Business Development Officer
Agriculture, Farming Jobs
- CARE International in Zimbabwe
- Expires 12 Sep 2025
- Chiredzi
- Full Time
Job Description
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization dedicated to fighting poverty and social injustice
with a special emphasis on women and girls. CARE began working in Zimbabwe in 1992 in
response to severe regional drought and has since expanded programming to address longerterm development issues. The organization seeks to recruit outstanding candidates who are
known for their excellence, professionalism, integrity and who are committed to providing
support to the country office. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply for the position
posted below:
Position: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
Base Station: CHIREDZI
Project: ZRBF2 RECLAIM
Deadline: 12 September 2025
About the Role
The Business Development Officer will be responsible for ensuring that all RECLAIM partners
have the technical skills, tools, and mentoring needed to design, deliver, and scale highquality enterprise development and market systems interventions. S/HE will be responsible
for ensuring the strengthening the technical and entrepreneurial capacities of smallholder
farmers, producer groups, youth, women, and MSMEs to enhance their participation in
inclusive and sustainable value chains. S/HE will focus on training, mentoring, and technical
backstopping in enterprise development, financial literacy, market access, and business
management skills.
Duties and Responsibilities
What You’ll Be Doing
The Business Development Officer role entails:
1. Capacity Strengthening & Training
• Provide technical leadership including training materials, toolkits, and mentoring
support to consortium partners on enterprise development, value chain upgrading, and
financial inclusion.
• Facilitate Training of Trainers (ToT) sessions for partner field officers to cascade
business development skills to communities.
• Design and deliver tailored training modules on entrepreneurship, business planning,
financial literacy, and marketing.
• Build technical capacity of farmer organizations, VSLAs, youth and women-led
enterprises to operate as viable business entities.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to community enterprises and MSMEs on
governance, record-keeping, costing, and pricing.
• Facilitate peer-to-peer learning platforms, exposure visits, and exchange programs.
2. Enterprise & Value Chain Development
• Guide RECLAIM partners on how to integrate climate-smart and nutrition-sensitive
value chains (traditional grains, horticulture, livestock, aquaculture) into their
programming.
• Provide technical advice on aggregation, bulking, contract negotiations, and strengthening producer–market linkages.
• Strengthen producer groups on aggregation, quality management, and collective
marketing.
• Build skills of farmers and enterprises to engage effectively with off-takers, input
suppliers, and service providers.
• Support adoption of improved technologies and innovations in production, storage,
and processing.
• Facilitate training on value addition and post-harvest handling to reduce losses and
increase income.
3. Financial Inclusion & Business Support Services
• Support partners to train VSLAs, producer groups, and MSMEs in financial literacy,
savings mobilization, loan utilization, and enterprise governance.
• Mentor partner staff in business planning and record-keeping methodologies to be
applied in the field.
• Train VSLAs, farmer groups, and MSMEs on savings, loan management, and investment
planning.
• Strengthening capacity of enterprises to access finance through proposal writing,
business pitching, and credit management training.
• Link community groups to financial institutions, providing technical guidance to
improve readiness for financing.
4. Monitoring, Learning & Knowledge Sharing
• Jointly with MEAL Teams, provide technical oversight to ensure that enterprise
development interventions by consortium partners meet quality standards and align
with RECLAIM outcome indicators.
• Conduct joint field visits with partner staff to identify gaps and provide corrective
technical support.
• Track capacity-building activities and measure improvements in enterprise skills and
performance.
• Document and disseminate best practices, lessons learned, and success stories on
capacity development.
• Provide technical input into project learning events, reviews, and planning sessions.
Qualifications and Experience
A bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, economics, agriculture, development
studies, or related field.
• At least 3–5 years of experience in enterprise capacity strengthening, farmer group
training, or MSME development.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and facilitating participatory training.
• Knowledge of value chain development, financial inclusion, and agribusiness
promotion.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, and mentoring skills.
• Excellent report writing, communication, and analytical skills.
How to Apply
If you are passionate about people and culture and want to make a difference, please submit
your resume and cover letter. Click the button to upload your CV by 12 September 2025 We look
forward to your application!
