Business Development Expert

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Business Development Expert

Main field of expertise:

Business planning and SME development

Who we are:

The EU-financed Project of technical Assistance for the Support to Rural and Regional Development (SRRD) will contribute to the diversification of the economy in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The project team consisting of 6 long-term experts and several short-term specialists will support the Ministry of Economy through capacity building in preparing regional development plans, which are focussed on the support of economic development through the improvement of selected agri-food value chains. The project will be implemented in Baku and three rayons: Goychay (for persimmon), Shamakhi (for grapes and wine) and Khachmaz f(or tomato) and other crops. In addition to Regional Development Plans investment proposals for infrastructure measures and Pre-Feasibility Studies for the selected value chains (VC) will be prepared.
The project is implemented by an European consortium of consulting companies.

Qualifications and skills required:

Minimum:
• At least University degree in Economics or Business development or Finance or equivalent professional experience for at least 5 years;
• Fluency in oral and written English (at least level 2 on a scale of 1 [excellent] to 5 [basic]);
• Fluency in Azerbaijani language.

Preferred requirements:

• Specialisation in business development or business planning or financing is an advantage.

General professional experience

• At least 5 years of professional experience in the field of business development and planning;

Specific professional experience:

Minimum:
• At least one project record in a business development or SMEs development;

Preferred requirements:

• Familiarity with the business development in agriculture and credit to farming in Azerbaijan is desirable;
• Familiarity with preparation of business risk analysis is desirable.

Tasks to be contributed to:

Under the overall co-ordination of the Project Team Leader, the Non-Key Horticultural Long-term Expert (female/male) shall co-operate with the Senior Horticultural Specialist (KE2) and the Senior Rural and Regional Development Planning Expert (KE3) to implement the following activities foreseen by the Project TORs.
• Conduct training needs analysis in relation to the capacities of agricultural producers;
• Organize and deliver training, training-seminars on specialization, value chain development and support in other relevant activities as per TNA report for staff of beneficiaries and stakeholders;
• . Support in organizing study visit for DDRSP, the Department for Entrepreneurship Development, NFES, and other related staff of ME to acquire first-hand knowledge of the operation of a Development Finance Agency in the EU or in another relevant country;
• Support in organizing study visit in an EU Member State or in a country in the Region that has implemented good rural and regional programmes coordination practices to familiarise them with good practices in realising synergies and complementarities in the implementation of complex rural and regional development programmes operating through different projects;
• Review business environment including legislative framework on value chain development and specialization;
• Analyse institutional mechanisms/infrastructure for public service delivery (national, regional/rayon, local) on value chain development and specialization.
• Stakeholders' analysis and organisational proposals for im¬provements of the agriculture support facilities in selected regions;
• Support in designing of territorial development plans, including requirements for improvement of government services, technical advice requirements, investments and financing needs and organisational aspects, and development of associated ventures by small farmers, especially marketing and processing cooperatives;
• Support to the preparation of Methodological Guidelines on how to design regional oriented territorial developments plans on specialization based on analysis and gained experience;
• Work on projects database and project preparation/appraisals for potential public-/ agro- support infrastructure projects, including cost-benefit analyses and preliminary Environmental and Social Impact Assessments;
• Elaborate three pre-feasibility studies for the improvement of agro-food value chains for the products tomato, grapes, grape juice and wine and persimmon;
• Analyse the current availability of credit and financing, for the types of activities and investments identified in the value chains development plans;
• Based on the appraisal and gaps identification a proposal will be developed to improve the financing of the various segments of a value chains, possibly with a holistic approach encompassing the functions mentioned in the Project Result

Period of fee-based contract: 

30 months (April 2017 – September2019), 22 working days /month up to 540 working day.
Place of work / duty station:
Khachmaz or Shimakhi with travel to the other, Goychay and Baku

Applications:

Please send us a motivation letter (up to 3 pages) and your Curriculum Vitae by e-mail to the Team Leader, Mr. Stefan Rosenow ( [email protected] ) until March 29, 2017, Baku time.

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