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National Team Leader/Mountain Agribusiness Expert

NEPAL: HIMALI – National Team Leader/Mountain Agribusiness Expert
Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI) is preparing to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) for providing consulting services for PMU and NGO Management for ADB-financed project entitled – “HIMALI”. The consultancy service to the PMU for mountain agribusiness development is to recruit and supervise NGO teams in ten districts to deliver services including social mobilization and fulfilment of environmental and social safeguards requirements in the ten project districts.

CECI is looking for the following National consultants:

National Team Leader/Mountain Agribusiness Expert
Brief Tasks:
The National Team Leader/Mountain Agribusiness Expert in cooperation with the International Team Leader will:

• Advise and assist the PD and DPCs in all aspects of project implementation,
• Assist the international Agribusiness Specialist and service providers to: (a) conduct project start-up promotion workshops (b) establish and strengthen agribusiness linkages, and (c) facilitate private sector participation in agribusiness investments in the project area;
• Promote and advise stakeholders on mechanisms for public-private agribusiness partnerships
• Assist the PMU and service providers in identifying and solving constraints on agribusiness development
• Assist the PD and M&E experts with the PPMS

Requirement:

1 Post-Graduate qualifications in agriculture and rural development, animal science or related fields, and training in management or business;
2 at least 10 years of experience in agricultural and rural business development, especially with livestock products
3 experience in project management, mountain agriculture and rural development, MOAC public-private-partnership arrangements and legal agreements, livestock products marketing, extension services, research farm management, MOAC and ADB procedures and regulations.
4 ADB, World Bank or experience with multi-lateral agency will be an asset


Interested candidates should submit an application and a recent updated curriculum vitae relevant to the tasks to ceci@ceci.org.np mentioning the position title in the subject line. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Closing Date: 18 March 2011