Business Advisor at Sheer Logic

Duties

• Investigate opportunities to finance business plans of cooperatives, support the establishment of contacts and negotiate business agreements with banks, investors and other financiers (governments and the business sector).
• Help develop financially sustainable structures within cooperatives and farmers’ organisations to enhance their service provision and agricultural extension to their members.
• Provide cooperatives with guidance relating to change trajectories, to promote the interests of farmers, associations and cooperatives, with the authorities of the relevant developing countries.
• Collect and systematise information about clients and advisory processes, such as financial reports and annual overviews.
• Build expertise in a specific area of interest (for example, governance, financial management, climate, youth) and/or on a specific subject or subject of current interest, with a focus on product development, in which he/she will act as the expert point of reference, both within and outside the organisation.

Profile

• A bachelor’s degree in business economics, agri-business or a similar field.
• Extensive experience of more than 7 years working with cooperatives and farmer organisations
• Knowledge of one or more of the fields in which Agriterra achieves results, such as cooperative business development, market development, agricultural service provision, entrepreneurship, governance, and financial management.
• Extensive relevant practical knowledge and experience in a development country, preferably in the agricultural business and/or cooperative sector.
• High level of proficiency in English and Kiswahili.
• Enthusiastic, focused on results and service, and with adequate advisory or training skills.