1. Planning and management of BA’s and FT’s
· Submit SBA Weekly work plan to Program Manager
· Review BA weekly work plans and previous week’s achievements.
· Attend monthly Agronomy SBA team meeting
· Manage monthly BA meeting
· Clearly communicate goals and roles and responsibilities to all staff
· Provide feedback, coaching and development activities related to performance management, following HR guidelines.
· Notify Program Manager of any performance issues as soon as observed.
· Develop a team spirit among all reports.
· Manage Farmer Trainer of the month awards for area and Cohort.
2. Support monthly Agronomy trainings to BA’s and FT’s
· Review the monthly agronomy modules and give feedback
· Deliver modelling training to BA’s every month at local training demonstration plot
· Attend modelling sessions to FT’s, complete Training Observation form for BA, give feedback to BA’s (applicable to BA’s delivering training)
· Ensure all training materials reach BA’s on time
3. Support BA’s in the field
· Observe full training to farmers
o Complete the training observation form and give feedback to BA and FT
o Check attendance form, cross check with number of farmers seen as present. Ensure reported data is accurate.
o Check demo plot status, complete form and give feedback to BA and FT
· Visit farmers selected at random, with BA and FT
o Discuss training, farmer adoption and challenges
· Complete Best Practice check list with BA and FT
4. Attendance M & E
· Collect, review and submit complete set of FT’s attendance sheets to M & E within 5 days of training completion.
· Discuss any attendance issues with BA’s and Program Manager and develop action plan.
· Compile weekly attendance update and submit to Program manager
5. Training Observation & Demo plot observation using digitalized tablet based
· Ensure tablet application for training observation are being completed and uploaded by BA’s.
· Discuss any performance issues related to training quality with BA’s and take appropriate action.
· During each month training to client, check for the correct completion of the Training observations and Demonstration plots observation (TO & DO) by the BAs, before they synchronize their tablet to the system to upload the completed data.
· Discuss any issues that might be seen and give feedback how to overcome these issues. (Problems with the TO& DO, problems with GPS recording, problems with submitting final data.)
· Discuss any issues with FT’s, BA‘s and develop action plan for improvement.
· Compile weekly Farm Support visit update and submit to SBA
6. Stakeholder Management
· Create a good working relationship with stakeholders.
· In consultation with Program Manager, hold meeting with Agricultural Development and administration offices of the appropriate Wereda’s once every quarter.
· Meet with Local Kebele officials to give progress report every quarter.
· Attend annual stakeholder meetings
7. Agronomy Budget & Administration
· Implement and manage agronomy budget for the area
· Prepare monthly agronomy budget and submit to area finance office
· Timely submission of all internal reporting requirements.
· Collect receipts from BAs for FT accommodation and transport costs and prepare necessary paperwork for payment Timely approval and submission of FTs timesheets on monthly basis
· Timely approval and submission of FTs timesheets on monthly basis
· Entrepreneurial
· Inspirational leader of professional staff
· Developing country experience
· Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural skills
· Willingness to travel domestically when necessary
· Computer Literacy
· Excellent communication skills, written and oral, in both English and Amharic (knowledge of Afan Oromo is a strong added advantage)