Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Agronomy, Agricultural Science, Environmental Science, Soil Science, Sustainable Agriculture, or a related field.
  

Additional Information

Qualifications & Education

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business Administration, or a related field. MBA or relevant certification is a plus.
  

Experience

• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience in agronomy, agricultural development, sustainability, or farmer support programs.
  
• Minimum 5-7 years of experience leading, managing, and developing field-based technical teams.
  
• Demonstrated experience managing geographically dispersed teams and driving performance through multiple levels of supervision.
  
• Proven experience in work planning, resource allocation, performance management, and team development.
  
• Experience implementing regenerative agriculture and sustainability initiatives is highly desirable.
  

Team leadership and people management

• Lead, supervise, mentor, and develop the Agronomy Team.
  
• Establish clear objectives, responsibilities, and performance expectations for all direct reports through regular one-on-one meetings and performance reviews.
  
• Build a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and results orientation.
  
• Monitor team performance and implement corrective actions where required to ensure delivery against objectives and KPIs.
  
• Identify training and professional development needs within the team.
  
• Ensure effective communication, coordination, and knowledge sharing across the agronomy team.
  
• Oversee the delivery of high-quality technical support, training, and capacity building for Trainers of Trainers (ToT), Trainers of Farmers (ToF), agronomists, and field staff.
  
• Planning, scheduling, and activity management
  
• Develop annual, quarterly, and monthly workplans for agronomy activities.
  
• Coordinate field schedules, farmer training plans, and extension activities.
  
• Monitor implementation against targets and ensure timely delivery of key outputs.
  

Regenerative agriculture & agronomy program management

• Lead the development and implementation of regenerative agriculture and agronomy initiatives across cooperatives and farmer groups, including demonstration plots, water efficiency, Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Climate-Smart Agriculture, and sustainability interventions.
  
• Conduct soil analysis and soil health management, providing nutrient management recommendations to ToF to improve farm productivity and resilience.
  
• Support revolving fund programs through coordination of agricultural input distribution, farmer adoption tracking, and recovery reporting.
  
• Lead the design, implementation, and monitoring of demonstration plots to validate regenerative agriculture practices, soil amendments, soil rejuvenation techniques, agricultural inputs, and improved crop varieties.
  

Certification Support & Compliance support

• Support implementation of sustainability and certification programs
  
• Ensure agronomic interventions align with certification requirements and projects activities
  
• Support audit preparation, corrective action implementation, and continuous improvement activities.
  
• Gender equity and youth inclusion
  
• Promote gender equity and youth inclusion through farmer group development, entrepreneurship training, and income diversification initiatives.
  
• Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting
  
• Collaborate closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) team to ensure timely collection, validation, and reporting of field data.
  
• Monitor and report on the adoption and impact of regenerative agriculture and agronomy interventions, including productivity, soil health, water efficiency, and sustainability outcomes.
  
• Contribute to monthly, quarterly, and annual technical and narrative reports.
  
• Stakeholder and Cooperative Engagement
  
• Maintain strong relationships with cooperatives, farmers, service providers, and project partners.
  
• Collaborate with sustainability teams to strengthen farmer, and cooperative compliance and continuous improvement.
  
• Coordinate agronomy activities with cooperative leadership and field representatives.
  
• Support development and management of agronomy budgets.
  
• Monitor expenditure against approved budgets.
  
• Budget and Resource Management