The leading agriculture consulting and R&D firm of Southeast Asia is looking for a Junior agronomist
Fresh Studio is the leading agriculture consultancy and R&D firm in Southeast Asia. Our mission is to make our clients successful in the sustainable production and marketing of food. Since 2006, we have worked passionately to achieve this mission and assist our clients to improve all practices from farm to fork. Our multi-disciplinary team of 60 people work from five offices and two R&D locations in Vietnam and Myanmar, but also work occasionally outside these two countries. As a growing business, we continue to look for dynamic and motivated individuals that can contribute to our team and add value to our projects and clients.
To further strengthen our Myanmar team of agriculture consultants supporting farmers in improving their agriculture practices, we are looking for a Junior Agronomist based in Southern Shan State.
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I. Xác định công việc
Position title : Junior agronomist
Work location : Southern Shan State (preferably Aung Ban)
II. Báo cáo công việc
Report to : Project leader in Yangon
III. Vai trò và trách nhiệm
The Junior Agronomist will support our consultant team with the local implementation of our agriculture programs in Southern Shan State. In this role, you will support our colleagues with setting up demonstration plots, and at the same time support farmers in improving their productivity and crop quality through training. You will also be responsible for farmer recruitment and arranging local venues and logistics for our training program, ensuring that training delivery runs smoothly.
Your daily activities will consist of monitoring crop demonstration plots, networking with and recruiting farmers, and organizing and delivering agriculture crop trainings leading to direct results in farmers’ productivity and incomes. As Fresh Studio uses a value chain approach, you support farmers in linking to input providers and buyers to ensure their crops meet market requirements.
In this role, you will work under close supervision of the project leader and consultant team based in Yangon, and collaborate closely with our Agriculture Project Officer based in Southern Shan State.
This role is good for you if you:
- Have the ambition to make a difference: to translate training materials into concrete results regarding farmer productivity, crop quality and income improvement
- Have experience in monitoring demonstration plots and delivering farmer trainings
- Are a strong communicator who is able to collaborate with a wide range of local stakeholders, especially farmers, but also farmer group and village leaders
- Enjoy travelling in rural areas
IV. Duties & responsibilities:
- Support implementation of demonstration plots
- Networking with farmers groups and farmer recruitment for trainings
- Organizing farmer trainings and field days
- Delivering effective trainings to farmers, including practical sessions
V. Yêu cầu mong muốn
- B.Sc. in agriculture or related field
- Strong understanding of Myanmar’s agricultural sector and common challenges of farmers in Southern Shan State
- Proven track record in delivering farmer trainings
- Experience in implementing demonstration plots
- Experience with potato, corn or soybean production is an asset
- Excellent organizational skills
- Able to communicate in English is an asset
- Good social skills which enable easy communication with farmers and local leaders
- Kỹ năng thuyết trình tốt
- Result-oriented
- Intellectually curious, hands-on, results-driven and pro-active – coming up with own ideas and suggestions
Interested candidates who meet the requirements are are asked to submit and updated CV with their cover letter to myanmar@freshstudio.vn.
The application subject line should clearly mention the job title. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for final selection.
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