Job Summary
The Innovations Specialist, a new position for Digital Green - Ethiopia, will bring a sense of entrepreneurship and inventiveness to the in-country team as a whole and will report to the Director-Agricultural Extension, Strategy & Policy (East Africa), helping to enhance the unit’s drive towards farmer impact. The successful candidate will be a hands-on, initiative-taking employee and will support the coordination of on-ground output-marketing, input-marketing and/or digital financial services related set of activities for the country portfolio.
This a position that will require an extreme level of out-of-the box thinking and program implementation skills as the Innovations Manager will help coordinate a pilot project (or multiple pilot projects) across a smaller set of geographies and farmers with the aim of strengthening the pilots towards a more streamlined mode of operations. The mind-set that the Innovations Manager would deploy pilots with would be characteristic of a cyclical learning approach: create + deploy + learn + iterate + re-deploy. This is a tremendous opportunity for the right candidate to contribute significantly towards improving the lives of smallholder farmers within a well-respected, high-impact organization.
The Innovations Specialist will be a highly-skilled fast learner who is inquisitive in nature in order to find / determine “farmer’s needs” and “best solutions” to the various challenges smallholder farmers face on both extreme ends of the value chain. The candidate will also need to be adept in team collaboration and awareness creation. The portfolio of activities that he/she will work on will “new” for the wider team at this current stage and it is important that the candidate understands the importance of sharing learnings to the wider team and executes on that importance during specified forums and review sessions.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications and Experiences
Skills and Competencies
Knowledge of high value commodities’ market linkages’ challenges and opportunities;
Let Employers Find You
Upload/Update Your CVFeatured Jobs