Are you passionate about contributing
to change that matters in sustainable Coffee sector?
Solidaridad offers you a challenging
career opportunity in a regional and inspiring setting to make a real
difference in the world.
Solidaridad East and Central Africa
is looking for: Coffee Project Officers – Kenya
Background: Solidaridad strives to be an organization that understands the
signs of modern times. It seeks to be a Civil Society Organization (CSO) with
its own place and role in society, while simultaneously interacting with
governments and markets.
Our ambition is to influence market
processes to produce more socially and ecologically desirable outcomes to help
to sustain the planet for future generations.
Solidaridad embraces the
public-private partnerships to test innovations, speeding up change and taking
success to scale.
Globally, Solidaridad works across 13
commodities / sectors. Coffee is one of these commodities.
For more information, please refer
to http://www.solidaridadnetwork.org
Scope of the Program: The Coffee program aims to transform the East African coffee
sector to have an inclusive, resilient and economically viable coffee
production that moves from slow and small to speed and scale.
This transformation will ensure
improved coffee productivity, food availability and dietary diversity among the
coffee growing households.
The transformation will be achieved
through application of good practices, cost effective infrastructure, ICT and
other innovations.
Position Summary: Primarily the position entails working with Small and Medium
scale coffee farmers through different interventions as designed in the
project.
The overall objective of the position
is to contribute to the improvement of the farmer’s livelihoods through better
incomes realized from an improvement of their Coffee quality and quantity while
preserving the environment.
Duties and Responsibilities
i. Conduct a gap analysis of small
and medium farmers to establish a good practice program through Participatory
Rural Appraisal approach.
ii. Implement the good practices
program established to the small and medium farmers which may include but not
limited to the following areas: Soil management, Intercropping, Optimal
densities, Integrated Pest Management and design of Resilient production systems.
iii. Establish demonstration plots
and support farmer field schools (FFS) at Cooperatives and Medium Scale farms
to be used to introduce appropriate agricultural techniques and technologies
for improved production.
iv. Train farmers at the processing unit
level on Environmental Management including organic waste and waste water
management, new service technologies and support them to implement innovative
environmental solutions.
v. Develop training curriculum and
conduct capacity development to the farmer groups to strengthen their
institutions on areas such as Gender, Financial Management, Budgeting, Risk
Management, Governance and Human Resource Management.
vi. Develop and implement strategic
tools and plans to analyze financial management for the farmer groups.
vii. Develop a curriculum for
establishing savings and credit schemes for farmer groups which will include
but not limited to group formation and legalization, savings mobilization,
lending and collection.
viii. Support peer to peer learning
between the Medium scale farmers and small holder farmers on best practices and
across cooperatives.
ix. Train the farmers on how to
collect farming and economic data using the digital tools available at
Solidaridad.
x. Work closely with investors and
financial institutions and support them to deliver financing lines for farmers.
xi. Build and maintain positive
relations with implementing partners, targeted communities and authorities at
all levels to ensure that the project is understood and supported in implementation.
xii. Contribute to Solidaridad’s
funding portfolio by contributing to the development of quality concept notes
and proposals
xiii. Coordinate and nurture mutual
beneficial partnerships with other stakeholders including partners, service
providers, government departments, local NGO’s and the private sector;
xiv. Prepare monthly Project reports,
budgets and work plans in line with Solidaridad’s planning process and
schedules in a timely basis;
xv. Gather and submit Project
monitoring and evaluation information for capturing Project outcomes, impact
and lessons learned;
xvi. In consultation with the line
manager, act as an ambassador to the project promoting the project scope and
the work of Solidaridad including hosting visitors, attending meetings as is
when required;
xvii. Any other duty that may be
directed by the line manager.
Candidate Profile
If you are inspired by the job and
the responsibilities as described above, and you recognize yourself in the
following:
i. A university graduate preferably
in; Business Management, Environmental Management, Agribusiness, Agricultural
Economics, Development studies or any other related course;
ii. Demonstrate how your training
background links to building resilient production systems from your past work
experience;
iii. Experience in establishing and
conducting Farmer Field Schools;
v. Strong interpersonal skills and
the ability to persuade others on the benefits to adopt better Farming
practices;
vi. The ability to communicate
clearly and tactfully at different levels, both orally and in writing;
vii. The ability to manage own time
and priorities with minimal supervision;
viii. Fluency in English and
Kiswahili is required;
Our offer
i. A unique and challenging job
within an inspiring regional setting;
ii. Opportunity to work with an
innovative and dedicated network of professionals across the East and Central
Africa Region;
iii. A one-year contract (with the
intention for extension subject to satisfactory performance), salary based on
education and experience and 40 hours/week;
Next step
Send one-page motivation letter
indicating your salary expectation and a two-page resume in English to
catherine.maina@solidaridadnetwork.org and copy
info.secaec@solidaridadnetwork.org and state “Application: Coffee Project Officer-
Kenya” in the subject header.
Kenya” in the subject header.
The closing date for this vacancy is
2nd February 2018.
A reference check may be part of the
selection procedure – give three referees.
Applications that do not meet the
above minimum requirements will not be considered.
Website: www.solidaridadnetwork.org
We are an equal opportunity employer.
Canvassing will lead to instant
disqualification
