About US:

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency – (ADRA) is the humanitarian organisation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church tasked to serve humanity so all may live as God intended. Working at ADRA is more than just a job—it’s an opportunity to be a part of something bigger. Our work is making a difference in the lives of thousands of people in Uganda. Through hard work, perseverance, and deep commitment we turn limited resources into life-changing solutions.

Job Summary:

The 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
• 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

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The position holder must have a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, Adult Education, Agriculture, Marketing or related field.
• At least 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.
• 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.

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Deadline: 19^th April 2020