Business Advisor

Title: Business Advisor – CREW Program

Report to: Senior Business Advisor 

Grade: 6

Location: West Guji Zone Bule Hora or Kercha Town

TechnoServe Background

TecnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, business and industries. We are a non-profit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. Our work is rooted in the idea that given the opportunity, hardworking men and women in even the poorest places can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. With more than four decades of proven results, we believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives. For more information, visit www.technoserve.org

 Position Description

A field based position responsible for day-to-day support of wet mill clients (Private and Cooperatives) to develop and implement the Techno Serve TASQ sustainability standards, quality standards, and bookkeeping training. The standards aim to improve business practices under the following criteria; TASQ overview, Regenerative, Inclusiveness, Gender equality, Farm traceability, CGAM, Coffee quality control and processing overview and Bookkeeping and other trainings as necessary.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Deliver sustainability training to wet mill owners and staffs (such as TASQ overview, Regenerative, Inclusiveness, Gender equality, Farm traceability, CGAM, Coffee quality control and processing overview and Bookkeeping and other trainings as necessary.
• Assist in development of site specific environmental plans for existing and new wet mills and construction of Wet lands for waste water management and control systems around coffee wet mills
• Follow up progresses and incremental improvements of client compliance against sustainability standards and prepare reports
• Assist in meeting multiple external certification schemes
• Perform sustainability standards audits at each wet mill during the season with the client staff. Assist client to produce an action plan based on the audit.
• Participate actively with project staff and hired expert in assessment of wet mills to determine their suitability for the establishment of wetland.
• Follow-up and support the site survey, timely preparation of site sketch and calculation of bill of quantity for the establishment of wetland and construction of pulp hopper.
• Follow-up excavation, leveling, trench preparation and supervise planting of vetiver grass on the wetland, soil bund and lower side of compost bed; planting grass strips on the wetland.
• Follow-up material delivery and construction of pulp-hopper on time.
• Provide technical support to separate the pulp from waste water and compost properly to use as organic fertilizer.
• Follow-up proper application of vetiver wetland and pulp hopper to manage properly the waste water and pulp in wet mill sites.
• Follow-up timely connection of waste water channel in the site.
• Follow-up the purchase, installation of water meter; and provide training to wet mill manager on tracking of water; keep the water consumption record properly.
• Gathering pictures and related information for beneficiary profile.
• Submit weekly scorecards/status report and set weekly objective every Friday.
• Create strong relationship with woreda government offices and other stakeholders to effectively implement planned activities.
• Strong planning skills and experience working to strict time-guidelines.
• Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural skills.
• Willingness to spend significant time in rural areas
• Excellent English oral & written presentation skills
• Computer literacy, Business Acumen.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Senior Business Advisor

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental protection and management or related fields, Agricultural Science, Business management, Plant science, and Horticulture etc/ Masters preferred.
• At least four years of professional experience – ideally private sector/government – in one or more of the following areas: environmental protection, coffee processing or agriculture, SME development, and other related experience in environmental protection and management.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience of working on coffee processing wet mills at private and cooperative levels and having knowledge of wet mill supply chain has a plus advantage 
• Motor bicycle riding license
• Affan Oromo speaking, hearing and writing is mandatory for vacant as the operation areas is in Oromia West Guji zone Kercha/Bule Hora Woreda

How to apply

Qualified and interested applicants should Click here and submit a cover letter resume as a single document (either Word or PDF) by June 03, 2024. Applications will be reviewed and considered as received/on a rolling basis. Only applicants meeting minimum qualifications will be contacted. Please note that we are not accepting CVs that are not sent through the indicated link.  

We encourage all qualified individuals who share TechnoServe's vision of improving the lives of others through proven business solutions to apply.

With our commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and affirmative action employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, HIV/AIDS status, protected veteran status, disability and all other protected classes.

We are also proud of our commitment to protecting staff, partners, and beneficiaries from abuse and exploitation and thoroughly vet all final candidates through rigorous background and reference checks.

If you have a disability that affects your ability to use our online system to apply for a position at TechnoServe please contact the Human Resources at recruitment@tns.org or call +1 202 785 4515.