Country Project Manager Enhancing Dairy Sector Growth in Ethiopia

Are you interested in joining an international organisation with a long term commitment to fighting poverty? Would you like to work in a challenging environment and develop a career focused on demonstrating shared core values that achieve results?

SNV Ethiopia is looking for a:

Country Project Manager Enhancing Dairy Sector Growth in Ethiopia - (EDGET Project)

based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
International employment contract

SNV Netherlands Development Organisation is working in over 33 developing countries across the world and is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own development. The emphasis of SNV’s work is on poverty alleviation guided by global value propositions in Agriculture, Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), and Renewable Energy. SNV has worked in Ethiopia since the 1970s and currently operates in the Southern, Oromiya, Tigray and Amhara regions where 80% of the country’s rural population lives. Over the period 2005 to 2011 SNV-Ethiopia implemented an innovative value chain development programme called Business Organisations and Access to Markets (BOAM), funded mainly by the Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. The BOAM programme piloted value chain development in the dairy, honey, oilseeds and fruit sub-sectors.

As lead of a consortium in dairy development, SNV is seeking a Country Project Manager to lead the EDGET project, budgeted at over 3 million Euros per year. The project consortium partners include Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) and Heifer International (HI). The project is to be funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ethiopia with additional funding expected from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation.

Since 2008, HI has been implementing the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project across Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda funded by the foundation. EADD is now scaling out its successful dairy hub business approach to Ethiopia and Tanzania; and to this end is partnering with SNV and WUR in Ethiopia.

The Country Project Manager (CPM) will be responsible for the planning and implementation of all EDGET field activities, results-based management and client/partner relations. The CPM will lead a diverse team of multi-partner advisors and professionals to deliver on ambitious community and business level targets leading to doubling of income and transformation of the lives of over 100,000 farming families. She or he will report directly to the Country Director of SNV Ethiopia and the Consortium Board.

Main Responsibilities:

• Leads and manages the implementation of the project
  and aligns activities, mission and objectives with that of partners, national and international, while at all times maintaining coherence.
• Manages the preparation of results-based annual project operational plans and budgets providing regular reports to the fund and partner managers. Coordinates the dairy value
  chain and sector development activities in the project.
• Provides technical direction on the dairy business
  hub and private sector linkage activities in the project.
• Supervises and coaches the project team. Organises meetings and is secretary of the Consortium Board and of the project Technical Advisory Committee. Is ‘the face’ of the project and represents the project to the ‘outside world’.
• Builds and maintains a network for EDGET with all dairy value chain stakeholders including:government, government agencies, other non-governmental organisations, consortium partners/sub-contractors, other dairy development actors and projects, the private sector, consumers and educators.
• Ensures the documentation, publication and sharing
  of knowledge-based learning under the project.
• Performs other job-related responsibilities as
  assigned.

Requirements:

• University degree plus 12 years of related working
  experience, referably in Africa.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience of senior
  results-based project management and, preferably, in consortium leadership.
• Proven experience in dairy value chain and dairy
  industry development, especially improving farmer access to markets; experience
  in the organisational and institutional aspects of dairy sector coordination
  will be an asset.
• Experience of working with the private sector and
  strong will and capacity to engage the private sector in the project.
• Experience in integrating gender and youth related
  aspects in dairy value chain development, based on an understanding and
  promotion of women participation and youth entrepreneurship.
• Team player with networking and coaching abilities
  at the national level, combined with result-orientation.
• Excellent computer skills and ability to work in a
  challenging and dynamic context; excellent communication skills in English.

Contract Duration: 3 years with
possibility of extension contingent to performance.

Contract Type: International

Closing date for applications: October 20, 2012

Desired sart date: As soon as possible

How to apply

Please click on http://snv.devhire.devex.com/jobs/326342 and complete your application in the online inhouse recruitment system.

More information about SNV

SNV is a non-profit international development organisation stablished in the Netherlands in 1965. For over 40 years, SNV has been at the refront of development, helping to build local capacity and empower local milies and communities to break the cycle of poverty. We are present on the ound in 36 developing countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the alkans nd operate in Agriculture, Renewable Energy, and Water, Sanitation Hygiene. ur 900 advisors in the field come from a variety of cultural nd technical ackgrounds, and over 60 per cent are nationals of the countries here we work.

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