Vacancy Announcement – TechnoServe
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!TechnoServe is a nonprofit organization that operates in 29 countries, working with men and women in the developing world to help them build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. By providing access to information, capital, and markets, TechnoServe has helped millions of people create lasting prosperity for their families and communities. Established over 50 years ago, TechnoServe has been recognized as the top nonprofit for fighting poverty by the Impact Matters charity ratings agency.
TechnoServe would like to invite qualified and interested job seekers to apply for the following different position.
Position 1: – Agronomy Advisor
About the role:
Reporting to the Senior Agronomy Advisor, the Agronomy Advisor (AA)’s principal objective is to manage a team of approximately 7 trainers who train farmer groups in good agricultural practices. You will implement and refine agronomy strategies that will enable smallholder coffee growers to increase coffee quality and yields.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in fields of Plant science, Horticulture and any agricultural related fields.
- At least three to five years’ professional work experience, with a strong preference for working experience in the private sector. No prior coffee specific experience required.
- Strong planning skills and experience working to deliver quality work outputs within strict timelines.
- Empathetic and good listening and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, written and oral, in both English and Amharic (knowledge of Afan Oromo, Sidamigna or Gedigna is an added advantage).
- Passion for farmers and rural development.
- Willingness to be located in the field and spend time travelling to project training sites.
Workplace: Gedio Zoone (Bule or Chorso woreda), SNNPR
Deadline: December 29, 2023
Position 2: – Business Program Manager
Reporting to the Deputy Chief of Party, the Business Program Managers’ principal objective is to manage a team of business advisors who train and advise processing stations and exporters on coffee processing and quality. Part of the job will be introducing new digital tools for managers to access technical resources, and supporting station owners to remotely monitor on-site performance through daily data input and sensors.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree with at least eight years of experience; Master’s Degree with at least five years of progressive experience in business and administration, economics, rural development, engineering, or other related discipline
- At least three years of professional management experience – including experience in or with the private sector
- Knowledge in one of the following areas: coffee processing, SME development, exporting, supply chains, project or business management, finance, or engineering
- Excellent communication skills, written and oral, in both English and Amharic (knowledge of Afan Oromo, Sidamigna, or Gedigna is an added advantage)
- Good report writing, presentation, and numerical analysis skills
- Customer/client orientation and problem-solving skills
- Strong planning skills and ability to work independently within agreed work plans and timelines
- Willingness to be located in the field and spend time traveling to project sites located rural areas.
Workplace: Dilla, SNNPR
Deadline: December 30, 2023
Position 3: – MEL Administrator
Reporting to the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Manager, the position will provide supervision for field survey management and coordination related to the monitoring and evaluation of the Coffee practice program in Ethiopia. This involves monitoring field survey activities to ensure surveys are being conducted according to defined protocols and standards. The MEL Field Officer will work closely with the MEL Manager, MEL Administrator, external consultants/contractors, as well as specific TechnoServe’s Coffee Practice Regional team members in day-to-day job activities
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree. 3-5 years, Economics, Statistics and related fields with a minimum of 2-3 years’ experience in managing data, Masters is highly desirable.
- Experience with computer programs related to data analysis including Excel.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Oral and written communication skills that is clear and concise in English, Afan Oromo, and Amharic is necessary
- Keen attention to detail
- Excellent computer skills
- Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural skills
- Willing to learn and flexibility is highly desirable
- Willingness to travel to the field
Workplace: Jimma, Oromia
Deadline: January 01, 2024
Position 4: – Driver
The position holder is responsible on the transport services in Addis Ababa as well as the project areas in a way by providing transport service within the town or to field areas to staff, visitors and others assigned by the Office Manager frequently.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure that rules and regulations laid down by TNS regarding the use of TNS vehicles are fully adhered to
- Drive office vehicles for the transport of staff members and authorized visitor
- Collect urgent documents, items to and from government offices, project sites and from clients as required
- Logs trips, daily mileage, gas consumption, oil changes and greasing
- Responsible for the day to day follow-up of vehicle by checking oil, water, battery, brakes, tires, etc
- Responsible for keeping the vehicle’s maintenance including the service time.
- Responsible for managing the fuel cards (Noc and Abysinya) as per TNS procedure .
- be reliable, punctual and self-motivated
- Ensure vehicle is kept tidy at all times
- Willing to travel outside of the Addis Ababa
- Report any malfunction in a timely manner including but not limited to any unusual noise, oil leakage, flat/worn out tires etc.
- Ensure that seat belts are worn at all times inside TNS vehicles
- Ensure the comfort and safety of passengers
- Ensure prompt reporting of accidents irrespective of the value of damage
- Adhere to rules and regulations of the countries’ traffic law
- Carry a valid driving license at all times
- Carry out any other duties and responsibilities assigned by his/her immediate supervisor
Job Requirements
Required Skills and Experience:
- Valid 3rd grade driving license;
- 12th grade complete; Diploma in Auto-mechanics is an advantage
- A minimum of 5 (five) years’ experience as a Driver. Ability to communicate in both Amharic & English languages, willing and able to work in teams.
- Motivated and committed.
- Flexible, willing to work outside normal office hours and during weekends
- Willing to travel outside of the base and travel long-distance
- Gender-sensitive
Preferred Skills:
- Technical knowledge of vehicles and basic maintenance.
- Experience in an NGO environment.
- Experience in driving four-wheel drive/field vehicle.
Workplace: Addis Ababa
Deadline: January 01, 2024
Position 5: Agronomy Advisor
The Agronomy Advisor shall support the implementation of strategies that will enable smallholder coffee farmers to achieve sustainable increase in coffee quality and yields as per TechnoServe and project’s quality requirements. Responsible for day-to-day execution of the coffee agronomy program, activities plan, local stakeholder relations management and supervise project deliverables of farmer trainers to ensure the timely achievement of targets.
Key roles and responsibilities:
- Sensitize local leadership, smallholder coffee farmers and all local stakeholders on the TechnoServe coffee project work.
- Implement existing strategies to provide assigned woredas and kebeles with agronomy training and with structured post-training farm visits to improve adoption.
- Train and advise farmers being assisted by the project on coffee agronomy best practices with the objective of helping them to improve coffee yields and quality.
- Train, mentor, coach and support assigned Farmer Trainers on all technical and operational aspects of their work and in relationship with farmers. This includes assisting them to set performance goals, continuous assessment of performance and giving feedback.
- Participate in the implementation of the defined project monitoring, measurement and evaluation activities that ensure accurate and consistent capture of date for project reporting and documenting of the impact of our work.
- Where possible, create linkages between wet mills, farmers and suppliers of recommended inputs and other farm requirements.
- Collect, collate, validate and submit the specified project data and clients’ reports within stipulated time lines. This includes impact stories, photos and other beneficiaries’ information that may be requested from time to time
- Cultivate and manage good relationship with local leadership and farmer as well as with key industry stakeholders and community leaders at local levels.
- Keep abreast of developments concerning coffee at the wet mills, farms and in the local community and regularly report these.
- Understand, respect and promote TechnoServe’s values, vision, and strategy in the implementation of assigned duties.
- Any other relevant tasks as assigned by the Senior Agronomy Advisor.
Job Requirements
Required skills and experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Horticulture, or Plant science. May accept experience in lieu of a degree.
- At least 2-5 year’s professional experience – ideally in the private sector – in one or more of the following areas: coffee processing or agronomy; business or cooperative management; SME development; agriculture; training; extension services.
- Demonstrated good understanding of the Ethiopia coffee industry is an added advantage
- Possess an aptitude and skills for training adults in a field set up.
- Strong planning skills and ability to generate innovative solutions in highly dynamic work situations.
- Demonstrated ability to prepare and present well-written, cohesive analyses and reports.
- Strong interpersonal, collaborative and cross-cultural skills.
- Willingness to be based and to spend time in project implementation sites located in rural areas.
- Valid Renewed Motorcycle riding license, ability and willingness to ride a motorcycle is a MUST
- Fluency in English and Amharic. Knowledge of local languages such as Afan Oromo or Sidamigna is an added advantage Success Factors
Workplace: Bensa, Sidama
Deadline: January 01, 2024
How to Apply
Qualified and interested applicants should Click the link which mentioned under each position and submit a cover letter resume as a single document (either Word or PDF) by January 01, 2024. Applications will be reviewed and considered as received/on a rolling basis. Only applicants meeting minimum qualifications will be contacted. Please note that we are not accepting CVs that are not sent through the indicated link.
We encourage all qualified individuals who share TechnoServe’s vision of improving the lives of others through proven business solutions to apply.
With our commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and affirmative action employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, HIV/AIDS status, protected veteran status, disability and all other protected classes.
We are also proud of our commitment to protecting staff, partners, and beneficiaries from abuse and exploitation and thoroughly vet all final candidates through rigorous background and reference checks.
If you have a disability that affects your ability to use our online system to apply for a position at TechnoServe please contact the Human Resources at recruitment@tns.org or call +1 202 785 4515.
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