Key Responsibilities
Agro logistics and cold chain management
- Conduct or coordinate feasibility and scoping studies in priority locations, including Arba Minch, Wolaita Sodo, Butajira, Hawassa, Batu, and Adama.
- Analyse production volumes, seasonality, market access, logistics connectivity, investment risks, and bottlenecks; develop practical recommendations to improve efficiency and transparency in domestic and export horticulture supply chains.
- Review and compare existing aggregation models and centres, including those supported by AGP and ATI, as well as other studies and private-sector initiatives; identify lessons and approaches that can be adapted or scaled.
- Support the establishment of regional aggregation hubs and develop effective logistics linkages between hubs, the Modjo Cool Port, and high-end retail and institutional buyers in Addis Ababa.
- Provide technical inputs to FRESHWAY short courses under Component 3, particularly on horticultural logistics, cold-chain management, and postharvest handling.
- Identify high-potential Dutch companies offering logistics innovations that could be adapted by participating Ethiopian companies and facilitate relevant connections.
Market activitation
- Organise targeted learning and exposure visits for producer groups to major wholesale markets and large buyers in Addis Ababa, strengthening understanding of postharvest handling, grading, quality, and logistics requirements.
- Facilitate structured buyer–seller meetings to clarify requirements for volumes, quality, pricing, and delivery schedules, and promote a shared understanding of market actors’ roles in supplying high-quality produce.
- Support joint production and delivery planning between farmers and buyers, including aggregation and bulking through producer organisations, to strengthen consistency and reliability of supply.
- Facilitate practical demonstrations on grading, packaging, and postharvest handling in line with buyer specifications; explore digital solutions to improve coordination and delivery planning.
- Identify and engage marketing companies, media houses, and other service providers to support consumer awareness and demand-creation interventions.
- Oversee consumer awareness studies to assess perceptions of fruit and vegetable food safety and identify appropriate promotional and behaviour-change interventions.
- Coordinate and monitor promotional activities, including radio, television and social media campaigns; point-of-sale labelling, posters and information displays; public awareness events; market demonstrations; and school-based programmes.
- Ensure promotional messages communicate the meaning and benefits of certified fruit and vegetables, particularly in relation to food safety and health.
Basic Qualifications and Experience:
- Master’s degree in a relevant field, such as supply chain or logistics management, agribusiness, agriculture, horticulture, or value-chain development.
- At least five years of relevant professional experience with a master’s degree, or at least seven years with a bachelor’s degree.
- Demonstrated experience supporting projects with a value-chain development or market-systems development component.
Additional skills required:
- Knowledge of supply-chain planning and optimisation, including transport, storage, cold-chain management, inventory control, aggregation centres, grading, packaging, and quality standards, with a focus on maintaining product quality, improving delivery efficiency, and reducing losses.
- Strong knowledge of horticultural value chains, including fruit and vegetable production systems, postharvest handling, market standards, and value-chain bottlenecks and upgrading opportunities.
- Strong stakeholder coordination, communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work in field-based, multi-actor environments.
- Understanding of market-demand activation through promotional and consumer-awareness interventions.
- Good spoken and written English, with strong reporting, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Excellent analytical skills.
Competencies:
- Problem analysis
- Coaching
- Focus on quality
- Result orientation
- Persuasiveness
Additional Information
Contract Type: National
Expected start date: January 1,2027
Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Contract Duration: The contract is for one year, with the possibility of extension based on performance and budget availability.
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