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In This Role, You Will Make An Impact By:

Technical Guidance and Support

• Manage comprehensive diagnostic studies to map and model supply chains, identifying bottlenecks for fertilizer and agro-chemicals.
• Oversee the development of optimized planning models to enhance supply-chain execution.
• Direct the implementation of recommendations to increase input access and affordability.
• Lead the development of business/investment cases with a specific design focus on ensuring over 80% participation from women and youth.
• Lead thorough institutional, technical, and human resource gap assessments within regulatory bodies.
• Direct the engineering and streamlining of SOPs for the registration and monitoring of agro-inputs.
• Oversee the design of mechanisms for transparent commodity traceability from production to end-use. Serve as the primary technical liaison with public departments and agencies like the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries (MAAIF).

Capacity Building

• Provide advanced supply chain management expertise to equip women- and youth-led businesses.
• Conduct technical orientation and onboarding for external consultancies and service providers.
• Facilitate the integration of optimized supply-chain models into existing agricultural networks.
• Conduct specialized trainings for regulatory staff on current best practices in quality assurance and compliance enforcement.
• Train regulatory personnel on the latest traceability tools, data management, and monitoring systems.
• Facilitate access to essential tools and resources by supporting the development of resource mobilization strategies for regulatory bodies.
• Provide strong leadership, mentorship, and professional development to the internal team of technical leads, coordinators, and analysts.

Knowledge Management and Learning

• Contribute to DSG’s knowledge management and learning agenda by documenting lessons learned, best practices, and emerging trends.
• Document lessons learned and best practices from ASTYE’s interventions, contributing to the program’s learning agenda and disseminating knowledge within DSG and to external stakeholders.
• Conduct research and analysis on emerging trends and innovations in input systems in the context of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa and share findings with DSG program teams to inform program adaptation and innovation.