Title: National Business Development Trainer
โRequisition ID: 3860
Grade: SB5 - Local Professional (Mid-Level & Senior)
Country: Sudan
Duty Station: Gedaref
Category: National Consultant
Type of Job Posting: Internal and External
Employment Type: NonStaff-Regular
Contract Duration: 6 months
Application deadline: 28-May-2024, 11:59 PM (CEST)
Vacancy Announcement
TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT OF PROJECT PERSONNEL
Only nationals or permanent residents of the country of the duty station are considered eligible.
Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is the specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability. The mission of UNIDO, as described in the Lima Declaration adopted at the fifteenth session of the UNIDO General Conference in 2013 as well as the Abu Dhabi Declaration adopted at the eighteenth session of UNIDO General Conference in 2019, is to promote and accelerate inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID) in Member States. The relevance of ISID as an integrated approach to all three pillars of sustainable development is recognized by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will frame United Nations and country efforts towards sustainable development. UNIDOโs mandate is fully recognized in SDG-9, which calls to โBuild resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovationโ. The relevance of ISID, however, applies in greater or lesser extent to all SDGs. Accordingly, the Organizationโs programmatic focus is structured in four strategic priorities: Creating shared prosperity; Advancing economic competitiveness; Safeguarding the environment; and Strengthening knowledge and institutions.
Each of these programmatic fields of activity contains a number of individual programmes, which are implemented in a holistic manner to achieve effective outcomes and impacts through UNIDOโs four enabling functions: (i) technical cooperation; (ii) analytical and research functions and policy advisory services; (iii) normative functions and standards and quality-related activities; and (iv) convening and partnerships for knowledge transfer, networking and industrial cooperation. Such core functions are carried out in Divisions/Offices in its Headquarters, Regional Offices and Hubs and Country Offices.
Directorate of SDG Innovation and Economic Transformation (IET)
The Directorate of SDG Innovation and Economic Transformation (IET) houses the Divisions of Coordination and Integration Support (IET/CIS), Quality, Impact and Accountability (IET/QUA), Agribusiness and Infrastructure Development (IET/AGR), Innovative Finance and International Financial Institutions (IET/IFI), Fair Production, Sustainability Standards and Trade (IET/PST), Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), and Climate and Technology Partnerships (CTP). The Directorate also ensures close coordination and collaboration among the Divisions and relevant entities in the Directorate of Global Partnerships and External Relations (GLO) and the Directorate of Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Industrial Development (TCS).
Division of Agribusiness and Infrastructure Development (IET/AGR)
Under the overall guidance of the Director General, the direct supervision of the Managing Director, Directorate of SDG Innovation and Economic Transformation (IET), and in close coordination with other organizational entities within UNIDO, the Division of Agribusiness and Infrastructure Development (IET/AGR) supports Member States in their efforts to pave the way to sustainable rural development and a structurally transformed and modernized agribusiness sector. Capitalizing on the experience gained by UNIDO in this field over decades and on tried-and-tested and to-be-developed service modules, the Division will explore innovative approaches to maximize the potential that exists in agribusiness development, addressing emerging global trends, in particular food security, poverty alleviation and climate change. It will explore new ways to contribute to global efforts to reduce hunger, accelerate food systems transition, and generate income and employment, especially among women and youth. The Division provides technical cooperation services to assist the modernization of agriculture and agro-industry, especially in less-developed countries, ensuring that enterprises add value to primary agricultural production, substitute the imports of food and other value-added agricultural products, and participate effectively in local, regional and global value chains. Where needed, it will develop infrastructure and agro-industrial parks and capacities for agro-industrialization, value addition, quality assurance and food safety. It will also bring innovative approaches to Member States to fully benefit from carbon-neutral and biodiversity-enhancing agricultural and agro-industrial production and development opportunities in the green and blue bio economy.
Food Security and Food Systems Unit (IET/AGR/FSS)
The Food Security and Food Systems Unit (IET/AGR/FSS) promotes the development of food industries and food value chains and the production of local food products in less-developed countries to end hunger and ensure food and nutrition security while generating income and employment adhering to principles of sustainable industrial development. It provides a range of technical assistance services that allow food enterprises โ including in the informal sector and especially SMEs โ to extend their production, improve their products, comply with quality and other standards, become more competitive and deliver adequate and nutritious food to local populations and for export. Where opportune, it also promotes the development of food safety compliance infrastructure and building related food safety systems capacities.
PROJECT CONTEXT
The UNIDO Project 220085 โAgribusiness for food security in Sudanโ, has the overall objective to enhance food security, increase target agricultural communities and householdsโ incomes while creating jobs, particularly for women and youth in the selected states in Sudan. The specific objective is to provide technical assistance to upgrade strategic agro-food value chains and increase equitable economic opportunities for women small farmers and producers in Gedaref State in Sudan.
Whereas the UNIDO project 190352, โResilience of Agropastoral Populations in Eastern Sudanโ seeks to create sustainable job opportunities and improve access to renewable energy sources in Kassala State of Sudan, with particular attention towards women and youth. Particularly, the project aims to increase the added value of some selected value chains, with the aim of support industrialization in the target area through an integrated approach enhancing the start-up of MSMEs (with particular attention towards youth and women), valorization of local typical agri-food value chains, aggregation of farmers into larger productive bodies, access to financial and non-financial services as well as to renewable energy technologies for agro-productive purposes.
The projects will contribute towards โSDG 1โ: End poverty in all its forms everywhereโ. They will also contribute to โSDG 5โ: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, and โSDG 9โ: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation. It also falls into UNIDOโs poverty reduction portfolio (EC1) and in particular Agribusiness and Rural Enterprise Development (GC11); its thematic area is poverty reduction through productive activities (PRP).
FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager and close cooperation with the National Project Coordinator in the field, and UNIDOโs service provider, the National Financial Literacy and Business Development Trainer and Advisor will support the design and roll out of trainings for selected women smallholdersโ farmers, MSMEs, cooperatives and related key actors aimed at improving their capacities for business development and access to finance in the Gedaref and Kassala States, Sudan.
The scope of the services is outlined as follows:
Main duties
- Conduct a desk review of existing financial literacy materials available in local language, as well as an overview of existing materials available in English language that has been previously used/compiled by project team. This should include both written resources, pictorial, apps and other tools including digital resources that are available for financial literacy.
- Work with the selected service provider to develop a financial literacy toolkit, which includes resource materials, teaching aids, curriculum, interactive learning materials, digital resources and other relevant materials to increase financial literacy among rural women.
Concrete/ Measurable/Outputs to be achieved
Financial literacy toolkit and related documents.
Main duties
Develop training plans and rapid need assessments for the roll out of targeted trainings in close cooperation with the service providers, including training schedules, designating, and liaising with master trainers, structuring ToTs, and cascade trainings within the localities, designing knowledge materials and training tools, and developing reporting and feedback forms.
Concrete/ Measurable/Outputs to be achieved
Training plan with related annexes to be included in the End of Mission Report.
Main duties
Deliver basic training programs to selected MSMEs and small holder farmers cooperatives beneficiaries including modules on basic and advanced financial literacy, development of a business model and access to finance.
Concrete/ Measurable/Outputs to be achieved
Training report to be included in the End of Mission Report.
Main duties
Support the establishment of savings groups among the women participants of the financial literacy training to promote collective action-based learning, foster income generation, entrepreneurship, and B2B linkages among women groups in rural localities.
Concrete/ Measurable/Outputs to be achieved
Brief report that including and feedback from beneficiary groups.
Main duties
Provide ad hoc counselling services to the supported MSMEs/savings groups to foster the business startup and growth such as: