Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Kenya
Palladium is seeking to fill the role of Marketing/Partnerships Specialist.
Palladium is a child-safe organisation that works with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.
Responsibilities
- Support partnership and alliance-building to strengthen structured cross-border trade and value chain development
- Cultivate and continuously expand network partners of Regional Agriculture and Market Systems (RAMS) and identify specific commercial market opportunities to expand regional and international trade
- Support the development and strengthening of value chain-specific, business-led partnerships to stimulate cross-border trade
- Facilitate market linkages and identify constraints market actors face in cross-border trade arrangements
- Support facilitation of private-sector solutions and trade facilitation measures to reduce the time and cost of agricultural trade
- Provide technical assistance and grants in order to support suppliers’ ability to meet volume and quality demands of cross-border buyers, and to support co-investment of alliances in new or upgraded equipment to improve value chain development across borders
- Collaborate with other donor-funded projects and market actors to integrate lead firms, smallholders, and specialised service providers
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, International Trade, or a related field.
- Five years, minimum, of relevant professional experience facilitating market linkages between market actors to strengthen value chains
- Demonstrated success facilitating connections across borders to achieve results in East Africa
- Knowledge and understanding of barriers to regional cross-border trade, and ability to think creatively about solutions to overcome barriers when possible
- Applicant must be well-networked across RAMS countries of focus
- Experience across target value chains a plus
- Prior USAID or donor experience preferred
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