SPECIALIST: MANUFACTURING VALUE CHAINS DEVELOPMENT – Spedu 1091 views

Key Responsibilities

• Value Chain Analysis & Mapping: Conducting detailed studies of production, processing, and marketing to identify constraints, opportunities, and market access gaps.
• Formulating Beneficiation Strategies: Designing, implementing, and monitoring frameworks that encourage local processing of raw materials (e.g., mineral, agricultural) to increase their value before export.
• Policy Advice: Providing expert technical advice to government, industry, or corporate leadership regarding regulations for socioeconomic agreements, local content policies, and industrial strategies.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring that industrial or resource projects comply with local content requirements, socioeconomic agreements, and environmental regulations.
• Upgrading Strategies: Developing and implementing technical strategies to enhance product quality, improve technology adoption, and increase value addition.
• Market Linkages & Partnerships: Facilitates relationships between producers, SMMEs, and buyers, including organizing trade dialogues and supporting business investment.
• Capacity Building: Training, mentoring, and offering technical assistance to stakeholders to strengthen competitiveness and sustainability.
• Investment & Policy Support: Developing business plans to secure financing, analyzing trade policies, and providing inputs for policy improvements.
• Land Facilitation: Manages the facilitation of land allocation process for investors (acquisition and leases);
• Data management: Manage, maintains the development and provision of data base for project planning and management in Manufacturing and Industry;
• Policy Review: Review the main existing manufacturing value chains in the region including market trends, technological and infrastructure status, market demand and supply, primary actors and their roles and linkages, post-harvest/production handling, business support service needs (including capacity building), and regulatory and control mechanisms.
• Job Creation: Identification of possible improvements that can lead to significant increases in employment and income.

Requirements

• Education/Qualifications: A Degree in Technical field such as Engineering (Electrical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical) or Technology (Industrial Design, Technology). A Master’s Degree in any of the above disciplines will be an added advantage.
• Experience: Proven experience in a value chains development, with experience in supply chain management, market systems development (MSD), or Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approaches.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in data analysis, report writing, and strategic planning. Industry 4.0.
• Competencies: Strong networking abilities, team management, and ability to work with both private and public sectors. Strategic Thinking. Planning and Organising.

How to Apply