Job Roles and Responsibilities:
• Lead the implementation of technical, coordinating, monitoring, and reporting of green business activities throughout the project cycle – start-up, implementation, and close-out – in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices.
• Lead ToT trainings, coaching, monitoring, and coordination in all project activities related to green business development.
• Lead the strengthening of partnerships relevant to green enterprise development, value chains, applying appropriate partnership concepts, tools, and approaches.
• Identify and examine constraints and opportunities within the selected value chains
• Identify the underlying policy, institutional, and infrastructural issues that affect the competitiveness and exclusion of selected value chains
• Identify institutions and organizations working on selected value chains that can contribute to pro-poor value chain development.
• Identify alliance staff capacity needs, technical assistance needs of partner organizations and contribute to capacity strengthening and required interventions to support quality program implementation.
• Assist with preparation of market trends analysis reports and disseminate results.
• Develop and maintain relationships with financial institutions and support them in developing bespoke financial products for farmers
• Take the lead in advising farmers on enterprise and business selection, provide insight into product development and competitive positioning of green businesses.
• Work with M&E to conduct market research to identify new business and market opportunities.
• Take the lead in supporting farmers develop business plans for their farms.
• Typical Background, Experience & Requirements:

Education and Experience:
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration, agri-business, or a relevant technical area.
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in technical or management positions in the field of agribusiness, preferably for a donor funded, time-bound project.
• Proven understanding of green businesses.
• Experience in value chain projects or programs.
• Experience in Market Systems Development, marketing strategies and expansion.
• Additional experience may substitute for some education.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working with stakeholders at various levels and strengthening community partnerships.
• Ability to contribute to the development of technical proposals, a plus.
• Experience analyzing data and contributing to evaluation reports.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
• Critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills with ability to make sound judgment.
• Strong relationship management skills and the ability to work effectively with local stakeholders.
• Ability to contribute to written reports.
• Attention to details, accuracy, and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities.
• Very strong writer with expert command of English grammar and AP style.
• Demonstrated experience with competitive proposals in programming contexts similar to CRS.
• Knowledge of CRS programs, justice agenda and Catholic Social teaching principles a plus.
• Conferencing Applications, information management systems.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Good strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills, with capacity to see the big picture.
• Good relations management abilities. Ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally.
• Good negotiation skills.
• Very good communications and presentation skills.
• Proactive, resourceful, solutions & service-oriented and results-oriented.

NOTE: To apply, please follow these instructions exactly otherwise your application will NOT be considered: Email a cover letter and CV only to ug_recruitment@crs.org

Large files and/or scans of documents will lead to rejection of your application, in the subject line of the email, copy, paste – GREENBUSINESSSPECIALISTI only

All applications that do not contain this exact subject line will be rejected and not read ONLY SELECTED CANDIDATES THAT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE NOTIFIED. EOE/M/F/D/V