Overview
Provide strategic and technical support to drive FtMA close-out implementation under Pillar 2 (Markets and Access to Finance), ensuring strong market continuity mechanisms, FSC graduation, structured trade linkages, supplier readiness, and sustainability commitments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead implementation of Pillar 2 close-out priorities, focusing on sustainability.
- Strengthen commercially viable aggregation, logistics, storage, and market service models.
- Support transition of selected FSCs and aggregators into WFP supplier readiness and procurement pathways.
- Establish, strengthen, and manage partnerships with buyers, processors, traders, financial institutions, warehouse operators, and logistics actors.
- Lead structured trade and forward delivery contract arrangements.
- Identify and secure commercially sustainable market opportunities.
- Strengthen linkages between FSCs, farmer organizations, and financing partners.
- Support development of credit readiness, business cases, and aggregation financing models.
- Support vetting, profiling, and due diligence of target farmer organizations, FSCs, and aggregators.
- Lead market-facing graduation pathways for FSCs.
- Provide high-quality project management, implementation tracking, and reporting support.
- Contribute to donor reporting, close-out documentation, lessons learned, and sustainability handover products.
- Support coordination with government counterparts to institutionalize the FSC market access model.
Required Experience
- At least 6–8 years of progressively responsible experience in agribusiness, agricultural market systems, value chain development, structured trade, or access to finance.
- Strong experience working with private-sector off-takers, aggregators, financial institutions, and farmer-facing SMEs/FSCs.
- Proven experience in project close-out, sustainability planning, or institutionalization of market systems models is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in supplier development, aggregation business models, or WFP/local procurement ecosystems is a strong advantage.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree in Agriculture Economics, Agribusiness, Agricultural Marketing, Finance, Value Chain Development, Economics, or related field.
- A first university degree with additional years of relevant experience may be accepted.
