Deadline of this Job: 12 August 2022
JOB DETAILS:
Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail: -
• Carrying out practical demonstrations and training farmers on livestock production technologies and techniques;
• Accompanying extension teams during farm visits and farmer training;
• Collecting and collating livestock data and information for gross margins, market access and planning;
• Participating in collaborative research activities;
• Collecting livestock inputs and products samples for analysis;
• Advising farmers on group formation, construction of farm structures and equipment;
• Preparing and participating in field days and agricultural shows to disseminate livestock production technologies such as construction of livestock housing and structures, milk production, pasture and fodder production and conservation, farm planning, gross margin analysis on farm feed formulation;
• Implementing livestock production programmes/projects in such areas as dairy cattle farming, beef cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, rabbits, camels, donkeys breeding programmes, fodder production and conservation, value addition to livestock products, agriculture, emerging livestock and other animal husbandry interventions; and
• Compiling reports relating to area of specialization.
Requirements for appointment
For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: -
• Served in the grade of assistant livestock production officer II or in a comparable position in the public service for a minimum period of three (3) years;
• Diploma on any of the following fields: - animal production, dairy science and technology, animal science, agribusiness, animal health and production, farm management, agriculture, or range/natural resource management from a recognized training institution;
• Certificate in computer applications; and
• Demonstrated merit and shown ability as reflected in work performance and results.
Deadline of this Job: 19 August 2022
JOB DETAILS:
Job Description
From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character, and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We are the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons and our success is thanks to the diversity of our talent and strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
About you
This is a global position that sits within Diageo’s Sustainable Procurement structure and reports into the Regenerative Agriculture Lead.
The Global Sustainable Procurement team is an enabler of sustainability for the procurement function, which is a mixture of above-market resources focused on developing world class category strategies and in-market procurement resources focused on excellence in execution of category strategies and supplier performance management.
The purpose of this role is to support the implementation of Diageo’s global regenerative agriculture strategy, in line with our 2030 Spirit of Progress ambition with a focus on key sourcing regions across Europe, US, India, Brazil, Mexico and East Africa.
Key accountabilities include:
• Support the implementation of Diageo’s 2030 Spirit of Progress ambition, more specifically on enabling delivery against the following Diageo’s 2030 goals:
• “Accelerating to a low carbon world” by reducing by 50% Diageo’s value chain (scope 3) carbon emissions, of which raw materials represent one third.
• “Becoming sustainable by design” by developing regenerative agriculture pilots across key sourcing regions and providing local sourcing communities with agricultural skills and resources to build economic and environmental resilience.
• “Preserving water for life” by improving water stewardship across Diageo’s supply chains.
• Support with the local coordination and implementation of regenerative agriculture projects, working collaboratively in cross-functional teams in an agile and delivery-oriented way.
• Co-lead, alongside technical partners, farmer engagement workshops, agronomy trainings and field visits representing Diageo locally.
• Engage suppliers, farmers and local partners to build strong communities of practice and bring regenerative agriculture pilots to commercial scale.
• Coordinate data collection processes, by working alongside technical partners, to support development of supplier, raw material category, market, and brand-specific improvement plans.
About you
• It be successful in role you will have excellent knowledge of economic, social and environmental sustainability challenges and leading sustainable sourcing approaches and standard methodology ideally in the FMCG sector.
• It is crucial that you have at least 5 years experience in Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Sourcing, Regenerative Agriculture, Agroecology or similar. Previous management consulting experience is a plus.
• You will have market awareness and insights of agricultural commodity value chains.
• It is essential that you have exceptional communication and influencing skills and experience partnering with multiple stakeholders at various different levels.
• You will be Passionate about sustainability and crafting value through value chain collaboration.
• Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.
• We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.
• Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.
JOB DETAILS:
Job Description
From Arthur Guinness to Johnnie Walker, our business was founded on people of great character, and in 250 years, nothing’s changed. We are the world’s leading premium alcohol company. Our brands are industry icons and our success is thanks to the diversity of our talent and strength of our people, in every role. It’s why we trust them with our legacy and it’s why we reward them with the career-defining opportunities that they deserve.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve this, we need the world’s very best people.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
About you
This is a global position that sits within Diageo’s Sustainable Procurement structure and reports into the Regenerative Agriculture Lead.
The Global Sustainable Procurement team is an enabler of sustainability for the procurement function, which is a mixture of above-market resources focused on developing world class category strategies and in-market procurement resources focused on excellence in execution of category strategies and supplier performance management.
The purpose of this role is to support the implementation of Diageo’s global regenerative agriculture strategy, in line with our 2030 Spirit of Progress ambition with a focus on key sourcing regions across Europe, US, India, Brazil, Mexico and East Africa.
Key accountabilities include:
• Support the implementation of Diageo’s 2030 Spirit of Progress ambition, more specifically on enabling delivery against the following Diageo’s 2030 goals:
• “Accelerating to a low carbon world” by reducing by 50% Diageo’s value chain (scope 3) carbon emissions, of which raw materials represent one third.
• “Becoming sustainable by design” by developing regenerative agriculture pilots across key sourcing regions and providing local sourcing communities with agricultural skills and resources to build economic and environmental resilience.
• “Preserving water for life” by improving water stewardship across Diageo’s supply chains.
• Support with the local coordination and implementation of regenerative agriculture projects, working collaboratively in cross-functional teams in an agile and delivery-oriented way.
• Co-lead, alongside technical partners, farmer engagement workshops, agronomy trainings and field visits representing Diageo locally.
• Engage suppliers, farmers and local partners to build strong communities of practice and bring regenerative agriculture pilots to commercial scale.
• Coordinate data collection processes, by working alongside technical partners, to support development of supplier, raw material category, market, and brand-specific improvement plans.
About you
• It be successful in role you will have excellent knowledge of economic, social and environmental sustainability challenges and leading sustainable sourcing approaches and standard methodology ideally in the FMCG sector.
• It is crucial that you have at least 5 years experience in Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Sourcing, Regenerative Agriculture, Agroecology or similar. Previous management consulting experience is a plus.
• You will have market awareness and insights of agricultural commodity value chains.
• It is essential that you have exceptional communication and influencing skills and experience partnering with multiple stakeholders at various different levels.
• You will be Passionate about sustainability and crafting value through value chain collaboration.
• Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.
• We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realise its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.
• Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.
Deadline of this Job: 15 August 2022
JOB DETAILS: The purpose of the Livelihoods Project Officer is to provide leadership in the delivery of the CASCADE activities on increasing women’s access/control and influence over of household and agricultural assets and incomes, specifically the delivery of the Farmer Field and Business School, Social Analysis and Action and VSLA methodologies in the project. The Project Officer will work with partners and other stakeholders in equipping the small-holder women farmers and community-based trainers with the necessary capacities for increased food and nutrition security in the targeted project implementation areas. Jointly with the Project team, S/He will be responsible for planning and implementation of the CASCADE, monitoring, Evaluation, and documentation; partnerships development, coordination and representation at the County level and maintenance of the Project resources among other activities related to the achievement of CASCADE project objectives in the area of operation.
RESPONSIBILITY 1: Planning & implementation of CASCADE project milestones-40%
• Conduct community entry activities, adapting the FFBS to the agricultural seasonal cycle
• Together with social services, VSLA groups and agriculture extension department identify community-based trainers (CBTs) for the intervention
• With support from the CASCADE Project Manager develop FFBS training modules for the selected value chains
• Conduct TOT for Extension and CBTs on the FFBS and SAA
• In collaboration with the Country agriculture extension departments, support training of staff and partners and community-based trainers on the farmer field and business school model and SAA
• Support linkages between the trained female small scale farmers to allow inter and intra skills transfer and support and implementation of the action plans generated from the SAA.
• Jointly with the Country Agriculture extension departments, establish FFBS at the community and apply the FFBS (trainings and dialogues) as a capacity strengthening model around agency, structure and relation on agriculture, markets, financial services and business development skills for women and project targets
RESPONSIBILITY 2: Supporting Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Learning on CASCADE-30%
• Liaise with Project Manager and MEAL Coordinator to ensure preparation of timely draft narrative reports meeting donor standards.
• Support in the development of annual workplans, and detailed implementation and monitoring plans.
• Identify and document challenges in implementation that would have negative impact and or undermine the performance of the project, identify solutions and implement actions on timely basis to avert negative performance in consultation with project manager and M&E Coordinator.
• Share monthly data on indicator performance, discuss and ensure partners are aware of the indicators performance and that they can identify actions to enhance performance
• Timely respond to all data queries on Project arising from MEAL Coordinator, partners and Project team
• Monitor compliance of project implementing partners and monitoring progress of work plan implementation in consultation with Project Manager.
• Collaborating with the Project Manager and the M&E Coordinator, facilitate in trainings and orientation of stakeholders on data requirements for the project, management and data for decision making.
• Facilitate the collection and verification of data on all indicators.
• Working closely with Project team and partners to support the documentation of Human-Interest Stories and lessons learnt for internal and external dissemination.
RESPONSIBILTY 3: Linkage and networking with other collaborators - 20%
Other Responsibilities as assigned-10%
• Keep up to date with CARE’s emerging strategies and approaches and contribute proactively towards implementation. Take responsibility for ensuring personal safety and security, giving due care and consideration to the impact of personal decisions on the safety and security of others
Qualifications
Mandatory
• Bachelor's degree in related field such as agriculture, agriculture economics, agriculture policy, agribusiness
Experience and Competencies Required
• At least three (3) years’ experience in agronomy, agricultural markets and value chain development, business planning
• Strong abilities in, understands market system change, is flexible, self-initiative.
• Practical experience supporting the development of farmers’ and farmers’ enterprises
• Demonstrated capacity to work with private sector players (financial institutions, exporters, buyers, traders, transporters, input suppliers or processors)
• Ability to work with minimum supervision
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Working knowledge of MS computer packages
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills
• The ability to work independently, think innovatively and strategically and work effectively within a team
• Fluency in written and spoken English and excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Detailed understanding and experience of gender and diversity issues and commitment to addressing inequalities in all the key areas of responsibility
• Demonstrate high levels of initiative and flexibility in tasks undertaken
• Ability to work under pressure and deadlines
• Extensive knowledge of participatory approaches
• Understanding of development/relief issues
Deadline of this Job: 11 August 2022
JOB DETAILS: Duties and Responsibilities
• Distribution and replacement of IW products to schools in a timely and professional manner
• Conduct schools visits to enhance products awareness and correct usage among teachers and staff
• Support in gaining insights on challenges schools face in providing safe drinking water to students and suggest viable recommendations
• Submit weekly narrative and financial expense reports to their supervisor
• Ensure data collected using our mobile app (Taroworks) are accurate and submitted on time
• Deliver documents for signing from the company to the schools or vice versa
• Return unused IW products to their Supervisor
• Any other duties as may be assigned by their supervisor
Qualifications and Person Specifications
The Field Agent should be excited to improve schools and help make the human right to safe water a reality for all students in their geographical zones. The ideal candidate will be a mission-driven individual that can fully align with Impact Water’s values and demonstrate the following preferred skills, experience and qualities:
• MUST be a resident of their desired geographic region of work
• MUST have excellent knowledge of their geographical zone
• Preferably be a holder of an undergraduate degree or diploma certificate
• MUST have the ability and willingness to travel 100% of the time to visit schools across their geographical zones.
• MUST have a smartphone.
• Preferably be between 25-35 years of age.
• Possess a positive attitude and is self driven
• Can communicate clearly in English and Kiswahili
• Good personal hygiene and grooming standards.
• Should be of high emotional intelligence to handle difficult situations.
• Experience working in the field, preferable in or with the community is a plus.
• Previous knowledge of working with digital applications and online data submission-ODK,KoBo,Taroworks..etc is an advantage.
• Someone who can multitask without compromising on quality.
• Team player
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