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Amatheon Agri background
Amatheon Agri Holding N.V. is a German based agribusiness and food company developing and operating sustainable businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Amatheon Agri Uganda Ltd. was established in 2013 and is successfully expanding its large scale farming operations within Nwoya District.
Program description
The objective of the Outgrower Business Model is to create a business partnership between us as a large-scale agribusiness and the small-scale producers surrounding our operations. We aim to reach this goal by providing agricultural and business educational training, a market for inputs and output as well as access to capital.
Position description
Amatheon Agri Uganda is seeking a highly motivated, dynamic individual to support the planning, establishment, and management of the Outgrower Business scheme’s training side. This is a job that is mainly based in the field, there will be a maximum of one day per week that will be spent in the office.
Primary responsibilities will include:
- Conservation Farming Training
- Conduct trainings on conservation farming in smaller and larger groups
- Supervise Farmer Coordinators in training the farmer groups
- Organise regular farmer meetings and keep close contact with the farming community in general
- Identify knowledge gaps of the local farmers and feed those gaps into the training schedule planning
- Disburse inputs such as seed, fertilizer, and herbicides to farmer coordinators for demonstration plots from different seed suppliers
- Coordinate demonstration plots activities such as input disbursement, field layouts, field days and monitoring
- Supervision of women learning centers
- Business education component
- Analyze Community needs to understand knowledge gaps
- Mobilize farmer groups for business trainings such as business group formation and farming as a business
- Credit component
- Mobilize and choose suitable farmers to enter the credit scheme
- Train/educate farmers on loan acquisition and re-payment
- Loan recovery – Monitor farmers’ fields to avoid loan default
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Work closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer and Field Agents in order to track the programmes’ impacts
Required skills and experiences:
- A minimum of 3 years experience within an Outgrower scheme with responsibility and experience in the relevant fields mentioned above
- Degree in agronomics or related field
- Understanding and interest of the private sector a must
- Fluent in Luo/Acholi
- Fluent reading, writing, speaking and computer literacy skills in English
- Good working knowledge of economic development and agricultural value chains
- Experience in cooperating with private and non-profit sector
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates who meet the requirements of the above position should please send a cover letter, resume and salary expectations to career.aau@amatheon-agri.comApply before immediately.
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