Vietnam Agriculture & Innovation Coordinator

Supervisory Responsibility:

New Role or Back Fill?

Type of position:

X  Full-time

    Part-time

    Contractor

Hours: 40/week

X  Exempt

    Nonexempt

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Company Description

Resonance is a global consulting firm that delivers market-based solutions to address the world’s toughest challenges.

We work with changemakers in the private sector and the international development community to solve wicked problems and promote market opportunity. We specialize in development of partnerships, innovation, sustainable business models, and impact finance that drive impactful results.

Across our work, we integrate diverse voices and perspectives. We promote collaboration across sectors and up and down the chain—from the field to the boardroom. Throughout, we translate client ambition into action and impact on the ground.

Position Mandate

Resonance is seeking candidates to serve as Mid-level Agriculture and Innovation Coordinator for Investing in Women to Strengthen Supply Chains: A Global Development Alliance (GDA) between PepsiCo and USAID. The GDA will run until 2025 and will focus on strengthening the business case for inclusive agriculture in four target countries: Colombia, India, Pakistan, and Vietnam.  The GDA will support interventions that empower and create opportunities for women on and off-farm within PepsiCo agricultural supply chains. It will leverage PepsiCo’s demonstration farms, which are sites where PepsiCo agronomists showcase and train farmers on good agricultural practices and technology to improve production.

By featuring interventions that consider the unique needs, priorities, skills, and knowledge of women farmers, laborers, and entrepreneurs, PepsiCo will be able to strengthen women’s agricultural capacity, demonstrate the importance of women’s roles within their potato supply chains, and leverage women’s contributions to achieve core business and sustainability goals.  Additionally, the partnership co-invests with women farmer groups, women-led businesses, and other supply chain actors whose approaches overcome barriers to women’s economic empowerment, such as: addressing unpaid care work burdens, reducing women’s time poverty, increasing access to technical skills and technologies, improving access to land and natural resources and challenging harmful gender norms.

This position will be based in Dak Lak, Vietnam and will report to the Country Manager - Vietnam. The Agriculture & Innovation Coordinator will support the GDA team’s implementation of country-level activities focused on gender transformation of demonstration farms and women’s economic empowerment solutions in agriculture.  The position will support the GDA Country Manager to ensure the success of the program’s technical approach, methodologies, and activities with specific responsibility for operational and logistics support.

• Support the partnership’s in-country day-to-day activities in coordination with the Country Manager and the PepsiCo agronomy team. This will include logistics, implementation, and project management-related tasks.
• Assist the Gender and Agriculture Coordinator in coordinating and implementing gender-informed agricultural activities on demonstration farms that include targeting women in PepsiCo’s supply chain to introduce sustainable farming practices and promote climate-resilient agriculture practices.
• Support grant facility implementation, including identifying new farmer groups and stakeholders as potential grantees; leading logistics for grant program events and capacity building workshops; and supporting grantee monitoring and data collection, outreach events, and grantee due diligence.
• Support and coordinate consultants and partners in mapping challenges and opportunities to improve the resilience of PepsiCo’s potato supply chains.
• Support efforts to integrate gender into climate-resilient and regenerative agriculture practices on demo farms and support the creation of new demo farms, as relevant.
• Contribute to training materials, manage, and facilitate trainings/workshops, and participate in developing statements of work, field trips, data analysis and dissemination.
• Support the project’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) specialist to carry out monitoring and evaluation efforts as needed including data collection.
• Provide input into the annual work plan in collaboration with the Resonance, USAID, and PepsiCo teams.
• Maintain up-to-date data and analysis to strengthen women’s economic opportunities in agriculture supply chains and rural development issues.
• Contribute to reporting and communications products such as quarterly and annual reports, success stories, briefing materials and other documents, photos and videos, as needed.
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture (related fields), Rural development, social science etc.
• At least 5 years of prior work experience with development projects or agricultural projects. Extensive knowledge of the Vietnamese agricultural sector is required.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Prior experience working with international donors (like USAID) or reputed NGOs.
• Professional fluency in Vietnamese and English.

• Experience working with women’s groups and farmer’s associations and initiatives that increase adoption of innovative agricultural practices.
• Experience/knowledge of the potato value chain.
• Knowledge and experience in soil health management, crop/disease management is an asset.
• Knowledge and experience in Organic/sustainable agriculture certification programs is an advantage.

• Agriculture: local agricultural policies, agricultural demo farm implementation, best approaches to sustainable farming practices, agricultural trade and food polices, local land tenure laws and policy frameworks.
• Project Management: concepts, techniques, and procedures of program management, evaluation, and reporting and budgeting.

This role is expected to travel throughout Vietnam and the Central Highlands (including Daknong, Gia Lai and Lam Dong) on a regular basis.  Travel could be expected to be up to 75% of the role.

This position operates in a professional office environment, and routinely requires the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

As a part of the responsibilities for this job, the employee is required to communicate, detect, converse with, discern, convey, express oneself, and exchange information orally and in writing with others. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position, sitting at a desk for prolonged periods, move or traverse inside the office and facilities; operate, activate, use, prepare, inspect, place, detect, or position computers and other office equipment, such as a calculator, copy machine, furniture, and computer printer. The employee must be able to make substantial repetitive motions of the wrists, hands and fingers.  The employee must be able to lift and move up to 15lbs at times.

To apply, please submit your resume via email to [email protected] [1] with subject: “Agriculture and Innovation Coordinator” by January 31, 2024.

Women are encouraged to apply.

200,000,000 VND – 300,000,000 VND/year (base salary) depending on education and experience, plus benefits

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of Resonance is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. Resonance hires and promotes individuals solely based on their qualifications for the job.

Resonance believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.