In consultation with the Project Officer, the field officer will also take a lead role in the coordination of various capacity building activities including trainings and set up of aggregation centres among other field activities.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Spearhead smallholder farmer mobilization into FBOs and coordinate their participation in project activities.
• Facilitate the set up of village aggregation centres and supervise their activities in partnership with farmer organizations.
• Coordinate the training of FBO members, agro-dealers and aggregation center committees on PHH and business skills.
• Facilitate the efficient aggregation and joint marketing of the target crops.
• Sensitize and link FBOS to available agricultural credit and finance.
• Facilitate the linkage of FBOs to Agro dealers and SMEs as local produce buyers.
• Organize the holding of pre-harvest FBO / buyer interactive meetings.
• In consultation with the Project Officer, maintain a simple and practical grain production and marketing database within the project area.
• Preparing weekly, and other periodic reports as directed by the Project Officer on field activities.
• Any other duties as directed by the Project Officer / Chief Executive Officer.

• Computer literacy
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability and willingness to work with rural communities
• Organizational and mobilization skills

• Project partners
• Farmers
• Agricultural inputs suppliers 
• Grain buyers among other local traders
• Food aid agencies among other NGOs
• Research organizations
• Government line Ministries
• Other business partners