Latest Job Vacancies At Food and Agriculture Organization – Agribusiness Development Specialist

By | February 26, 2020

Organizational Setting
The Government of the United Kingdom through the Department for International Development (DFID) is supporting the Zimbabwe Livelihoods and Food Security Programme (LFSP), which aims to contribute to poverty reduction through increased incomes for a minimum number of 200,000 beneficiaries’ households from 2014 to 2020.

The programme is being implemented in four provinces covering ten districts as follows: Mutasa, Mutare, and Makoni in Manicaland province; Guruve, Bindura and Mt Darwin in Mashonaland Central province; and Kwekwe, Gokwe North, Gokwe South and Shurugwi in Midlands province and two additional districts reached with biofortification component only; Mazowe and Zvimba in Mashonaland Central and West provinces.

The programme is being implemented by a multiple of partners and the components in the extension phase are structured around the following with gender mainstreaming cutting across on all components; Extension and Nutrition (EN); Rural Finance (RF); Policy Support (PS); Biofortification (BF); Market Development (MD); Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation (MEAL)
Reporting Lines

Working under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative for Zimbabwe, the direct supervision of the LFSP-APN Chief Technical Advisor and in close collaboration with relevant FAO staff, donors, implementing partners, government and other LFSP components, the incumbent will be responsible for supporting efforts to broker public-private-community partnership and to get small holder farmers to produce for the market and coordinate the work of Implementing Partners and the Market Development (MD) component.

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