Business Development Services Specialist at Winrock International

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• The BDS Specialist will undertake the following specific responsibilities:
• Work alongside the Private Sector Specialist to identify and strengthen private sector service providers based on their respective strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.
• Prepare capacity building modules and use them to provide capacity building training to the MSMEs.
• Coordinate BDS capacity building for MSME cohort members.
• Classify the present MSMEs into strong, moderate, and weak and come up with business development support for each category of the MSMEs to grow their businesses.
• Identify and apply business development tools to help MSMEs become more profitable and sustainable as well as grow/expand their businesses.
• Identify and analyze lessons learned and MSME successes stories, build on the lessons to enhance the performance of the MSMEs.
• Champion the scaling of successful business models for the MSMEs.
• Identify innovative business development models to scale the performance of Extension Activity and in particular farmers’ outreach.

EDUCATION

• Master’s degree in economics, agricultural economics, agribusiness, or other related discipline

EXPERIENCE

• At least ten years of progressive experience in business development services is required. USAID experience is preferred.
• Extensive experience working with MSMEs and private sector in agriculture and agribusiness in Nigeria
• Experience working with women and youth
• Proven team leadership and good communication skills