Agriculture Sales Officer Job at Urwego Bank Plc - Career Opportunity in Rwanda
Website :
1008 Days Ago
Linkedid Twitter Share on facebook

Vacancy title:
Agriculture Sales Officer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Finance , Category: Sales & Retail ]

Jobs at:

Urwego Bank Plc

Deadline of this Job:
05 July 2021  

Duty Station:
Within Uganda , Kigali , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, June 24, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed


JOB DETAILS:

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Mission

To provide a ladder of opportunity to underserved communities in Rwanda, as we proclaim and live the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Method

We share the hope of Christ as we provide financial services and biblically based training that restore dignity and break the cycle of poverty.

Motivation

The love of Jesus Christ motivates us to identify with those living in poverty and be His hands and feet as we strive to glorify God.

Agriculture Sales Officer

Urwego Bank Plc is dedicated to provide financial services to the people of Rwanda. Motivated by Jesus Christ’s call to serve those in need. Its mission is to achieve economic spiritual transformation in the lives of underserved, using financial services and tested trainings as we share Jesus Christ’s love. Urwego Bank wishes to recruit (4) qualified, competent, committed and proactive Agriculture Sales Officer to support the Agriculture Department of Urwego bank Plc Ngoma, Muhanga, Bugesera and Gicumbi Branches.

Job Title: Agriculture Sales Officer

Department: Agriculture

Reporting to: Sales Team Leader

Directly supervises: None

Location: Ngoma, Muhanga, Bugesera and Gicumbi Branches.

JOB SUMMARY

The Agriculture Sales Officer (ASO) will mobilise and market the agriculture product in the cooperatives around the working area. The ASO will ensure the agricultural products are relevant to the target market and Urwego's mission as well as financially sustainable with credit risk managed appropriately. The ASO will work with branch leadership to grow the existing portfolio and strengthen agricultural business partnerships. The ASO will also be responsible for mobilising and recruiting new agriculture clients. Maintaining the existing clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Promote and fulfil Urwego Bank’s 3Ms as listed above while working within a Christ-centered environment that is mission-driven, community-oriented and results-driven.

Spiritual Integration and Christian Witness

1. Ensure a personal, healthy spiritual balance within family, work, and church life through the adoption of biblical personal and spiritual disciplines; and

2. Conduct daily work, make decisions, and help Urwego Bank make decisions in a way that witnesses to the presence, power, and love of Jesus and the reality of his Kingdom on earth.

Agriculture Product selling and marketing

Work with Branch leadership in close collaboration with agriculture program manager to grow portfolio in assigned working area.
Work closely and build relationship with off takers and district cooperative officers to manage and reduce the risks that may associate with poor cooperative leadership
Strongly understand good agriculture practices and agriculture seasons
Ensure agriculture products are financially sustainable
Originate agriculture loans, prepare agriculture loan files and analyse the risks that may cause the loan to underperform and reduce those risks
Identify key agriculture product risks and communicate mitigants to the supervisor
Regularly update the agriculture loan monitoring tool to minimize the risks in the value chain
Understand agriculture value chain financing models to grow portfolio and reduce the risks associated with it.

Portfolio Quality

Regularly monitor the quality of the agriculture product portfolio, utilizing PAR as the primary measure of portfolio quality and keeping PAR 30 below 5% on average.
Work with Branch leadership, Agriculture Program Manager to address portfolio quality shortcomings, including default management, through regularly review, update Agric Loan monitoring tool.
Regularly visit cooperatives to understand the field challenges and find out the solution and share the field updates to Branch manager and agriculture program manager.

Profitability and Growth

Collaborate with different stakeholders, cooperatives, and offtakes to understand the needs of the clients to keep Urwego on the top of lending industry in agriculture sector.
Provide all the needed agriculture practices trainings to ensure high yield to cooperatives and growth portfolio
Strategically market Urwego agriculture product to ensure all the cooperatives in area understand the product very well.

Stakeholder and Partner Relationships

The Agriculture Sales Officer will partner with the Service Delivery staff to grow existing and develop new agricultural business lines.

Serve as a key representative of the bank to partners and non-partners in providing expertise and funding focused on agriculture products.
Grow relationships with strategic partners and potential partners supporting agriculture lending.

QUALIFICATIONS

Personal confession of faith in Jesus Christ and commitment to the mission and vision of Urwego Bank Plc
Bachelor’s degree in agronomy, agri-business, or related field
3 or more years of experience in agricultural lending, preferably in the following value-chains Coffee, Irish Potato, Rice, Maize
Experience in agricultural credit risk assessment and management
Experience in field mobilisation and cooperative relationship preferably rice and Maize.
Ability to source, negotiate and manage partnership agreements
Proven training skills
Strong organizational skills, including effective time management and prioritization of competing demands/multiple deadlines
Must be fluent with Microsoft office (Word, Excel. Power point)
MUST have a valid motorcycle driving licence and be able to drive motorcycle to the field.

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

 

{module 317}

Job application procedure

How to apply

Interested and eligible applicants should send the following documents to UrwegoHR@urwegobank.com not later than 5th July 2021 5pm.

Applications should be addressed to HR Department with the subject: Agriculture Sales Officer

Application letter explaining your suitability for the position,
Curriculum vitae with 2 referee names,
Degree Certificate, and additional certificates if any.
Recommendation from your Church with a validity of not less than 6 Months
Your personal signed statement of Faith.


All Jobs

QUICK ALERT SUBSCRIPTION

{module 321}

Job Info
Job Category: Sales jobs in Rwanda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 05 July 2021
Duty Station: Kigali
Posted: 24-06-2021
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 24-06-2021
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 24-06-2045
Apply Now
Notification Board

Join a Focused Community on job search to uncover both advertised and non-advertised jobs that you may not be aware of. A jobs WhatsApp Group Community can ensure that you know the opportunities happening around you and a jobs Facebook Group Community provides an opportunity to discuss with employers who need to fill urgent position. Click the links to join. You can view previously sent Email Alerts here incase you missed them and Subscribe so that you never miss out.

Caution: Never Pay Money in a Recruitment Process.

Some smart scams can trick you into paying for Psychometric Tests.