We are currently seeking applications from suitable candidates for a multi-year USAID-funded project for the following position:<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title: Senior Business Services Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Provide demand-driven technical assistance and training on improved business practices to farm businesses, farmer organizations and other value chain businesses in the ADVANCE agricultural value-chains. Such technical assistance may include but not limited to the production of crop budgets, determining profitability, long term improvements plans, investment benefit \/ cost analysis, breakeven analysis, business plans, bank loan proposals, inventory control, banking and financial management, etc Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Applicants should have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in agriculture, agricultural economics or related fields from a recognised university. Master’s degree is desirable Location:<\/strong> Tamale<\/p>\n How To Apply For The Job<\/strong><\/p>\n To be considered for this recruitment, please submit a resume CV to:-<\/p>\n hr@acdivocaghana.org<\/strong><\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> When submitting your application, start the subject line with the position title and location:<\/p>\n Closing Date:<\/strong> 22 June, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are currently seeking applications from suitable candidates for a multi-year USAID-funded project for the following position: Job Description Job Title: Senior Business Services Officer Responsibilities \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Provide demand-driven technical…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-3Gf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Identify appropriate value chain actors and develop plans for leveraging \/ facilitating their investments and innovation for bringing down risk
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Lead and monitor the establishment of Village Savings and Loans Association by groups of smallholder farmers a a routine to save money during the harvest to later access agricultural inputs
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Recommend innovative use of the program grant facility
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Monitor closely the performance of participating actors and document all changes (both qualitatively and quantitatively) in line with program’s M&E framework and assist M&E officials to feed such data into the MIS system
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Familiarizes him\/herself with the ADVANCE gender and environmental management plans to ensure they are incorporated into their daily operations<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 At least 5 years of post-qualification working experience, preferably close work with smallholder farmers or setups in rural communities
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Strong oral and written communication skills and proficiency in written and spoken English is required
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Ability to work in a diverse teamwork environment
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Ability and willingness to travel routinely within working area and country
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Highly skilled in the Windows office programs (EXCEL competency is required)<\/p>\n