Career Opportunities at Cereal Growers Association (CGA)

Terms of employment: Contract

Job Summary

Reporting to the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager with a dotted line to the Project Officer, the M&E assistant will work with the M&E team to ensure that the CGA programs M&E needs are being met.

Key roles and responsibilities

• Monitor & track progress of all the projects activities and giving feedback to the project team & other stakeholders in the public & private sector.
• Conduct Program monitoring of the day to day activities and ensure feedback is given to the team.
• Conduct project surveys
• Documents lessons learnt for knowledge management
• Submit monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual updates to the Program Officers and the Project Coordinator.
• Provide data analysis to check the quality of the data from field reports (monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual).
• Ensure that Indicator Performance Tracking Tables (IPTTs) are accurately updated.
• Ensure that means of verification of different results (supporting documents) are in place.
• Develop various data collection tools.
• Undertake accurate project data collection and entry.
• Assist the project personnel with the necessary M & E tools and support them in their use.
• Be the point of contact in management of the farmer recruitment and management tool
• Take lead in digital inscription of questionnaires into online data collection tools like KOBO collect

Terms of employment: Contract

Location: Homabay County

CGA seeks to fill the position of a Field Officer in the above county.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Project Officer, the Field Officer will take lead role in the co-ordination of all field activities in the assigned County. S/he will mobilize smallholder farmers into business-oriented groups for collective action towards training, input access, credit access and produce aggregation to select off-takers. The FO will prepare and submit field progress reports as may be directed by their supervisor.

Key roles and responsibilities

• Coordinate all field activities in the assigned county including farmer profiling to create a database;
• Facilitate partnerships with other actors such as county governments, input suppliers, insurance service providers, buyers and financial institutions in the implementation of field activities;
• Coordinate the establishment of crop demonstrations and facilitation of farmer field days/market linkage meetings;
• Facilitate and coordinate grass root farmer training on group management practices, good agricultural practices (GAP) and Post-Harvest Handling and Storage (PHHS) among others;Enhance the visibility of CGA through field activities implemented at the county level;
• Any other duties as assigned by the Project Officer.
• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in an Agriculture, Agribusiness Management or Rural Development related field;
• At least 3 years working experience;Ability to work with minimum supervision and meet strict deadlines;
• Experience working with smallholder farmers, food security interventions and community development.