Background and Purpose
The Food Security and Agribusiness Support (FAS) program is a USAID and Feed the Future-funded program implemented by CNFA in Egypt. The goal of FAS is to increase agriculture-related incomes of smallholder horticulture farmers in Upper Egypt. The program will achieve this goal by implementing a market driven, Lead Firm, approach that facilitates sustainable, pro-poor value chain development and helps smallholders increase access to high value domestic and export markets. The market-driven approach will be supported by four interrelated components: 1) improved on-farm production, 2) more efficient post-harvest processes, 3) improved marketing of agriculture crops and products, and 4) improved nutritional status, especially for women and children.
FAS delivers the Farm Service Center model by providing in-kind grants and business capacity building for input supply businesses to expand their offered products and services to enable them to become full-service FSCs. The objective of this component is to: 1. enable greater access for smallholder farmers to an affordable and wide range of inputs and commercial extension, mechanization, and testing services; and 2. increase input supply business capacities to ensure a robust and competitive market for input supplies and extension services in Upper Egypt. CNFA’s use of the FSC model in Egypt and other countries has shown that FSCs can have significant positive impact on the smallholders they work with, creating new jobs and increasing the use of effective inputs and good agricultural practices, including the use of new technologies.
Position Description
The Farm Service Center (FSC) Manager will manage the FSC support activities. This includes FSC grantee selection, FSC grant management, grant monitoring and evaluation, capacity building oversight, monitoring procurement, and integration of gender considerations.
This position will be full-time, based in Cairo or Luxor, Egypt, with frequent travel to Upper Egypt governorates.
Tasks
Technical delivery
Grants Management
Qualifications:
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status. CNFA takes affirmative action in support of its policy to advance in employment individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
Only those candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted
About CNFA:
CNFA is a not-for-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to stimulating economic growth in the agricultural sector by nurturing entrepreneurship, private enterprise and market linkages. CNFA specializes in fostering private sector investments in training, new technologies and marketing as a means to increase the overall competitiveness of agricultural value chains, to expand exports, and to develop skills in the rural workforce. CNFA assists smallholders in increasing household-level food security and nutrition through improved agricultural practices, introduction of new varieties, diversification of crop production, food preservation and storage, development of farmer-based organizations (FBOs) and strengthened linkages to markets.