Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities
The Project Analyst – Agri-business & Private Sector will report to and work under the direct supervision of the Project Manager.
A. Provide technical guidance on private sector engagement and scale-up agri-business
- Provide technical guidance to project team, implementing partners, government officials and other stakeholders, related to private sector engagement, public private partnership, promotion of agro-based enterprises and market value chain.
- Lead and assure quality of the agro-business opportunities and expansion.
- Provide guidance to partners and local governments in setting priorities particularly on engaging and promoting private sectors, financial institutions, and SMEs; and leveraging conditional, equalization, special grant of the federal and provincial governments in municipal priority areas including project support funds.
- Support the development and structuring of alternative financing mechanisms, including blended finance, impact investing, guarantees, and other de-risking tools.
- Provide technical support in establishing market outlets, and post-harvest management.
- Provide technical backstopping to the partners, local governments, cooperative and other extension providers for the promotion of appropriate tools, digital systems and improved production and marketing practices to enhance productivity and agri-value chain mechanism.
- Assist in integrating data and results of private sector engagement and its benefits in the project interventions.
- Conduct regular meetings and follow ups with project team, partners, relevant stakeholders, and private sectors on achieving program results.
- Timely monitoring of the project activities and ensure that the proper and relevant knowledge management has been carried out at project and partners’ level.
- Ensure the training modules are developed and organized events accordingly.
- Analyze financial incentives for farmers’ adoption of postharvest technology.
- Capacitate local governments, partners, farmers, community groups and relevant stakeholders on private sector engagement, economy promotion, and supply chain mechanisms.
- Support local governments and cooperatives in market facilities in collaboration with the project team, partners, and stakeholders.
- Lead in mapping of local value chain actors and build their capacity to strengthen value chain of selected commodity.
- Identify and assess alternative financing models suitable for development initiatives.
- Map potential investors, impact funds, DFIs, and private financial institutions.
- Support in formulating legally and locally accepted financial instruments like local agricultural policies, strategies, acts, guidelines, procedures, standard norms, for smooth operation of agriculture program -beyond project.
- Support the provision of postharvest handling and marketing of fruit and vegetables to operators of collection centers and satellite markets.
- Contribute to build the capacity of staffs of local government and cooperatives on themes relevant to the position.
- Support the cooperatives and market centers to prepare business plans, operational plans, and other relevant policy documents, and their smooth implementations,
- Support in establishing market information system at collection centers and satellite markets and identify opportunities to strengthen the system.
- Identify potential market actors and business development service providers and connect with producer’s organization for assured market and services.
B. Strengthening capacity of project partners and beneficiaries:
- Provide technical back stopping to the partners, local governments, cooperative and other extension providers for the promotion of appropriate production technologies and improved production and marketing practices to enhance productivity and reduce postharvest losses of fruit and vegetables.
- Support local governments and cooperatives in market facilities in collaboration with the project team, partners, and stakeholders.
- Provide technical inputs in mapping of local value chain actors, prepare roadmap, and support them in capacity development at different node of value chain of selected commodity to strengthen resilient energy-food system.
- Undertake gap assessment and capacitated local government, cooperatives, farmers groups, women entrepreneurs, and other service providers.
- Support in formulation of legal instruments like local agricultural policies, strategies, acts, guidelines, procedures, standard norms, for smooth operation of agriculture program -beyond project.
- Support the provision of postharvest handling and marketing of fruit and vegetables to operators of collection centers and satellite markets.
- Contribute to build the capacity of staffs of local government and cooperatives on themes relevant to the position.
- Support the cooperatives and market centers to prepare business plans, operational plans, and other relevant policy documents, and their smooth implementations,
- Support in establishing market information system at collection centers and satellite markets and identify opportunities to strengthen the system.
- Identify potential market actors and business development service providers and connect with producer’s organization for assured market and services.
C. Reporting and documentation responsibility
- In consultation with the Project Manager prepare and finalize progress reports periodically as agreed in monitoring and reporting timeline and deliverables as per the standard template of UNDP and donor.
- Prepare and submit periodic delivery reports.
- Prepare and finalization of project briefs and other documents and ensure their quality.
D. Ensure Gender Equality and Social Inclusion throughout the project intervention.
- Capacitate and empower women and ensure gender equality and social inclusion component in all project interventions.
- Ensure meaningful participation of women, dalit, janajati and people with disability in all stages of project cycle.
- Ensure integration of GESI aspects in all stages of the project in coordination with Project GESI Focal Person.
- Create a safe working environment by developing respectful and safe organizational culture and supporting practices.
- Collaborates with team members, programme partners, and sub-grantees to ensure safe implementation of programmes at the community level applying Do No Harm approach.
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Job Specification
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Agri Economics, Public and Private Sector Management, Enterprise Development, Agribusiness Management, Value Chain or a related field is required; or
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above fields, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
- Minimum two years (with Master´s degree) or four years (with Bachelor´s degree) of work experience in the field of agriculture value chain, market linkages, marketing, access to finance, private sector engagement, private partnership, and fund mobilization.
Required skills:
- Good knowledge in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.)
Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section:
- Experience of working with local governments, private sectors and cooperatives on access to finance is highly desirable.
- Experience in the development and structuring of alternative financing mechanisms, including blended finance, impact investing, guarantees, and other de-risking tools.
- Experience to design, implement and train diverse partners on private sector engagement, access to finance, agricultural value chain, market linkages and fund mobilization is highly desirable.
- Experience of implementing similar projects on food-energy-water nexus is highly desirable.
- Proven experience of private partnership promotion and engaging local financial institution for food and nutrition security in remote areas is highly desirable.
- Sound understanding of agricultural policies and agriculture research, development, and extension systems of Nepal will be an advantage.
Required Languages:
- Fluency in English and Nepali is required.
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