Cash Crops Officer in Rutsiro District
Job responsibilities
Elaborate a local strategy on cash crops, monitor its implementation at Sector level and produce consolidated reports thereof;
Organize trainings and campaigns meant to raise local population awareness on the use and importance of modern techniques of cash crops production and disease control at Sector level; Supervise the identification and mapping of cash crop diseases prevailing within the District and advise on preventive and reactive measures;
Supervise, in close collaboration with the agriculture officer, the distribution and monitor the use of fertilizers across Sectors, and organize experimentation of selected seeds; Maintain, in close collaboration with any other concerned staff, an updated database of cash crops within the District, analyse their impact on local economic development and advise accordingly about scale-up measures.
Minimum qualifications
- 1Bachelor’s Degree in Rural Development0 Year of relevant experience
- 2Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture0 Year of relevant experience
- 3Bachelor’s Degree in Cash Crops Production0 Year of relevant experience
- 4BSC (HON) IN AGRIBUSINESS0 Year of relevant experience
- 5BSC (HON) AGRI ECONOMICS0 Year of relevant experience
Required competencies and key technical skills
- 1Time management skills
- 2Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and/or French. Knowledge of all is an added advantage.
- 3Communication skills
- 4Complex Problem Solving Skills
- 5Organizational Skills
- 6High analytical Skills
- 7Team working Skills
- 8Extensive Knowledge in Agriculture mainly Cash Crops
