Agribusiness project management-Associate Manager

Key skills

Project operations

Manage stakeholders

project sustainence

Additional/Preferred Skills

facilitating license

Food equipments

Preferred Qualifications

MBA

UG in agriculture

Associate Manager

(For ICRISAT Internal Staff only)

ICRISAT seeks applications from dynamic professionals for the position of Associate Manager for its Agribusiness and Innovation Platform (AIP) under the Global Research Program – Enabling Systems Transformation (EST). This position is based at ICRISAT Headquarters, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.

ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. Please visit – www.icrisat.org

About the role:

Co-designing and managing the project operations, implementing value chain development/strengthening projects, closely collaborating with key project stakeholders, fostering local partners for project sustainability, and assuring delivery of deliverables and product scale-up activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contribute towards proposal development and plan for its execution.
• Ensure the appropriate completion of the assignment project(s), monitor its progress, and update the principal investigator on the need to amend the intervention plan.
• Compile, monitor, and evaluate data from project-related interventions.
• Facilitate training programmes and capacity building workshops for project beneficiaries and stakeholders.
• Coordinate with project stakeholders (internal: ICRISAT scientists, and external:
• Farmers, Service providers, Government Agencies/ Officials, and others) for better project execution.
• Design standard operating procedures for SMEs.
• Facilitate new alliances with a focus on the persistence of project interventions beyond completion.
• Draft reports and presentations on project status for PI and donor for review meetings.
• Review outputs and deliverables in accordance with the PI's instructions and make that project outputs are met on schedule and in accordance with stated objectives.
• Ensure the timely and effective use of project resources.

Competencies:

• Knowledge of setting up small and medium primary and secondary processing units.
• Expertise in facilitating licenses for the processing units.
• Experience in handling MS Office package.
• Conversant in English & Hindi languages.

 Requirements:

• Minimum of 15-20 years' experience with a Master's degree in Business Administration with a background in agriculture or a closely connected field.
• Experience in the Project Management & operations, marketing and sales roles in the agricultural and agribusiness sectors, with understanding of the institutions and networks within those sectors.

General:

This is a contractual role for a period of 36 months (3 years’).

How to apply:

Applicants should apply on or before 04 February 2023, with their latest Resume, and the names and contact information of three references that are knowledgeable about their professional qualifications and work experience. All applications will be acknowledged; however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

ICRISAT is an equal opportunity employer