Environment forestry and agriculture Jobs at Corteva, Komaza Kenya, Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF), Heritage Insurance and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

JOB DETAILS:
AME Stewardship Leader

Your Challenge
• Set CU Stewardship priorities with the CU Leader and Country leaders resulting in CU and Country Stewardship plans for CP and Seeds/Biotech business with actions that are tracked;
• Participate in zonal program and portfolio meetings to provide stewardship support for assigned regional portfolio;
• Lead Country Stewardship Audits supporting continuous improvement on stewardship processes;
• Lead Stewardship Considerations, Characterizations and Risk Assessments of portfolio and implementation of product stewardship plans linked to launching new products or supporting existing products;
• Oversee GMO Trait Stewardship Programs in RSA with potential expansion to other countries;
• Find opportunities for and manage Stewardship training programs internally and externally and serve as an expert on Stewardship matters;
• Promote Stewardship Best Practices in the countries including IRM, WRM and IPM;
• Support countries complying with internal stewardship standards and stewardship clauses in agreements with suppliers/licensers;
• Support countries complying with legal stewardship requirements like adverse effects reporting or risk mitigation measures for products;
• Help countries supporting their customers in stewardship efforts and reward for local customers;
• Ensure countries implement proper incident management processes including emergency response and complaints management, in liaison with EHS & S;
• Support where needed country teams during new label creation, and during label revisions in order to ensure required by law and good agriculture practices recommendation are well listed;
• Provide advise/support in counterfeit investigations/programs.
Location: Location for the AME Stewardship Leader is in the business office of one of the key countries in Middle East & North Africa (MENA, Cairo or Casablanca), West-East & South-Central Africa (WESCA, Nairobi) or Southern Africa (Centurion, SA).

Qualifications
To Grow What Matters, You Will Need:
• Agriculture or Biology University Degree;
• Preferably 5 years of experience in Crop Protection and/or Seed;
• Fluent in English;
• Self starter;
• Good organizational and computer skills;
• Flexible to Travel;
• Negotiation Skills;
• Attention to detail.

Who Are We Looking For?
• Curious, bold thinkers who want to grow their careers and be part of a winning team;
• Market shaping individuals who want to transform the agriculture industry to meet the world’s growing need for food;
• Collaborators who thrive in a diverse, inclusive work environment;
• Innovators who bring initiative and fresh ideas that drive our business into the future and make us an industry leader.


JOB DETAILS:
Regional Operations Manager

What You Will Do
The ROM will have three distinct areas of responsibilities, these are categorized as follows:
• Team management – We care for our team and make sure that their welfare is of paramount importance to us as departmental leaders.
• Performance management – Identify staffing gaps and support recruitment as may be required. Act as a liaison between Talent Services and the field teams on all matters relating to people and people operations, such as performance management, promotions and demotions, and grievance and disciplinary handling.
• Disciplinary – Ensuring staff are accountable through Talent Services processes and instilling professionalism within the team that makes each individual accountable to themselves through high-quality execution and attention to detail.
• Promotions – the Field Assistants of today are our future Field Officers, the Field Managers of today are our future Field Operation Coordinators. We look to identify this talent and foster it in a strong development pipeline while simultaneously managing expectations.
• Hiring – plan and execute FEN hiring in coordination with Talent Acquisition to ensure that we consistently have the right person for the job.
• Operations Management – we look for operations to be steady-state, which is interlinked, scalable, repeatable, and easily translatable.
• Day-to-day operational management of field activities – by working through your key deputies, ensure the ongoing execution of operations is to the high standards of Field Operations.
• Quality control – work within the team and with our farmer partners to maintain quantity and focus on the quality of our work. Continue to engage other key collaborators like the Farmer Relations and the Design team in this area.
• Liaison, coordination and communication – Liaise, coordinate and communicate with other teams involved in supporting your immediate operations to ensure that we are all synced up and that activities are coordinated to be as efficient as possible. This includes coordinating with the Director to ensure that operations are in line with broader Komaza strategy and the future vision of FOPs.
• Troubleshooting – work through and with your team to troubleshoot challenges with the support of other assets and resources as required.
• Monitoring and reporting – Measure performance and reporting to build on strengths and learn from failures.
• Strategy development and vision setting – Support the Forestry Operations Director with the company and teams future vision and strategy and to ensure plans are rooted in that field-based reality.

What You Have
• Bachelor’s degree in related field. Masters Degree advantageous
• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in field operations and managing large field teams
• Data skills – fluent in G-Suite and/or Microsoft Office suite, strong excel/sheets skills.
• You’re Also
• Strong organizational, planning and critical thinking skills to steer complex operational activities.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills: ability to present reports on field activities concisely.
• Interest in sustainable economic development and/or agroforestry.
• A collaborative problem solver who seeks the opinions of other teammates and departments in the development of creative and sustainable systems.
• Capable to draw conclusions from data and act on them.
• People person and a great team leader who can execute effectively through others.
• Interest in training and content review for training.


JOB DETAILS:
Senior Programme Officer – Seed for Impact Programme

Key Responsibilities
• Lead the implementation of the Seed for Impact program (SIP), assuring the delivery of set program objectives.
• Ensure the performance of the SIP program portfolio in respect of key result areas including disbursements to investees, and impact targets.
• Lead the planning and execution of investees’ performance monitoring activities, including data verification exercises to ensure the quality of programme results.
• Develop and implement effective strategies that enable recovery of outstanding repayable grants due from investees.
• Ensure all investee site visits are conducted as per the agreed site visit schedule and documentation is done to the standard required.
• Coordinate identification of investees who require technical assistance and investment advisory services and work with the Investments Advisory Services team to deliver on agreed advisory interventions.
• Prepare narrative and financial reports as required by the donors, assuring the quality of output and adherence to due process and standards.
• Prepare periodic portfolio status reports (performance, risks, and opportunities) for presentation to the management team.
• Lead/ coordinate the SIP portfolio learning agenda in a manner that contributes to the wider learning agenda of AECF (in liaison with the Knowledge and Insights teams) and the wider seeds ecosystem.
• Effectively manage the relationship with the investee companies, providing the necessary coaching and expert support for them to realize their growth objectives.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and risk management of the portfolio in accordance with AECF’s Risk and Compliance Management Framework.
• Working with the Head of Programmes, Agribusiness, engage with stakeholders on best practices for supporting Africa’s seed companies in respect to access to finance and technical advisory support.

The Candidate
Suitable candidates should:
• Hold a university degree in Agronomy, Agriculture, Seed Science, Agricultural Economics, or a related field. An advanced degree would be an added advantage.
• Have a minimum of seven (7) years of relevant experience in the seed sector including work related to the financing of seed companies, seed production, and quality control.
• Experience working with donors and the international development context would be an added advantage.
• Have proven leadership and project management skills, and demonstrate an ability to work with a diverse group of portfolio companies and teams.
• Have good analytical and communication skills with the ability to prepare proposals, reports, and concept papers to a high level of proficiency.
• Be resourceful and take initiative even when given minimal direction.
• Be curious about industry trends and eager to learn.
• Have great interpersonal skills and a strong work ethic.


JOB DETAILS:
Underwriting Analyst – Agriculture

Job Summary
The job holder will be responsible for assessment of risks proposed for Agriculture insurance and ensure prudent underwriting of these risks is done as per Heritage’s underwriting guidelines to deliver engagements in respect with Agriculture business.

Key Responsibilities
• Build and maintain relationships with the current and potential customers and intermediaries by networking and providing personalised quality service
• Review applications of Agriculture insurance business in line with the company underwriting and reinsurance guidelines to ensure only acceptable risks are admitted in our books
• Maintain clear and reliable records in respect of the agriculture business underwritten within the organisation
• Underwrite and process work in accordance with the delegated authority
• Ensuring all debits are put through in time to facilitate allocation of premiums and commission payments
• Attend business meetings relating to Agriculture insurance, build and maintain strong business relationships with customers and intermediaries
• Carry outthe implementation ofthe credit control policy and ensure that premiums are debited and collected as required
• Ensure timely communications of renewal terms where applicable
• Ensure accuracy and clarity of policy documentation issued to customers
• Ensure timely preparation and dispatch of policy documents/endorsements to clients
• Filed visits from time to time as may be required and preparation of detailed reports and risk improvement recommedations
• Assist other functions and branches to service customers in the area of Agriculture insurance business

Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture
BSc. Agriculture Education and extension, or other business-related discipline
Experience
At least 1 years’ experience in the insurance industry
Competencies
• In depth understanding of insurance operations and concepts
• Knowledge of insurance products
• Knowledge of underwriting processes and procedures
• Technical competence in underwriting insurance risks
• Knowledge of insurance regulatory requirements
• Ability to deliver results and meet customer expectations
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills
• Excellent organizational and stakeholder management skills

JOB DETAILS:
Ecosystem-based Adaptation Expert

The Activities Comprise
• Identifying who the potential off-takers for the three cash crops in question (cashew nuts, shea nuts and néré seeds) could be and discuss with potential off-takers, and detailing minimum requirements to extend purchase agreements to the project cooperatives.
• Mapping the location, size of cooperatives, gender composition and production amount of the cooperatives for the three cash crops in question (cashew nuts, shea nuts and néré seeds) in the seven identified municipalities, as well as the production potential.
• Assessing barriers to establishing purchase agreements with the project cooperatives considering minimum requirements established in discussions with potential off-takers (point 1 above). The consultant should identify and consult with key stakeholders (financial institutions including micro finance institutions, processing plants, aggregators, government ministries, end buyers including associations that can connect to end buyers such as the Global Shea Association) for each product value chain. The consultant should screen business strategies used by existing cooperatives, the gaps and opportunities for each.
• Assess whether there is a rationale to create new cooperatives based on (point 2 above) and (point 3 above) to strengthen the interest of off-takers in the project areas.
• Broadly evaluate the economic value of potential trade agreements for each of the three products.
• Identify policies, sector plans and business strategies that could increase scale and productivity across the value chain and promote sustainable land-use approaches, e.g. affordable insurance products to mitigate climate risk, government based subsidies and extension services. This should inform the development of the workplan for Output 3 on the mainstreaming approach.
• Develop the strategic approach and workplan
• Based on the outcomes of (A), develop the Output 2.2 strategic approach and workplan inclusive of timeline, outputs, milestones, key results, and budget. The strategic approach should also include a recommendation for management of this workstream within the PMU. The workplan should include recommendations for developing targeted policy analytical pieces, economic analysis and/or developing blending finance concepts.
• Develop a monitoring framework to track capacity strengthening of cooperatives with the aim of signing of new trade agreements by 2024.

Qualifications/special Skills
• Academic Qualifications: Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in environment, economics and/or related field is required.
• Experience: At least fifteen (15) years of work experience in agriculture value chains and smallholder farmers, particularly to put in place climate resilient agricultural practices is required
• Understanding of financing models and underlying business cases for smallholder famers to access finance, particularly linking value chains to offtake agreements is required.
• Experience in scoping of partnerships and drafting of offtake agreements market buyers (and potentially interested investors) in the agriculture sector is required.
• Understanding of risk mitigation instruments including guarantee and insurance products for the agriculture sector, particularly the role for promoting offtake agreements is desirable.
• Knowledge of the fiscal policy framework for the agriculture sector in Benin, including potential public funds for the sector is desirable.