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Land O'Lakes Venture37

Lilongwe, Malawi

Posted 1-Mar-2021

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Background

Land O’Lakes Venture37 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to helping
communities around the world build economies by strengthening local
agriculture, helping agribusinesses create jobs and linking farmers to
markets. Since 1981, it has implemented over 315 integrated dairy, livestock
and crops development programs in nearly 80 countries — creating lasting
impact by linking farmers, businesses, and the public and private sector in
local and global contexts. Land O’Lakes Venture37’s long-standing affiliation
with Land O’Lakes, Inc. sets it apart. Land O’Lakes, Inc. is one of America’s
largest farmer-owned cooperatives. It supports Land O’Lakes Venture37 project
implementation with nearly 100 years of expertise in dairy, animal nutrition,
crop inputs and agricultural insights and technologies. This gives Land
O’Lakes Venture37 development projects a unique global view of agriculture,
food and the power of well-functioning market systems. Land O’Lakes, Inc.
supports these efforts as part of its enterprise purpose of Feeding Human
Progress at home and around the world.

Project Description

Venture37 is seeking candidates for the Cooperative Specialist position for a
5-year Cooperative Development Program (CDP) funded by the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID). The project will run until
August 2023 and is in its third year of implementation. The project is
advancing dairy and maize cooperatives in Rwanda and horticulture and dairy
cooperatives in Malawi so they have improved capacity, enabling environment
and resources to meet the evolving needs of their members.

Qualified applicants are requested to apply as soon as possible. Applications
will be reviewed on a rolling basis until a candidate is chosen.

Position Summary and Primary Responsibilities

The Cooperative Specialist will be responsible for overall coordination,
management, and quality of the project’s technical assistance initiatives to
cooperatives in Malawi. S/He will conduct capacity needs assessments of
partner cooperatives, work with the Deputy Chief of Party in finalizing scopes
of work for responsive technical assistance as well directly manage individual
consultants and/or firms executing short-term technical assistance assignments
or long term coaching assignments in support of cooperatives and apex
organizations.

Detailed responsibilities include, but are not limited to

Initiate capacity building efforts to improve business performance of
partner cooperative enterprises (50%)

> Conduct and oversee annual capacity needs assessments at partner cooperatives to inform performance priority areas of improvement.
> Collaborate with the Cooperative Development Manager to conduct periodic performance assessments at cooperatives and unions.
> Draft scopes of work that are respond to identified performance areas.
> Follow Venture37 procedures to mobilize and manage individual consultants and firms providing technical assistance to partner cooperatives and apex organizations.
> Ensure consultants and firms providing technical assistance use vetted manuals and materials that are harmonized across technical areas.
> Monitor and track cooperative business performance, and regularly liaise with Cooperative Development Manager for associated reporting and thoughtful planning of future technical assistance, including uploading information to Venture37’s IMPACTs system.
> Monitor and track any trainings provided directly by CD4 staff, consultants and firms and regularly liase with the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Specialist to ensure reporting requirements are being met on a timely basis. Develop and manage a folder of final training materials and store on Land O’Lakes Sharepoint/Devlink site.
> Assist in project studies and data collection initiatives as appropriate.
> Work with the Cooperative Development Manager to plan and execute impactful study tours for cooperatives in Malawi.

Sourcing, executing and managing agreements with individual consultants and
contracts with firms (35%)

> Work with Deputy Chief of Party to execute individual consultant assignments in Malawi. Examples of responsibilities may include posting ads, making inquiries for position, setting up interviews (and conducting interviews with Deputy Chief of Party), collecting relevant documentation from final candidates and finalizing consulting agreements using contracts software.
> Manage a consultant and contractor tracker which records technical assignment start and end dates, payment schedules and deliverables. The Cooperative Specialist will ensure agreements are up to date and if extensions are required will inform the Deputy Chief of Party and initiate extension requests. This will also include monitoring performance of contractors and consultants against the terms of the agreement.
> Work with Project Accountant – Malawi to ensure timely and accurate payments are made to consultants and contractors.
> Monitor consultant and contractor performance and review deliverables for quality and completeness.
> Assist with any procurements of Malawi firms to conduct work for Land O’Lakes- this includes assisting in drafting scopes of work, issuing RFPs/RFQs, coordinating a selection committee and carefully following all Land O’Lakes policies and procedures, under the guidance of the Deputy Chief of Party.
> Ensure adherence to Land O’Lakes short-term technical assistance guidelines when soliciting, selecting, hiring, and managing consultants.
> Convening and supporting procurement committee to evaluate bids for firms and/or individual consultants.
> Maintain complete and verifiable documents related to obtaining and monitoring technical assistance services following Land O’Lakes processes and procedures– upload all documents to Land O’Lakes internal document management systems.
> Liase with the MEL Specialist to ensure firms and individual consultants are submitting accurate, timely MEL reports.

Assist in Implementation of Project Objectives (15%)

> Regularly visit cooperatives and unions for meetings; participate in and monitor consultant led trainings, and follow-up on technical support.
> Work with the Cooperative Development Manager to mobilize the right cooperative membership to project trainings.
> Track key implementation lessons, and liaise with Deputy Chief of Party and MEL Manager to properly document.
> Represent the organization at meetings, as may be delegated by the Deputy Chief of Party
> Work with project team in organizing and executing stakeholders meetings.
> Collect project’s useful information (e.g. M&E, match and leverage) as requested by the Deputy Chief of Party.
> Attend project team meetings.
> Assist in other tasks as called upon.

Reporting & Supervision

> Supervised by the Deputy Chief of Party, based in Kigali, Rwanda.

Required Skills and Qualifications

> Bachelor’s degree in business or any other related development subject or equivalent years of experience in cooperative development.
> Relevant background in developing business development services to farmer cooperatives and or SMEs.
> Good understanding of agricultural cooperatives development.
> Minimum of five (5) years experience training and coaching farmers and or leaders of producer organizations (Cooperatives).
> Qualified trainer who can command attention and respect from diverse audience.
> Fluent in English and Chichewa.

This posting will close on F*> riday, March 5.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. No phone calls will be
accepted.

Land O’Lakes never requests money or payment from candidates for any position
type. Please report any such requests to Land O’Lakes.



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