Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Mozambique
Winrock International is seeking to fill the position of Production Lead.
The organisation provides solutions to some of the world’s most complex Social, agricultural and environmental challenges.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for design and implementation of activities to promote the adoption of inputs, practices, and technologies using a market-system development approach
- Build capacity of technical and other project staff, partners, and stakeholders for implementing market system strategies for increasing agricultural production
- Implement diagnostics and assessments for evaluating market opportunities, identifying partners, and designing project partnerships
- Identify and manage partnerships that contribute both sustainable and inclusive benefits to smallholder farmers and to anticipated project results
- 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
- Provide thought leadership for government of Mozambique counterparts, private sector businesses, USAID, and other stakeholders in understanding and implementing strategies to improve productivity
- Co-facilitate quarterly Pause and Reflect sessions to capture learning, introduce improvements, and achieve meaningful results
- 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
- Collaborate with communications team to visualise and disseminate important findings
Requirements
- Seven years, minimum, of professional experience in managing and implementing productivity enhancing activities for international development projects, preferably with U.S. government-funded projects
- Experience in managing technical teams for market system 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 system development framework, including tools, strategies, and approaches
- Knowledge of the Mozambique agriculture sector
- Strong training design, training delivery, and facilitation skills
- Strong personnel management skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skill in English and Portuguese
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