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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa: Jobs and Vacancies in Rwanda

Technology Transfer Specialist
Division: Eastern and South Africa Division (ESAFD)
Duty station: Kigali, Rwanda
Duration of the Assignment: July 1, 20 I 0 - December 31, 2012

Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa(AGRA), has awarded a grant to IF DC to implement the project Rwanda Agro Dealer Development (RADD), with the objective to
strengthen the Agro-dealer network in Rwanda, leading to increased sales of agro-inputs and- agricultural productivity. The Project will develop a trained, competitive, private sector agro-input dealer network with the target to improve the accessibility of inputs through the expansion of the input sales network, decreased transaction costs, increased demand, and the establishment of trained agro-dealers (including farmers' cooperatives and their networks), agro-retailers (stockiest), and importers. The project will strengthen IFDCs partnership with AGRA in input dealer development in East and Southern Africa.

The Technology Transfer Specialist for this' project will reinforce both the demand and supply side of the agricultural inputs market. The Specialist will work under the responsibility of the project Coordinator, in close collaboration with the communication and training teams of the IFDC-CATALYST project.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Promote the use of fertilizers, seeds, soil amendments, CPPs, tools and equipment.
Train input dealers, enabling them to advice their clients regarding the use of agricultural inputs.
Help input dealers and distributors to develop on-farm demonstrations, showing the benefits of agricultural inputs.
Write quarterly progress reports for the project coordinator.
Establish and maintain relationships with structures and persons having similar

General Skills and Competencies Required:
An agronomic background and at least 3 years of experience.
Knowledge about agricultural inputs, their use and benefits.
Experience in promotion and training.
Fluent in English, French and Kinyarwanda.
Good writing and reporting skills.

All positions within the RADD project will be national positions, and will be based in the lFDC office in Rwanda.
The Project is part of the Agribusiness Program of the IFDC East and Southern Africa
Division.

Remuneration:
These being nationally recruited staff (NRS) positions, salary will be paid in local currency. The employees' benefits package will include annual and sick leave ;insurance(medical and life) and retirement.


Application:
Qualified candidates are invited to submit a letter of application, a CV and 3 references, to the IFDC Rwanda,via email to ifdcrwanda@ifdc.org.


Please reference the job title you are applying for in the subject line of your email.

Applications should be submitted at the latest Friday June 15th 2010, at 5:00pm

More Jobs and Vacancies in East Africa available here

East Africa Vacancies


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