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• Lead the Cluster team including consortium staff to develop
  practical strategies to increase income production and productivity within
  the respective cluster through use of relevant input on poultry,
  horticulture, staple crops, animal health & husbandry, feed/nutrition,
  water management system etc.
• Lead the development of a farm business model as a profitable
  sustainable and growth proposition to smallholder farmer, which could be
  used to replicate and advise interested farmers particularly youth to
  adopt dairy, poultry, horticulture, staple crops farming.
• Lead and support the Cluster team in designing a system and
  implement plans to support Producer organizations to setup robust business
  leadership extension systems and link producer organizations to input and
  service providers.
• Support the design and implementation of appropriate curricula to
  help the cluster office plan and implement training programs that relate
  to the poultry, horticulture, staple crops farming and dairy enterprise
  management.
• With the guidance of the Social Capital and Cluster Manager, design
  and lead systems to streamline gender and youth activities which promote
  production and productivity within the cluster.
• Lead the Cluster team in designing a program that can select and
  support the development of model farms and put in place strategies to
  upscale adoption of productivity enhancement technologies.

• Working closely with the Regional Monitoring, Learning and
  Evaluation (MLE) Manager: and MLE Officer to create, execute and monitor
  action plans to support Cluster office value chains namely poultry,
  horticulture & livestock data bases at youth farmer business
  associations with a view of the enterprises to use the data for improving
  management and profitability of the enterprises.
• Ensure compliance with contractual obligations and procedures of
  donor.

• Coordinate cluster team and external partnerships to bring best farm
  practice to the project.
• Provide leadership to the Cluster team in strategy development and
  creative initiatives to nurture and build linkages between producer
  organizations, local governments, private sector Business Development
  Services (BDS) providers and other development players.
• Represent EAYIP in various local stakeholder meetings, workshops,
  conferences and shared learning events.

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness,
  Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, Animal science or other related
  field, with five (5) years’ managerial experience in Entrepreneurship
  development, Business Development and management, Agricultural production,
  Agricultural value chain management, agriculture development with at least
  three (3) years’ experience of how cooperatives work.
• Master’s degree in Agriculture Economics, Business Administration,
  Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Development or other related field or a
  related field, plus at least five (5) years’ experience in value chain
  competitiveness, crop and/or Livestock production management with a
  background in Agricultural enterprise development and management.
• Experience in developing private public partnerships especially at
  country level working in matrix reporting environment.
• Possess the experience and ability to articulate Agriculture as a
  financial viable business proposition at both the farm and producer
  organization.
• Clear understanding of the Agricultural value chain and Heifer’s
  Value based model.
• Proven team leadership, project management, motivational and
  supervisory skills with ability to train and work cooperatively with a
  diverse staff.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the latest developments in advancing
  good/best practices in Agricultural value chain development that reaches
  youth, and underprivileged.
• Demonstrated creativity, ability to think systematically,
  willingness and ability to incorporate innovative solutions and design
  catalytic activities within the production dairy value chain (e.g. the
  concept of business development services provision).
• Demonstrated experience in setting robust and sustainable extension
  systems for producer organizations. This requirement is in line with the
  need to have built-in exit strategies within the project as a measure of
  ensuring that there are self-sustaining businesses by project’s end.
• Having a business approach to dairy farmer with a passion for farmer
  development and being completely farmer centric.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in facilitating development of
  farm-level business plans and feasibility studies including the
  computation of the associated key financial ratios and benchmarks.
• Experience in implementing supply promotion/ stimulation strategies
  in the context of dairy sub-sector and other agricultural sub-sectors
• Computer literacy, including facility with Word, Excel, and other
  relevant Microsoft Office Suite applications, as well as any other
  databases.
• Proficient in communicating in English and local languages in
  Eastern Uganda, oral and written.

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