Openings at Dorcas Aid International

Position Description: This position requires a motivated professional person with a business background and proven skills to work with grassroot upcoming value chains and cooperatives. The person must demonstrate that he or she has acquired hands-on experience of running value chains and capacity to include marginalized groups, particularly women, youth and people with disabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical support in implementing a camel milk inclusive value chain that combine market-based approaches to create decent employment and diversification of income streams for target households in Moyale Sub County. He or she must be able to promote and integrate climate resilient actions in the camel milk value chain in order to mitigate and adapt to effects of climate change.
• Support cooperative development to enhance their overall management skills, aggregation capacity and marketing systems.
• Seek and develop linkages and synergies with other existing and potential value chain actors
• Capture learnings and emerging lessons to facilitate scale up and adaptive programming.
• Actively network and create sustainable relations with other agribusiness actors

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and/or entrepreneurship with a minimum experience of 3 years in managing value chains.

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Position Description

The position requires a motivated and skilled professional with hand-on experience in designing climate change programs that bring tangible changes in communities, especially in areas of climate smart-agriculture, innovative clean and green energy solutions, ecosystem restoration, reduction of climate related conflicts, as well as policy influencing. The holder of this position should demonstrate experience in fundraising for climate change programs, building consortiums, working with multi-stakeholder partners, as well as collaborating with different organizations including county governments and the private sector in order to build community resilience.

Key responsibilities

• Development of innovative proposals in climate resilience and adaptation
• Develop partnerships with different organizations working in the climate change space including county governments, knowledge centres and the private sector.
• Identify and map different funding opportunities both locally and internationally to support climate change programming
• Provide technical support to Dorcas partners in different counties to enable them effectively implement climate change programs
• Develop a clear Dorcas policy on climate change and position Dorcas among Climate Change actors in Kenya
• Represent Dorcas at various forums discussing climate change actions in Kenya and Internationally
• Participate and contribute to climate change policy influencing at both the county and national government levels
• Contribute to learning and documentation of best practices and innovations in climate change.
• Prepare quality reports on climate change according to Dorcas and donor reporting schedules.
• This position requires a minimum of a Bachelor Degree with 5 years’ working experience in climate change related programming.