies, local market facilitation agents (VAM/ToT), and CSA extension services to ensure sustainable service delivery models.
Conduct profitability analyses for business champions, farmers, and service providers.
Generate evidence and lessons on successfully implemented GESI-responsive approaches (inclusion in business practices and/or supply chains)
Job Description

Roles and responsibilities

Advisory Services

Act as technical expert for the Project Managers and aim to create an enabling environment (by sharing knowledge, understanding stakeholders and environment) for the implementation of a project, for the project to meet its objectives.
Ensure, monitor progress and review quality of own expertise and ensures client support and satisfaction during projects.
Knowledge Development

Contribute to internal and external knowledge development.
Ensure lessons learned are shared and applied in daily practice and may be appointed as (national) focal point of an expertise network. Initiates/ coordinates the review process and evaluation of advisory services in order to collect lessons learned, proposes corrective measures and ensures identification of follow up assignments. Participates in knowledge development/expertise groups and in internal and external networks.
Project and process development

Identify and propose technical process improvements to the project team.
Act on improvement areas within the local internal organisation and processes and gives feedback.

Ensures lessons learned are applied in daily practice.
People Management

Steers (functionally) colleagues and coaches associated partners/ external stakeholders on quality within the context of assignments.
Act as a technical expert in the content area, applies process improvements in projects and coaches colleagues and associated partners both professionally as operationally on quality of context within projects.
Positioning

Identify and analyse market opportunities and threats and ensures relevant colleagues are informed.
Participate in strategic positioning meetings.
Act as a knowledgeable face of the SNV organisation to the client.
Analyse and develop (local) networks with relevant stakeholders, identifies new clients.
Business Development

Build, maintain and utilise relationships with relevant stakeholders, represents SNV
Identify 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 & Requirements

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Master’s degree in specialised/ relevant technical field (for examples, Business Administration, Statistics, Economics). 6 or more years of experience in development work and project implementation or technical field.
Agribusiness analytical and data presentation skills, climate smart agricultural technology profitability or viability analytical skills.
Good report writing skills with proven ability to compile case studies, practice, and policy briefs and (other) documents for learning and sharing.