Vietnam Country Manager: PepsiCo and USAID Investing in Women to Strengthen Supply Chains Global Development Alliance

Job Description

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Investing in Women to Strengthen Supply Chains is a Global Development Alliance (GDA) between USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and PepsiCo with the goal to make the business case for women’s economic empowerment (WEE) in PepsiCo’s agricultural supply chains. The GDA is managed by USAID in close coordination with PepsiCo’s Global Sustainable Agriculture team and implemented by Resonance.

Under the GDA, USAID and PepsiCo work together to strengthen women’s empowerment through training and capacity building on agricultural and business skills, as well as leadership and personal empowerment. The partnership will also increase women’s access to PepsiCo’s potato supply chain and build the gender capacity of PepsiCo’s team. The partnership aims to ensure that women – as farmers or workers – benefit from being directly or indirectly involved within PepsiCo’s supply chains while also being empowered within their households and communities. Together, the partners will make a practical and compelling business case for scaling investments in women’s economic empowerment within PepsiCo and other global companies.

PEPSICO

As one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, a steady, sustainable supply of crops is central to PepsiCo’s business. Sustainable agricultural practices are critical to meeting the increasing demand for food as the global population grows. When our food system operates in an unsustainable way, it can create supply chain, operational, and financial risks for PepsiCo. By contrast, addressing risks within our value chain and the wider food system effectively can create new opportunities for competitive advantage and future market growth, while also supporting the communities in which we operate. We want PepsiCo to be a catalyst for change in the field, because we recognize that transforming how we grow food is an essential part of building a more sustainable food system.

As part of our commitment to a sustainable food system, PepsiCo launched a global partnership with USAID to test the hypothesis that supporting women and including under-represented groups in our supply chain can deliver business and social benefits to PepsiCo and our farming partners. Vietnam is a priority country for this Global Development Alliance partnership (GDA’) and Resonance Global (‘Resonance’) will provide on-the-ground implementation support over the next 3 years to build ‘gender smart’ solutions that align with PepsiCo’s goals and the Vietnam country context.

POSITION MANDATE

PepsiCo and Resonance are seeking candidates to serve asVietnam Country Manager for Investing in Women to Strengthen Supply Chains: A Global Development Alliance between PepsiCo and USAID. The five-year partnership (2020-2025) designs and implements gender-informed interventions in Colombia, India, Pakistan, and Vietnam by leveraging PepsiCo’s demonstration farms, which are sites where PepsiCo agronomists showcase and train farmers on good agricultural practices and technology to improve production. By featuring interventions that consider women’s needs, priorities, skills, and unique knowledge, PepsiCo will be able to strengthen women’s agricultural skills, demonstrate the importance of women’s roles within their potato and plantain supply chains, and leverage women’s contributions to achieve core business and sustainability goals.

The Vietnam Country Manager will lead implementation of country-level activities, including but not limited to coordinating PepsiCo demonstration farms, implementing training activities, preparing farmers to become part of PepsiCo’s supply chain for potatoes, and managing the partnership’s grant facility. The position will support the Chief of Party to ensure the success of the program’s technical approach, methodologies, and activities.

This is a full-time position based in Lam Dong, Vietnam reporting to PepsiCo’s Head of Agro and the project’s Chief of Party.

OUTCOMES / ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Manage the partnership’s in-country activities in coordination with the Resonance home office and the Vietnam PepsiCo agronomy team.
• Recruit and supervise mid-level agricultural and gender specialists, M&E staff, and other staff, consultants, or subcontractors, as required.
• Coordinate gender-informed agricultural activities on demonstration farms that include targeting women in PepsiCo’s supply chain to introduce sustainable farming practices and promote regenerative agriculture practices.
• Manage and implement relevant women’s economic empowerment and agriculture-related trainings and workshops. This will include working closely with PepsiCo agronomy teams to roll out new protocols and monitoring implementation.
• Support grant facility implementation, including building relationships with local organizations and potential grantees; promoting solicitations, contributing to public consultations, outreach events, and grantee due diligence reviews; supporting grantee award monitoring.
• Coordinate with the project’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) associate to carry out monitoring and evaluation efforts as needed including data collection.
• Support the design and review of the annual work plan and milestones in collaboration with the Resonance, USAID, and PepsiCo teams.
• Provide Resonance with quarterly inputs for project reporting.
• Participate and speak at relevant country-level events on the topics of sustainable agriculture and women’s economic empowerment.
• Lead project communications to appropriate audiences (public, private, and NGO stakeholders) within the country.
• Participate in program meetings with other country teams to discuss shared learnings and challenges.
• Serve as the point of contact for USAID Mission contacts and high-level public and private stakeholders, as requested.
• Carry out other duties as requested by the PepsiCo Head of Agro and Resonance Chief of Party.

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Advanced degree in agronomy, economics, or a related field in agriculture or social sciences such as rural sociology or rural development.
• At least 7 years of prior work experience in the management and implementation of development projects or work directly with private sector agricultural actors. Extensive knowledge of Vietnam’s agricultural sector is required.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Advanced professional fluency in English and Vietnamese.

PREFERRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Prior experience working with USAID, a USAID client/implementer, or a corporate/commercial client.
• Prior experience with grants management preferred.

COMPETENCIES

• Agriculture: Understand local agricultural, trade, and food policies;implement sustainable farming practices on agricultural demo farms
• Women’s Economic Empowerment: Integrate gender into agricultural programming, facilitate women’s economic empowerment related trainings and workshops, understand local challenges and opportunities related to women’s economic empowerment
• Project Leadership and Management: Use concepts, techniques, and procedures of program management, evaluation, and reporting and budgeting; lead a project team to reach a result
• Coordination and facilitation: Lead engagement among diverse stakeholders
• Social and Behavioral Change Campaigns: Demonstrate a strategic and creative approach to behavior change; develop strategies for behavior change, including messaging and training campaigns
• Systems Thinking: Understand supply chains as systems and conceptualize how women’s economic empowerment functions within that system; consider the concerns of stakeholders with varying positions (global/local, donor/private sector); integrate development, sustainability, and business goals
• Problem-solving: Proactively identify problems and develop creative solutions

TRAVEL EXPECTATIONS

This role is expected to travel throughout the Central Highlands in Vietnam on a regular basis. Travel could be expected to be up to 75% of the role, depending on local conditions related to COVID-19.

WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

WORK AUTHORIZATION / SECURITY CLEARANCE

It is required that candidates for this role currently have work authorization in Vietnam.

SALARY RANGE

Base salary: 550,000,000 VND - 750,000,000 VND/year

Total package (base salary + benefits) = 1,100,000,000 VND – 1,500,000,000 VND/year

AAP/EEO STATEMENT

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of Resonance is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. Resonance hires and promotes individuals solely based on their qualifications for the job to be filled.

Resonance believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No phone calls or emails please.

About the Organization

Come grow with us! If you are a passionate change agent who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial and inclusive, culture committed to operational excellence, we would like to meet you.

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Resonance is an award-winning, Certified B Corporation consultancy that delivers market-based solutions to address the world's toughest challenges. We enable a variety of donor, commercial, and investor clients around the world to catalyze lasting impact. Resonance seeks to catalyze large-scale social, environmental, and economic change by fostering new and dynamic forms of collaboration. We do this by fostering public-private partnerships, facilitating sustainable investment, and providing deep analytical insights in frontier markets.