Vacancies

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION OFFICER

By Vacancies In Malawi (VIM) on 04/14/2017 at 8:52pm (UTC)

Main tasks and responsibilities include:

Prepare payments and accounts payable vouchers, ensuring that all supporting documents are included in accordance with Land O’Lakes and donor policies and procedures;
Key transactions into CostPoint in a timely and accurate manner;
On a monthly basis, ensure that all financial documents are completed with the necessary approvals and supporting documents (according to FOAM 2.0 and the Finance Manual), copied and sent to the main office for further action.
Manage travel advances issued to Dedza staff, ensuring that they are cleared within 14 days of trip completion, and no additional advances are issued before liquidating previous ones;
Handle petty cash for the Dedza office;
Coordinate with the Finance Director in the provision of technical assistance to the field office staff on accounting and financial matters;
Support the Lilongwe finance and administration team during internal and external audits by availing requested documents and information.
Facilitate procurement for the field office and maintain an asset registry in coordination with the Lilongwe Operations Manager;
Maintain an office information board with a travel tracker and internal memos/notices;
Coordinate timely information dissemination via interoffice memos, regarding meetings, vehicle use, IT processes, etc. to the field office.
Manage the motor vehicle fleet and allocation of drivers, track and monitor fuel consumption by motorbikes and vehicles, and prepare monthly motor vehicle usage summaries to be shared with the Lilongwe office;
Assist in scheduling orientation and training of new staff members;
Support the field office with coordination of official travel for the team;
Support the organising of MSIKA events and workshops;
Support field office start-up and close-out;
Maintain HR-related documents as per Land O’Lakes ID’s Record Retention Policy;
Play a key role during staff meetings; taking minutes, tracking action items and providing updates on office operations;
Respond to incoming email requests and queries on behalf of the field office;
Utilize established SharePoint system (DevLink) to store key documents and share key project and country related information with other staff;
Engage with various project vendors and service providers to ensure office assets and services are wellmaintained;
Manage field office drivers’ performance reviews;
Review and approve field office drivers’ timesheets; and
Any other duties assigned by supervisor.

Reporting & Supervision:

The Finance and Admin Officer reports to the Operations Manager but also works closely with the Finance Director on finance issues. S/he will also supervise two field office drivers.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource or Business Administration with 5 years office administration experience in an international development organization;
Experience administratively managing and office;
Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills;
Unquestionable ethics and integrity;
Excellent organizational skills with an emphasis on attention to detail ;
Familiarity with local labor laws, policies and practices;
Professional proficiency in English required;
Excellent computer skills in MS Office;
Previous experience managing staff.
Please note only finalists will be contacted. No phone calls please.

We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Land O'Lakes enforces a policy of maintaining a drug-free workforce.

TO APPLY FOR THIS JOB CLICK HERE
http://lol.avature.net/Careers/searchjobs

Location: Dedza

Employment Type: Full time

Salary: N/A

Job deadline: 2017-04-21

Company: Land O’Lakes International Development

TECHNICAL LEAD PROCESSING AND VALUE ADDITION

By Vacancies In Malawi (VIM) on 04/14/2017 at 8:50pm (UTC)

Main tasks and responsibilities

Working closely with the TA in facilitating linkages between producer groups and financial service providers from which the former will access financial support;
Working with MSIKA implementing partners, TechnoServe and MSU, to design and implement ToT training programs for government extension staff, lead farmers and ensure that knowledge and skills gained are disseminated and reach fruit and vegetable farmers in project impact areas;
Supporting development of user friendly new PHH, storage and processing infrastructure and technologies which promote value addition without compromising on product quality;
Coordinating and working with MSU, TNS, Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) to develop strategies to improve quality standard operating procedures and regulatory framework for fruits and vegetables based on the international principles of GAP, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) and principles of food handling and marketing;
Providing leadership among key partners and stakeholders in facilitating the development of a monitoring system that will enhance compliance to the raised product PHH, aggregation, storage and processing standards;
Liaising with other in-country technical staff from relevant development-focused organizations (including those in ag-production, processing & value addition etc.), in order to enhance information sharing and learning throughout the targeted value chains;
Supporting the Communications Specialist in identification and writing of PHH and agro-processing related project success stories and maintenance of up to date project picture databank;
Ensuring timely reconciliation of advances taken by staff in the PHH, agro-processing department for implementing activities;
Submitting monthly activity plans, reports and upload PHH and agro-processing project documents to DevLink as a means of fostering information sharing.
Providing advice and guidance to management on how to further improve the implementation of MSIKA project;
Ensuring adherence to the project implementation work plan and that actual expenditures in the PHH, storage and processing unit’s activity areas remain within budget.
Supervising and performance-managing, coaching and mentoring the processing and business analyst and the product storage specialists;
Performing other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in ag-engineering (major in food processing, food safety), or equivalent of a Diploma with minimum of 3 years related work experience.
Experience in social research/survey work in a development organization.
Fluent in spoken and written English and Chichewa languages.
Experience in working with and training small, medium and large scale farmers.
Good time management skills and willingness to work occasional long hours and travel to the field frequently.
Ability to work in a team as a good communicator.
Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SPSS.

Essential Competencies/Behaviors:

Able to adjust to changes in work conditions, assignments, and work schedules.
Able to communicate well with others;
Obtains information, identifies key issues and relationships, and breaks down problems into simple tasks or activities;
Demonstrates honesty, is widely trusted, keeps commitments, treats people with dignity and respect, admits mistakes, does not misrepresent him/herself for personal gain;
Ability to develop positive working relationships and work effectively with others;
Takes action to achieve goals beyond what is required, is pro-active and is a self-starter;
Performs complex tasks in area of expertise.
Please note only finalists will be contacted. No phone calls please.

We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Land O'Lakes enforces a policy of maintaining a drug-free workforce.

TO APPLY FOR THIS JOB CLICK HERE
http://lol.avature.net/Careers/searchjobs

Location: Lilongwe

Employment Type: Full time

Salary: N/A

Job deadline: 2017-04-21

Company: Land O’Lakes International Development

FARMER BUSINESSES COORDINATORS (8 POSITIONS)

By Vacancies In Malawi (VIM) on 04/14/2017 at 8:47pm (UTC)

Main tasks and responsibilities include:

1. Taking lead in assessing existing or potential new FBOs and recommending their participation in MSIKA project;
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2. Assessing FBO capacity gaps and issues impacting their ag-business and suggesting strategies to address the gaps;

3. Coordinating capacity building interventions, guided by the Land O’Lakes AgPro manual/modules to develop viable FBOs and cooperatives in the fruit and vegetable sector;

4. Assisting producer groups to develop medium to long term ag-business plans in line with the value chain of their choice;

5. Liaising with Ministry of Agriculture’s ag-business department and other relevant partners to ensure that FBOs participating in the MSIKA project meet and/or exceed planned project targets;

6. Working closely with M&E Manager, Specialist and Technical Lead Market Access & Trade and ensure that specific indicators for measuring the impacts of FBO development interventions are included in the M&E framework as required by Land O’Lakes and donor agency reporting;

7. Ensuring sustainability of FBO activities post MSIKA project;

8. Liaising with Land O’Lakes Regional and in-country staff (including those in Ag-production, Market and Trade linkages and M&E) to ensure effective integration and delivery of FBO development interventions throughout the targeted value chains and implementation of recommendations made;

9. Supporting the Communications Specialist in identification and writing of FBO development related project success stories and their maintenance in the project picture databank;

10. Submitting monthly activity plans, reports and upload FBO development documents to DevLink as a means of fostering information sharing;

11. Providing guidance to management on how to further improve FBO activities in the implementation of MSIKA;

12. Ensuring adherence to the program implementation work plan;

13. Ensuring that actual expenditures in his/her program activity areas remain within budget;

14. Performing other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Agribusiness, Business Administration or Diploma with minimum of 3 years related work experience.
Experience in social research/survey work in a development organization.
Fluent in spoken and written English and Chichewa languages.
Experience in working with and training smallholder rural farmers.
Good time management skills and willingness to work occasional long hours and travel to the field frequently.
Ability to work in a team as a good communicator.
Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Essential Competencies/Behaviors:

Able to adjust to changes in work conditions, assignments, and work schedules.
Able to communicate well with others.
Obtains information, identifies key issues and relationships, and breaks down problems into simple tasks or activities.
Demonstrates honesty, is widely trusted, keeps commitments, treats people with dignity and respect, admits mistakes; does not misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.
Ability to develop positive working relationships and work effectively with others.
Takes action to achieve goals beyond what is required is pro-active, is a self-starter.
Performs complex tasks in area of expertise.
Please note only finalists will be contacted. No phone calls please.

We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Land O'Lakes enforces a policy of maintaining a drug-free workforce.

TO APPLY FOR THIS JOB CLICK HERE
http://lol.avature.net/Careers/searchjobs

Location: Dedza

Employment Type: Full time

Salary: N/A

Job deadline: 2017-04-21

Company: Land O’Lakes International Development

MARKET LINKAGE SPECIALIST

By Vacancies In Malawi (VIM) on 04/14/2017 at 8:45pm (UTC)

Main tasks and responsibilities

Facilitating market linkage training using Land O’Lakes AgPro modules in order to develop viable FBOs among project beneficiaries.

5. Assisting producer groups, processors and input/service providers to identify potential business linkages and developing strategies for strengthening market and trade linkages – domestic, regional and overseas;

6. Working closely with the M&E Manager and Specialist, ensuring necessary systems and tools are available for measuring the impact of marketing and trade linkages in MSIKA project;

7. Ensuring clear understanding of fruit and vegetable sector market dynamics and proactively scoping and exploring available and potential market opportunities for fruit and vegetable value chains;

8. Working with the FBO development specialist and facilitating development of formal Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) between producers, processors, brokers, whole salers and retailers at various stages of fruit and vegetable value chain development;

9. Monitoring FBOs’ performance in marketing and trading of fruit and vegetable value chains;

10. Supporting the Technical Lead Market Access & Trade in drafting market and trade linkages related program success stories;

11. Submitting monthly activity plans, market linkage field reports/documents and uploading them on DevLink as a means of fostering information sharing;

12. Providing guidance to management on how to further improve market and trade linkages in implementation of MSIKA project;

13. Ensuring adherence to the program implementation work plan;

14. Ensuring that actual expenditures in the market linkages unit remain within approved budget;

15. Performing other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Agribusiness or equivalent of a Diploma with a minimum of 3 years related work experience;
Experience in social research/survey work in a development organization;
Fluent in spoken and written English and Chichewa languages;
Experience in working with and capacity building of smallholder, medium and progressive rural farmers;
Good time management skills and willingness to work occasional long hours and travel to the field frequently;
Ability to work in a team as a good communicator and learner;
Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Essential Competencies/Behaviors:

Adaptability: Able to adjust to changes in work conditions, assignments, and work schedules;
Communication: Able to communicate well with others.;
Critical Thinking: Obtains information, identifies key issues and relationships, and breaks down problems into simple tasks or activities;
Integrity/Trust: Demonstrates honesty, is widely trusted, keeps commitments, treats people with dignity and respect, admits mistakes; does not misrepresent him/herself for personal gain;
Interpersonal Effectiveness/Teamwork: Ability to develop positive working relationships and work effectively with others.;
Initiative/Results Oriented: Takes action to achieve goals beyond what is required is pro-active, is a self-starter;
Technical/Professional Knowledge: Performs complex tasks in area of expertise.
Please note only finalists will be contacted. No phone calls please.

We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Land O'Lakes enforces a policy of maintaining a drug-free workforce.

TO APPLY FOR THIS JOB CLICK HERE
http://lol.avature.net/Careers/searchjobs

Location: Dedza

Employment Type: Full time

Salary: N/A

Job deadline: 2017-04-21

Company: Land O’Lakes International Developmemt

MONITORING, EVALUATION AND LEARNING SPECIALIST

By Vacancies In Malawi (VIM) on 04/14/2017 at 8:42pm (UTC)

Position Summary and Primary Responsibilities:

The MEL Specialist will support the MEL Manager in development and maintenance of the MSIKA M&E system, oversee field adoption and use of M&E tools, conduct capacity building of field staff, temporary enumerators, and community stakeholders in project monitoring including data collection, data entry, data anlysis and reporting.

Support the MEL Manager in development and administration of the MSIKA performance monitoring plan (PMP);
Monitor all project activities to determine progress toward targets;
Support development and review of data collection tools;
Support timely data entry into IMPACTS, Land O’Lakes internal database system;
Lead training and monitoring of field based staff’s use of IMPACTs tablet-based data collection system;
Organize, file, and maintain field M&E hard copy files;
Complete timely filing and archiving of MSIKA project documentation (reports, questionnaires, data etc.) according to the Land O’Lakes ID record management tool;
Coordinate the collection of regular monitoring reports from the field staff, partner organizations and FBOs;
Support the aggregation of data submitted in the regular monitoring field reports;
Support training and orientation of MSIKA staff as well as enumerators, data entry clerks, and community/stakeholders in MEL related activities;
Conduct frequent and random field visits to monitoring and confirm quality data collection by field staff.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and at least three (3) years of experience designing and implementing quantitative and qualitative research methods for agricultural and/or innovation program monitoring and evaluation within an M&E framework for agriculture and the private sector; preferably with a US government-funded project.
Experience in supporting development of data collection methods and tools.
Experience in supporting implementation of systems for data entry, analysis and storage;
Experience using and training field staff in tablet-based data collection system
Demonstrated knowledge of results-based management
Ability to establish priorities and to plan, coordinate and monitor tasks
Highly developed conceptual, analytical and innovative problem-solving ability
Computer literacy and competency in use of Microsoft Office software
Competency in quantitative data analysis software (SPSS or Stata)
Good time management and willingness to work occasional long hours and travel frequently to Lilongwe as well as the targeted districts
Professional proficiency in English and Chichewa languages
Experience training various stakeholders in proper data collection methods
Strong interpersonal skills, self-motivated and result-driven, with ability to effectively build and manage networks and relationships for program promotion and issue-resolution
Please note only finalists will be contacted. No phone calls please.

We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Land O'Lakes enforces a policy of maintaining a drug-free workforce.

TO APPLY FOR THIS JOB CLICK HERE
http://lol.avature.net/Careers/searchjobs

Location: Dedza

Employment Type: Full time

Salary: N/A

Job deadline: 2017-04-21

Company: Land O’Lakes International Development

PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST

By Vacancies In Malawi (VIM) on 04/14/2017 at 8:39pm (UTC)

Main tasks and responsibilities

Preparing draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) documents between Land O’Lakes and the approved firms/companies for management’s review and endorsement;
Coordinating capacity building interventions among key value chain actors (producers, aggregators, SMEs, processors) in relationship building and management private sector firms/companies with whom they will be collaborating;
Linking the selected firms/companies to relevant value chain actors (producers, aggregators, SMEs, processors) and initiating dialogue around potential business opportunities, and developing strategies for strengthening collaboration between the two parties;
Liaising with the Malawi Investment and Trade Centre (MITC) in order to keep abreast with developments in the national trade and investment strategic plans, understanding private sector involvement and identifying opportunities for growth of MSIKA project interventions;
Working closely with the Agronomic Training Specialist, ensuring that space is allocated at Yankho Plots™ for display/demonstration of private sector firms’/companies’ products and/or services;
Working closely with the M&E Manager and Specialist, ensuring necessary systems and tools are available for measuring the impact of private sector engagement in MSIKA project;
Ensuring value addition and sustainability of private sector activities in MSIKA project;
Supporting the Communications Specialist in identification and writing of private sector development related project success stories and their maintenance in the project picture databank;
Submitting monthly activity plans, reports and upload private sector involvement and intervention documents to DevLink as a means of fostering information sharing;
Providing guidance to management on how to further improve private sector involvement in the implementation of MSIKA;
Ensuring adherence to the program implementation work plan;
Ensuring that actual expenditures in his/her program activity areas remain within budget;
Performing other duties as assigned.

Reporting and supervision:

The PSDS will report directly to the Deputy Chief of Party, ensuring vertical and horizontal accountability, but without a supervisory role.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Social science or Diploma with minimum of 3 years related work experience;
Experience in social research/survey work in a development oriented organization;
Fluent in spoken and written English and Chichewa languages;
Experience in working with the private sector and smallholder rural farmers;
Good time management skills and willingness to work occasional long hours and travel to the field frequently;
Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Essential Competencies/Behaviors:

Able to adjust to changes in work conditions, assignments, and work schedules;
Able to communicate well with others;
Obtains information, identifies key issues and relationships, and breaks down problems into simple tasks or activities;
Demonstrates honesty, is widely trusted, keeps commitments, treats people with dignity and respect, admits mistakes; does not misrepresent him/herself for personal gain;
Ability to develop positive working relationships and work effectively with others;
Takes action to achieve goals beyond what is required is pro-active, is a self-starter;
Performs complex tasks in area of expertise.
Please note only finalists will be contacted. No phone calls please.

We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Land O'Lakes enforces a policy of maintaining a drug-free workforce.

TO APPLY FOR THIS JOB CLICK HERE
http://lol.avature.net/Careers/searchjobs

Location: Lilongwe

Employment Type: Full time

Salary: N/A

Job deadline: 2017-04-21

Company: Land O’Lakes International Development

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