Job Vacancy/Description
Job Title: Agriculture Marketing Officer
Organization
profile and
background:
Welthungerhilfe
Welthungerhilfe was founded in 1962 as the National Committee of the
“Freedom from Hunger Campaign” set up by the United Nations’ Food and
Agricultural Organization (FAO). Today it is one of the largest International
Non-Governmental Organizations working in development cooperation and
humanitarian aid based in Germany. The organization is non-profit making,
non-denominational and politically independent, and run by a board of
honorary members under the patronage of the German President.
Welthungerhilfe (WHH) is working in 40 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin
America and campaigns publically for fairer cooperation with developing
countries. Its’ work has been funded by private donations from the
population at large and public grants including Kreditanstalt für
Wiederaufbau( KfW), BMZ, DEVCO/EuropeAid, USAID/OFDA, ECHO (FPA Ppartner) and DFID are among many others.
Welthungerhilfe has been working in Liberia since 2003 focusing on
Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security, Infrastructure and WASH
interventions. As of January 2018, Welthungerhilfe Liberia has been
granted a project from KfW. It is the fifth phase of the Reintegration and
Recovery program in the South East part of Liberia to be implemented for 4
years durations ( 2018- 2021.)
The overall objective of the program is to contribute to the sustainable socioeconomic development and food and nutrition security improvement in the
South-East of Liberia and to the consolidation of the peace process. The
project will work to make stronger the market integration and economic
sustainability in the agriculture sector and to move towards a sustainability
infrastructure development and build up institutional capacities. Specifically,
the Supply of basic services in rural roads, market utilities, agricultural
production and processing and WASH at household, community and
institutional level will be addressed by the program. The proposed program
will intervene also in supporting the issue of women empowerment as one
of the main pillars of all involvements. In the three main intervention sectors
(agriculture, WASH and women empowerment), the program is keen to
integrate and empower local actors, government line offices and civil
societies through capacity building measures.
At least 60, 000 persons will be benefitting directly from this project in the
three target counties (Grand Gedeh, River Gee and Maryland.) The project
will be executed by three consortium partners, i.e. WHH, OXFAM and Medica
Liberia. WHH is the lead agency for the project implementation.
Hence, WHH want to recruit a qualified and competent professional for the
above-mentioned position to be part of the execution of this program.
Location: Based in Fishtown, River Gee County with frequent travels to Maryland
County
Objectives of the
Position:
Support Implementing Partners in
Responsible to: Agriculture Coordinator
Responsible for: Implementing Partners (IP)
Main
Responsibilities:
• Commitment to market development solutions for project
community poverty alleviation
• ensure that required market information (price, etc.) reporting is
submitted timely and ensure that data from relevant IP (s) staff are
coordinated and consolidated in agreed formats.
• develop required operational guidelines (templates) and manuals
for reliable marketing activities implementation and obtain
approval from Agriculture coordinator
• Provide technical guidance to IP (s) in the development of
marketing strategies for project implementation
• Facility technical marketing training as ToT (egg. for staff, IPs, and
government related line ministry etc.)
• Supervision of marketing field activities
• Coordinate Nutrition BCC among project components and
Implementing Partners
• Support the Agriculture officer in related activities
• Support the development of new project proposal
Experience: A minimum of 3- 5 years of field experience and working with related areas
with INGO/NGO
Education: Degree in Nutrition or Agriculture and other related field
Languages: Excellent command of spoken and written English
Computer skills: Good working knowledge with modern communication tools (egg. MS
(word, excel, power point), Email, Cell phone
Personal Skills: • Communicates and liaises with stakeholders
• Capacity of team work, ability to work in a Multi- cultural environment
• Intercultural Competence
• Gender sensitive
• Willing to learn and share knowledge
• Professionalism integrity and commitment to project demands
• Innovative, flexibility and independent initiation
• Good time management skills
Starting date ASAP
Applications for
this position should
be sent to:
Please send softcopies of a motivation letter and CV and any additional
documents you wish to submit (e.g. scans of certificates, letter of
recommendation) to the following email with the subject:
recruitment.liberia@welthungerhilfe.de
Note: After reviewing the applications received by the closing date, within two (2) weeks
period “if you don’t hear from us consider your application unsuccessful.” We
encourage you to apply again for posted and advertised positions in our
Organization, for which you qualify in the future.
Closing date: January 10, 2020 at 10:00 AM