Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) Internship Opportunities in Kenya

Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) Internship Opportunities in Kenya

 

Terms of Reference for Internship into the training and backstopping grain warehouse operators in South Sudan
 

The Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) is a private sector membership organisation of the players in the grain value chain whose mission is to advocate for an enabling environment and promote structured grain trade for optimum stakeholder benefits. 

The overall goal is to contribute to poverty reduction and enhanced food security by applying market- based interventions to stimulate agricultural productivity, trade and growth, particularly in the smallholder grain sector in ten countries in Eastern and Southern Africa.
 

In December 2014, EAGC was contracted by GIZ to provide training and backstopping services to selected grain warehouse operators in the Greenbelt (Western Equatoria, Central Equatoria and Eastern Equatoria). 

 

The services are expected to enable warehouse operators, who include farmer organisations, traders, Business Development Service (BDS) providers or Non-governmental Organisations to professionally operate warehouses in the grain bulking and marketing systems and ultimately transforming into Agri-Business Centres.

The first training of the warehouse management is set to take place on 22nd June to 3rd July 2015 in Yei and Yambio. 

These ToRs are drawn to engage South Sudanese nationals as interns for an initial period of three months to provide support in the trainings and backstopping of the warehouse operators. 

The specific tasks to be undertaken by the interns will be:

• Participate in a TOT programme facilitated by EAGC structured Trade experts that will build their capacity to train farmers in the selected training modules,
• Provide relevant support to the regional team in the development of training materials for the warehouse operators, in particular provide support to adapt the training materials to low education level adult learning including translation as may be required,
• Participate in the training of the warehouse operators in different locations within the Greenbelt covering areas such as post-harvest handling, group governance, warehouse management, records keeping and financial management among others. 
• Provide continuous backstopping to ensure trained warehouses adopt the practices and the business models trained through regular visits, phone calls
• Support the warehouse operators in seeking alternative market outlets for their produce
• Regularly monitor the performance of the warehouses and using EAGC report templates compile regular back to office activity reports, weekly reports and monthly progress reports

 

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness or a related field
• Strong social and communication skills.
• Team player- able to work with people of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
• A fast learner

The application letter and c.v. shall be submitted on or before Wednesday, 3rd June 2015 To:
 

Dorcas Kiai
Programs Administration Manager
Eastern Africa Grain Council
P O Box 218 00606 

Nairobi, Kenya

Tel: +254 (20) 3745840 /020-204 4094

Office Cell: +254 733 444 035 / 710 607313

Email: dkiai@eagc.org