USAID Feed the Future Haiti Resilience and Agriculture Sector Advancement (HRASA) is a 5-year activity implemented by DAI. HRASA will build on USAID’s decades of investment in the Haitian agricultural sector and catalyze the resourcefulness and innovation of Haitian market system actors to transform agricultural market systems so that they are more competitive, inclusive, and resilient—ultimately advancing Haiti’s food security, sustainable economic development, and the Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR).

HRASA’s overarching goal is to increase individual, household, and community resilience through strengthened, well-functioning, and inclusive market systems.
• Objective 1 activities will focus on improving the efficiency/ effectiveness of existing market system actors.
• Objective 2 will stimulate and expand private sector engagement (PSE) and investment in agricultural market systems.
• Objective 3 will focus on households and communities that are already economically active, but at risk of becoming extremely poor if unable to withstand and recover from recurrent shocks and stresses. Objective 3 will strengthen their capacities to intensify production and participate in market system opportunities emerging from activities under Objectives 1 and 2.

Using a market system approach, HRASA will facilitate smallholder farmers’ connection to competitive markets and build on existing opportunities to promote inclusive and resilient economic development. HRASA may also support the uptake of market-focused applied research and extension to develop selected agricultural market systems.
All activities will take place in the communes in the two defined Resilience Focus Zones (RFZs) highlighted in the Activity scope of work: the southern Les Cayes region and the North-North East-Central Plateau region. However, the focus of these activities will vary, depending on the circumstances and selected commodities and market systems prevalent in each region.
Partnerships provide the basis for action plans that define objectives, actions, roles, and responsibilities for the HRASA team, its partners, and the collaborating market actors. They also serve as the basis for refining monitoring and evaluation indicators and milestones to assess progress. The essential elements in the partnerships are the (a) shared understanding of and (b) commitment to mutual objectives in a particular activity, and (c) mutual trust.

Role’s Purpose:
The Southern Programs Director and Partnership Specialist (SPD) serves as project manager for HRASA activities carried out through partnership agreements under the HRASA Partnership Facility related to specific market systems interventions/activities and represents the Project in the Southern Resilience Focus Zone. The project is complex, and its success requires teamwork that supports new collaborations among market system actors. The SPD guides partner efforts in selected priority market systems activities and ensures that these activities increase the resilience of the target population of the project, particularly, women and children. In particular, the position focuses on the creation and/or strengthening and management of market relationships. The SPD is responsible for understanding and supporting the work of the collaborating market actors in selected intervention areas that generally require integrating activities under all three HRASA objectives—market systems efficiency, private sector engagement and investment, and community and household resilience.
A primary responsibility is to ensure that each partnership achieves interim objectives or milestones, as set forth in annual work plans and quarterly updates, that contribute to HRASA’s purpose of strengthening market systems and their inclusiveness and resilience. A secondary responsibility is engaged with other programs or donors in the region to ensure mutual understanding of objectives, approaches, and activities and, as possible, strengthen alignment and synergy and avoid undermining each other’s programs.
In particular, the SPD supervises and provides technical guidance for the Partnership Facility partners to plan and carry out activities, such as those described under each objective in Section II the Annual Work Plan, that contribute to market system changes. This requires establishing good working relationships with and mediating among producer groups, local government, buyers and traders, business service providers, investors, other market system actors and other project and stakeholders to create support change in market systems through the priority interventions. This may involve the behaviors of both formal and informal market actors and the legal, social, and economic structures that affect their interactions and behaviors.

Objectives and Duties:
• Under the direction of COP, DCOP, or the designated intervention lead, manage implementation of assigned activities in support of the contributing partnership(s), with focus on his or her designated communes or value chains in HRASA’s Southern Resilience Focus Zone.
• Contribute to collaborative learning and adaptation of on-going interventions and the screening and prioritization of new opportunities for beneficial changes (reducing constraints and enhancing and inclusion and resilience) in existing agricultural market systems and practices, and policies.
• Assist in the design and implementation of market system interventions in selected priority commodity areas. Plan and carry out activities to achieve selected changes (e.g., demonstrations and trials of best practices; monitoring of partner fulfillment of commitments; workshops, outreach, and/or training events and materials). Contribute to and help implement the GEYSI action plan and environmental mitigation and monitoring plans.
• Draw on HRASA Objective Leads and technical specialists to work with and provide technical guidance/support for active and potential collaborating stakeholder partnerships.
• Help the MEL team to collect data.
• Build good working relationships among private sector actors, producers and producer groups, local governments, community leaders, local communities, other USAID projects, and other stakeholders to create an institutional and enabling environment that supports market system strengthening, inclusion, and resilience.
• Identify and/or provide needed capacity building for team members and participants.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.


Reporting:
The SPD will work directly under the supervision of the COP, DCOP, or designee in close collaboration with the other objective Leads.

Required Qualifications:
• BS in agronomy, agricultural economics, or business administration, or related field. Master degree a plus but not indispensable.
• At least 5 years managing donor program (a plus if it is with USAID) in Agriculture or related field.
• Basic knowledge of USAID procedures
• Good communication skills, fluent in French and Creole, must have good understanding of English and ability to read and write it
• Willing to live in Les Cayes or surrounding area (Camp-Perrin, Torbeck) and to travel in the whole RFZ ( Les Cayes to Chardonnières)

1. A valid CV
2. Cover Letter
3. Work certificate for positions held and/or similar consultations carried out;
4. Diploma

DAI reserves the right to close this post once a suitable candidate has been found.