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New job opportunity at SWISSAID, July 2023

Jobs in Tanzania 2023: New job opportunity at SWISSAID – Project Officer Marketing, July 2023. Interested candidates are invited to apply.

Position: Project Officer Marketing

Duty station: Mtwara-Masasi

New job opportunity at SWISSAID, July 2023

Background:

SWISSAID is a non-government organization headquartered in Switzerland with operations in nine countries. It has operated in Tanzania since 1972, focusing on small-scale farming, gender equality, and extractives. Swissaid Tanzania is implementing a CROPS4HD project in Lindi, Mtwara, Dodoma, Dar es Salaam, Pwani, and Morogoro, whereby the focus production regions are Lindi and Mtwara.

The following are the project’s key outcomes:

Outcome 1: The demand of urban and rural consumers for products from farmers’ varieties/ landraces, neglected and underutilized species, and a healthy diet is increased.
Outcome 2: Smallholder farmers, especially women, grow farmers’ varieties/ landraces and neglected and underutilized species as a viable business and improve their livelihoods.
Outcome 3: Regulatory frameworks, strategies, and policies at local, national, sub-regional, and global levels reflect the particularities of integrated seed systems, create an enabling environment for innovative market approaches and incentivize the consumption of healthy, diverse, and agroecologically produced food.

Recommended:

Areas of intervention on small-scale farming:

  • Increasing smallholder farmers’ productivity and production through diversified agroecological farming.
  • Improving smallholder farmers’ capacity to generate net income through productive agroecological value chains.
  • Strengthening smallholder farmers’ organizations to enhance sustainability and accountability.

SWISSAID Tanzania is recruiting for a Project officer marketing responsible for technical and logistical assistance on marketing activities, including the Supervision of the Business groups as part of the SWISSAID Tanzania Country Programme.

Regions of operation:

  • Field operations are mainly taking place in the regions of Mtwara and Lindi, but also to a limited extent in Ruvuma, Dar es Salaam, Pwani and other regions.
  • Further information on SWISSAID is available at www.swissaid.ch ; and further information on agro ecology is available at www.fao.org/agroecology/en/

Key duties and responsibilities:

  • Assess the marketing and business planning capacities of local partners, and marketing actors, define, and implement strategies to mitigate any gaps.
  • Conduct training for farmer groups and assist groups to implement a market-based production plan.
  • Identify and capacitate market committee members to assist with collective marketing and selling of the produce.
  • To coordinate and participate in the community awareness creation of healthy eating and other nutrition campaigns
  • Assist in increasing the financial autonomy of the partner organizations.
  • Support the opening and management of an agro-ecological shop in Project implementing areas and help broker deals between farmer organizations and buyers, while ensuring compliance with legal requirements.
  • Help design and implement strategies to raise consumer awareness and preference of ecological produce.
  • Record and maintain sales and production information’s from farmers organization’s at selling points.
  • Participate in organizing and performing local, regional and national market studies as needed.

Others

  • Plan and conduct regular visits to collaborate organizations, including in remote areas.
  • Facilitate planning and implementation of monitoring & evaluation activities.
  • Participate in SWISSAID team activities, contribute to regular human resources, administrative, and finance matters as necessary.

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Minimum requirements and work experience

  • Holder of Bachelor Degree in one of the following: BSc/BA in marketing, business administration, economics,
  • Agricultural economics or any relevant field from the recognized institutions.
  • Proven experience as a marketing officer or similar role
  • Solid knowledge of marketing techniques and principles
  • Good understanding of market research techniques, statistical and data analysis methods
  • Thorough understanding of social media and web analytics and ability to generate high level social media content
  • Minimum 3 years of practical experience of working with multiple partners including the government, civil society organizations, academia, and or the private sector.
  • A commitment to equal opportunities and promotion of gender equality and equity.
  • Demonstrate high-level communication and analytical skills, report in English.
  • Fluent in English and Swahili, must be computer literate.
  • Ability to work independently, multitask and under pressure.
  • Be focused on results with strong work ethic and self-motivation.
  • Be a team player.

Mode of application:

Candidates should submit a letter of intent describing how they qualify for this position, a CV, and two referees including contact phone numbers and email addresses at a suitable time.

Deadline: 5 August 2023.

Send the application to: info@swissaidtanzania.org

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