The position
With a position of Seed Business Development and Marketing Expert, you will function within a team of individuals with complementary expertise in seed sector development. You will be supervised by the regional scientific coordinator, who will be assisted by a regional project manager. The regional project manager will supervise you on a day to day basis. Expertise, guidance, and support in gender; informal seed systems; business development; project implementation strategy; monitoring and evaluation (M&E); and data management will be provided by the Addis Ababa based ISSD Ethiopia project management unit (PMU). A team of experts from Wageningen University and Research centre (Wageningen UR), the Netherlands will support PMU. Regional activity planning will be conducted with the participation of PMU and often in collaboration with other projects united by the BENEFIT partnership. You will be an active participant in knowledge sharing and learning events with the teams based at other duty stations.
Key Responsibilities:
BENEFIT-ISSD aims to improve access to quality seed
ISSD Ethiopia is implemented in four regions of Ethiopia through multiple partnerships
What kind of person we need
Report to: ISSD SNNPR Scientific Coordinator and ISSD SNNPR Project Manager
Supportive Knowledge, experiences and skills required:
To perform the function optimally, you should be able to:
Applicants must satisfy all of the following minimum requirements: