KE2: Wood Processing Advisor

KE2: Wood processing advisor

The EU-funded private sector programme in Lebanon aims at increasing micro, small and medium enterprises competitiveness and participation in the economy by fostering their development and integration into value chains. The specific objective of the programme aims at providing integrated non-financial and financial intermediation services to groups of Micro and SMEs in the agribusiness and wood processing sectors through establishment, management and operation of market-oriented value chains and clusters with special focus on enhancement of productivity and competitiveness. Value chains and clusters are considered as the most appropriate specific approach for achieving concrete results in terms of effective inter-business, inter-sectoral and private/public institutional linkages.

Overview of the Position

The Wood processing Expert will be responsible for the design and implementation of the component wood processing including coaching and supervising local actors in project execution and delivering capacity building services in all the value chain of stone fruit.

The wood processing expert will report directly to the Team Leader.

Key Responsibilities

-Assist the Project Steering Committee in the setting up the project and provide needed institutional building support in this regard ;

-During the inception phase, diagnostic surveys, design the specification of the SMCU 2 wood processing, assessment of mobilization of funding sources for MSMEs targeted.

-Responsible of the implementation of the wood processing component :

• Transfer in Lebanon the relevant know-how about wood upgrading based on the diagnostic approach ;
• Provide needed coaching, training and team building activities for wood workers and stakeholders’ staff through the TAT and the recruitment of external training ;
• Prepare and or assist in drafting terms of references for recruiting short term consultants and concept note for conducting training events ;
• Mobilize the resources of expertise required for short-term implementation activities ;
• Assist in providing technical and logistical organization of these missions, monitor their progress and keep track of reports ;
• Control and monitor reports of short-term expertise.

Qualifications and skills

• UniversityDegreepreferably at Masters levelin business management, forestry, environmentor equivalent discipline.
• Proven abilities in providing business development services to actors in a development context
• Good knowledge of wood processing, value and clusters chain issues.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken; French will be an advantage.

General professionalexperience

• At least 15 years of experience in agribusiness advisory or executive positions.
• Experience in the region will be highly valued.
• Experience as a key expert of wood processing related assistance projects would be considered as an advantage.
• Knowledge of EU technical assistance project

Specificprofessionalexperience:

• Minimum of 7 years of wood sector experience including value chain development; increasing productivity, exports, or quality of products; wood market development; and related services.
• Experience in evaluation of SME development projects in the wood Sector;
• Experience ingrant management
• Experience in leveraging funding resources
• Experience in training and coaching of teams;