Location: Ethiopia, Kutaber District, South Wollo Zone, Amhara region
Fixed term: (10 months), with possible extension
Full time (40 hours per week)
Send a Cow summary
Send a Cow is a growing and dynamic international development charity providing training, and ongoing support to smallholder farmers in Africa. We inspire and equip communities to transform their lives and the planet, in line with our vision of a confident, thriving, and sustainable rural Africa.
Send a Cow is a UK based charity that operates in many African countries of which Ethiopia is one. Send a Cow Ethiopia has a legal ground to operate in Ethiopia having been registered with Charities and Societies Agency as foreign charity with registration No. 0638. Currently, the charity is operating in Amhara, Sidama, South-West, Oromia and SNNP regions.
Overall Job Purpose
The Marketing Financial Linkage officer is responsible for leading, guiding and taking frontline action to implement the activities of Send a Cow’s value chain, business development and enterprise focused project in South Wollo Zone of Amhara Region. This will be through the implementation of activities outlined in the project document in collaboration with relevant partners, stakeholders and other project staff. The chosen candidate is responsible for ensuring activities are implemented in a timely manner that will benefit project participants (farmers, communities and households) according to the project document and schedule set by the project team.
The post holder will work under direct supervision of Project Coordinator to improve enterprise, financial linkage, and business development of participant households and their families targeted by the project.
For this role, we will consider applicants who have educational qualification of BSc in value chain and marketing, enterprise and business development or related fields and minimum of 5 years of field experience in value addition, business planning, market assessment, financial linkages, income generation and capital mobilisation.
Does this sound like you? If so, we would love to hear from you.
To apply, please send your completed Application form in a Microsoft Word or PDF Document to Send a Cow Ethiopia HR: Email address: hrethiopia@sendacow.org by Thursday 5th May at 5pm.
Please note, that we do not accept CVs or any other supporting documents and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview and written exam.