Background

The Rwanda Youth in Agribusiness Forum (RYAF) is a nationwide platform whose purpose is to change the current perception among the youths vis-à-vis the agriculture sector in Rwanda, while orienting them to seize investment opportunities through awareness creation, skills development, and advocacy support services. The idea is to create a critical mass of change agents to influence transformation of agricultural business landscape with courage, determination and positive attitude.

TERMS OF REFERENCE

The RYAF (through young graduates) under an MoU with Sustainable Agricultural Intensification and Food Security Project (SAIP) will be responsible for providing technical know-how and support in the increase of agriculture productivity specifically in horticulture crops, market access, and food security within SHG and Cooperatives supported by SAIP Project and also to improve nutrition.

RYAF will support the Water Users Associations in ensuring proper operation and maintenance as well as cost recovery through full collection of water fees among users of the irrigation schemes that were developed under LWH-RSSP Projects.

The project is being implemented in 8 Districts namely: Gatsibo, Rwamagana and Kayonza in the Eastern Province, Karongi, Rutsiro and Nyabihu in the Western Province, Nyanza in the Southern Province and Rulindo in Northern Province.

It is with this background that RYAF wish to recruit highly motivated young individual that will collaborates with the leaders of SHGs, Cooperatives and Water Users Associations to rapidly improve technical and managerial aspects, increase of productivity, access to market and ensuring proper operations and maintenance of infrastructure. Below is the list of positions under recruitment:

 Horticulturalist (2)

2.1. Duties and responsibilities of Horticulturalist includes but not limited to:

 Mobilize and organize farmers into groups for horticulture production

 Support farmers to plan and produce the selected horticulture crops based on the market demand and analysis (locally, regional and export market)

 Facilitate access to inputs (seeds, fertilizers and pesticides)

 Attend farmers seasonal meeting to facilitate them to get information about available market to grow for localized market

 Support & assist farmer organizations/ Actors in agribusiness roadmap preparation based on the market analysis

 Coaching farmers/ actors in record keeping of their produce

 Coaching and supporting farmer groups & actors in standardizing their produce to meet food safety at domestic, regional and international market

 Strengthening and linking to markets youth & women entrepreneurs or groups that invested in agriculture value chains;

 Coaching all activities of post-harvest, handling and storage in order to minimize losses to the farmer’/s production;

 Ensure farmers are actively participating in operation and maintenance of the postharvest facilities including dryers, warehouses, pack houses, cold rooms…and their respective equipment and tools

2.2. SELECTION CRITERIA

To qualify for this offer, these will be the key requirements:

1. Bachelor Degree in any of these fields: Crop production and Horticulture.
2. Not more than 30 years old
3. Having at-least one year working experience in agricultural field
4. Experience and demonstrated proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and openness to learning.
5. Strong verbal and written, listening and communication skills.
6. Languages Skills in Kinyarwanda, English or French, knowledge of all is an advantage
7. Demonstrated attention to detail.
8. Management and analytical skills
9. Being a resident in that District will be an added advantage(RULINDO, GATSIBO)

The following are the key guidelines to apply for the above RYAF jobs offer:

1. Application letter addressed to the Corporate Liaison Manager, specifying the district you
wish to work in.

2. Curriculum Vitae of not more than 3 pages with at least 3 professional references,

3. National ID,

4. Latest employment completion certificate,

5. Degrees and certificates copies,

6. Soft copies must be submitted not later than September 24, 2020 at 12:00 am.

Submit your CV and Application on Company Website : Click Here

Closing Date : 24th September, 2020.