Summary
Date Posted: Friday, September 23, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Key Roles and Responsibilities.
• Overall oversight of all intervention activities at the county level in relation to agro-entrepreneur development, farmers engagement and empowerment, crop production, aggregation, and marketing.
• Drive day to day sorghum production activities including management of crop calendar, input procurement, planting, and crop management, harvesting and post - harvest handling
• Responsible for mobilizing agro-entrepreneurs to offer farmer services including input access, advisory, mechanization, aggregation, finance, and markets
• Establish high quality demonstration sites(plots) to be used in delivery of practical farmer trainings by the agro-entrepreneurs.
• Initiate collaboration and local partnerships with the County and Sub - County Agricultural officers, input suppliers and other relevant service providers and identify leverage opportunities capable of adding value to the project
• Monitor and provide timely periodic data to inform collation of reports from the accomplished field activities
• Responsible for ensuring that data reported is of high-quality standards of accuracy, reliability, credibility, and confidentiality and that it is in tandem with the services offered to the farmers.
• Reporting program progress in timelines agreed upon primarily weekly, monthly, and quarterly but may also requested to prepare ad hoc reports
• Work closely with BDS provider to facilitate commercialization of farming systems within the sorghum value chain with specific emphasis to PWDs.
• Organize peer learning sessions and provide feedback on progress of implementation

Required Qualifications and Key Competencies.
• Degree in either of the following disciplines; Agriculture, Agriculture Education and Extension, Agribusiness management.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in related commercialized agricultural value chain either in the private, rural or community development organizations.
• Demonstrated experience in data collection and reporting for similar programs
• Experience working with production groups, cooperatives or contracted farmers will be preferred
• Ability to ride a motorcycle with at-least 2-year experience and a valid riding license.
• Excellent command of Swahili and English.
• Excellent presentation, report writing and communication skills.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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