Agribusiness and Innovation Capacity Development Specialist

RESPONSIBILITIES (lead, or in collaboration with other ICRA staff):
•Design, implement and manage capacity strengthening programmes and projects in Africa, with a lesser emphasis in Asia and/or Latin America;
•Develop competitive proposals for capacity strengthening in rural innovation, with emphasis on agribusiness, value chain development and smallholder agriculture;
•Train in the facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes, agri-business and value chain development, and organisational development;
•Train in capacity strengthening processes, including needs assessment, the design, management and facilitation of experiential learning;
•Coach/mentor facilitators of multi-stakeholder platforms and business support services in ICRA programmes;
•Develop training materials to support ICRA capacity strengthening programmes;
•Develop and utilise a best practice framework for monitoring training programmes, and a results-chain based approach to evaluating ICRA’s capacity strengthening programmes (in collaboration with other ICRA staff);
•Document training and capacity strengthening effectiveness (outcomes and impact);
•Network with potential ICRA partners both in Europe and the South (especially organisations specializing in agribusiness development, public-private partnership development, etc).

PREREQUISITES:
•Applicants should be fluent in both French and English, and:
•Applicants should be European nationals or in possession of a valid work permit.

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
•A Masters or PhD degree in economics, business, or related field.
•A minimum of five years of experience in agribusiness or economic development of small-holder agriculture and agri-food systems, preferably including experience with the private sector and/or private-public partnerships;
•Proven experience in capacity building within agricultural value chains or multi-stakeholder innovation platforms;
•Experience with training of trainers (preferred);
•Experience in training design, development of training materials and curricula;
•Experience with the design, management and evaluation of multi-stakeholder projects;
•Experience with promoting and managing organisational change;
•Ability to work in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural teams, as well as independently;
•Strong presentation skills, speaking and writing;
•Willingness to travel extensively within Africa, Asia and Latin America (approximately 30% of time).

The full vacancy announcement is on http://www.icra-edu.org/page.cfm?pageid=publicenglishvacancies.

Job Email id: icra(at)wur.nl