Duty station: PCO, Surkhet with frequent visits to programme districts

General scope of the position:

• The Value Chain (VC) Expert -Technical is particularly responsible for planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of technical support and services in developing production clusters under sub-component 1.1. Inclusive and sustainable agriculture value chains expanded and diversified enhancing competitiveness.
• The scope of works includes inclusive value chain cluster development in tandem with sub-component 1.4. Agriculture services sustainably support innovation and value chain development within programme and ensure effective coordination, management and capacity building of programme staff, implementing partners, private and government service providers to deliver technical support for improved & sustainable production, and post-harvest management activities in the designated agricultural and livestock value chains.

Academic Qualifications and Work Experience:

• Masters’ degree in Agriculture with specialization in Horticulture, or Economics or equivalent with at least 5 years of experiences in enterprises promotion and agriculture value chain development with demonstrable evidence of the results achieved;
• Familiar and experience in market driven agriculture production, service market development, programme proposal appraisal, monitoring and evaluation technically;
• Experiences with management and market analysis, investment plan development, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation, and feasibility analysis;
• Knowledge and experience that demonstrates designing technical curriculum and building capacity of stakeholders at various level advisory skills and facilitate multi-stakeholder consultation processes;
• Experiences that demonstrate high quality attributes on leadership, facilitations and coaching and innovativeness;
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team and facilitate the working of other team members;
• Excellent communications skills - spoken and written, both in English and Nepali and possess good report writing skills;
• Good inter-personal skills and capacity to work effectively with a range of institutions.

Age limit: The upper age limit for all the positions at the last date of submission of application will be 55 years (the applicant needs to submit a copy of certificate which certifies the date of birth)

Contract: For all positions there will be initial contract for one year with a probation period of six months. The annual contract will be extendable up to the programme period based on satisfactory performance in the preceding contract.

Salary and benefits will be as per the approved guidelines of the ASDP.

Preferences will be given to women candidate; candidate from disadvantaged groups (Dalit, Janjati/Indigenous, Madheshi, Muslim); candidates from Backward/ ASDP districts.

Detail ToR (including salary and benefits) can be downloaded from the link below.

The applicant needs to submit cover letter, C.V. and self-attested copies of required testimonials compulsorily that verify the CVs. The application should be submitted within 15 days of the first date of publication of the notice i.e. 24^th March, 2019 (2075-12-10) to the Email: asdp@kantipurjob.com or by post to the address mentioned below.

Kantipur Management Pvt. Ltd.

Panchayan Marga, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal

Phone: +9771451572, 4251599

PO. Box No: 1672,

Email: asdp@kantipurjob.com