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Value Chain Assistant
Norwegian Church Aid is one of the largest aid organisations in the Nordic region. We are there in disasters and emergencies to provide water and critical assistance to those affected. Together with our international network and partner organisations in the ACT Alliance we are able to reach millions of people each year and help make a positive difference around the world. We are determined to work towards eradicating injustice and we therefore work passionately with advocacy, long-term development in local communities and providing emergency assistance. As we see more and more people impacted by disasters, we now have an even stronger focus on providing more people with emergency relief and access to clean water. We believe that people in need must be helped and we will not stop fighting for a just world.
Main tasks and responsibilities for this position:
Technical Support:
Reporting, Communication and Visibility
Technical Support:
- Provide technical assistance to small-holder producers to enhance market connectivity and access to value-chain.
- Provide technical support in developing business plans for small-holder producers based on the identified value chain and local market potentials and opportunities.
- Support the building of strategies and plans for establishing linkages between small-holder producers and buyers by facilitating events such as seller-buyer meets, B2B platforms, tapping opportunities for value addition, branding, channel creation and their management.
- In collaboration with provincial teams, provide technical support to ensure backwards and forward linkages for small-holder producers and access to quality inputs (Agri, textiles, etc.), technical know-how, value addition, and market linkage for better product realization.
- Assist in providing technical and incubation support to emerging rural entrepreneurs in select commodity value chains
- Collaborating with local training service providers provide technical business management guidance in designing and conducting Agribusiness training.
- Support the development of financial models and analyses to help small-holder businesses make sound financial decisions.
- Provide technical support in developing marketing plans to help small-holder businesses achieve their business goals.
- Support the teams to develop a mechanism to enhance the connection between small-holder farmers and the value chain agenda and drive a win-win approach for mutually profitable solutions.
- Support the regional technical team to facilitate the establishing and strengthening vital market linkages between small-holder producer groups and other essential value chain actors in the project area to promote demand and market-driven agricultural production and value chain development.
Reporting, Communication and Visibility
- In collaboration with the project team, ensure timely and quality reporting of project activities / targets and accomplishments.
- Actively support and participate in the documentation of project learning and impact case stories and ensure that all lessons learned and best practices are appropriately documented and used to inform project management decision-making processes and project design
- In collaboration with the NCA Communications team, assist in developing materials to engage the media in micro and SME entrepreneurship conversations and local value chain development.
- Assist in regularly monitoring and supervise the projects’ activities, track progress and provide the necessary on-field mentoring support when appropriate to improve group performance and results.
| Industry category | Other |
| Industry | Other |
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| Company name | NCA |
| Bernhard Getz gate 3 | |
| 1016 Zabul | |
| Webpage | www.kirkensnodhjelp.no |
| https://twitter.com/KirkensNodhjelp | |
| Start date | 17 November 2024 |
| Salary | Based on NCA Salary Scale |
| Application deadline | 24 Nov 2024 |
| Workplace | Afghanistan |
| Title | Value Chain Assistant |
| Sector | Organisations |
| Position | Full time |
| Extent | Temporary |
| Number of positions | 1 |
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Mohammad Salim Wardak HR Coordinator nca-afg-vacancy@nca.no |
/// Norwegian Church Aid - Country Office
NCA is one of the largest aid organisations in the Nordic region. We are there in disasters and emergencies to provide water and critical assistance to those affected. Together with our international network and partner organisations in the ACT Alliance we are able to reach millions of people each year and help make a positive difference around the world. We are determined to work towards eradicating injustice and we therefore work passionately with advocacy, long-term development in local communities and providing emergency assistance.
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