International Agriculture Marketing Specialist Specialist

International Agriculture Marketing Specialist for BANGLADESH

Location: Bangladesh
Duration: 4 person months, starting May of 2012, ending August 2012
Deadline for Response: December 12th 2011
Email: moc.sarin@arpx

BACKGROUND
NIRAS is a large professional services consulting company centered in Northern Europe with main offices in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Poland, Cambodia, and regional offices spread throughout Africa and Asia. We employ over 1,300 permanent staff highly qualified in engineering, natural sciences, and management technologies.

Building on more than 30 years of international experience in more than 100 countries, the International Consulting Division of NIRAS (NIC) provides advisory and project management services for Official Development Assistance (ODA) clients worldwide. We specialize in initiatives targeting rural and agribusiness development, enhanced community and rural livelihoods, natural resource management and biodiversity conservation, institutional and organization strengthening, policy and strategic planning. We strive to ensure that our consulting services are implemented with a focus on quality, reliability and creativity.

We are currently seeking an International Agriculture Marketing Specialist Specialist (‘IAMS’, 4 person months) for an imminent donor-funded opportunity inBangladesh. The AMS will be responsible for the following tasks:

- Reinforce the marketing capacity of the small producers, an international marketing specialist is needed to hire who can review existing approaches and procedures, provide technical assistance and advice.  

- Review and Provide technical inputs, as required, in the preparation of detailed implementation approaches and procedural guidelines for the development of rural small producers marketing linkages of selected high value agricultural produces, primarily for domestic market

- Develop guidelines for value chain analysis, conduct at least one value chain analysis of high value agricultural commodities and share with relevant stakeholders for preparing value chain development plan;

- Assist in the development of a data base on marketing and marketable high value commodities

 Full Terms of Reference are available upon request.

 The successful consultant will have the following qualifications and experience:

- At least a Masters Degree in rural economic development, marketing, agricultural economics or related fields.

- At least 10 years or more field experience in value chain program design and implementation of high value agricultural commodities like fruits, vegetables, flowers, livestock and fishes inSoutheast Asiacountries

- At least 20 years experience in advising government on policies and strategies, be familiar with ADB project implementation and management procedures, and have previous satisfactory experience in leadership.

- Relevant work experience inBangladeshor in the South Asian region.

 Application instructions:

Interested consultants should contact Mr. PhalKunny Rath, email:moc.sarin@arpx

Interested candidates should as a minimum submit a recent CV to the indicated email address. Secondly, we encourage candidates to also register their CV in our pool of experts at https://cv.niras.com. No phone calls please. Only finalists contacted. Women and minorities encouraged to apply.