The results are amazing...when incomes increase and living conditions for families get better, they are able to access health care and education previously out of reach. Communities and even whole countries are better off.

Led by CRS, VINES will leverage the expertise of CRS and its world class consortium of partners (including TechnoServe), associated experts and leading international buyers to provide technical assistance to enhance the production of safe, clean, pure vanilla, develop market links with US trade networks, and strengthen an enabling public policy network to reduce vanilla theft to transform the lives of 16,200 farmers, 356 self-employed service and input providers, 480 processors' employees; and generating 15,820 new on-farm seasonal and permanent processing jobs to reach 32,856 vanilla stakeholders.

In turn, this will provide international buyers with a new origin that will stabilize the extreme price volatility for this unique spice.

Within the consortium, TechnoServe will lead in market analysis, business planning, farmer business capacity building, agripreneur and youth training, input supply and business relationship management.

Primary Functions & Responsibilities

Micro Youth Entrepreneurs 388

Adapt appropriate curriculum to targeted groups
Lead team to deliver training to including input suppliers, soil testing services, nurseries, and other youth employment opportunity activities
Adapt approach as needed to ensure youth entrepreneurs increase sales according to similar program benchmarks
Processor fee-for-service extension agents (75)

Adapt appropriate TechnoServe training for delivery to commercial farmer-suppliers of Vanilla processors
Develop and execute Training of Trainers for processor-supervised extension agents and support the establishment of a viable fee-for-service business model
Coach and support extension agents to train commercial farmers
Commercial Farmers (400)

In coordination with Business Sustainability and Upgrading Specialists, lead:
managerial capacity building of producer organizations, including five-year business plans
Improved member relations and services of producer organizations
managerial capacity building of processors
improve processor capacity in curing and storing
Vanilla Farmer Member Based Organizations

Organize Training of Trainer activities to develop cooperative’s capacity to deliver Farming as a Business (FAAB) and related training to farmer-members in collaboration with Business Sustainability Upgrading Specialists
Program Coordination and Implementation:

Contribute to project activity reports and TechnoServe internal monitoring, evaluation, and Learning (MEL)
Collect and report data and support Micro Enterprise Counselors to collect accurate data from beneficiaries based on the project MEL plan.
Required Qualifications, skills and Experience

Degree qualifications in business-related studies required
Track record of building strong client and stakeholder relationships
Strong project management and some financial analysis skills
Minimum of Three (3) years’ field and technical experience with agribusiness development, agribusiness experience in Uganda is required eCaePoR u3CB8
Experience working with food aggregation and processing, supply chain development, out-grower networks, and knowledge of Market Systems Development approach preferred
Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills is a must