Role Description:
Agriculture Field Officers will act as an integral part of implementing FASRAT Project. The project aims at enhancing access to financial services by building financial education, entrepreneurship capacities of 60,000 farmers and 5,000 SMEs. The field officer will be responsible in recruitment, and supporting the project target beneficiaries by implementing different interventions across the regions.
Qualifications
University degree in Agriculture, Agribusiness, development studies or related fields and a preference for related course
3-5years experience in implementation of agriculture projects
Solid knowledge and understanding of the Agriculture value cha//8in in Kenya
Good knowledge and understanding of financial services for agriculture sector in Kenya.
Good understanding of crop and livestock husbandry in the entire production cycle.
Hardworking, result oriented with social skills for initiating and managing relationships with project partners and stakeholder.
Excellent communication skills, both writing and verbal
Flexible to adjust to work schedules and priorities to meet deadlines, multitask assignments and work in a dynamic environment
Responsibilities
Ensuring business continuity by ensuring proper and regular back up of applications are done with support from System Administration team.
Ensure all applications have up-to-date documentation (deployment architecture, connection matrix and system manuals and troubleshooting guides).
Training of the application to the relevant support teams.
Support Application by maintaining system availability and system uptime.
Adhere to Incident, Problem and Change Management processes (Ticket assignment and resolution, Problem management to resolve root cause of repeat incidents, attend CAB meetings and verify all changes implemented are properly tested to minimize incidents related to changes).
Ensure security of data and information within the Applications Systems (User access review and general application housekeeping).
Support execution of the design, planning and implementation of company projects that promote business needs.
Demonstrate sound technical judgement, communication skills and talented development capabilities.
To be Efficient and effective in issue resolutions.
To maintain the Culture Brand of the organization and customer service.
Contribute to business growth and sales of the organization.
Recommend review of existing business applications to ensure they are able to adapt to the changing business environment.
Ensure timely and accurate availment of application reports.
Job Requirements
Required education
Required relevant work experience
Required languages:
