Terms of Reference for Internship into the training and backstopping grain warehouse
operators in South Sudan
The Eastern Africa Grain Council
(EAGC) is a private sector membership organisation of the players in the grain
value chain whose mission is to advocate for an enabling environment and
promote structured grain trade for optimum stakeholder benefits.
In December 2014, EAGC was contracted
by GIZ to provide training and backstopping services to selected grain
warehouse operators in the Greenbelt (Western Equatoria, Central Equatoria and
Eastern Equatoria).
The services are expected to enable
warehouse operators, who include farmer organisations, traders, Business
Development Service (BDS) providers or Non-governmental Organisations to
professionally operate warehouses in the grain bulking and marketing systems
and ultimately transforming into Agri-Business Centres.
The first training of the warehouse management is set to take place on 22nd June to 3rd July 2015 in Yei and Yambio.
These ToRs are drawn to engage South
Sudanese nationals as interns for an initial period of three months to provide
support in the trainings and backstopping of the warehouse operators.
The specific tasks to be undertaken
by the interns will be:
- Participate in a TOT programme facilitated by
EAGC structured Trade experts that will build their capacity to train
farmers in the selected training modules,
- Provide relevant support to the regional team
in the development of training materials for the warehouse operators, in
particular provide support to adapt the training materials to low
education level adult learning including translation as may be required,
- Participate in the training of the warehouse
operators in different locations within the Greenbelt covering areas such
as post-harvest handling, group governance, warehouse management, records
keeping and financial management among others.
- Provide continuous backstopping to ensure
trained warehouses adopt the practices and the business models trained
through regular visits, phone calls
- Support the warehouse operators in seeking
alternative market outlets for their produce
- Regularly monitor the performance of the
warehouses and using EAGC report templates compile regular back to office
activity reports, weekly reports and monthly progress reports
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness or a related
field
- Strong social and communication skills.
- Team player- able to work with people of
diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
- A fast learner
The application letter and c.v. shall
be submitted on or before Wednesday, 3rd June 2015 To:
Dorcas Kiai
Programs Administration Manager
Eastern Africa Grain Council
P O Box 218 00606
Programs Administration Manager
Eastern Africa Grain Council
P O Box 218 00606
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 (20) 3745840 /020-204 4094
Office Cell: +254 733 444 035 / 710 607313
Email: dkiai@eagc.org
