Dairy Value Chain Advisor - BRIDGE+

Key Responsibilities:

Structure the market linkage between cooperatives and processors:

• Collaboration with Agriterra: Partner with Agriterra to facilitate connections between cooperatives and processors, strengthening cooperative engagement in the dairy value chain.
• Initial Monitoring and Support: Establish a framework to monitor and support new market linkages, ensuring a smooth start and early troubleshooting for new partnerships.
• Address Structural Issues: Identify and address any ongoing structural challenges among stakeholders to enhance collaboration and operational efficiency.
• Information Sharing Improvement: Work with stakeholders to improve information flow among producers, cooperatives, and processors, facilitating a more transparent and efficient value chain.

Professionalisation of the processors, distribution channels, and retail outlets for processed milk:

• Identify Processing Challenges: Analyse active, idle, and new processors to understand obstacles in the processing sector.
• Identify Bottlenecks in Sales and Marketing: Analyse key challenges in dairy product sales and marketing within distribution channels and retail outlets.
• Develop Targeted Interventions: Create and implement project interventions to address significant production, sales and marketing barriers, improving the distribution and accessibility of processed dairy products.
• Efficiency Improvements in the Value Chain: Identify opportunities for enhancing efficiency and develop targeted interventions.

Policy influencing:

• Identify Dairy Market Policy Issues: Determine policy limitations that restrict dairy market growth and affect value chain sustainability.
• Data Collection for Policy Advocacy: Collect and present data that supports the need for policy adjustments, building a compelling case for change.

Interface role:

• Coordinate Across Teams and Components: Serve as a key interface within BRIDGE+, coordinating activities at the national, regional, and milkshed levels across diverse components (e.g., cooperatives, food safety, R&D).

Networking, planning, and reporting:

• Stakeholder Liaison: Maintain ongoing relationships with processors, cooperatives, the Ethiopian Dairy Association, consumer associations, and other key stakeholders to support project goals.
• Data Collection and Knowledge Sharing: Gather project-related data and share best practices, case studies, and lessons learned with supervisors to support continuous improvement.

Any other duties assign by the project manager.