Cash Crops Officer at Muhanga District (MUHANGA)

Responsibilities or duties

• Elaborate a local strategy on cash crops, monitor its implementation at Sector level and produce consolidated reports thereof;
• Organize trainings and campaigns meant to raise local population awareness on the use and importance of modern techniques of cash crops production and disease control at Sector level;
• Supervise the identification and mapping of cash crop diseases prevailing within the District and advise on preventive and reactive measures;
• Supervise, in close collaboration with the agriculture officer, the distribution and monitor the use of fertilizers across Sectors, and organize experimentation of selected seeds;
• Maintain, in close collaboration with any other concerned staff, an updated database of cash crops within the District, analyse their impact on local economic development and advise accordingly about scale-up measures.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Agri-business
• Bachelor’s Degree in Rural Development
• Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture
• Bachelor’s Degree in Agro-Economy
• Bachelor’s Degree in Cash Crops Production

Experience needed

• 0 Year of relevant experience

Any other provided details (e.g., benefits, work environment, team info, or additional notes)

• Resume building service
• Required competencies and key technical skills
• Time management skills
• Communication skills
• Complex Problem solving
• High Analytical Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Team working Skills
• Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and / or French; knowledge of all is an advantage
• Extensive Knowledge in Agriculture mainly Cash Crops
• Psychometric Languages
• English

• Elaborate a local strategy on cash crops, monitor its implementation at Sector level and produce consolidated reports thereof;
• Organize trainings and campaigns meant to raise local population awareness on the use and importance of modern techniques of cash crops production and disease control at Sector level;
• Supervise the identification and mapping of cash crop diseases prevailing within the District and advise on preventive and reactive measures;
• Supervise, in close collaboration with the agriculture officer, the distribution and monitor the use of fertilizers across Sectors, and organize experimentation of selected seeds;
• Maintain, in close collaboration with any other concerned staff, an updated database of cash crops within the District, analyse their impact on local economic development and advise accordingly about scale-up measures.

• Time management skills
• Communication skills
• Complex Problem solving
• High Analytical Skills
• Organizational Skills
• Team working Skills
• Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and / or French; knowledge of all is an advantage
• Extensive Knowledge in Agriculture mainly Cash Crops
• Psychometric Languages
• English

• Bachelor’s Degree in Agri-business
• Bachelor’s Degree in Rural Development
• Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture
• Bachelor’s Degree in Agro-Economy
• Bachelor’s Degree in Cash Crops Production