Check with seller Việc làm Hồ Chí Minh tuyển gấp Agriculture Economist Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh

Mô tả công việc To further increase our positive impact on the agribusiness sector of Southeast Asia, we are looking for an Agriculture Economist to be based in our Ho Chi Minh City. The ideal applicant has significant work experience in both qualitative and quantitative agriculture economics research, value chain analysis, and value chain development. The applicant is adept at designing, implementing, and reporting both qualitative and quantitative studies. He/she worked with tablet-based survey software. The agriculture economist will have a strong interest in using insights to make a positive impact on the Vietnamese agriculture sector. The applicant has excellent analytical skills, is results-driven, and proactively takes on a wide range of assignments, ranging from value chain studies, sector studies, and farming systems research to using the collected insights to influence agriculture policies. Agriculture Economist will be in charge of: • Farm economics and improving farm management: - Being part of a multi-disciplinary team, which will combine the collected insights and the latest applied research insights with participatory learning methods to increase the skills of farmers to manage their farm business; - Set up and implement both quantitative surveys and qualitative surveys to obtain a deep understanding of current farm management systems, productivity and profitability trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities which farmers face in a certain sector; - Setup a farm monitoring system with which, daily, for a representative group of farmers, all input-output data are collected, with which farm management styles can be compared, both from an agronomic and financial point of view; - Together with the Fresh Studio agronomist, facilitate trials to test proposed changes in farm management, monitor these trials, and provide the financial insights required to evaluate the trials. • Value chain analysis & Value chain development: - To be a member of the multi-disciplinary Fresh Studio value chain team, which analyses the structure, conduct, and performance of various food chains. These insights will be used to work with carefully selected actors in the chain to develop a value chain; Analyze all actors' characteristics and financial performance in a food chain from input supply till final consumption. Analyze topics such as traded volumes, prices, value, number of actors, number of jobs created by the current chain, margins division within the chain, trends, bottlenecks, opportunities, possible change agents, etc.; - Analyze cost-benefit analysis and finance of investments that aim to upgrade product chains to value chains. • Market and sector studies: - Monitor the agricultural sectors by keeping an eye on trends that affect agricultural production, distribution, and consumption in Vietnam; - Analyze collected data using appropriate statistical methods to inform, influence, and improve the business decisions of clients, agricultural organizations, or public policymakers; - Undertake market and sector studies, which will provide insights into the structure, conduct, and performance of certain markets. How great is the current demand, which different channels are supplying this market, who are the key actors in each channel, what volumes/prices/value/prices in the various channels, etc.; - Establish an extensive network among farmers, traders, companies, authorities, and financial institutions to stay informed about agricultural developments. • Monitoring & Evaluation Support: - Support the M&E specialist to monitor and report progress towards the achievement of established targets and objectives utilizing indicators agreed in the Monitoring & Evaluation plan for various projects of clients; - Design, implement and report upon baseline surveys; - Set up a system to monitor the impact of certain interventions on farmers within the project and outside the project to determine the project impact. • Consultancy: Implement other related tasks as assigned. Quyền lợi được hưởng Premium Health Care with Compulsory Insurance 13th month salary & 17 days of annual leave Young & Authentic working environment Yêu cầu kỹ năng - Capable of performing financial analysis of a farming system, including profitability analysis and investment planning (NPV, IRR), cost-benefit analysis of investments; - Affinity with teaching farm management practices and coaching. Experience developing training programs is considered a plus; - Experience working with both primary and secondary data; - Experience with conducting both qualitative and quantitative surveys (PRA); - At least 5 years of professional work experience in the agricultural sector; - Able to work with one of the statistical programs (R, Stata, SPSS, or similar); - Available to travel frequently to fieldwork sites in various Mekong Delta provinces upon request; - A Master of Science in agriculture economics, development economics, or other economics related field of study, with a specialization and work experience in the agri-business sector; - Proven track record in producing high-quality reports and scientific publications in English; - Excellent communicator; - Professional, passionate for excellence, and result-driven; - A team player with a hands-on mentality; - Effective time management and organizational skills (e.g. ability to plan and arrange own work with minimal supervision); - Proactive; passionate for sustainable food; - Eager to learn and discover; - Excellent both in oral and written Vietnamese and English.

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