Market Systems & Value Chain Officer

Objective 1: Conduct market systems and value-chain analysis

Tasks:

• Contribute to Program and project diagnostics by analysing value chains, market functions, actors, services, constraints, incentives, power relationships and opportunities relevant to target groups and sectors.
• Collect and analyse market intelligence on demand, buyers, prices, quality requirements, competition, seasonality, margins, services, finance and market-access constraints.
• Map private-sector actors, chambers, cooperatives, aggregators, processors, service providers, financial actors and other relevant market-system stakeholders.
• Identify commercially realistic opportunities for producers, farmers, enterprises and cooperatives, including viable green/circular and climate-resilient opportunities where relevant.
• Prepare concise market analysis products, recommendations and decision inputs for Program and project teams.

Objective 2: Support Business Assessments, Coaching and Market Development

Tasks:

• Assess supported businesses, including their operations, customers, costs, pricing, marketing and key challenges.
• Support businesses and producer organisations in developing practical improvement and market-access plans.
• Provide business coaching and follow-up in coordination with the Socio-Economic Empowerment Officer and relevant team members.
• Provide market and business viability input for grant Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP) and investment assessments.
• Assess market demand, buyer relationships, financial sustainability and the potential to replicate supported business models.

Objective 3: Support Market Access and Private-Sector Partnerships

Tasks:

• Develop and maintain structured relationships with relevant buyers, chambers, cooperatives, business associations, service providers and other private-sector actors under Program Manager oversight.
• Facilitate B2B, buyer-seller linkages, market meetings, exhibitions, trade fairs and other market-access mechanisms according to Program priorities.
• Support enterprises/producers to understand and respond to buyer requirements, quality expectations, pricing conditions and market-entry constraints.
• Identify partnership, sponsorship, in-kind support or business-service opportunities and route any formal commitment through authorised ACF management and support functions.
• Coordinate with Communications and Program staff to ensure market-facing activities and Program profiling are based on verified information and appropriate institutional messaging.

Objective 4: Support Program Planning and Improvement through Market Analysis

Tasks:

• Contribute to project and Program design, concept notes, proposals, feasibility studies and intervention strategies with market-system and value-chain evidence.
• Support design and review of market-oriented, green/circular, enterprise and private-sector components of Development & Resilience interventions.
• Identify new market opportunities, emerging sectors, trends and potential partnerships.
• Provide recommendations to improve, expand or adjust market-related activities based on results and evidence.
• Coordinate with agriculture and socio-economic teams to ensure Program activities respond to actual market needs.

Objective 5: Support MEAL, learning and reporting

Tasks:

• Work with MEAL to define practical market, enterprise and business-performance measures, data sources and monitoring approaches.
• Generate and maintain market, buyer, enterprise-viability and private-sector intelligence required for Program dashboards, learning and decision-making.
• Contribute to activity reports, analytical briefs, donor/reporting inputs, lessons learned and Program learning products.
• Document failures, constraints and changing market conditions as well as successes so that Program adaptations are evidence-based.
• Ensure information and analysis produced by the role are accurate, traceable, professionally presented and reviewed before external use.

Objective 6: Support Program Coordination and Compliance

Tasks:

• Coordinate closely with the Program Manager, Execution Department, Socio-Economic Empowerment Officer, agriculture functions, FSL/WASH, MEAL and relevant support departments according to Program priorities.
• Participate in Program planning, technical reviews, field visits, beneficiary/enterprise selection and implementation follow-up where relevant to the role.
• Adhere to ACF procedures on safeguarding, PSEA, protection, data protection, conflict sensitivity, procurement/finance boundaries and external representation.
• Adapt to changing Program needs and contribute to other relevant Development & Resilience activities within the scope of the position and approved management arrangements.