{"id":64731,"date":"2022-02-01T13:47:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=64731"},"modified":"2022-02-01T13:47:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:47:26","slug":"mennonite-economic-development-associates-meda-vacancies-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/mennonite-economic-development-associates-meda-vacancies-2022.html","title":{"rendered":"Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) Vacancies 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) invites applications for a\u00a0Technical Specialist, Market Systems (Level II)\u00a0to join our dedicated and talented Strategy and Impact team in our mission to create business solutions to poverty!<\/p>\n
MEDA\u2019s work is built on a foundation of Mennonite business roots and faith-based values, within the global context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We believe business solutions are effective interventions to address poverty. Through a market-systems approach and strategic partnerships, MEDA enables access to finance and provides business and technical expertise to build transformative agri-food market systems that create decent jobs, allowing traditionally excluded groups to become active participants in a sustainable economy. MEDA welcomes all who share our values and want to join us in our mission. To find out more about MEDA, please visit our website at\u00a0www.meda.org.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title: Technical Specialist, Market Systems (Level II)<\/strong><\/p>\n Market Systems Technical Unit (MSTU)<\/p>\n The unit provides technical guidance on MEDA\u2019s market systems strategic direction, priorities, and technical quality, in alignment with MEDA\u2019s Strategic Plan 2020-2025 and its three central pillars: a focus on agri-food market systems, partnerships for systems change, and a North-South equilibrium. The unit is part of the Technical Department that works collectively through an Integrated Technical Framework which places equal priority on positive economic (Investment and Financial Services), social (Gender Equality and Social Inclusion) and environmental (Environment and Climate Change) impact. The unit plays a critical role in supporting global teams to enhance effectiveness by generating, mobilizing, and\/or disseminating technical knowledge and evidence and encouraging local-led innovation. The unit provides technical support to MEDA programs to ensure cross-departmental collaboration and implementation and the effective application of technical standards required to achieve agri-food market systems results.<\/p>\n Current core approaches or initiatives led by the MSTU, in close collaboration with other technical units, include:<\/p>\n These approaches or initiatives are at various levels of maturity. The Technical Specialist is expected to have in-depth experience in at least two of these areas.<\/p>\n The Technical Specialist, Market Systems (Level II) is part of a global MEDA team with diverse voices, experience, and knowledge. This is a highly collaborative role, working closely with others in the organization to support technical consistency and cohesion and encouraging technical innovation. The Technical Specialist (Level II) supports MEDA\u2019s technical programming initiatives, developing technical strategies; delivering training; providing technical assistance at all stages of\u00a0program\/project design, development, implementation, and measurement; and developing resources\/tools. This position provides support to MEDA\u2019s international projects and staff to mainstream, integrate and contextualize standardized technical programming policies, strategies, and interventions.\u00a0 The position contributes to business development knowledge mobilization and thought leadership from a technical perspective into in the specified technical area. Depending on location of hire, international travel may be a requirement for approximately 30-60 days per year.<\/p>\n Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Posting will remain open until the position is filled.<\/p>\n RESPONSIBILITIES<\/p>\n Technical Support to Country Programs and Projects (65%)<\/p>\n Technical Strategy, Tools, Knowledge Management & Mobilization & Thought Leadership (20%)<\/p>\n Partnerships and New Business Development (15%)<\/p>\n Any other duties and\/or requirements as assigned<\/p>\n REQUIREMENTS<\/p>\n Education: University degree, ideally at a Master\u2019s level in sustainable, economic or agricultural development, agricultural economics, environmental studies, or a related field<\/p>\n Experience:\u00a0 Minimum five years experience working in agricultural or economic development<\/p>\n Technical Skills:<\/p>\n Additional Qualifications<\/p>\n Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) invites applications for a\u00a0Technical Specialist, Market Systems (Level II)\u00a0to join our dedicated and talented Strategy and Impact team in our mission to create business solutions…..<\/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":[96],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-gQ3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64731"}],"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=64731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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