•   Job Title: Zonal Project Coordinator, Markets and Agri-Business                           
•  Duty station: Tamale, Northern Region              

The Generating Revenues & Opportunities for Women to Improve Nutrition in Ghana (GROWING) project is being implemented by CARE International in Ghana as part of a consortium led by the International Potato Center and in collaboration with Ghana Health Service, the Women in Agriculture Development Directorate and District Directorates of Agriculture. The project is funded by Global Affairs Canada and will run for 4.5 years starting from March 2022. The GROWING Project will use an integrated agriculture-nutrition-marketing approach, coupled with strong support to transform the individual agency of women as well as the enabling environment, including gender norms and roles as well as attitudes and behaviors, so that key gender inequities are addressed and more appropriate practices initiated to ensure more equitable outcomes for women, in particular their nutritional and financial security. This will be achieved in part by organizing rural women and men in clubs that will enable trainings concerning growing and consuming more nutritious crops in a more environmentally sustainable fashion, and interventions to reduce gender inequalities concerning growing, consuming and marketing nutritious foods. CARE International in Ghana will lead the execution of activities to improve the enabling environment for empowering women, Village Savings and Loans Associations and Farmer Business Clubs.

The Zonal Project Coordinator, Markets and Agri-Business has responsibility for providing technical support and facilitating the implementation of project activities in relation to input and output market linkages and agri-business development for participants of the project communities.

The incumbent will be based in the Tamale Sub-office and report directly to the Project Manager.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE

Ensure increased access to markets for farmers.

• Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products, and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets and link farmers and partners to them.
• Create platform at the district level for farmers to effectively engage with the buyers.
• Provide technical support to partners and smallholder farmers to effectively engage with the identified markets within the specific value chains.
• Develop promotional materials and marketing strategies for the smallholders, product promoters and associated businesses.
• Train farmers, product promoters/agents and associated businesses in business management, financial management and marketing
• Facilitate the participation of the farmers in tradeshows to identify and establish business opportunities.
• Lead in identification and training participants on profitable / or value addition techniques to meet an identified market outlet. 
• Facilitates linkages and contracts between buyers, product promoters/agents and the farmers.
• Lead in creating market demand activities for value chains promoted by the project.
• Adapt structured materials and deliver trainings to key staff while providing ongoing support for the cascading of trainings to smallholder farmers.

Strengthen input supply systems to address needs of farmers

• Identify stakeholders (agro-dealers, seed producers, mechanization and business service providers, financial institutions) involved or interested in supporting the provision of services to smallholders.
• Develop new (or upgraded) commercially viable and scalable business models and associated development strategies to deliver small-mechanization options to smallholders.
• Develop market-based approaches to improving the farmers access to agricultural inputs (improved seeds, pesticides, etc)
• Create a sustainable platform in the project operational communities for farmers at last mile to access relevant inputs.
• Contributes to the development of promotional materials and marketing strategies by the agro-dealers, mechanization and business service providers.

Contribute to ensuring monitoring and evaluation impact measurement, documentation and learning

• Provide support to the MEAL Unit in ensuring that monitoring and evaluation aspects of the project are in line with agreed upon program strategic goals and objectives.
• Participate in the preparation, documentation and dissemination / sharing of lessons learnt.
• Support the MEAL Unit in the development of quality M&E tools and operationalization of the project framework to enable effective information/data collection.
• Support the documentation of processes, progress, results, impacts and lessons learnt to inform development of donor technical and financial reports.
• Identify and use appropriate platforms for sharing lessons learnt.