part time- Agribusiness Consultant

PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop highly participatorytraining material for each marketing and agribusiness topic including but not limited to: marketing skills, negotiation and contracting skills, results-based management, export essentials and e-marketing. The trainer may prepare one or more of the training topics including power point presentation, trainee manual, and trainer manual.
• Provide training to one or more of the Project’s participant target groups in one or more of the topics according to the training plan.
• Follow up the implementation of training recommendations.
• Update training material as needed.
• Provide recommendations for improving the training programs.
• Contribute to the Project’s training plan improvement.
• Conduct value chain analysis and bumpers analysis for the project value chains.
• Conduct business plans for project stakeholders including buyers (exporters, processors and supermarkets) and producer organizations.
• Conduct any other relevant economic and marketing studies.
• Evaluate feasibility and budgeting of the proposals submitted to the project for grant funding.
• Keep the Project’s Business, Market, and Finance Development Specialist updated with the status training programs.

DELIVERABLES:

• Training power point presentations
• Trainee manual
• Trainer manual
• Pre- and post-training test
• Report on results of each training
• Studies' reports

Job Requirements

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• At least 5 years of work experience as a consultant and trainer.
• Experience/ knowledge of the agribusiness environment in Egypt.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills.
• Advanced relevant degree, preferably PhD in Agricultural Economics or Agribusiness Management
• Previous work experience in development project with small farmers is preferable
• Experience developing training programs/curriculums
• Experience in conducting economic and marketing studies

LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION AND DELIVERABLES:

• The consultant will deliver the training and relevant materials in Arabic. Studies might be conducted in both Arabic and English.