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Location

Bhubaneswar | India

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Job description

Senior Officer
ICRISAT invites applications from dynamic Indian nationals for the post of Senior for its Agribusiness and Innovation Platform (AIP), under Global Program on Enabling Systems Transformation (EST). This position is based at Bhubaneshwar & various districts in Odisha, India.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.

ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. Please visit –

Job responsibilities:
Business case development at a regional level for the Integrated Pack Houses (IPHs) / Primary Processing Centres (PPCs) and FPO with backend integration, Forward market linkage formation, Resource optimization, process & quality standardization.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Guiding & monitoring the manager on planning, preparation of the business case and value proposition for IPHs / PPCs in line with the crops grown in the region
• Mobilizing, aggregating and coordinating with farmers/ SHG members / FPO members to ensure regular business transaction with IPH/PPC at a regional level
• Regional monitoring of the FPO activities in sync with PPC business case including documenting and reporting periodically to the Manager
• Monitoring the Mobilization of resources for successful function of FPOs at a regional level
• Ensuring compliance of various regulator and social guidelines for the FPOs in the target IPH/PPC
• Ensuring the adoption of standards and practices laid out for IPH/PPC and farmers or FPO and buyer engagement at regional level
• Capacity building of IPH / PPC manpower, farmers and farmer groups in the region periodically, to improve their skills and knowledge
• Establishing collaborative and healthy competitive environment within fruits and vegetables value chain.
• Engaging and communicating continuously with the IPH / PPCs and FPOs present in the target region to secure and fulfill the demand requirements
• Understanding the supply and quality requirements of the produce from the buyers, facilitate business linkages and marketing of the produce and tailor the products in the target region to suit their requirements
• Ensuring continuous supply of quality produce as committed to the PPCs in the target region through farmer producer companies
• Provide inputs to the Odisha SCM – MIS Platform development and data collectionEducation & Experience:
  
  • Master's degree in business administration with a background in agriculture or a closely connected field
  • Minimum of 8-10 years' experience in the project management & operations, marketing and marketing roles in the agricultural and agribusiness sectors, with understanding of the institutions and networks within those sectors
  • Experience in fruits & vegetables sector on supply chain management projects will be an added advantageCompetencies:
    
    • Good writing & communication skills (English, Hindi & Oriya) and networking skills
    • Knowledge of setting up small and medium primary and secondary processing units
    • Expertise in facilitating licenses for the processing units
    • Experience working in a multicultural team
    • Experience in handling MS Office packageNo of Vacancies: 6
      How to apply:
      Applicants should apply on or before 13 June 2023, with their latest Resume, and the names and contact information of three references that are knowledgeable about their professional qualifications and work experience. All applications will be acknowledged; however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
      General:
      This is a contractual role for a period of 36 months (3 years’).
      ICRISAT is an equal opportunity employer
      

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