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Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title:\u00a0Vegetable Agronomist<\/strong><\/p>\n Position Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 The programme currently seeking candidates for a full-time position as Vegetable Agronomist. Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n The vegetable Agronomist has a background in plant sciences or agronomy. He\/She must be able to provide technical advice to fellow agronomists on vegetable farming in terms of seedling production, pest and disease management, soil fertility management and irrigation. In addition, he\/she has strong project management skills that enables him\/her to efficiently prepare and organise trainings and supervise the demonstration, field days and trials. He\/She is a team player with strong communication and training skills, who is able to engage with both large and small-scale farmers. How to Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n Please read these carefully. Failure to comply with adversely affect your application. Interested applicants are kindly requested to send their applications in English in the form of a one-page letter and current CV outlining experience, qualifications, and three reference contacts by email to: jobsghana@snv.org with copy to: joep.vandenbroek@wur.nl<\/p>\n Closing Date: 17 November, 2017<\/p>\n Applicants should indicate in the subject line of the email the position being applied either Vegetable Agronomist, Fund Manager or Business & Financial Specialist Advisor Position. Applicant will be based in Accra within the SNV Accra Office and applicant should be willing to travel frequently within the country. Only those candidates whose work experience and education meet the mandatory requisites below will be considered for the position<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SNV Netherlands Development Organization is a not-for-profit international development organization founded in the Netherlands nearly 50 years ago. Our mission is to promote inclusive development, systemic change, local ownership and…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[135],"tags":[2027],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-78j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 The Vegetable Agronomist is responsible for providing hands-on approach to vegetable companies, coordinating the agronomy modules and Training of Trainers, as well as the organization of demonstrations, field days and variety trials.
\nUnder the supervision of the GhanaVeg Coordinator, the key responsibilities of the Vegetable Agronomist include:
\n\u2022 Prepare and support the quarterly Training of trainers as assigned by Wageningen UR-PPO (Appied Plant Research). These are training events that range from 2 days to 2 weeks and bring together 25 \u2013 50 vegetable agronomists and farm managers
\n\u2022 Explore with Universities and Agriculture colleges the inclusion of the Agronomy Modules in their curricula
\n\u2022 Follow-up with the 50 Trainers on disseminating the knowledge to their farmer groups and outgrower schemes, through setting up demonstration sites, field days and trainings
\n\u2022 Provide hands-on advice to partner companies and the vegetable cluster projects
\n\u2022 Coordinate a number of trials in southern and northern Ghana with NGOs and research institutes, ensuring thet trials are implemented according to protocols with highest standards of crop management
\n\u2022 Contribute to the documentation of the program\u2019s achievements in terms of: reports, publications, brochures and\/or guidelines<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Minimum 7 years of experience working in agricultural advisory services, preferably in Ghana\u2019s vegetable sector
\n\u2022 Master\u2019s degree in one of the following: plant sciences, agronomy or horticulture
\n\u2022 At least 3 years experience in project management, organizing events, workshops and\/or trainings
\n\u2022 Excellent skills in setting up and evaluating trainings, field demonstrations and trials, including the necessary writing, communication and facilitation skills<\/p>\n