Job Description
– Elaborate a local strategy on cash crops, monitor its implementation at Sector level and produce consolidated reports thereof;
– Organize trainings and campaigns meant to raise local population awareness on the use and importance of modern techniques of cash crops production and disease control at Sector level;
– Supervise the identification and mapping of cash crop diseases prevailing within the District and advise on preventive and reactive measures;
– Supervise, in close collaboration with the agriculture officer, the distribution and monitor the use of fertilizers across Sectors, and organize experimentation of selected seeds;
– Maintain, in close collaboration with any other concerned staff, an updated database of cash crops within the District, analyse their impact on local economic development and advise accordingly about scale-up measures.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Agri-business
Experience: 0
Bachelor’s Degree in Rural Development
Experience: 0
Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture
Experience: 0
Bachelor’s Degree in Cash Crops Production
Experience: 0
Bachelor’s Degree in agro-economics
Experience: 0
Competency and Key Technical Skills
Integrity
Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills.
Inclusiveness
Accountability
Communication
Teamwork
Client/citizen focus
Professionalism
Commitment to continuous learning
Communication skills
Time management skills
Complex Problem Solving Skills
Organizational Skills
High analytical Skills
Team working Skills
Fluent in Kinyarwanda, English and/or French. Knowledge of all is an advantage
Extensive Knowledge in Agriculture mainly Cash Crops
