Twin registered an office in Rwanda to facilitate its operations in Rwanda
and in the East African region.
The job is part of the Producer Partnership Programmes (PPP) team and will
focus on supporting small holders Producer organizations to produce high
quality coffee as per specialty coffee standards. The support will be extended
but not limited to quality control at cherries harvest level, processing
standards at coffee wet mills, dry mills and export level.
POSITION IN THE ORGANISATION
Reports to: Twin regional Coordinator
Based in: Twin, Kigali Office with extensive travel within EAC
Manages: n/a
Receives support from: other members of the PPP team
Coffee Quality Control
Technical assistance to producer organizations on: coffee cherries harvest
and processing at both wet and dry mill
Strengthen the capacity of producer organizations in complying with specialty
coffee quality standard.
Extend his technical support to producers’ Organizations on green coffee
quality control as per Green coffee quality standard of Specialty Coffee
Association of America.
Conduct training evaluation;
Prepare a report at the end of training with recommendations that will improve
future training exercises and practices.
Propose a follow up Action plan that will ensure that the knowledge acquired
during the training will have positive impact on performance.
Project management
Project work planning and monitoring activities against agreed plans
Providing logistical support to project implementation
Other
Providing support to African associates/consultants
Collecting key data to track the performance of Twin’s coffee programme
Any other reasonable duty as may be assigned that is consistent with the
nature of the job and its level of responsibility
Skills and qualifications
A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture essential, development studies
and relevant fields
Good knowledge of coffee agronomy (essential)
Good knowledge of coffee certifications scheme
Proven ability to plan, coordinate and monitor project activities (essential)
Proven ability to work with financial information, preparing and tracking
budgets (essential)
Having coffee tasting skills
Languages
Excellent command of Kinyarwanda, English and French (essential)
Working knowledge of Swahili (desirable)
Experience
Minimum five years’ experience in coffee quality control extension service
Experience of strengthening the capacity of a producer organisation in coffee
quality control – (essential)
Experience of developing and successfully carrying out certification schemes
(desirable)
Experience in project monitoring and evaluation (desirable)
Skills in coffee tasting ( desirable)
Excellent administrative skills including use of Ms Office (Excel, Word,
PowerPoint and Outlook)
Outstanding communication skills
Highly developed, demonstrated teamwork skills
Ability to travel within the East African region
Hours of work: this is a Full Time contract (5 days a week)
Salary band: competitive salary based on experience
Contract conditions: fixed term (1 year renewable)
Please send cover letter and CV to jobs@twin.org.uk indicating the job title
in the subject by 14th January 2016. Interviews to be held the week commencing
18th January 2016 at our Kigali office.
Please send cover letter and CV to jobs@twin.org.uk indicating the job title
in the subject.
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