À propos de WEECAP
Le programme Women’s Economic Empowerment through Cashew Processing (WEECAP) est une initiative de cinq ans, soutenue par la Fondation Mastercard et déployée en Côte d’Ivoire, en Guinée-Bissau et au Sénégal. WEECAP transforme la filière anacarde ouest-africaine en alignant inclusion et compétitivité pour capter la demande mondiale, attirer l’investissement et ouvrir de nouvelles opportunités économiques aux jeunes femmes et hommes.
WEECAP agit sur les principaux leviers de la filière en connectant fournisseurs et acheteurs stratégiques, en structurant des chaînes de valeur résilientes et en mobilisant des solutions financières ciblées. En parallèle, nous renforçons les capacités des jeunes entreprises, appuyons la mise en place de cadres politiques solides et générons des résultats concrets grâce à une approche pragmatique et orientée marché.
Notre ambition collective : faire de la filière anacarde un moteur régional de compétitivité, de valeur ajoutée et d’inclusion.
WEECAP agit comme un catalyseur : en alignant les chaînes d’approvisionnement, en déployant des modèles d’entreprise performants à grande échelle, en mobilisant des capitaux adaptés aux cycles réels des entreprises, et en appuyant des réformes de politiques sectorielles pour stimuler la croissance. L’inclusion n’est pas un objectif social annexe, mais un vrai levier de performance et de succès commercial. Notre ambition : une filière moderne, compétitive et inclusive, où femmes et jeunes occupent toute leur place.
Principales responsabilités :
Planification stratégique
Optimisation de la chaîne d’approvisionnement
Assurance qualité et conformité
Renforcement des capacités
Intégration de la chaîne d’approvisionnement
Qualifications :
Expérience souhaitée :
Comment postuler ?
Recrutement ouvert en continu – pas de date limite. Envoyez votre candidature à weecap.hr@winrock.org
About WEECAP
The Women’s Economic Empowerment through Cashew Processing Program (WEECAP) is a five-year initiative, funded by the Mastercard Foundation, operating in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, and Senegal. WEECAP is transforming the West African cashew sector by aligning inclusion and competitiveness to capture global demand, attract investment, and open up economic opportunities for young women and men.
WEECAP tackles sector bottlenecks by connecting suppliers with strategic buyers, structuring resilient value chains, and mobilizing targeted financial solutions. At the same time, we strengthen the capacity of emerging businesses, help build robust policy frameworks, and foster concrete results through a practical, market-driven approach.
Our ambition: To make the cashew sector a regional engine of competitiveness, value addition, and inclusion.
WEECAP acts as a catalyst—aligning supply chains, scaling up promising business models, deploying capital adapted to real business cycles, and supporting policy reforms that unlock sector growth. Inclusion isn’t an afterthought; it’s a lever for performance and market success. Our goal is a modern, competitive, and inclusive industry where women and youth are full economic actors.
The Supply Chain Manager will support procurement and inventory management for cashew processors. S/he will work with cashew processors to ensure quality, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and timely delivery while fostering sustainability and inclusive sourcing strategies. S/he will foster a network of high performing business development service providers (BDSP) along the cashew value chain to provide essential services to cashew producers and processors and provide employment opportunities for young women and men.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning
- In collaboration with the Competitiveness & Supply Chain Regional Director develop a work plan with tangible goals and timelines to streamless sourcing strategies for cashew processors.
- In collaboration with the BDSPs, develop periodic and ongoing intervention plans
- Propose an action plan to promote raw cashew nut quality standards at farmers’ level
- Develop critical supply chain services like aggregation, drying, and quality control creating new jobs in sourcing as well as agriculture-adjacent sectors and connect raw cashew nuts suppliers and processors
- Support processors to optimize end-to-end supply chain processes including procurement, logistics, inventory management,
- Support processors in assessing the quality of the raw cashew nuts as well as assessing raw cashew nuts path from farms to processors
- Develop strategies to reduce costs and timely delivery of raw cashew nuts from producers to processors to buyers while maintaining high-quality cashew products.
-Support processors to meet and exceed procurement targets
- Support reliable, inclusive sourcing strategies that foster long-term relationships with smallholders and cooperatives, specifically those that involve women and youth
- Support processors to monitor and analyze supply chain performance metrics, such as inventory turnover, on-time delivery, and lead times, identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing corrective actions
- Identify new sourcing opportunities and support the development of new contracts between producer groups and processors for job creation- Develop linkages between cashew producers and processors. Facilitate offtake agreements and contract farming to build predictability for both producers and processors.
Quality Assurance and Compliance
- Assist producers and producers’ organizations in the obtainment of market-relevant certifications
-Ensure producers and processors adherence to food safety standards, certifications, and traceability requirements
- Initiate Organic, Fair-trade and Rainforest Alliance certification processes with interested processors and producer groups
- Develop and implement sustainability projects like Digital traceability, geo mapping and production tracking with cashew producers
- Support processors to have access to high quality raw cashew nuts and use the raw material as collateral to unlock more financing.
- Lead capacity assessments and develop strengthening strategies for producers’ groups and processors
- Support youth- and women-led cooperatives to become credible business partners for processors
- Co- develop trainings material for producers' groups and processors
-Identify business develop service providers to provide high quality and market relevant training to meet the needs of producer groups and processors
- Support BDSPs in providing financing models based on raw cashew nuts or kernels inventory
. -encourage direct sourcing from farmers to reduce reliance on middlemen
-Support processors to improve borma drying systems to enhance kernel quality before export
-Support producers' group to create or improve agreements between producers and processors to optimize the supply chain
-Support BDSPs to provide access to finance services like warehouse financing for producers’ groups and processors
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Agribusiness, Economics, or related field. Master's preferred.
Preferred Experience:
How to Apply:
Applications accepted on a rolling basis—no fixed deadline. Send to weecap.hr@winrock.org
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