#Vacancy: State Business and Market Development Officer Job at The International Fund for Agricultural Development

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Job Title: State Business and Market Development Officer (BMDO)

Company: The International Fund for Agricultural Development

Location:Taraba, Nigeria

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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a United Nations (UN) Development Agent with its head office at Rome, Italy. The Agency collaborates with developing countries to develop their afro-economic potentials. In Nigeria, FAD has proposed to partner wit h sits (6) States in the Federation to promote the production, processing (to add value) and marketing of Rice and Cassava, Taraba is one of the participating states, to order to pot in place the machinery for the takeoff of the Agency in Taraba state, the necessary key staffs to run the project are here by invited to apply for the position below.

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Main Responsibilities: – The state Business and market Development officer (SBMDO) will work under the direct supervision of the PMU Business and Market Development Advisor and in close collaboration with the state Agricultural processing and Quality Enhancement Officer, State government and Local Government authorizes. – Overall, the SBMDO will be directly in charge of State and Local government level interventions in the area of promoting market linkages and market information among VC operators.

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Specific Duties: – Coordinate the implementation and monitoring of state and local government-level VCDP activities and actions in the organization of public-private dialogue forums for enabling business environment – Coordinate the implementation of state and local government-level activities and actions in supporting the establishment and enforcement of quality norms, grades and standards for precessed products. – Broker inter-agency collaboration between relevant state and local government agencies for the establishment and enforcement of regulations on agricultural commodity quality norms grades and standard. – Implement actions and processes for the brokerage and facilitation of market exchanges and/or contractual agreements between VC operators (farmers and agro-processors and traders). – Work with VC operatarsto organize commodity fairs and other interactive events for VC operators and the stale governments. – Implement actions and processes for the brokerage and facilitation of links between V( operators (agro-processor and trader organizatloos) and financial institutions for the purpose of increasing access to financial services including credit, insurance and saving/deposit facilities. – Negotiate terms and conditions with service providers and conclude, where opportune andappropriate, memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with the financial institutions, through which programme target groups will be able to access financial linkage.

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Qualification and Experience: – A minimum of Bachelors Degree or Higher National Diploma in Management or Social Science including Agricultural Economics. – At least 3 years work eeperience on matters or projects relating to agricultural marketing, agro-prowssing and agmo-industrial development and MSME promotion.

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