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• Offer support to the team to ensure it
  attains project goals and objectives by providing technical advice when
  appropriate and as requested by the Chief of Party.
• Support the team in the day-to-day planning,
  design and operations of project.
• Prepare and/or assist in the preparation of
  reports and documents to donor, national governments, AVSI headquarters
  and other partner organizations.
• Work closely with subcontractors and private
  sector actors in the region to provide technical and organizational
  assistance in the implementation of SKY project.
• Offer technical guidance to leads in the
  fanning zones including youth in agribusiness, agriculture productivity,
  enterprise development, finance and investment, and youth employment.
• Successfully engage private sector partners
  to commit to provide resources and expertise to support project
  implementation.
• Prepare and submit effective written reports
  and oral presentations on the program, including preparing periodic
  reports, updating on developmental challenges facing the program, and
  articulating the program’s success in meeting deliverables.
• Provide technical back stopping to skills
  providers and project staff in private sector engagement as needs arise.
• Influence agribusinesses to create internship
  opportunities for youths.
• Develop a Public-Private Partnership
  framework for developing agribusiness investments to promote the
  agricultural value chains with priority in youth employment, including
  appropriate modalities for incentives and concessions with the private
  sector.
• Organize agricultural investment forums in
  the farming zones to attract private sector investments to promote
  agricultural businesses and market development to support accelerated agribusiness
  development that helps diversify incomes, and create jobs for the youths.
• Work closely with the stakeholders on all
  agri-business and investment opportunities to support accelerated
  investments that promote youth employment by the private sector in
  agricultural value chains.
• Be part of and support the Programme
  Management Unit in overseeing, coordinating and aligning the contribution
  of private sector resource partners in the skilling and assessing their
  deliverables.
• Work in liaison with the private sector
  partners to identify labour information collection nodes across the demand
  and supply chains and development of sustainable and effective information
  collection and dissemination mechanisms.

• The applicant should hold a University Degree
  in Agri-Business, Economics, Marketing, Small Business Management or
  related field.
• A minimum of eight years of professional
  experience in agribusiness, and/or value chain and market access related
  consultancy, and/or analysis/research of agribusiness and/or regional
  socio-economic development projects.
• Previous exposure and experience in working
  with public sector, private sector and donor organizations on
  institutional development or similar projects will be an asset.
• Prior experience in monitoring and evaluation
  of performance of business units and/or regional/local or community
  socio-economic development projects is desirable.
• Previous experience in training, teaching or
  mentoring role.
• Prior exposure and experience in marketing,
  market research and management.
• Previous experience working in an
  entrepreneurial environment or as owner/manager of a small business.
• Experience of work in farming zones, social
  entrepreneurship, small business and/or private sector engagement.
• Experience in innovative product development.
• Highest standards of integrity, discretion
  and loyalty.
• Resourcefulness, strategic thinking, creative
  problem solving and basic financial management skills.
• Shares knowledge and experience.
• Actively works towards continuing personal
  learning, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills.
• Ability to perform a variety of specialized
  tasks related to Results Management, including support to design, planning
  and implementation of program, managing data, reporting.
• Focuses on result for the client and responds
  positively to feedback.
• Demonstrated ability to follow through on
  objectives and produce timely results with minimum supervision.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and
  written.
• Knowledge or experience in value chain
  development.
• Knowledge of Ugandan languages in East,
  Central and West is an asset.

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