Eligibility Criteria:

• Strong understanding of agricultural markets, crop economy, rural economy, and agriculture supply chain dynamics.
• Experience in market analysis, price analysis, demand forecasting, and farmer-centric business strategies.
• Candidate must have proven experience in selling agro-based products such as seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, farm equipment, agri-inputs, or allied agricultural products.
• Managed market analysis, product launches, branding, sales forecasting, and channel partner development to increase business growth.
• Successfully launched new agro products and implemented sales planning strategies that improved forecasting accuracy and market penetration.
• Achieved significant portfolio growth by tripling herbicide product volumes, strengthening brand positioning, and developing farmer-focused marketing initiatives.
• Preferred Industry Background: Seed Companies Agriculture Input Companies (Fertilizers, Pesticides, Crop Solutions) Agri Institutions / Agri-tech Organizations

Key Responsibilities

1. Program Design and Research:
    • Support the planning and strategy of programs across themes.
    • Support research on geographies, impact indicators and institutions for collaboration.
    • Prepare strategy presentations, concept notes, dashboards using excel for internal review and communication across teams.
     • Support the design of methodology for project implementation.

2. Technical Proposal Evaluation:
    • Support in reviewing technical specifications, project budgets, activity timelines, milestone-based cash flows, BoQs and implementation designs.
    • Support in evaluating incoming proposals for technical soundness and feasibility. Institute assessment
   • Support in assessing institutions for technical capability, on-ground presence, past performance and alignment with foundation’s objectives for potential collaboration in specific areas.

3. Data Management and Reporting:
    • Develop and maintain data and dashboards to monitor projects.
    • Ensure standardized collection of impact data
    • Coordination with regional teams and implementing partners to track data. Project Monitoring and Coordination • Liaise with internal operations teams to track on-ground implementation progress.
    • Liaise with procurement team to understand price discovery mechanism and specifications given by various vendors for the various themes
   • Assist in Monitoring project milestones through data dashboards and presentations.
    • Manage program-related meetings by coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders including preparation of MOMs with actionable. Knowledge Management
   • Support development of frameworks and monitoring indicators across program themes.
   • Build a repository of technical details, implementation guides, case studies, and best practices based on field experiences and lessons learned.
   • Engage with sector stakeholders (institutions, domain experts, NGOs) for knowledge exchange, technical inputs and potential collaborations.
   • Good understanding and application of MS PowerPoint and Excel