Business Advisor Career Opportunity in Kenya - Agronomy

Duma Works is recruiting an Agronomy Business Advisor for

one of our clients. 

Our client works with enterprising

people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and

industries. 

A non-profit organization that

develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information,

capital and markets. 

Their work is rooted in the idea that

given the opportunity, hardworking men and women in even the poorest places can

generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities.  

With more than four decades of proven

results, they believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.

Program Description: The company’s Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality

Program is a partnership with Nespresso SA program is designed to introduce the

Nespresso AAA program to Africa in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan. 

The overarching goal is to reduce

poverty of 200,000 smallholder coffee farmers in Kenya and Ethiopia through

increased coffee incomes as a result of improved yields, quality and market

access to Nespresso’s AAA supply chain. 

The Nespresso AAA Program will build

on the natural synergies with the BMGF-funded Coffee Initiative in Kenya and

Ethiopia.
 

Primary Purpose: The Agronomy Business Advisor shall support the

implementation of strategies that will enable clients to achieve sustainable

increases in coffee quality and yields.
 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Sensitize cooperative leadership, smallholder
  
  coffee farmers and local stakeholders on the the company’s coffee project
  
  work.


• Implement existing strategies to provide
  
  assigned cooperatives with agronomy training and with structured
  
  post-training farm visits to improve adoption.


• Train and advise farmers being assisted by the
  
  project on coffee agronomy best practices with the objective of helping
  
  them to improve coffee yields and quality.


• Train, mentor, coach and support assigned
  
  Farmer Trainers on all technical and operational aspects of their work and
  
  in relationship with farmers. This includes assisting them to set
  
  performance goals, continuous assessment of performance and giving
  
  feedback.


• Participate in the implementation of the
  
  defined project monitoring, measurement and evaluation activities that
  
  ensure accurate and consistent capture of date for project reporting and
  
  documenting of the impact of our work.


• Create linkages between cooperative
  
  leadership, farmers and suppliers of recommended inputs and other farm
  
  requirements.



• Collect, collate, validate and submit the
  
  specified project data and clients’ reports within stipulated time lines.


• Cultivate and manage good relationship with
  
  clients both at leadership and farmer levels as well as with key industry
  
  stakeholders and community leaders at local levels.


• Keep abreast of developments concerning coffee
  
  at the cooperative and in the local community and regularly report these.


• Understand, respect and promote the company’s
  
  values, vision, and strategy in the implementation of assigned duties.


• Any other relevant tasks as assigned by the
  
  Senior Business Advisor.

• Bachelor’s degree in agriculture, agronomy,
  
  horticulture or related agricultural sciences.


• At least three years’ professional experience
  
  – ideally in the private sector – in one or more of the following areas:
  
  coffee processing or agronomy; business or cooperative management; SME
  
  development; agriculture; training; extension services.


• Demonstrated good understanding of the Kenya
  
  coffee industry and especially the cooperatives sector.


• Possess an aptitude and skills for training
  
  adults in a field set up.


• Strong planning skills and ability to generate
  
  innovative solutions in highly dynamic work situations.


• Demonstrated ability to prepare and present
  
  well-written, cohesive analyses and reports.


• Strong interpersonal, collaborative and
  
  cross-cultural skills.


• Willingness to spend significant time in
  
  project implementation sites located in rural areas.


• Valid driving licence.


• Fluency in English and Kiswahili.

Reports to: Senior Business Advisor.

Direct Reports:

 Farmer Trainers.

Works closely with:

 Business Advisors; M & E Analyst;

Administration team.

Position Location:

 Project implementation sites in the coffee growing

areas of Kenya.

How to Apply
Submit your application by email to apply@dumaworks.com marking the subject as

“2036”, Your Full name &  Phone number e.g. 2036, Barack Obama,

07xxxxxxxxx.

Please include the following in your application;

1.   
cover letter describing your interest

2.   
curriculum vitae

3.   
three years’ salary history

4.   
telephone contacts of three

professional referees.

Please include all requirements in a

single document (pdf). 

Applications will be treated

confidentially. 

If you don’t follow these

instructions, your application will not go through.

Deadline for receiving applications: 31st January 2016

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apply, you will receive a confirmation email, and then an SMS alert asking you

to take a basic screening test over SMS. The SMS with the test may not arrive

immediately. Please be patient. The SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to

help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test, and if

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