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You will be responsible for:

Market System Development:

• develop a consolidated approach to Market Systems Development across the organization. Track international best practice.

• Develop and maintain appropriate guidelines and resources and disseminate to programme teams.

Sustainable Food Systems:

• provide vision and inspiration to assist agri-food enterprises to provide safe, nutritious and affordable food to all.

• Enterprise Community of Practice: Build the SHA Enterprise Community of Practice.

Training and capacity building:

• provide bespoke training to SHA field staff, partners and clients on Enterprise-related topics.

• Recruitment: support country offices to recruit enterprise specialists.

• Technical Support: provide detailed support, including sourcing external expertise, for the design and implementation of projects covering, but not limited to:

• Cooperative management and development

• Social Enterprise development

• Agro Enterprise management

• Market and Value Chain Analysis

• Value addition for agricultural produce

• Project Appraisal

• Business Planning

• Access to financial services and products: SACCOs, VSLAs, Micro Finance / Cooperative Bank, insurance and risk management.

FinTech:

• track the rapidly expanding field of mobile financial service appropriate for SHA beneficiaries.

• Intellectual property (IP) Management

• Market based approaches for the delivery of WASH services.

• Graduation of farmer-led enterprises from grant to commercial finance.

M&E:

• work with the M&E team to design indicators, data collection and analyses, design the ToRs for midterm reviews and final evaluations, and take part in joint evaluation missions.

• Policy:

• Lead and contribute to developing policy documents in relation to our agribusiness work and keep CDs up to data on relevant national, regional and international polices and commitments. Support national staff to contribute to national enterprise policy forums.

Networking:

• Document and disseminate Self Help Africa’s experiences and represent Self Help Africa in relevant regional/international communities of practice, conferences and networks.

• Strategy:

• Ensure that enterprise development practices and projects follow best practice and are in line with Self Help Africa’s group strategy and internal policies on partnership and participation; inclusion (including gender and HIV/AIDS targeting); and environment (natural resource management and adaptation to climate change).

Proposal development:

• Support the Fundraising Teams to win new business and funding to support enterprise development throughout the organisation.

• Gorta Group:

• Working closely with colleagues in TruTrade and Partner Africa to explore opportunities for collaboration and to win new business.

• HR:

• support the design of Enterprise JDs, shortlist CVs and participate in interview panels, as required.

• Leadership and compliance:

• The Global Advisors are expected to be role models for the organisation, applying and promoting best practice across the organisation and provide guidance to country teams on SHAs internal policies, procedures and systems.

• Perform other duties and tasks as assigned by the head of GTART.

Key Relationships:

Internal

• Technical Advisors at Head Office and Country Programme level

• Programmes Director

• Desk Officers

• Regional Directors/Country Directors/Head of Programmes

• Program Funding & Fundraising

• Communications

• TruTrade country leads.

• Partner Africa Executive Director

• Group CEO

External

• External stakeholders including, but not limited to, institutional and private donors, Irish Aid, and international aid agencies such as USAID and FCDO

• Partners/service providers. Establish and maintain effective working relations, particularly national and regional agribusiness.