The Ghana Grains Council (GGC) is a private sector-led initiative formed in 2010 with funding from (The United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is a body formed by leaders in the grain business with the aim of intervening in the grains value chain to achieve improvement in productivity, quality and greater commercialization of the industry with its core objective to promote the development of the grain industry through the development and use of the Warehouse Receipt System (WRS), facilitate grades and standards and ensure increased productivity for the grain industry.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title:\u00a0Field Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n This position will provide general day-to-day support for field work and perform other duties related to the implementation and supervision of GGC planned activities such as Capacity Building and Trainings, Warehouse Receipt System (WRS), Membership Care Visits, successful implementation of Donor Support projects and other income generating activities. Will work in close coordination with the technical lead to ensure quality of work.<\/p>\n \u2022 Assist the Technical Lead to ensure compliance of the GGC\u2019s Rules and Regulations by warehouses operators and their operations as licensed GGC certified and approved warehouses. Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Minimum of first degree in agriculture or the general sciences Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Accra<\/p>\n How to Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n Applications along with CV\u2019s should be sent via mail to the address:\u00a0info@ghanagrainscouncil.org<\/strong>NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview<\/p>\n Closing Date:<\/strong>\u00a028 February, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ghana Grains Council (GGC) is a private sector-led initiative formed in 2010 with funding from (The United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It is a body formed by…..<\/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":[85],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-9mS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36014"}],"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=36014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Responsible for coordination, monitoring and evaluation of all field activities undertaken by the council in accordance with existing regulations.
\n\u2022 Act as GGC liaison officer providing additional training to farmers, aggregators, FBO\u2019s, warehouse operators\/staff etc.
\n\u2022 Assist in conducting capacity building and training for warehouse operators and their staff under the GGC-WRS
\n\u2022 Provide timely reports to the Technical Lead on weekly and monthly basis
\n\u2022 Assist in GGC membership expansion by embarking on membership care visit, promote members business interest and engage in other revenue generating activities as directed by the Technical Lead
\n\u2022 Supervise and manage all activities in absence of the Technical lead.
\n\u2022 Shall undertake any other assignments as necessary.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Good inter-personal skills to develop and manage all field-related business relationship of the Council.
\n\u2022 Demonstrated ability to implement training programs for especially smallholder farmers
\n\u2022 Working experience within the agriculture value chains, agribusiness or development industry, etc.
\n\u2022 Experience in Warehouse Receipt System (WRS) will be an advantage.
\n\u2022 Must be a computer literate.<\/p>\n