Reports To: Advisory Services Manager, East Africa
Contact: Please apply by filling out the form below.
We supply these businesses with vital credit and capacity building to foster their growth and resilience. We work in hard-to-serve communities where others don’t. To date, we’ve distributed $1.5 billion to improve the lives of over 10 million people in farming families.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Root Capital currently has associated offices in Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Ghana, and Kenya.
Position Summary
This role will support the implementation of the agronomic and Climate resilience advisory (ACRA) program in the coffee value chain in Uganda. The incumbent will be charged with the following responsibilities:
Conduct climate resilience diagnostics with clients to identify gaps for capacity building
Develop a training schedule to address gaps identified through diagnostics
Help clients to prepare climate adaptation & mitigation strategies
Conduct climate risks vulnerability to coffee co-operatives
Develop a training work plan for a portfolio of clients in collaboration with the senior ACRA consultant
Provide agronomic and climate resilience training to field staff and farmers
Monitor the implementation of the ACRA activities
Provide timely reporting
Help cultivate, manage relevant partnerships with academic and research or implementing organizations working on climate-smart agriculture
Any other duty that may be assigned from time to time
Responsibilities
Conducting diagnostics (10%)
Developing climate adaptation and mitigation strategies (30%)
Providing training (30%)
Monitoring (20%)
Relationship building (5%)
Reporting (5%)
Qualifications & Experience
The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in agronomy, crop science, horticulture, or related agricultural based degree
A minimum of 3 years of experience in providing extension education to agribusiness enterprises or smallholder farmers
Experience in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in agricultural value chains-preferably coffee
Experience in agronomic extension education preferably in Robusta Coffee value chain
Experience in adult training and delivery methodologies
Experience in certification Standards eg Rainforest Alliance, UTZ, Organic or FairTrade.
Proficiency in MS Office such as Word, Excel, and Google Apps
Relationship building skills
Project management skills
Time management
Strict adherence to tight deadlines
Ability to work with multicultural teams
Salary
Commensurate with experience
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: using the position as subject of email.
Apply via :
rootcapital.org
