Agricultural Extension Assistants - 12 Posts at New Kenya Planters Co-operative Union Plc

NKPCU/HRM/06/202 4

• Terms of Service: Permanent and Pensionable
• Basic Salary: Kshs. 47,714 (Minimum) – Kshs. 69,326 (maximum)
• Other remunerations: Based on prevailing Government guidelines
• Reporting to Senior Agricultural Extension Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identifying potential areas to source coffee for milling;
• Preparing and maintaining a coffee milling and marketing incidental register;
• Liaising with estate farmers and cooperative societies for the purpose of entering into milling and/or marketing agency agreements;
• Collecting and collating data on coffee production projections;
• Conducting surveys on service delivery (research & planning);
• Participating in forums to create awareness/sensitize coffee growers on coffee production, milling, marketing, and provision of advances;
• Participating in sensitizing farmers on coffee production, milling, marketing, and provision of advances;
• Attending and responding to farmers' inquiries during cooperative societies annual general meetings;
• Disseminating information materials for sensitization of farmers;
• Providing advice to farmers on best coffee farming practices;
• Assessing coffee farmers' training needs on request for capacity building;
• Ensuring cooperative society/estate farmers have booking slip and delivery note for parchment deliveries to the mills;
• Participating in creating awareness and sensitizing coffee growers on the accessibility of Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving fund;
• Distributing CCARF application forms and guiding the coffee growers in completing the forms; and
• Collecting duly completed forms and submitting them for processing.

Requirements:

• Diploma in any of the following disciplines: - Agribusiness, Agronomy, Marketing, or any other equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
• Proficiency in computer applications; and
• Fulfilled the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution.
• An Applicant with at least two (2) years’ experience in the coffee value chain and agronomy will have an added advantage.