Thursday, December 28, 2017

Job: Economic Justice Programme Officer at OxYGen Foundation Company

Location: JobParser.Models.Location

Category: Manufacturing & Agriculture

Type: Full Time

Deadline: 09-Jan-18 00:00:00

Salary:

Description

Responsibilities
Under supervision of EJ Program Manager PO will:
- Implement project activities in accordance with donor (ADA) and OxYGen policies and requirements
- Ensure development of farmers' cooperatives and their business enterprises
- Contribute to fundraising and project proposals development
- Build and manage relationships with stakeholders
- Contribute to gender mainstreaming throughout the programme implementation
- Contribute to EJ programme related influencing and advocacy activities
- Contribute to OxYGen's EJ programme implementation
- To ensure sustainable development of the beneficiary cooperatives and their business enterprises (fruits and berries processing enterprises and greenhouses)
- To support in the capacity development of beneficiaries
- To facilitate introduction of innovative technologies/tools on market connections, including IT technologies
- To support the engagement of women and youth producer groups in specific value chains
- To initiate and take an active role at the interagency meetings/networks/alliances
- To undertake regular monitoring visits to project sites, collect data for monitoring
- To draft donor reports, as well as EJ programme reports
- To be actively involved in development of the project proposals and funding applications for submission to potential donors
- To manage service contracts within the project activities
- To ensure that all activities are sensitive to gender equality and diversity and are participatory in approach and non-discriminatory in terms of gender, race, religion, ethnicity or nationality
- To assess existing business environment with a purpose of identifying both positive and negative factors affecting women and youth engagement in value chains
- To be actively involved in the influencing and advocacy activities
- To ensure effective collaboration with other OxYGen projects/programme and with relevant stakeholders
- To be able to resolve day-to-day problems without upward referral
- To do other duties related to EJ programme required by the Line Manager and/or Executive Director
- To ensure effective and timely communication related to project implementation as per request and need

RequiredQualifications

- Education to at least University level in agriculture or economics
- At least four years' working experience in the rural economic development area In NGO sector
- Strong conceptual, analytical and strategic thinking skills
- Excellent representation, negotiation and influencing skills
- Excellent advocacy and lobbying skills
- Proven experience in project cycle management
- Technical expertise in economic development
- Working effectively with others
- Understanding gender issues and commitment to promoting gender equity
- Demonstrable planning skills and a proven capacity to undertake varied tasks simultaneously
- Excellent written & spoken communication skills (Armenian, English and Russian)
- Manage diverse and competing priorities
- Ability to travel at short notice and frequently

Benefits

Job URL: iJob.am - Economic Justice Programme Officer @ OxYGen Foundation

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