Overview
The Socio-economic Specialist will conduct socio-economic assessments and analyses of rural livelihoods, poverty, employment, gender, and youth dynamics to inform project interventions and provide recommendations for improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct socioeconomic assessments and analyses of rural livelihoods, poverty, employment, gender, and youth dynamics to inform project interventions.
- Ensure inclusion of vulnerable groups, gender equality, and youth engagement across all project activities.
- Contribute to value chain analysis with focus on income-generating crops and agricultural waste transformation.
- Identify barriers and opportunities for women and youth participation in agribusiness and waste management start-ups.
- Promote gender equality and youth engagement by identifying opportunities for job creation, skills development, and entrepreneurship.
- Provide recommendations to strengthen community-based enterprises and farmers’ organizations.
- Design and deliver training, awareness campaigns, and Farmer Business School (FBS) activities to strengthen agripreneurship, cooperative management, micro-enterprise creation, and waste management practices.
- Support awareness campaigns on socioeconomic and environmental benefits of waste management and food loss reduction.
- Facilitate participatory approaches to ensure communities are engaged in planning and decision-making.
- Facilitate market linkages by mapping buyers, processors, and private sector partners, organizing B2B events, trade fairs, and buyer–seller meetings.
- Provide advisory support to start-ups on quality standards, branding, and market entry strategies.
- Facilitate linkages with micro-finance institutions, banks, and cooperatives, ensuring equitable access to finance.
- Support strengthening partnerships and linkages with public and private institutions that generate relevant information and technologies related to value chain enhancement.
- Develop socioeconomic indicators and contribute to project monitoring and evaluation.
- Support implementation of Letters of Agreement (LoAs), including follow-up, timely reporting, and performance tracking.
- Collaborate with the communications team to ensure documentation of project activities, lessons learned, best practices, and success stories.
- Prepare reports, briefings, and other written materials on socioeconomic issues related to the project.
- Work with local authorities, civil society, and cooperatives to enhance ownership and sustainability of interventions.
- Support the project management team in strategies to increase project impact and sustainability.
- Perform any other duties as requested.
Required Experience
At least 5 years of experience in similar functions designing, implementing and reporting on socio-economic activities.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in agriculture economics, social sciences, agribusiness developments or other related fields.
