The Eastern Africa Grain Council
(EAGC) is a membership-based organization registered in Kenya with country
offices in Uganda and Tanzania.
Our members are key stakeholders and
players in the grain value chain including cereal growers, millers and
processors drawn from within and outside the East Africa States.
Vacancy: Program
Officer
The successful candidate should be
highly professional, self motivated and a proven high achiever with good
leadership skills.
Reporting to the Regional Manager, Marketing
Information Systems & Communication, the successful candidate will be
responsible for the following amongst others:
- Coordinate all activities related to and
contributing to the achievement of the Regional Food Balance Sheet.
- Coordinating the recruitment and registration
of private sector contributors of monthly data for the purpose of the
RFBS.
- Supervising the work of the national food
balance sheet focal points to ensure the national FBS targets are met.
- Train new contributors and monitor data
uploading.
- Regional Food balance Sheet reporting.
- Coordinate all activities related to and
contributing to the achievement of the Real Time Volume Tracking System
and linking to the Food Balance Sheet.
- Coordinating the recruitment and registration
of user of the real time volume tracking System.
- Supervising the work of the real time data
collection.
Qualification, Skills and Experience:
- A degree in agriculture, agribusiness or
related agricultural field
- 2 years experience in the agricultural or
grain sector.
- Computer literate.
- Team player.
- Good report writing skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal
skills.
- High integrity.
- Has initiative and highly organised.
- Capacity to manage several tasks simultaneously,
be flexible and be willing to assume a range of unanticipated assignments.
Vacancy: Regional
Programs Coordinator
The successful candidate should be
highly professional, self motivated and a proven high achiever with good
leadership skills.
Reporting to the Executive Director, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following amongst others:
- Provide leadership in project management and
support to partners, including in project implementation, financial
management and reporting, and monitoring and evaluation.
- Provide leadership in networking with
partners, identifying opportunities for collaboration and development of
new project ideas, including project proposals and fundraising.
- Develop and monitor a consolidated regional
budget for programmes.
- Develop a consolidated monthly progress and
narrative reports for all programmes.
- Ensure rigorous monitoring, learning and
evaluation system across the implementation of the programme.
- Ensure quality implementation of projects.
- Ensure compliance with EAGC standard operating
procedures and partner guidelines and protocols.
- Maintain a risk matrix for programs and ensure
mitigation measures are in place.
- Provide technical inputs to the design of
advocacy materials and technical briefs.
- Liaise with Project Managers to prepare and
implement stakeholder engagement plans.
Qualification, Skills and Experience:
- Masters degree preferably in Business and a
degree in agriculture, agribusiness or related agricultural field.
- 10 years experience in the agricultural/grain
sector in the trading or development sector.
- Computer literate.
- Team player, people leadership – achieving
results through people.
- Good report writing skills.
- Good proposal and business plan writing
skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal
skills.
- High integrity, initiative and highly
organised.
- Capacity to manage several tasks
simultaneously, be flexible and be willing to assume a range of
unanticipated assignments.
Vacancy: Country
Program Manager – EAGC Kenya
The successful candidate should be
highly professional, self motivated and a proven high achiever with good
leadership skills.
Reporting to the Executive Director, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following amongst others:
- Coordinate, manage and implement the EAGC
Kenya annual work plan.
- Coordinate, manage and ensure implementation
of EAGC Kenya programs and projects in line with the established company
procedures and processes.
- Manage the Warehouse Receipts Framework in
Kenya.
- Co-ordinate EAGC Kenya policy advocacy agenda.
- Recruit, train, supervise, appraise &
develop Kenya staff.
- Event management including EAGC Agribusiness
Expo and other Kenya forums.
- Fund raising & resource mobilization for
EAGC Kenya.
- Provide strategic direction on Kenya
Membership growth and communication with members to ensure their
involvement in EAGC programs and activities.
Qualification, Skills and Experience:
- Masters degree preferably in Business and a
degree in agriculture, agribusiness or related agricultural field
- 5 years experience in the agricultural or
grain sector.
- Computer literate.
- Team player.
- Good report writing skills.
- Donor Intelligence and Fund Raising skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal
skills.
- High integrity.
- Has initiative and highly organised.
- Capacity to manage several tasks
simultaneously, be flexible and be willing to assume a range of
unanticipated assignments.
If your background and competence
match the above specifications, please send your application demonstrating how
your experience matches our requirements.
It should include an updated C.V.,
your current remuneration package, valid email address, daytime contact number
and full contact details of 3 referees including day time telephone
number to: hr@eagc.org copied to dkiai@eagc.org by 13th August
2014.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
