| Zanzibar, Tanzania 12 Months Kizimbani Agricultural Training Institute (KATI) |
About VSO
| VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. Our high-impact approach brings people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place. |
Role overview
| VSO – Tanzania (Tz) has more than 50 years of operations delivering livelihoods projects supporting vulnerable people via promoting of small to medium business enterprise; supporting vocational training and skills development in local trades; and strengthening structures and networks of community-based organisations that are involved in economic development. The VSO Secure Livelihoods program would like to recruit dynamic and qualified personnel to fill a vacancy position of Post-Harvest Handling (PHH) and agro-processing adviser. The adviser will work in a project named Commercial agriculture for Smallholder Farmers (CASH) in Zanzibar, Tanzania that aims to contribute to strengthening value chain linking smallholder farmers to markets, in view of increased productivity, competitiveness and income in the horticulture sector in Zanzibar. The adviser will work closely with the project team and the main goal of the role is to provide technical assistance to local partner organizations in strengthening farmers’ technical capacity on best practices in post-harvest handling; storage; packaging and value addition. More specifically, the adviser will: o Train farmer groups on appropriate post-harvest handling and loss prevention techniques o Support the Formation (Register and profile) of new farmers groups in Ugunja and Pemba respectively. o Provide technical assistance and supervise farmer groups to design and construct demo post-harvest handling facilities. o Organize farmer/processer into groups for learning technical and business matters at KATI agro-processing incubation centre o Ensure all farmer groups are visited and received technical advice during harvest for them to adhere with different market segment standards |
Skills, qualifications and experience required
| Essential Qualified graduate in related field. Must have practical field experience in relevant works Desirable - Previous experience of working on similar project - Health and safety qualification - Planning and organizing - Able to demonstrate excellent coaching and influencing skills and the ability to motivate by Persuasiveness, Influencing and leading - Must have a hands on approach and get involved with duties |
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How to apply
| If you’re interested in applying for this role, please download the job description to read more details about the position and the skills and experience we’re looking for. To submit your application, click on ‘Apply now’ and complete all relevant fields on the online application form. |
Application closing date
| 13 Mar 2015 |
Interview/Assessment date(s)
| To be confirmed |
Start date
| asap |
| Click here to download the job description in PDF format |
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