National Expert on Seaweed Processing and Marketing

Kansas, USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own seaweed product development and market-readiness work, coordinating trials, capacity-building, entrepreneurship support, and market reviews to turn pilot-farm seaweed into value-added products.

  • Product Development: Collaborate with institutions to convert pilot-farm seaweed into market-ready products and document outputs.
  • Training & Capacity Building: Deliver processing and marketing training to producer groups and value-add initiatives.
  • Market Insight & Reporting: Review trends, support positioning, and compile training and end-of-assignment reports.

Job Description

Responsibilities - Assist in seaweed product development for small-scale processing for seaweed-based products using raw material from pilot farms, in collaboration with relevant institutions (Activity 3.2). - Deliver training for processing and marketing groups to build their capacity in value addition and product development and promotion (Activity 3.4). - Support entrepreneurship training and business matching initiatives and its related documentation (Activities 4.1 and 4.2). - Support the review of market trends and positioning strategies for newly developed seaweed products. (Activities 4.2). - Prepare related reports including training reports, Back-to-Office-Report and End-of-Assignment-Report under her/his responsibility (cross cutting outputs) - Undertake any other tasks as required by FAO-Indonesia.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

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