Job Purpose: 

The role of this position is developing new common interest groups of the WB project target young Women and support the CIGs in business plan development skills, marketing and financial management skills liaising and in collaboration with the local government authorities and project team towards their sustainable livelihood development and contribution to improving nutrition status of young women and their generation.  

Duties and responsibilities: 

·       Support the establishment of common interest groups and providing market information and training to the young farmer women on market linkages.

·       Support young farmer women in selling surplus produce and animal products, collective marketing, and value-addition.

·       Participate in the program review, design and implementation plans to identify the beneficiaries and their needs.

·       To organize and lead development and sustainability of young women and youth on-farm and off-farm cooperative interventions at Woreda level.

·       Facilitate the implementation of Cooperatives controlled by their members who actively participate in setting their policies and making decisions.

·       Building Cooperatives capacity and skills for their members, elected representatives, so they can contribute effectively to the development of their cooperatives.

·       Ensure Model Farmers’ access to a context-appropriate range of income generation activities and market linkages.

·        Make sure that Master Farmers provided with additional training in financial management, marketing, and technical capacity development tailored to the catchment areas of their cooperatives.

·       Ensure Experience sharing and learning from other Woredas to explore options to engage in new and innovative IGAs suited to young women during the project time

Contribute and participate in the mid-term and term evaluation of the cooperatives (Effectively document all information related to project successes and best practices, create a bank of pictures, videos, and most significant change stories on the project in the selected sectors, and document and report. 

Gender Equity : 

·       Demonstrate understanding of Concern Ethiopia’s Gender Equality Strategy

·       Contribute to ensuring that Concern Ethiopia is a place where men and women are treated equally and with  dignity and respect

Demonstrate gender equality awareness and gender sensitivity and an ability to integrate a gender equality perspective into tasks and activities

Concern has a Staff Code of Conduct and a Programme Participant Protection Policy which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organization, and the standards of behavior expected of them.  In this context staff have a responsibility to the organization to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment.   By signing the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct candidates acknowledge that they have understood the contents of both the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and the Programme Participant Protection Policy and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these two documents.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply. 

Person Specification 

• A bachelor degree in cooperative marketing, economics, business development, community/rural development or related fields,
• At least 2 years of experience working with cooperative sector and community organizations,
• Demonstrated ability to foster partnerships with community and/or Government agencies/organizations and groups
• Strong experience in Networking, report writing skills
• Strong group facilitation and training skills
• Knowledge of cooperative organization, governance and policies Strong capacity and skills in Cooperative organizational and Financial Management
• Knowledge of community development, empowerment and mentoring approaches
• Demonstrated experience in community economic development and management(own business or by providing business development services),
• experience with small business financing, market analysis and market research
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring and evaluation
• Good oral & written communication skills of both English and Tigrigna

What we Offer:

•            A competitive salary and benefit package

•            Excellent medical benefits (100% cover including dependents)

•            20 days annual leave

•            26 weeks maternity leave, 18 weeks(unpaid) parental leave

•            Opportunities to travel overseas and gain international experience