Summary
Date Posted: Monday, October 05, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Sustainable Harvest Rwanda Ltd is a locally registered for profit social enterprise that does wholesales coffee sales business, run alongside a retail café, and connects smallholder coffee producers to the broader coffee market. The organization believes in transparency, innovation, inclusion, and most of all, great coffee. The Question Coffee Center is a project of Sustainable Growers Rwanda. SGR created the Question Coffee Center in 2015, as a place where farmers and cooperative managers can learn to taste coffee in the cupping lab, and to see how their product is used by consumers, thereby learning how to meet that consumer demand through quality improvements at the farm and cooperative level. .

JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE
To ensure close linkage with Sustainable Growers Rwanda beneficiaries and the cooperatives/export units we work with in order to enhance and facilitate access to market. These cooperatives include Nyampinga, Twongerumusaruro wa Kawa, Gisuma Coffee, Gashonga cooperative, Mayogi Coffee, S.CPNCK and a cooperative from Tanzania (TBD)
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
The responsibilities are but not limited to
• Merge all five cooperatives into a single entity;
• Support cooperatives to obtain export licenses;
• Collect and consolidate information (prices, quality, availability, supplier and competitor positions, macro-economic factors, producer group needs assessments, etc.);
• Advanced knowledge of coffee quality evaluation (cupping) for grading export coffees;
• Support cooperatives with training, season planning, access to finance applications;
• Support cooperatives on the full array of certification and export requirements;
• Manage and support all cooperatives to find market for all their production locally and internationally;
• Manage and support all supply chain process up to the export;
• Manage in land logistic to bring coffee to FOB and troubleshoot where any issues exist;
• Manage relationship with key producer groups in the region;
• Any other reasonable duty as may be assigned that is consistent with the nature of the job and its level of responsibility;
• Create new and manage existing partnerships with cooperative partners such as hotels buyers, roasters

Job Skills: Not Specified

REQUIREMENTS OF THE ROLE
• University Degree in Agricultural Economics or a Bachelor of Commerce with relevant experience;
• At least 5 years of experience in trading industry
• Clear understanding of coffee value chain in East Africa particularly in Rwanda, DRC, Tanzania;
• Good understanding of product description (coffee profiles);
• Good communication skills (written and oral);
• Good customer relationship management skills;
• Language skill: English and French as a must, Kinyarwanda and Swahili preferred;
• Proactive approach;
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team;
• Highly Efficient and Organized;
• Previous logistic experience is a plus.
KEY DELIVERABLES
• Strong relationship between SGR & Cooperatives;
• Merging of Cooperatives;
• Export and Logistical support:

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Interested qualified candidates should send their application file (detailed CV, academic certificates, and cover letter) to recruitment@sustainablegrowers.org  not later than 23rd October 2020 The subject line must be: Job application for “title of the position” Only those who strictly meet the criteria should apply for this position Due to the expected high volume of applications, we cannot respond to all applications and will only be contacting shortlisted applicants.

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