| myAgro recrute 01 Technical Expert, Agriculture | |
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| Salaire | xxx/ mois |
| Localisation | Thiès / Sénégal |
| Expiration | 16 Avril 2021 |
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Description de l’offre Technical Expert, Agriculture Thies, Thiès Region, Senegal | Agriculture | Full-time Title: Technical Expert Location: Thies, Senegal Report to: Impact and Training Manager Language Requirement: French and English fluency About myAgro myAgro helps farmers move out of poverty: we do this with a simple approach. We help farmers manage their cash flow better – at harvest time when farmers have more cash, they can lock away their funds for seeds and fertilizer for the next season. They pay using their mobile phone (or mobile money in Tanzania) and myAgro delivers the inputs they’ve paid for before it rains and provides technical training so farmers know how to use the inputs efficiently. This leads to 50% more food and 50% more income per farm. To date myAgro serves 80,000 farmers and will scale to 1 million farmers by 2025. The award-winning team has received recognition from Skoll Foundation, Echoing Green, World Bank, Bill Gates and more. About the Role OVERALL: You are myAgro’s Senegal internal agriculture technical expert! You take your agricultural knowledge and make appropriate recommendations to increase farmer ROI balanced with myAgro’s business model, the supply chain, the field team capability, and farmer behavior. You are responsible for establishing and managing a local agricultural team, contributing to myAgro’s agricultural strategy and heavily collaborating on key seasonal activities. This is an extremely collaborative role – agriculture is a “team sport” at myAgro heavily involving the impact and training managers, the regional M&E manager, Field Operations, Logistics, and myAgro Leadership. Responsibilities include (but are not limited to): Prioritize and manage competing projects with overlapping deadlines Technical research and package design: Stay up to date on new seed varieties, planting methods and research on myAgro’s portfolio of crops – use this insight to suggest trials for further research. Desk research on new crops/varieties/products to improve our package offerings with or specific projects (ex: maize seed storage, Work with Logistics/Procurement to facilitate and evaluate new products and inputs. Provide agriculture knowledge and feedback from farmers to propose packages that maximize ROI for the farmer Be a resource to the agricultural team, answering questions in a timely manner and providing distilled, user-friendly research / information as needed to create content or make program decisions. Management of level 1 pilots ( = trial station) – Propose new crops/varieties to test in alignment with myAgro’s business model and North Star – Develop sound trial protocols with great attention for detail – Manage trials effectively (training team, solving problems, ensuring we have usable results) Management some level 2 pilots (= farmer trials) Identify high potential product (from trial station phase) – Design pilot projects – Select, hire and supertrain dedicated trial teams – Implement pilots and collect qualitative feedback from farmers – Note: a portfolio of level 2 pilots will be divided between you and the R&D associate – Quality control seed and fertilizer Set up quality standard and control process with logistics for seed contracts Execute quality control for seeds on ime Advise logistics on fertilizer testing Document quality control processes in SOP Approve seeds and fertilizer respond to quality standards Required Skills and Qualifications – A passion for the mission, vision and values of myAgro – French and English proficiency – A degree in the agronomy discipline preferred and/or 5 years experience in the agricultural field – Significant experience living and working in a developing country – Excellent project management skills Strong managerial skills – Creative and versatile approach to problem-solving; solution-oriented – Strong communication skills and ability to work cross culturally myAgro provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, marital/parental status, national origin, age, disability, political opinion, social status, veteran status, and genetics. myAgro complies with all applicable federal, provincial and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment | |
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