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Genale Agriculture Union Of  Coops

About Genale Agriculture Union of CoopsThe Genale Agriculture Union of Coops (Genale Agri Union) has just been formed (April 2024) for the nine primary irrigation coops that were established by IKEA and UNHCR in 2017.About the Share Farming ModelThe innovative share farming irrigation model aims to enhance the commercial sustainability of 1,000 ha of irrigated land, operated currently by nine joint refugee/host primary cooperatives with 30km of concrete canals &amp; pumps across nine sites. The model will contribute to local job creation, food security, livestock resilience, and regional import substitution, utilising the perennial Genale River and adjacent fertile soils to produce vegetables, fruit, grains, oilseeds &amp; forage.The Share Farming Model Is being Implemented jointly by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Sahel Agriculture Mauritius (Ltd). IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is a development institution focused on building the private sector in emerging markets. IFC supports private sector development in Ethiopia through a combination of directly responsible investments in private firms and the provision of technical assistance in support of the Government of Ethiopia’s economic plans, progressive refugee policy, and pledges for inclusive local economic development.Sahel Agriculture (Mauritius) Ltd, a highly experienced operator with wide-ranging experience in climate-smart agriculture has been selected as the farm management company (ManCo) to work with the newly created Genale Agri Union of nine primary cooperatives under a Share farming, arrangement. The Sahel team has extensive experience in Africa and has worked with smallholder farmers across many parts of Africa. Their experience encompasses broad climatic and agricultural experience including lowlands, arid and semi-arid climates. Under IFC’s oversight, Sahel is expected to help the nine primary cooperatives combine their assets into the Genale Agri Union, a local Operating Company (OpCo), and transfer the necessary skills to transform the current operations into a viable business.Sahel and IFC are looking to assist the newly formed Genale Agri Union in recruiting a Legal Manager, who would be jointly responsible with Sahel in providing comprehensive support as far as legal matters are concerned, to ensure the sustainability of the Union (full list in Appendix 1).Objectives of the roleTo manage all aspects and promote the interests of the Genale Agri UnionDuties&nbsp;and&nbsp;responsibilities<ul><li>Provide legal guidance on all Union matters including contracts and compliance with Ethiopian&nbsp;laws and regulations and relevant international laws.</li><li>Draft,&nbsp;review&nbsp;and&nbsp;negotiate&nbsp;legal&nbsp;documents&nbsp;and&nbsp;contracts&nbsp;to&nbsp;safeguard&nbsp;the&nbsp;interests&nbsp;of&nbsp;the Union.</li><li>Oversee&nbsp;and&nbsp;manage&nbsp;any&nbsp;litigation&nbsp;or&nbsp;disputes&nbsp;involving&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union&nbsp;before&nbsp;regular&nbsp;courts,&nbsp;arbitration tribunals and administrative bodies.</li><li>Ensure&nbsp;compliance&nbsp;with&nbsp;environmental,&nbsp;labour,&nbsp;cooperative&nbsp;and&nbsp;other&nbsp;relevant&nbsp;local&nbsp;and international laws.</li><li>Liaise&nbsp;with&nbsp;external&nbsp;legal&nbsp;firms,&nbsp;government&nbsp;bodies,&nbsp;and&nbsp;stakeholders&nbsp;to&nbsp;ensure&nbsp;smooth&nbsp;legal operations.</li><li>Support&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union&nbsp;in&nbsp;maintaining&nbsp;legal&nbsp;documents,&nbsp;licenses,&nbsp;and&nbsp;certificates.</li><li>Assist&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;legal&nbsp;aspects&nbsp;of&nbsp;cooperative&nbsp;member&nbsp;engagements,&nbsp;especially&nbsp;in&nbsp;areas&nbsp;involving land use and registration.</li><li>Conduct&nbsp;legal&nbsp;research&nbsp;and&nbsp;stay&nbsp;up-to-date&nbsp;on&nbsp;relevant&nbsp;legislative&nbsp;changes&nbsp;in&nbsp;Ethiopia.</li><li>Ensure&nbsp;training&nbsp;and&nbsp;development&nbsp;programs&nbsp;are&nbsp;in&nbsp;place&nbsp;for&nbsp;legal&nbsp;staff&nbsp;to&nbsp;enhance&nbsp;their knowledge, skills and efficiency.</li><li>Support the implementation of the Union’s Environmental and Social Action Plan (ESAP) from a legal perspective.</li><li>Participate in the selection and appointment of skilled legal team members with approval from&nbsp;the Management Committee and Sahel.</li><li>Attend&nbsp;regular&nbsp;advisory&nbsp;meetings&nbsp;and&nbsp;ensure&nbsp;legal&nbsp;perspectives&nbsp;are&nbsp;adequately&nbsp;considered.</li><li>Ensure smooth communication and cooperation with all Government departments relevant to the Union’s activities.</li><li>Mitigate operational, financial, investment, and legal risks to protect the Union, its Committees,&nbsp;employees, members, and assets.</li><li>Maintain&nbsp;firm&nbsp;and&nbsp;fair&nbsp;discipline.</li><li>Maintain&nbsp;normal&nbsp;relations&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;members,&nbsp;local&nbsp;communities,&nbsp;and&nbsp;other&nbsp;key&nbsp;stakeholders.</li><li>Maintain&nbsp;normal&nbsp;relations&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union’s&nbsp;suppliers&nbsp;and&nbsp;service&nbsp;providers.</li><li>Maintain&nbsp;normal&nbsp;relations&nbsp;with&nbsp;all&nbsp;Government&nbsp;departments.</li><li>Manage your work within the framework of the laws of the land, acceptable business principles, internal rules and regulations and expected corporate governance practices.</li><li>Not to expose the Union, the Control Committee, the Management Committee, Sahel, employees, members, and assets to any form of unnecessary operational, financial, investment, or legal risk.</li><li>Create&nbsp;and&nbsp;implement&nbsp;a&nbsp;sustainable&nbsp;competitive&nbsp;advantage&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union.</li><li>Create&nbsp;a&nbsp;healthy&nbsp;and&nbsp;admirable&nbsp;framework&nbsp;of&nbsp;values&nbsp;and&nbsp;culture&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union.</li><li>Create a climate of participative management leadership, achievement, and free-thinking in the Union.</li></ul>The selected candidate will be based in the Dollo Ado and Bokolmanyo Woredas in the Liben Zone of the Somali Region and report to the Union’s Management Committee and the ManCo, with oversight from the Union’s Control Committee (full details in Appendix 1).Timeline of the RoleAn initial one-year contractRemuneration and tax obligationsSalary would be negotiable and commensurate with the position and Ethiopian employment law. The Salary would be payable in Ethiopian Birr. All taxes are paid according to Ethiopian regulations.Appendix&nbsp;1: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14cbgWnjdpl065clmOnHchVi3bijc02Uo/view">Op-CO LM - Job description TOR.pdf - Google Drive</a>

TOR - Recruitment of Legal Manager for the Genale Agriculture Union of Coops

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<h2 style="text-align:justify;">About&nbsp;Genale&nbsp;Agriculture&nbsp;Union&nbsp;of&nbsp;Coops</h2>The Genale Agriculture Union of Coops (Genale Agri Union) has just been formed (April 2024) for the&nbsp;nine&nbsp;primary&nbsp;irrigation&nbsp;coops&nbsp;that&nbsp;were&nbsp;established&nbsp;by&nbsp;IKEA&nbsp;and&nbsp;UNHCR&nbsp;in&nbsp;2017.&nbsp;<h2 style="text-align:justify;">About&nbsp;the&nbsp;Share&nbsp;Farming&nbsp;Model</h2>The&nbsp;innovative&nbsp;share&nbsp;farming&nbsp;irrigation&nbsp;model&nbsp;aims&nbsp;to&nbsp;enhance&nbsp;the&nbsp;commercial&nbsp;sustainability&nbsp;of&nbsp;1,000 ha of irrigated land, operated currently by nine joint refugee/host primary cooperatives with&nbsp;30km of concrete canals &amp; pumps across nine sites. The model will contribute to local job creation,&nbsp;food security, livestock resilience, and regional import substitution, utilising the perennial Genale River&nbsp;and&nbsp;adjacent&nbsp;fertile&nbsp;soils&nbsp;to&nbsp;produce&nbsp;vegetables,&nbsp;fruit,&nbsp;grains,&nbsp;oilseeds&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;forage.The Share Farming Model Is being Implemented jointly by the International Finance Corporation (IFC)&nbsp;and Sahel Agriculture Mauritius (Ltd). IFC,&nbsp;a member of the World Bank Group, is a development&nbsp;institution focused on building the private sector in emerging markets.&nbsp;IFC supports private sector&nbsp;development&nbsp;in&nbsp;Ethiopia&nbsp;through&nbsp;a&nbsp;combination&nbsp;of&nbsp;directly&nbsp;responsible&nbsp;investments&nbsp;in&nbsp;private&nbsp;firms&nbsp;and the provision of technical assistance in support of the Government of Ethiopia’s economic plans,&nbsp;progressive&nbsp;refugee&nbsp;policy,&nbsp;and&nbsp;pledges&nbsp;for&nbsp;inclusive&nbsp;local&nbsp;economic&nbsp;development.Sahel Agriculture (Mauritius) Ltd, a highly experienced operator with wide-ranging experience in&nbsp;climate-smart agriculture has been selected as the farm management company (ManCo) to work with&nbsp;the&nbsp;newly&nbsp;created&nbsp;Genale&nbsp;Agri&nbsp;Union&nbsp;of&nbsp;nine&nbsp;primary&nbsp;cooperatives&nbsp;under&nbsp;a&nbsp;Share&nbsp;farming,&nbsp;arrangement. The Sahel team has extensive experience in Africa and has worked with smallholder&nbsp;farmers across many parts of Africa. Their experience encompasses broad climatic and agricultural&nbsp;experience including lowlands, arid and semi-arid climates. Under IFC’s oversight, Sahel is expected&nbsp;to help the nine primary cooperatives combine their assets into the Genale Agri Union, a local&nbsp;Operating Company (OpCo), and transfer the necessary skills to transform the current operations into&nbsp;a&nbsp;viable&nbsp;business.Sahel&nbsp;and&nbsp;IFC&nbsp;are&nbsp;looking&nbsp;to&nbsp;assist&nbsp;the&nbsp;newly&nbsp;formed&nbsp;Genale&nbsp;Agri&nbsp;Union&nbsp;in&nbsp;recruiting&nbsp;an&nbsp;ESG Manager, who would be jointly responsible, with the support of Sahel, for overseeing the&nbsp;integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles and gender equality into&nbsp;the&nbsp;operation&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;cooperative&nbsp;union,&nbsp;and&nbsp;providing&nbsp;comprehensive&nbsp;support&nbsp;to&nbsp;ensure&nbsp;the&nbsp;sustainability&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union&nbsp;(full&nbsp;list&nbsp;in&nbsp;Appendix&nbsp;1).Objectives&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;roleTo develop, implement, and oversee ESF initiatives and practices and to promote the interests of the&nbsp;Genale&nbsp;Agri&nbsp;Union.Duties&nbsp;and&nbsp;responsibilities<ul><li>Develop&nbsp;and&nbsp;implement&nbsp;comprehensive&nbsp;ESG&nbsp;strategies,&nbsp;frameworks&nbsp;and&nbsp;action&nbsp;plans&nbsp;aligned&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;cooperative&nbsp;union's&nbsp;goals&nbsp;and&nbsp;values.</li><li>Monitor, analyse, and report on ESG performance metrics to track progress and identify areas for&nbsp;improvement.</li><li>Collaborate&nbsp;with&nbsp;Sahel&nbsp;(farm&nbsp;management&nbsp;company)&nbsp;to&nbsp;integrate&nbsp;ESG&nbsp;considerations&nbsp;into&nbsp;operational&nbsp;practices&nbsp;and&nbsp;decision-making&nbsp;processes.</li><li>Establish&nbsp;stakeholder&nbsp;engagement&nbsp;mechanisms&nbsp;to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;and&nbsp;communicate&nbsp;ESG&nbsp;efforts&nbsp;transparently&nbsp;and&nbsp;solicit&nbsp;feedback&nbsp;from&nbsp;members,&nbsp;investors,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;broader&nbsp;community.</li><li>Stay&nbsp;up-to-date&nbsp;on&nbsp;ESG&nbsp;trends,&nbsp;best&nbsp;practices,&nbsp;and&nbsp;regulatory&nbsp;requirements&nbsp;to&nbsp;ensure&nbsp;compliance&nbsp;and&nbsp;continuous&nbsp;improvement.</li><li>Identify&nbsp;and&nbsp;document&nbsp;points&nbsp;of&nbsp;contact&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;communities&nbsp;who&nbsp;will&nbsp;support&nbsp;the&nbsp;ESG&nbsp;initiatives&nbsp;along&nbsp;with&nbsp;a&nbsp;brief&nbsp;overview&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;current&nbsp;status.</li><li>Support&nbsp;the&nbsp;implementation&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union’s&nbsp;Environmental&nbsp;and&nbsp;Social&nbsp;Action&nbsp;Plan&nbsp;(ESAP)&nbsp;from&nbsp;a&nbsp;legal&nbsp;perspective.</li><li>Participate&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;selection&nbsp;and&nbsp;appointment&nbsp;of&nbsp;skilled&nbsp;team&nbsp;members&nbsp;with&nbsp;approval&nbsp;from&nbsp;the&nbsp;Management&nbsp;Committee&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sahel.</li><li>Attend&nbsp;regular&nbsp;advisory&nbsp;meetings&nbsp;and&nbsp;ensure&nbsp;legal&nbsp;perspectives&nbsp;are&nbsp;adequately&nbsp;considered.</li><li>Ensure&nbsp;smooth&nbsp;communication&nbsp;and&nbsp;cooperation&nbsp;with&nbsp;all&nbsp;Government&nbsp;departments&nbsp;relevant&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union’s&nbsp;activities.</li><li>Mitigate&nbsp;operational,&nbsp;financial,&nbsp;investment,&nbsp;and&nbsp;legal&nbsp;risks&nbsp;to&nbsp;protect&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union,&nbsp;its&nbsp;Committees,&nbsp;employees,&nbsp;members,&nbsp;and&nbsp;assets.</li><li>Maintain&nbsp;firm&nbsp;and&nbsp;fair&nbsp;discipline.</li><li>Maintain&nbsp;normal&nbsp;relations&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;members,&nbsp;local&nbsp;communities,&nbsp;and&nbsp;other&nbsp;key&nbsp;stakeholders.</li><li>Maintain&nbsp;normal&nbsp;relations&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union’s&nbsp;suppliers&nbsp;and&nbsp;service&nbsp;providers.</li><li>Maintain&nbsp;normal&nbsp;relations&nbsp;with&nbsp;all&nbsp;Government&nbsp;departments.</li><li>Manage your work within the framework of the laws of the land, acceptable business principles,&nbsp;internal&nbsp;rules&nbsp;and&nbsp;regulations&nbsp;and&nbsp;expected&nbsp;corporate&nbsp;governance&nbsp;practices.</li><li>Not&nbsp;to&nbsp;expose&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Control&nbsp;Committee,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Management&nbsp;Committee,&nbsp;Sahel,&nbsp;employees, members, and assets to any form of unnecessary operational, financial, investment,&nbsp;or&nbsp;legal&nbsp;risk.</li><li>Create&nbsp;and&nbsp;implement&nbsp;a&nbsp;sustainable&nbsp;competitive&nbsp;advantage&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union.</li><li>Create&nbsp;a&nbsp;healthy&nbsp;and&nbsp;admirable&nbsp;framework&nbsp;of&nbsp;values&nbsp;and&nbsp;culture&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union.</li><li>Create a climate of participative management leadership, achievement, and free-thinking in the&nbsp;Union.</li></ul>The selected candidate will be based in the Dollo Ado and Bokolmanyo Woredas in the Liben Zone of&nbsp;the Somali Region and report to the Union’s Management Committee and the ManCo, with oversight&nbsp;from&nbsp;the&nbsp;Union’s&nbsp;Control&nbsp;Committee&nbsp;(full&nbsp;details&nbsp;in&nbsp;Appendix&nbsp;1).Remuneration&nbsp;and&nbsp;tax&nbsp;obligationsSalary would be negotiable and commensurate with the position and Ethiopian employment law. The&nbsp;Salary&nbsp;would&nbsp;be&nbsp;payable&nbsp;in&nbsp;Ethiopian&nbsp;Birr.&nbsp;All&nbsp;taxes&nbsp;are&nbsp;paid&nbsp;according&nbsp;to&nbsp;Ethiopian&nbsp;regulations.&nbsp;For More and Detail Information Please Visit<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JEx7aGHIcTjK0IebzzrSL8HciTuP9L5D/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JEx7aGHIcTjK0IebzzrSL8HciTuP9L5D/view?usp=sharing</a>

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