Latest Job Recruitment at CARE Ghana
- Job Title: Zonal Project Coordinator, Markets and Agri-Business
- Duty Station: Tamale, Northern Region.
Company Profile
CARE began activities in Ghana in 1994, educating mining communities about sexual health and the prevention of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. CARE Ghana presently collaborates with over 40 partner organizations to implement a portfolio of programs worth around US$9 million per year in 150 districts across the nation, with our main office in Accra and sub-offices in Kumasi, Sunyani, and Tamale. For 30 years, CARE has worked in Ghana to improve lives and promote social justice by addressing the root causes of poverty. Our work focuses on food and nutrition security, as well as social and economic empowerment, with a particular emphasis on women and young people.
Job Description.
CARE International is implementing the Generating Revenues and Opportunities for Women to Improve Nutrition in Ghana (GROWING) project in Ghana as part of a consortium led by the International Potato Center, in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service, the Women in Agriculture Development Directorate, and District Directorates of Agriculture. The initiative is supported by Global Affairs Canada and will run for 4.5 years beginning in March 2022.
The GROWING Project will use an integrated agriculture-nutrition-marketing approach, combined with strong support, to transform women’s agency as well as the enabling environment, including gender norms and roles, attitudes and behaviours, to address key gender inequities and initiate more appropriate practices to ensure more equitable outcomes for women, particularly their nutritional and financial security.
This will be accomplished in part by organizing rural women and men into clubs that will allow for training on growing and consuming more nutritious crops in a more environmentally sustainable manner, as well as interventions to reduce gender disparities in the production, consumption, and marketing of nutritious food. CARE International in Ghana will oversee the implementation of initiatives aimed at improving the enabling environment for women’s empowerment, as well as Village Savings and Loans Associations and Farmer Business Clubs.
The Zonal Project Coordinator, Markets and Agri-Business is responsible for providing technical support and assisting the implementation of project activities related to input and output market linkages, as well as agri-business development, for project community participants.
The incumbent will work in the Tamale Sub-office and report directly to the Project Manager.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE ROLE
Ensure that farmers have better market access.
- Research and uncover new business opportunities, such as new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products, and services, as well as innovative approaches to existing markets, and connect farmers and partners to them.
- Create a platform at the district level that allows farmers to efficiently engage with buyers.
- Provide technical assistance to partners and smallholder farmers so that they can effectively engage with the specified markets within the specific value chain.
- Create promotional materials and marketing strategies for smallholders, product promoters, and other related enterprises.
- Educate farmers, product promoters/agents, and linked enterprises on business management, financial management, and marketing.
- Facilitate farmers’ involvement in tradeshows to identify and build business prospects.
- Lead the discovery and training of participants on profitable/value-added strategies to meet a specified market outlet.
- Facilitates connections and contracts among buyers, product promoters/agents, and farmers.
- Lead market demand activities for the project’s enhanced value chains.
- Adapt structured materials and teach key staff, while continuing to assist the cascading of training to smallholder farmers.
Improve input supply systems to meet the needs of farmers.
- Identify stakeholders (agro-dealers, seed producers, mechanization and business service providers, and financial institutions) who are involved or interested in assisting smallholder service delivery.
- Develop new (or upgraded) commercially viable and scalable business models, as well as accompanying development initiatives, to provide smallholders with small-mechanization possibilities.
- Create market-based strategies to enhance farmers’ access to agricultural inputs (e.g., improved seeds, and insecticides).
- Create a long-term platform in project operational communities that allows farmers at the final mile to obtain important inputs.
- Contributes to the creation of promotional materials and marketing plans for agro-dealers, mechanization, and commercial service providers.
Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of impact measurement, documentation, and learning.
- Assist the MEAL Unit in ensuring that the project’s monitoring and evaluation aspects are consistent with the agreed-upon program strategic goals and objectives.
- Participate in the preparation, documentation, and dissemination/sharing of lessons learned.
- Assist the MEAL Unit in developing quality M&E tools and implementing the project structure to enable successful information/data collection.
- Contribute to the documenting of processes, progress, outcomes, impacts, and lessons
- learned to guide the production of donor technical and financial reports.
- Identify and utilize relevant outlets for sharing lessons learned.
Required Skill or Experience
Knowledge
- Agricultural Extension
- Livelihood development
- Economics and Marketing, Entrepreneurship.
General agriculture experience.
- At least 5 years of direct experience in relevant work fields (technical assistance for project activity implementation, stakeholder engagement, market and business development).
- Excellent professional experience in market system development and facilitation.
- Experience enabling stakeholder interaction, including incentive and capacity assessments, with a focus on private sector involvement.
- Proven experience developing marketing strategies and plans.
- Business acumen and development experience
- Very solid understanding of enterprise business development rules and procedures, covering a variety of business support services such as BDS, financing, sales, and marketing.
- Effective networking, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
- Very good awareness of a variety of enterprise development opportunities
- Ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing.
- Work both individually and as part of a team, and collaborate well with project team members, partners, and the private sector.
- Computer expertise in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is necessary.
Skills
- Drive for results.
- Qualities include cross-cultural competence, action orientation, presentation skills, and educational background.
- Master’s degree in Agricultural Extension and Livelihood Studies, Economics, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, or a comparable discipline with an agricultural background or industry experience.
How to Apply for this Job Recruitment at CARE Ghana
- Email your CV and a cover letter to hr.ghana@care.org.
- Include the job title for the position in the subject line.
- The application date is Monday, July 22, 2024.
- Applications will be evaluated and shortlisted on an ongoing basis, with only shortlisted individuals being contacted for interviews.
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