BASIC JOB INFORMATION
- Job Category: Agriculture, Business Development
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Duration: 6 Months with the possibility of extension
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Job Location: Bagmati province with frequent visits to Koshi province
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Offered Salary: Competitive
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Education Level: BSc.Ag plant science or equivalent
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Experience: Min. 1 year of experience in working in the agriculture, value chain, and marketing of agro-products
TEAM AND ROLE OVERVIEW
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The Agriculture Associate is being recruited, in a full-time position, to be a part of aQysta Nepal’s team for six months with the possibility of an extension.
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The Agriculture Associate will work closely with aQysta’s agri and marketing team.
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The Agriculture Associate will eventually evolve as an agricultural expert at aQysta and will strengthen the agricultural value chain
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Located in Kathmandu and works to manage aQysta’s farmers’ onboarding and market linkage activities in Koshi Province, Bagmati Province, etc.
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Managing work and relationships, and motivating farmers in the selected working area.
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Working closely with farmers, arranging visits, meetings, and training to be provided in working areas preferably in Koshi Province
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Coordinate with the Sales and Marketing team to help link the produce/harvest of farmers to the market.
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Support (when needed) to the Agronomy team in providing technical guidance to farmers on growing, monitoring, and pest management of selected crops for targeted output achievement.
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Recording and sharing regular farming data in the company record-keeping platform.
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Coordinate with Agronomists for identifying the related farm intervention, identification of high value crops.
BACKGROUND AND SKILLS
- Education: BSc. Ag plant science or equivalent.
- Min. 1 year of experience in working in agriculture, agri-sales and marketing, supply chain management.
- Hands-on experience working in farming, production planning, and training farmers.
- Ability to motivate and manage farmers.
- Good communication skills to communicate and build rapport with diverse stakeholders.
- Self-disciplined and trustworthy.
- Proactive and can work independently whenever required
- Knowledge and experience of agri-business practices with smallholder farmers are preferred.
- Willingness to travel frequently outside the valley especially around districts of Koshi Province.
WHAT WE OFFER & EXPECT
At aQysta, you will join a diverse international team of driven, ambitious, young professionals who proudly own the company’s purpose – ‘to enable smallholder farmers to sustain themselves and their families with just farming.’
aQysta provides an open-minded and safe working environment that encourages innovative thinking, ownership, and taking on responsibilities as well as providing ample room and tools for you to unleash your creativity and skills to excel in the work you do.
ABOUT AQYSTA
aQysta Nepal Pvt Ltd is a company that focuses on building a holistic approach for smallholder farmers that combines the two interlinked themes: water as well as agriculture. aQysta provides the pumps via a holistic model, called the GROWN Farm Incubator. In the Grown Farm Incubator, aQysta collaborates with smallholder farmers as a partner. aQysta provides everything the smallholder farmers need to become more profitable, resilient, and ecologically sustainable. This entails supporting activities from supplying water for irrigation, and agri-inputs to linking harvests to the existing and untapped markets and all things in-between. In doing so, farmers choose which services they need from aQysta, and share a percentage of the profit from harvest accordingly.
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