March 7th, 2020 at 10:47 pm
Applications are invited from interested and suitably qualified candidates for Farmerline Ghana Massive Recruitment 2020.
Farmerline is a Non-governmental organization aimed at transforming smallholder farmers into successful entrepreneurs by increasing their access to information, inputs, and resources to increase productivity.
Farmerline is a learning organization and you will have the chance to apply your ideas and creativity to solve problems every day. If you work well in a dynamic collaborative culture, set high standards, and meet challenges with determination and a sense of humor, you’ll thrive at Farmerline.
Job Description
- Company: Farmerline
- Location: Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana
- State: Kumasi
- Job type: Full-Time
We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:
Job Title: Technical Writer
Responsibilities
- Work with internal teams to obtain an in-depth understanding of the software and the documentation requirements
- Prepare easy-to-understand user interface text, online help, FAQs, developer guides, user case studies and other contents for our end users
- Create tutorials & demos to help end-users use a variety of applications
- Create and maintain the information architecture
Requirements
- Coachable person
- Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures
- Proven working experience in technical writing of software documentation
- Excellent written skills in English, French is an added advantage
- Basic familiarity with the Software Development Life Cycle and software development
Qualifications
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Communication
- Previous experience preparing technical documents
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive Salary
- Local Health Insurance
- Free Office Lunch
- Professional development opportunities
- A leadership team and colleagues investing in your personal and professional growth
- Dynamic, young culture with great opportunities for learning, leadership, and FUN
Job Title: Director of Finance
Responsibilities
- Determine need for & manage production of financial reports
- Manage financial tracking systems
- Lead team of finance & accounting staff
- Act as an advisor to leadership team in relation to fundraising & investors
- Build financial models & projections
- Manage relationship with Farmerlines current & potential investors
- Work with HR to manage full payroll process
- Develop & maintain comprehensive risk management framework
- Design & manage financial controls to prevent & detect error & fraud
- Ensure 100% legal compliance and manage regular audit process
- Coach Farmerline staff on financial management
Skills & Experience
- Experience in agro-inputs distribution, commodity off-taking, and business to business transactions
- Exposure & knowledge of all methods of raising capital
- Knowledge of tax laws of Ghana required. Knowledge of tax laws of West Africa and other international jurisdiction (USA, Mauritius, Netherlands) an added advantage.
- Excellent skills in MS Excel.
- Excellent communication, presentation & report writing skills
Qualification
- Finance related degree.
- Internationally recognised accounting professional qualification
- An MBA can be an added advantage
- 6 years of progressive working experience in finance, 2 of which must be in either middle or senior level management
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive Salary
- Local Health Insurance
- Free Office Lunch
- Professional development opportunities
- New laptop for work or periodic personal computer repairs
- A leadership team and colleagues investing in your personal and professional growth
- Dynamic, young culture with great opportunities for learning, leadership, and FUN
Job Title: Solutions Architect
Role
- Become an expert on Mergdata and how to best deploy it.
- Work hand-in-hand with Farmerline’s Sales organization to develop proof of concept applications, present technical demonstrations, and help Farmerline customers make the most of our offerings..
- Provide structured feedback and work closely with Farmerline’s engineering teams.
Skills/Experience
- A capable engineer, with previous background building web or mobile applications.
- Experienced in full stack development and software architecture patterns, able to understand how a wide variety of technologies and systems interact with each other.
- A great communicator, comfortable explaining complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Interested in solving open ended business problems with a combination of technology and creative thinking.
- Experienced working in the sales lifecycle and driving outcomes in a customer-facing environment.
Job Title: Product Manager
Role
- Work closely with internal stakeholders in assessing their needs and define product or process requirements
- Effectively coordinate between engineers, product managers and stakeholders to build tools and processes that empower teams to execute with efficiency
- Manage each product from start to finish
- Own the prioritized roadmap, including clear established milestones
- Manage backlog of features and enhancements, and communicate timing and status to internal teams
- Define and maintain KPIs to monitor impact of projects on productivity and the overall business
Skills
- An experienced Product Manager (2+ years) or have equivalent experience
- Experienced with roadmap creation and the prioritization of multiple projects
- Experienced with defining product specifications and managing the execution of those with engineering through agile processes.
- Able to Demonstrate experience launching products that drive business impact
- Excellent with written and verbal communication
- Able to convert client needs into actionable technical requests
- Able to demonstrate proven ability to manage cross-functional projects and coordinate efforts across multiple teams
- Adept at prioritization, even in the face of multiple conflicting projects
- Experienced with UX and Wireframing.
- Experience with UI design and tools is a plus.
Job Title: Market Access Specialist
Responsibilities
- Develops impactful, cost effective and scalable market access models for the cereals,plantain, vegetable and cocoa value chains.
- Identifies and engages crop farmers and micro-entrepreneurs to aggregate farm produce at the right time while ensuring high quality and reducing post harvest losses.
- Collaborates with other units to ensure all farmers receive adequate training, agro-inputs.
- Coordinates the procurement of all off-taking and market-related logistics including storage and transportation
- Deploys the Mergdata platform to predict yield, food quality and track produce sourcing.
- Facilitates fair, timely and transparent payments to all farmers supplying to the micro-entrepreneurs and agribusinesses in Farmerline’s network.
- Aggregates and distributes market prices from major markets to farmers in our network.
- Implements proven post harvest practices to enhance the shelf life of farm produce.
- Integrates successful parts of the market access model into Farmerline’s operations and partnerships across Africa.
Qualification
- Knowledge of the systemic challenges in agriculture value chains in Ghana, a passion for creating lasting solutions to them and ability to navigate farming communities.
- Project management skills and the ability to create and stick to timelines.
- Bachelor’s degree in agricultural science, agribusiness, supply chain management.
- 3- 5 years of working experience in similar roles.
- Strong research and field experience in maize, cocoa, plantain, sorghum is required
- Proven experience in the use of mobile technology to facilitate market access.
- Strong business analysis and financial management skills
- Excellent oral communication, writing and presentation skills.
- Ability to speak Twi and other local languages is an added advantage.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive Salary
- Local Health Insurance
- Free Office Lunch
- Quarterly professional development opportunities
- New laptop for work or periodic personal computer repairs.
Job Title: Inbound & Content Marketer
Responsibilities
- Create contents & resources each month to drive leads, subscribers & awareness (ex. ebooks, whitepapers, infographics, articles, podcasts).
- Grow new leads by converting site traffic through calls-to-action, landing pages, and lead generation content
- Optimize our marketing automation and lead nurturing processes through social media management, email email marketing
- Establish closed-loop analytics with sales to understand how our inbound marketing activity turns into customers, and continually refine our process to convert customers.
- Prepare creative briefs for videographers/photographers and graphic designers to develop into contents for digital platforms
Skills & Requirements
- A coachable person
- Excellent writer and communicator. French language skills would be an asset.
- Past experience building audiences either online or offline
- Some past experience in marketing preferred.
- Creative thinker, with an ability to use data to inform all decisions.
- Proficiency in marketing automation, blogging & email marketing in order to generate traffic, convert visitors into leads, and then nurture them (using dynamic workflows) into converted customers.
- Conversant with digital marketing platforms (LinkedIn, Mailchimp, Google Analytics)
Qualifications
- BA/BS degree in marketing, communication or related degree
- A minimum of 3 years of work experience
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive Salary
- Local Health Insurance
- Free Office Lunch
- Professional development opportunities
- A leadership team and colleagues investing in your personal and professional growth
- Dynamic, young culture with great opportunities for learning, leadership, and FUN
Job Title: Photographer & Videographer
Responsibilities
- Work with content marketer to develop videos and photos for brand storytelling
- Travel to project sites to gather information and visuals for documentaries and publications
- Editing video and photography contents
- Drive the growth and brand awareness of the organization through content generation
Skills & Experience
- Ability to originate and communicate compelling storylines and themes that are aligned with the organization’s focus
- Technical videography, photography and editing skills
- Great work ethic, punctual, great people skills
- Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative suite tools or other professional videos/photo editing tools
- Strong proficiency in using professional recording devices: pro cameras, drones, VR Cameras etc
- A portfolio of compelling video and photography works/projects
Qualification
- BA/BS degree
- A minimum of 2 years working experience as a videographer and photographer
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive Salary
- Free Office Lunch
- Professional development opportunities
- A leadership team and colleagues investing in your personal and professional growth
- Dynamic, young culture with great opportunities for learning, leadership, and FUN
Job Title: Graphic Designer
Responsibilities
- Design all creatives, documents and interfaces following the corporate brand guide
- The focal person for updating and improving the corporate brand guide as well as ensuring compliance with the brand guide
- Working with the web development team in designing websites
- Work with UI/UX team in designing app and web interfaces
- Work with the marketing team to design brand and marketing collaterals, documents and social media contents
Requirements
- A portfolio of impressive creative works
- Ability to take initiative
- Strong proficiency in Adobe Creative suite tools
- Attentive to detail and accuracy
- Self-motivated, highly organized and able to work to demanding deadlines
- A positive and proactive attitude
Qualification
- A degree-level professional qualification relevant to graphic design
- A minimum of 3 years of working experience
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive Salary
- Local Health Insurance
- Free Office Lunch
- Professional development opportunities
- A leadership team and colleagues investing in your personal and professional growth
- Dynamic, young culture with great opportunities for learning, leadership, and FUN
Job Title: Director of People
Responsibilities
- Develop people strategy and resulting operational plan for Farmerline in alignment with all departments to ensure the business goals are reached
- Oversight of all HR processes and policies and regular updating to ensure they are relevant to business needs and manage the whole employee life cycle ( Recruitment, Onboarding, Reward and Recognition, Engagement, Performance, Training and Development, Promotion, Exit management, Grievance)
- Build capability of managers and leaders within the organization to effectively manage their teams
- Source appropriate partnerships and lead and manage the relationships to facilitate bringing in talent, utilizing flexible resources and ongoing training and development.
- Drive implementation of performance management and talent management process in order to drive higher performance, engagement of employees and succession planning.
- Provide senior management with HR metrics and insights related to the marketplace to guide decision making and strategy.
- Directly manage the recruitment process and support managers to bring in the best talent.
- Ensure legal compliance with all people related aspects of the organization’s operations.
- Manage HR Budget and take oversight of payroll and ongoing employee costs to advise leadership on risks and cost benefit analysis.
Skills & Experience
- Leadership skills; ability to designate success metrics, strategies to achieve metrics, and the ability to manage and motivate team members to participate enthusiastically
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; the ability to calculate risk and make fact-based decisions.
- Business and financial minded with high interpersonal skills and profitability sensitivity and ability to operate effectively in a fast moving international business environment.
- Excellent communication skills and proficient writing and presentation skills.
- Strategic flexibility and cross-cultural sensitivity, particularly when under-pressure and an effective time manager
Qualification
Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in human resources, business management, or a related field or at least 5 years of working experience in similar areas.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive Salary
- Local Health Insurance
- Free Office Lunch
- Quarterly professional development opportunities
- New laptop for work or periodic personal computer repairs
- A leadership team and colleagues investing in your personal and professional growth
- Dynamic, young culture with great opportunities for learning, leadership, and FUN
Job Title: Agronomist
Responsibilities
- Develops impactful, cost-effective and scalable market access models for the cereals, plantain, vegetable and cocoa value chains.
- Identifies and engages crop farmers and micro-entrepreneurs to aggregate farm produce at the right time while ensuring high quality and reducing post harvest losses.
- Collaborates with other units to ensure all farmers receive adequate training, agro-inputs.
- Coordinates the procurement of all off-taking and market-related logistics including storage and transportation
- Deploys the Mergdata platform to predict yield, food quality and track produce sourcing.
- Facilitates fair, timely and transparent payments to all farmers supplying to the micro-entrepreneurs and agribusinesses in Farmerline’s network.
- Aggregates and distributes market prices from major markets to farmers in our network.
- Implements have proven post-harvest practices to enhance the shelf life of farm produce.
- Integrates successful parts of the market access model into Farmerline’s operations and partnerships across Africa.
- Support the development of training curriculum and manuals
- Provide coaching in drafting agricultural advisory messages and product development
- Validate all drafted agricultural advisory messages
- Provide consultation to call center team on technical issues
- Conduct trainer of trainers workshop for Farmer Services team on various technical agriculture topics
- Assist in the establishment of demonstration plots for testing product/input quality and effect
- Provide advice on initiatives based on technical expertise
- Assist in farm monitoring to promote best management practices among farmers
- Oversee the establishment and operation of Farmerline’s demonstration farm
Qualifications
- Knowledge of the systemic challenges in agriculture value chains in Ghana, a passion for creating lasting solutions to them and ability to navigate farming communities.
- Bachelor’s degree in agricultural science, agribusiness, supply chain management.
- 3- 5 years of working experience in similar roles.
- Strong research and field experience in at least 3 of the following; maize, cocoa, plantain, sorghum, rice, and vegetables is required
- Proven experience in the use of mobile technology to drive farmer success
- Strong business analysis and financial management skills
- Excellent oral communication, writing and presentation skills.
- The ability to speak Twi and other local languages is an added advantage.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive Salary
- Local Health Insurance
- Free Office Lunch
- Quarterly professional development opportunities
- New laptop for work or periodic personal computer repairs
Job Title: Senior Associate, Global Partnerships & Development
Responsibilities
Partnership Development (70% FTE)
- Research potential partners and prioritize and evaluate new corporate, development, foundation and government partnership prospects
- Network at appropriate conferences, meetings, and other forums to promote Farmerline and develop potential opportunities
- Build relationships with new potential partners
- Assist in developing strategies and solutions that completely solve supply chain challenges of potential clients, and communicating these effectively through high-quality proposals and presentations
- Write, edit, and prepare proposals and other materials for a range of funding opportunities and current partnerships
Partner Success (30% FTE)
- Design and scale-up short pilots that demonstrate Farmerline’s value proposition
- Ensures a seamless transition of customer responsibility to the designated Partner success team following a successful implementation
- Work with the partner success or project management team to ensure all deadlines, proposals and reports are submitted on time
- Turn exciting prospects into successful partnerships that create lasting profit for farmers everywhere
- Identify opportunities for team process improvement, coordinating with team members to creatively solve problems and implement solutions
- Provide excellent customer service by responding quickly to the needs or challenges of existing and potential clients and partners
- Cultivate and deepen client relationships and partnerships that add value
Skills & Experience
- Minimum 3 years experience in fundraising and development or communications with a track record of successfully securing partnerships larger than $50,000
- Minimum of 5 years of working experience in total
- Fluency in English required. Professional proficiency in French is an asset
- Effective verbal and written communicator
- A successful track record of collaborating across cultures and continents
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, and a willingness to learn additional software such as Hubspot, Pipe drive, and others as needed
- An ability to lead and innovate in challenging and changing environments and to problem solve accordingly
- Superb attention to detail and demonstrable skill for system and process management
- Outstanding written and verbal communications skills
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively across departments
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and produce high-quality work in a
deadline-driven environment
Qualification
- 3-5 years working in partnership or business development teams for a social enterprise
- Minimum of a Bachelors degree in global food, agriculture, international development and
related fields - Familiarity with Pipe drive or similar partnership development software
- Understanding of and experience working in Africa and connecting with partners globally
- Familiarity with working in a fast-growing for-profit social enterprise
- Experience with proposal writing and management
Benefits and Compensation
- Opportunity to work globally and build global networks
- Colleagues who are committed to your growth
- Competitive salary
- Health Insurance
- Laptop Allowance
- Free Daily Lunch
- Return ticket to the passport country each year
- Work/resident permit
How to Apply for Farmerline Ghana Massive Recruitment
Interested persons for each of the positions above, should CLICK HERE to apply.