Apr 2, Kenya Planters Co-operative Union Agricultural Extension Assistants Jobs

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Kenya Planters Co-operative Union Agricultural Extension Assistants Jobs

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Identifying potential areas to source coffee for milling;
  • Preparing and maintaining a coffee milling and marketing incidental register;
  • Liaising with estate farmers and cooperative societies for the purpose of entering into milling and/or marketing agency agreements;
  • Collecting and collating data on coffee production projections;
  • Conducting surveys on service delivery (research & planning);
  • Participating in forums to create awareness/sensitize coffee growers on coffee production, milling, marketing, and provision of advances;
  • Participating in sensitizing farmers on coffee production, milling, marketing, and provision of advances;
  • Attending and responding to farmers’ inquiries during cooperative societies annual general meetings;
  • Disseminating information materials for sensitization of farmers;
  • Providing advice to farmers on best coffee farming practices;
  • Assessing coffee farmers’ training needs on request for capacity building;
  • Ensuring cooperative society/estate farmers have booking slip and delivery note for parchment deliveries to the mills;
  • Participating in creating awareness and sensitizing coffee growers on the accessibility of Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving fund;
  • Distributing CCARF application forms and guiding the coffee growers in completing the forms; and
  • Collecting duly completed forms and submitting them for processing.

    Requirements:

  • Diploma in any of the following disciplines: – Agribusiness, Agronomy, Marketing, or any other equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
  • Proficiency in computer applications; and
  • Fulfilled the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution.
  • An Applicant with at least two (2) years’ experience in the coffee value chain and agronomy will have an added advantage.

    How to Apply

    Qualified candidates can send their application, including a cover letter and CV, to [email protected] or deliver their application details to Wakulima House, Haile Selassie Avenue, 6th Floor. In the subject line of your email, please include the job title and reference number.

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