Technical Consultant – AD165202201 - The Food System Challenge (WFP)

Context & Background  

Berytech is a leading organization in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Lebanon, that aims to provide a conducive environment for the creation and development of startups, through incubation, business support, counseling, funding, networking, and the company hosting, hence taking part in the economic revival of the country, participating in wealth and job creation, and retaining graduates and high-level skills in Lebanon.  

Objectives & Key Activities

Berytech has recently launched the call for applications. Twenty SMEs and cooperatives were shortlisted out of which 10 entities were selected to receive a support package of one hundred thousand dollar (USD 100,000) in cash grant and technical assistance to help them develop their solutions. Selected participants were chosen based on their project’s final impact on the food system in Lebanon, throughout the food value chain, be it on the producer end or at the consumer level. Impact includes improved food security, impact on local rural producers and communities, labor, and consumer. Within that framework, Berytech hire technical consultants to deliver the assistance within a specific scope determined on case-by-case basis after a thorough business needs assessments.

Berytech seeks an external consultant to support a well-established company in developing its dehydration process. The company’s proposed project under the Food System Challenge is the in-house production of sun-dried tomatoes.  The project will allow the company to grow its produce offering, adding to the existing zaatar (thyme), sumac and oregano.

Scope of Work, Outputs, & Deliverables

The Consultant will be expected to deliver the following:

Provide training and coaching to rural recipients in the scope of capacity building and create a training curriculum that falls within the scope of women empowerment. The training program will assist in the following areas:

• Extend recipients' knowledge of gender equality, financial literacy, women’s rights, and resource management.
• Design a full training program extending over a minimum of 2 days in the scope of women empowerment, gender equality, the importance of financial independence, innovation.
• Develop Trainer’s guide on employees coaching about topics related to business development, financial literacy, gender equality, empowerment, and resource management. 
• Provide the FSC team, at the end of the intervention, a briefing clearly and thoroughly demonstrating the milestones achieved in terms of the beneficiary’s understanding of the above-mentioned training terms and the remaining areas of development within that scope. 

Applicants must fulfill the following requirements:

• Be able to comply with national fiscal context and rules for receipt of international funds.
• BSc/BA diploma in sociology, international development, socio-economic and all relevant fields, MA/MS is a plus.
• 7 to 10 years of experience in delivering capacity building trainings related to economic empowerment, gender equality, development, etc. for rural recipients and people at-risk.
• Proven experience in delivering trainings and training materials.
• Excellent communications and report writing skills.
• Fluent in English and Arabic