Apply for National Coordinator – EU OACPS Business Friendly Project (Liberia), Geneva, Switzerland Job Vacancy | Position

Result of Service

EXPECTED OUTPUTS AND TIMELINES / RESULT OF SERVICE The Consultant will submit a month-to-month report on the progress and completion of Outputs for the espresso worth chain and establishments for validation, as follows: Output 1: Comprehensive Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Report – April 2025 A consolidated report detailing established institutional partnerships, energetic collaborations, and stakeholder engagement actions. Includes a recurrently up to date community listing of espresso worth chain actors and institutional companions. Output 2. Partnership community created for capability enhancement – May 2025 Network of institutional partnerships recognized and/or consolidated to capability enchancment for espresso worth chain actors, farmer cooperatives and establishments. Coffee worth chain actors and establishments registered, and common contacts maintained with them. Updates made month-to-month to the worth chain actor and establishments listing, and stakeholders knowledgeable about progress on capability assist actions. Output 3. Inclusive Multi-Stakeholder Action Plans – June 2025 Co-created Multi-Stakeholder Action Plans outlining methods for worth chain improvement and capacity-building, highlighting agreed-upon methods for capacity-building, worth chain improvement, and sustainable practices, with clearly outlined roles and duties for all stakeholders. Output 4: Value Addition and Market Access Report – July 2025 Value Addition and Market Access Report detailing alternatives for Liberian espresso in nationwide, regional, and worldwide markets. A report detailing alternatives for Liberian espresso in nationwide, regional, and worldwide markets. Identification of key market developments, limitations, and suggestions for bettering market entry. Output 5: Stakeholder Engagement Progress Update – August 2025 A follow-up report on stakeholder engagement efforts, monitoring partnership developments, rising challenges, and proposed options for improved collaboration. Output 6: Final Consolidated Project Report – September 2025 A complete last report summarizing all key deliverables, classes realized, and coverage suggestions for sustaining espresso sector enhancements past the venture timeline.

Work Location

Home-based in Liberia

Expected period

01.04.25 – 30.09.25

Duties and Responsibilities

BACKGROUND: The International Trade Centre (ITC) is a joint company of the United Nations and the World Trade Organization for trade-related technical cooperation in creating nations. The Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (OLAC), as a geographical part of the Division of Country Programmes (DCP), is accountable for defining the ITC technique within the area, both for particular person nations or on the sub-regional and regional ranges. OLAC can be accountable for coordinating all ITC interventions, together with the work of ITC technical sections within the area. The Inclusive Agribusiness Systems Unit, which is below the Division of Enterprises and Institutions (DEI) is overseeing the technical coordination of the venture utilizing the Alliances for Action strategy. The European Union funded venture “Support to Business Friendly and Inclusive National and Regional Policies, and Strengthening Productive Capabilities and Value Chains” Programme goals to enrich the European Union assist for non-public sector improvement in ACP nations, below the context of the joint ACP-EU Programme for ACP Private Sector Development Support, adopted by ACP-EU Council of Ministers in Nairobi in 2014, and is financed from the eleventh European Development Fund. The focus of the venture is designed to realize two key outcomes: (1) adopting and implementing business-friendly, inclusive and accountable nationwide insurance policies and authorized frameworks, and (2) strengthening productive, processing, selling and advertising capabilities and worth chains. ITC is collaborating with UNIDO and the World Bank within the implementation of this system. ITC is main the implementation of the micro pillar stage of the Programme, which focuses on two core themes: 1) Promoting inclusive productive and business Alliances and funding to strengthen VC governance and MSME competitiveness; and a pair of) Increase small farmers and processors worth addition, productiveness and competitiveness. Interventions on the micro-level purpose to boost worth chain operators’ particular person and collective competitiveness with particular consideration to household farmers, agri-entrepreneurs and rural and concrete MSMEs and processors. Notably, the motion employs the Alliances for Action methodology, which is a market led strategy that helps associations, improved productiveness, and ecological intensification– value environment friendly applied sciences, connections to markets, monetary inclusion, diversification and worth addition. DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES The EU-OACPS Business-Friendly Coffee Project goals to boost the competitiveness and sustainability of the espresso sector in Liberia by boosting productive capacities, selling inclusive commerce, and fostering institutional partnerships. Under the direct supervision of the Regional Alliances for Action Coordinator and the EU-ACP Business Friendly Programme Coordinator, and below the general steering of the Chief of Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Division of Country Programmes, and the Head of Inclusive Agribusiness Systems, Green and Inclusive Value Chains (GIVC), Division of Sustainable and Inclusive Trade (DSIT), the National Coordinator will lead the implementation of venture actions on the nationwide stage. The function requires high-level stakeholder engagement with authorities establishments, the non-public sector, farmer organizations such because the Farmer Union Network, and different key actors within the Liberia’s espresso business.

• Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships: Identify and consolidate institutional partnerships with key espresso worth chain actors, keep communication and foster collaboration between farmer organizations, aggregators, exporters, authorities businesses, and personal sector actors and, signify the venture in strategic conferences and coverage dialogues with nationwide and worldwide stakeholders and guarantee common updates with EUD Liberia.
• Facilitate Multi-Stakeholder Platforms: Organize and facilitate multi-stakeholder conferences to co-create actionable plans for sector improvement and act as the first liaison between venture stakeholders, selling strategic alliances and data sharing. epZVNWY BMoZjW
• Capacity-Building and Technical Assistance: Coordinate the supply of coaching workshops, seminars, and technical assist periods for espresso worth chain actors.
• Knowledge Management and Policy Advisory: Collect, analyze, and share classes realized and insights from venture actions and contribute to coverage discussions and inform nationwide espresso sector methods.
• Promote Market Access and Value Addition: Coordinate Liberia’s espresso sector participation in nationwide, regional, and worldwide commerce gala’s and occasions. Advocate for and assist initiatives that promote worth addition to espresso merchandise on the supply.
• Monitoring and Reporting: Track and report on the progress of actions outlined within the work plan and put together common experiences highlighting achievements, challenges, and corrective measures. Copyright Clause: The marketing consultant has to make sure that she has obtained the mandatory permissions with regard to mental property rights required to carry out her providers below this consultancy contract and for the following dissemination by ITC in any kind. Documentary proof is to be submitted to ITC. Should any license charge be due for using copyrighted supplies of third events, the marketing consultant shall request the prior written permission from ITC. ITC champions workforce variety, inclusion, gender equality and gender parity and considers all certified individuals – of all genders – equally, together with these with disabilities, with out discrimination or prejudice of any variety.

Qualifications/particular abilities

Undergraduate college diploma in agronomy, agricultural engineering, enterprise administration or associated area . Extensive related expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the college diploma. A minimal of 5 (5) years of related skilled expertise in venture administration, enterprise improvement, enterprise planning, group dynamics, agricultural and rural improvement, agro-processing and exports, together with data of agri-business and participatory approaches. Experience of working with worldwide/donor organizations or in nationwide improvement businesses Experience in information assortment, survey administration and agribusiness.

Languages

Advanced data of English

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.