Key Expert 1: Team Leader

Call for Experts – Consultancy Services for the ZCAP Grant Manager – Agriculture Sector (Mozambique)

The PRIA project intends to promote commercial agriculture while integrating small-scale producers into commercial value chains. The two activities of PRIA include a fiscal reform activity that addresses business environment constraints that hinder the coordination of commercial transactions among small-scale producers and agribusinesses (PREFIA) and a results-based finance and technical assistance platform for aggregators, defined as private sector entities that aggregate/purchase from small-scale producers and are willing to invest in input provision, to engage more actively with small-scale producers (Z-CAP). Together these activities will promote the development of input and output markets and subsequent investments in agribusiness, as well as increase the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers.

Key Expert 1: Team Leader

Required expertise and experience

·       Master's degree in agriculture, economics, business administration, social sciences or similar;

·       At least 7 years’ experience in the administration of grants in the agriculture sector in developing countries in similar size projects, including managing operational budgets, managing disbursements, cost allocation and tracking, experience with procurement procedures, and grant reporting to international donor agencies;

·       A track record of structuring and managing milestone based and performance-based grants (with strong grants and technical assistance components) aimed at market stimulation;

·       Ability to assemble and lead an experienced and capable technical team;

·       Experience in, and understanding of the agriculture sector in Sub-Saharan Africa (Mozambique experience preferred);

·       Awareness, sensitivity and knowledge regarding social and gender issues, in particular women’s entrepreneurship in Mozambique is highly desirable;

·       Experience managing reporting relationships with government stakeholders and large development organizations is highly desirable;

·       Fluency in English and Portuguese knowledge is required.

Please send an up-to-date CV, to alessiai@landell-mills.com as soon as possible. We are considering applications on a rolling basis so would advise early CV submission. Please send any queries regarding these roles to the same email address.