Position Summary: Agricultural Business Trainers generally work as liaisons between farmers and agricultural businesses, representing either the farm or the business.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide business development advice, mentoring and coaching and facilitate change management to farmers cooperatives that allow them to realize their business growth potential.
• Analyze the capacity needs of farmers organizations (FOs) and rural producer organizations (RPOs) and suggest sustainable solutions
• Help develop training and education structures within farmers’ organizations to enhance their service provision, behaviour change and collective marketing services.
• Provide clients with guidance relating to promoting the interests
  of smallholder farmers, their associations/cooperatives, with the authorities of the relevant stakeholders.
• Build expertise in a specific area of interest
• Overall planning and leadership of the development of Business Plans in coordination with Team Leaders
• Coordination and consultation with the Team Leader & stakeholders
•  Coordination with value chain stakeholders/actors
• Support set-up technical assistance and training processes
• Support reporting to Team Leader
• Ensure quality of work and timely delivery of outputs

Qualifications:

• The position holder must have a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, Adult Education, Agriculture, Marketing or related field.
• Minimum of five years’ experience working with Agricultural cooperatives.
• Ability to design training curricula based on a needs assessment and present in MS Word and PowerPoint format to farmers and local staff.
• Launch training for progressive farmers in adopting appropriate practices in agriculture
• Design training to build the capacity of agricultural farmers.
• Coordinate training to farmers in the surrounding villages for adopting improved agriculture methods and technologies.
• Work closely with the program manager to plan, design and assist in the implementation of other project-related activities;
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in the design and delivery of agricultural training;
• Work experience in Agricultural cooperatives is highly desirable;
• Strong agribusiness and value chain skills;
• Experience in working with a range of stakeholders that include the private sector, government, agribusiness cooperatives and farmers’ associations.
• Strong written and oral English skills, experience in report writing.