Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Juba, South Sudan
Winrock International is seeking to fill the position of Market Systems Lead.
The organisation provides solutions to some of the world’s most complex social, agricultural and environmental challenges.
Responsibilities
- Implement diagnostics and assessments for evaluating market opportunities, identifying partners, and designing project partnerships
- Identify and manage partnerships that contribute both to sustainable and inclusive growth of private sector partners and to anticipated project results
- Design, test and scale market-led mechanisms to promote and deliver inputs and services to producers
- Identify capacity gaps across the broad range of market actors, and facilitate capacity building plans and access to training services
- Identify and work closely with lead and intermediate private sector firms, building their capacity on firm-led services reaching farming communities
- Facilitate private sector investment in embedded services, expansion to rural areas, and other innovative solutions
- Liaise closely with financial institutions, end-markets, and service providers to increase farming communities’ access to markets
- Understand and manage expected project results, including evaluation of ongoing activities as part of a collaborating, learning, and adapting approach
- Support an efficient and accurate data collection and analysis system
- Contribute to knowledge management and sharing activities within project, with USAID, other implementing partners, and government
- Work closely with the field team and project staff to develop annual workplans aligned with annual and life of project targets
Requirements
- Seven years, minimum, of professional experience in managing and implementing market-led interventions for international development projects, preferably with U.S. government-funded projects in South Sudan
- Experience in managing technical teams for market development, including training, capacity building, mentorship, and day-to-day management
- Experience in agriculture, food security, post-harvest handling and processing, and/or market access
- Familiarity with market systems development framework, including tools, strategies, and approaches
- Knowledge of the South Sudan agriculture sector
- Strong training design, training delivery, and facilitation skills
- Strong personnel management skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
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