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Farm Manager at Neema Hospital

The Neema Hospital, located at Kahawa Sukari, is a community hospital designed to provide quality, affordable and sustainable health care to all. Read more about this company   Farm Manager Job Type Full Time Qualification Diploma Experience 1 year Location Kitui Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied  Job Details Analyzing existing operations, crops, livestock, staff, and financial documents and recommending improvements. Preparing plans and schedules for planting and harvesting and ensuring staff understands expectations. Ensuring seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and other supplies are regularly restocked. Scheduling repairs, maintenance, and replacement of equipment and machinery. Handling the marketing and sale of products produced on the farm like fruit, vegetables, dairy, meat, and grain. Ensuring all staff adheres to health and safety regulations. Assisting with the recruitment and training of new staff members. Requirements Degree/diploma in general agriculture/ animal science or e

Agricultural Systems Change Lead (Fixed-Term) at One Acre Fund

One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty. Read more about this company   Agricultural Systems Change Lead (Fixed-Term) Job Type Contract Qualification BA/BSc/HND Experience 5 years Location Nairobi Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied  About the Role In 2022, One Acre Fund was awarded $18m in funding from Co-Impact to implement a systems change programme in Rwanda, Kenya, and Ethiopia over a 5 year period. In every country we aggregate sufficient mass of farmers to enable private and public actors to serve them, inject productive interventions of seed, trees, and land through these aggregators, and ensure equitable gender norms to make the system truly pro-women and pro-poor. By the end of 2026, together with our public and private-sector partners, we will deliver millions in cumulative new farm profits for 3.5+ million farm families.  We are seekin

Project Development and Food Systems Specialist at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the world's environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the environment. Read more about this company   Project Development and Food Systems Specialist Job Type Full Time Qualification BA/BSc/HND Experience 7 years Location Nairobi Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied  , Project Management  Responsibilities In consultation with the Branch Coordinator, Head of the Nature Transformation & Mainstreaming Unit, and under direct supervision of the Programme Management Officer responsible for food systems, the consultant will undertake the following assignments Develop a project framework document. To this end, the consultant will: Facilitate consultations with the Biodiversity and Land Branch, other branches and divisions in

Category Manager - Seeds Business at Rose Avenue Group

Rose Avenue Consulting Group is a financial management, strategy and consulting firm that combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in corporate finance, strategy and research. Together with our clients and partnering companies we address our client’s most critical issues and challenges. RACG aims to provide a globally consistent s... Read more about this company   Category Manager - Seeds Business Job Type Full Time Qualification BA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA Experience 5 years Location Nairobi Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied  Job Responsibilities: All seeds supplier relationships – Maintain & Develop existing suppliers and breeders, seek alternative suppliers or breeders as required, ensure the Company is distributor of choice in Kenya for Global seed breeders and suppliers, and seek out global breeding programmes to deliver continuous improvement for Kenyan growers and farmers. Cost price negotiation, utilizing volume, pack size, packaging, branding, annual forec

Compact Coordinator -Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) at International Potato Center

The International Potato Center, known by its Spanish acronym CIP, was founded in 1971 as a root and tuber research-for-development institution delivering sustainable solutions to the pressing world problems of hunger, poverty, and the degradation of natural resources. CIP is truly a global center, with headquarters in Lima, Peru and offices in 20 developing... Read more about this company   Compact Coordinator -Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) Job Type Full Time Qualification BA/BSc/HND Experience 3 - 10 years Location Nairobi Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied  The Consultant will lead the OFSP Compact and his/her duties will include provision of effective technical and managerial leadership in all aspect of the OFSP compact, overseeing the work of implementing partners and ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of the OFSP project activities. Specifically, the consultant will be required to carry out the following services: lead the Orange Fleshed Sweet-Potato Compact and the d

Enterprise Development Coordinator at Heifer International

Heifer International's mission is to work with communities to end world hunger and poverty and to care for the Earth. Dan West was a farmer from the American Midwest and member of the Church of the Brethren who went to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War as an aid worker. His mission was to provide relief, but he soon discovered the meager single cup o... Read more about this company   Enterprise Development Coordinator Job Type Full Time Qualification BA/BSc/HND Experience 5 years Location Eldoret , Nairobi Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied  , Project Management  FUNCTION The Enterprise Development Coordinator will share his or her operational experience with a start-up or a small and growing business with other departments toward the common goal of ensuring that project participants, self-help groups, cooperatives, and unions have the knowledge and skills to develop and run successful enterprises and cooperatives. The Enterprise Development Coordinator will report to the P

Impact Partnership Coordinator at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

The World Agroforestry Centre, is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 1978. The Centre specializes in the sustainable management, protection and regulation of tropical rainforest and natural reserves. Read more about this company   Impact Partnership Coordinator Job Type Full Time Qualification MBA/MSc/MA Experience 3 - 5 years Location Nairobi Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied  , Project Management  Overview To coordinate, facilitate, and technically support the work of CIFOR-ICRAF and its consortium partners in their joint role as an Agriculture/Agri-food Systems and Climate Action Impact Partner Organization (IPO) while ensuring integration and synergy with wider Q4I and CIFOR-ICRAF initiatives. Duties and responsibilities Coordinate the consortium and donor relationship. Coordinate consortium partners on inputs required to plan work, design budgets, or deliver on assignments. Monitor and provide periodic updates on assignment progress, while

Farmer Field Officer at Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT)

Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) is a not-for-profit organization established in Kenya in 2009 by the Biovision Foundation for ecological development in Switzerland and supported by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi. The Trust’s goal is to alleviate poverty and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Ke... Read more about this company   Farmer Field Officer Job Type Full Time Qualification BA/BSc/HND Experience 3 years Location Kisii Job Field Agriculture / Agro-Allied  Job Purpose: The overall purpose of this job is to contribute to the promotion of ecological sustainable agricultural practices and technologies through participatory, market-oriented approaches to meet the needs of smallholder farmers while staying relevant to the context of the project. Key Duties and Responsibilities: Establish and update database of farmers being (currently submitted monthly via Kobo Collect) reached through FCP activities. Carry out farmer trainings