Market Facilitator (2 Positions)
Position Circumstances
- Career Category: Agriculture, Economics, Business Administration, Educate/Train/Teaching
- Schedule:Full-time
- Salary: Negotiable
Strategic Interventions GROWTH strengthens the agricultural ecosystem by focusing on key market actors:
- Agri-Entrepreneurs and Intermediaries: The project builds their capacity to facilitate farmer access to quality inputs, climate-smart technologies, aggregation, reliable markets, and essential financial services.
- Commune Agriculture Officers (CAOs): CAOs play a vital role in the program by expanding their expertise in climate-smart agronomy. They leverage this knowledge to train traditional, semi-commercial, and commercial farmers, with a strong focus on lead farmers and agricultural cooperatives.
Holistic Impact and Vision The strategic case for GROWTH extends beyond income generation. By coupling market system development with nutrition‑sensitive agriculture and positive parenting, the program tackles both the root causes of poverty and its intergenerational impacts on children. This integrated approach aligns strongly with MFAT policy markers on Gender Equality, Child & Youth, Human Rights, and Climate Adaptation. Ultimately, GROWTH envisions a strengthened, climate-resilient horticulture market system that delivers equitable livelihoods, improved nutrition, and stronger protection for Cambodia's most vulnerable children.
Project or Division: CAMBODIA – GROWING TRANSFORMATIVE HORTICULTURE PROJECT (GROWTH)
Report to Market System Development Lead
Duration November 2026- August 2030
The Market Facilitator will be responsible for enhancing input/output market access and linkages for smallholder farmers engaged in horticulture. This role involves building relationships with various stakeholders in the horticulture value chain, including farmers, buyers, and agribusinesses, to create sustainable market opportunities.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- The Market Facilitator will be responsible for enhancing input/output market access and linkages for smallholder farmers engaged in horticulture. This role involves building relationships with various stakeholders in the horticulture value chain, including farmers, buyers, and agribusinesses, to create sustainable market opportunities.
- Market Linkages and Business Relationships
- Build and maintain relationships with farmers, agricultural cooperatives, buyers, traders, input suppliers, service providers and other agribusinesses.
- Identify practical market opportunities for horticulture products and facilitate connections between farmers/ACs and potential buyers.
- Support dialogue and negotiation between farmers, ACs and buyers on product requirements, quality, volume, delivery schedules and commercial arrangements.
- Facilitate B2B meetings, market visits, networking events and other activities that create business opportunities.
- Help identify and address practical barriers affecting farmers' access to markets, inputs, technologies and services.
- Agribusiness and Cooperative Support
- Support agricultural cooperatives and local agribusinesses to strengthen business relationships and improve their market orientation.
- Assist ACs and other market actors to understand buyer requirements, market demand, quality standards and business opportunities.
- Work with input suppliers and service providers to expand farmers' access to appropriate agricultural inputs, technologies and services.
- Encourage sustainable commercial relationships that can continue beyond direct project support.
- Market Information and Learning
- Gather practical information on horticulture markets, including products, prices, demand, buyers, suppliers, services and emerging opportunities.
- Share market intelligence with farmers, ACs and the GROWTH team to support business and production decisions.
- Identify promising market actors, business models and partnerships that could benefit smallholder farmers.
- Document market-linkage activities, emerging results, challenges and lessons.
- Coordination and Field Implementation
- Work closely with the GROWTH technical team, government partners, private-sector actors and other stakeholders.
- Participate in field activities, meetings and project events as required.
- Support monitoring of market-linkage results, including business relationships, sales, services accessed and benefits to farmers.
- Contribute to regular project planning and reporting.
- OTHER
- Develop a good understanding of iDE-Cambodia’s and iDE-International’s development approach.
- Represent iDE in communications with clients, partners, donors, the public and others as required.
Benefits:
- Allowance – Mobile/Internet
- Allowance – Transportation
- Insurance – Private Health
- Paid Leave - Maternity / Paternity
- Paid Leave – Annual
- Paid Leave – Illness
- Policy - No Harassment or Discrimination
- Policy – Employee Recognition Programs / Awards
- Policy – Provident Fund / (NSSF)
- Support Service - Free Health Checkups
- Training – Health & Safety
- Training – In-House Programs
Expected Profile of Candidates
Languages:
- Khmer - Good
- English - Good
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in agriculture, agribusiness, business, marketing, economics, rural development or another relevant field. is preferred
Skills & Knowledge:
General & Technical Skills
- Candidates must be well organized, able to work independently, skilled at handling multiple tasks, able to meet deadlines and work in stressful situations and willing to travel overnight in the fields.
- Relevant experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Agribusiness or agricultural sales;
- Agricultural sourcing or procurement;
- Market linkage or value-chain development;
- Agricultural cooperatives or farmer organizations;
- Business development;
- Input supply or agricultural services; or
- Development programms working with farmers and private-sector actors.
- Experience working in horticulture or with smallholder farmers is an advantage.
- Knowledge of the agricultural sector and market actors in Kampot or southern Cambodia is an advantage.
- Experience with Market Systems Development (MSD) or market-based development approaches is desirable but not required.
Soft Skills
- Positive team attitude
- Customer service focus (internal customers)
- Creativity and ‘out of the box’ thinking
- Strong desire to see results from your work
- Persistence to overcome obstacles and reach goals
- A proactive contributor, initiator and communicator
- Trustworthy, honest, and ethical
- Willing to learn new ways of doing things
- Understands and embraces IDE’s core values.
