Business Development Service (BDS) and Gender Officer

12 Oct 2023 Business Development Service (BDS) and Gender Officer at CORDAID Ethiopia

• Provide business development services to all value chain actors of the project selected commodities, • Ensure equitable participation of women and men at all levels of the project, • Identifies potential opportunities and entry points for mainstreaming gender into the project, • Assist in creating linkages among value chain actors including project clients, RuSACCOs, MFIs and other value chain actors in the SAFE project, • Participate in the actual demonstration of the latest technologies and work on promotion of appropriate technologies, • Facilitate/attend value chain forums at district and zonal levels, • Effectively collaborate with project team and other stakeholders for efficient implementation of the project, • Work on the establishment and strengthening of Business Development Service (BDS) provision system, • Participate in monitoring and learning of SAFE project. • Ensure all projects outputs, as listed in the project documents, are effectively achieved, • Assess and identify potential gender-differentiated impacts of the project, • Lead and coordinate gender inclusion in the project implementation • Support the development of business management competency and market orientation of smallholder farmers, • Work on the periodic work plan of the project in alignment with his/her weekly/monthly work plans within the project budgets, • Collect sex-disaggregated data for all project interventions that could be used to monitor potential gender impacts,