The Young Professionals Platform for Agricultural Research for Development (YPARD) is seeking a new Steering Committee (SC) member from the private sector in agriculture to guide its strategic development.
YPARD serves as a medium for Young Professionals (YPs) in Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) to voice their views, exchange perspectives and work towards a more dynamic ARD. YPARD has four strategic objectives: 1) to facilitate exchange of information and knowledge among young professionals across disciplines, professions, age and regions; 2) to broaden opportunities for young professionals to contribute to strategic ARD policy debates; 3) to promote agriculture among young people, and 4) to facilitate access to resource and capacity building opportunities. YPARD is a multi-stakeholder platform with young professionals from different stakeholder groups in ARD including research, NGOs, CBOs, government, the private sector, and extension.
YPARD is looking for a steering committee member who is active in the private sector (for profit) to contribute actively to a growing YPARD. We are looking for an experienced member, ideally with knowledge of agri-business and/or agricultural entrepreneurship. They must also be an enthusiastic young professional (under 40 years) who is active in the private sector. In our SC, we always look at having the greatest representation of our stakeholder base, gender and region.
An SC member is expected to voluntarily work and communicate electronically for 1-2 days per month, participate in the annual SC meeting (3-4 days) and one or more Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) related event to represent YPARD. This years SC Meeting will occur in January 2012 and you will be asked to travel to attend.
The function and role of the SC are described below, which is extracted from the Charter; also available on the website.
The following items are desirable attributes of applicants:
1) A YPARD member and committed to YPARD
2) Demonstrated support for YPARD
3) Good knowledge of ARD environment
4) Experience in agribusiness and/or agricultural entrepreneurship
5) Enthusiastic and motivated
6) Good knowledge of English
If you are interested in becoming an SC member, please send a letter of motivation plus a maximum 2 page CV to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. All applications will be considered until December 5th, 2011. (call for applications closed)
You can download the pdf format of this call.
Please also visit www.ypard.net to learn more about YPARD and its activities and sign up if you havent already!
We look forward to hearing from you.
Excerpt from the YPARD charter:
3.3 The YPARD Steering Committee (SC)
The YPARD SC was formally established in November 2006 and since then has regularly met once a year.
The SC is accountable towards the members for any action or decision undertaken. This includes reception of criticism and feedback as well as timely informing Members about any relevant decisions.
3.3.1 Steering Committee Composition
3.3.2 Roles and responsibilities
The roles and responsibilities of the YPARD SC are to:
3.3.3 Selection process
3.3.4 Modus operandi
3.3.5 Quorum
Two-thirds of the SC membership constitutes a quorum.
3.3.6 YPARD Steering Committee meetings
The SC shall meet at least once a year. When extraordinary meetings are required, they should be convened by the Chair in consultation with the other SC members.
The agenda of the meetings should be prepared by the CU. The draft agenda and documents to be discussed will be circulated at least three weeks in advance to allow the SC members sufficient time to consult their respective constituencies.
Minutes of the SC meetings are made available to all stakeholders upon request
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