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Company | IFDC |
Industry | NGO/IGO/INGO |
Category | Finance |
Location | Accra |
Job Status | Full-time |
Salary | Attractive |
Education | Bachelor̵... |
Experience | 1 year |
Job Expires | Jun 21, 2019 |
Contact | IFDC |
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Company Profile The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) is a public international organization (PIO) governed by an international board of directors with representation from developed and developing nations. The non-profit center focuses on increasing and sustaining food and agricultural productivity in developing countries through the development and transfer of effective and environmentally sound crop nutrient technology and agribusiness expertise. Job Description Indicative starting date: August 1, 2019
Background:
The 2SCALE program 2019-23 builds on achievements and lessons learnt from a first phase (2012-18, www.2scale.org). It aims to be a flagship program for the Netherlands’ food security policy and one of the leading catalysts of inclusive agribusiness in sub-Saharan Africa.
2SCALE is designed to incubate and accelerate inclusive agribusiness development in target countries in Africa (Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger and Nigeria). Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are the core implementation modality to achieve the objectives of the program. 2SCALE’s strategy is three-pronged:
1. Incubating inclusive business: through PPPs, 2SCALE works together with private enterprises to develop agribusiness models that promote inclusiveness, develop (new) competitive edge, and have potential for scaling. PPPs support value chain development and agribusiness cluster formation. The agribusiness cluster approach helps smallholder farmers develop farming as a business and supply agricultural products for local, national, regional and international markets. 2SCALE partners with African and multinational agri-food companies as drivers to increase productivity and to improve efficiency and sustainability of supported agribusiness clusters and value chains. Specific attention is given to youth and women to integrate value chains (as farmers, laborers, entrepreneurs, service providers), and to low income / “base of the pyramid” (BoP) consumers that represent the largest market for food products in sub-Saharan Africa.
2. Replicating inclusive business: through PPPs, 2SCALE supports the replication of most successful business models, in different settings (regions, industries), with the same or different private partners.
3. Facilitating sector transformation and policy alignment: 2SCALE also supports partnering enterprises to drive sector transformation and policy alignment for critical bottlenecks that cannot be solved by the actors within the focus PPPs, and which affects a number of actors in the sector simultaneously.
2SCALE is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and implemented by a consortium led by the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) and comprising the Base-of-the-Pyramid Innovation Center (BoPInc) and the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV). The Partnerships Resource Center (PrC) supports the consortium as a knowledge partner.
Position summary:
Partnerships are the key modality of 2SCALE. They are established with private partners (including the business champions/ lead partners) and other relevant stakeholders and formalized in partnership agreements with lead partners or Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) and contractual agreements with supportive partners. Partnership agreements mainly specify the purpose of the partnership, the business strategy, the joint interventions, the responsibilities and the indicative contributions of the various partners, including 2SCALE. The 2SCALE contribution in turn is implemented by our own staff, but also through local business support services (BSSs) that partner with the program. 2SCALE has developed a unique system to award service agreements to these BSSs. This system includes administrative procedures, selection processes, evaluation criteria, monitoring and evaluation of these agreements, and close-out activities; it is detailed in 2SCALE’s service agreements manual. The Partnership Contracts Officer supports 2SCALE partnership facilitators and country team leaders to finalize and monitor partnership agreements or MoUs/ contractual agreements in some of 2SCALE’s focus countries. She/ he is responsible for developing and monitoring service agreements, in consultation with the country teams and in compliance with partnership agreements and the 2SCALE service agreements manual. She/ he is also responsible for building the financial/ administrative capacity of the local BSSs that were awarded a service agreement.
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The Partnership Contracts Officer is also responsible for any other assignments that the management deems necessary for the success of the program.
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