Vacancy title:
Agribusiness Senior Coach

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Agribusiness]

Jobs at:
Good Neighbors International

Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, September 17 2025

Duty Station:
Kigali | Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 10 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Good neighbors International (GNI) is an international humanitarian and developmental organization in general consultation status with UN ECOSOC operating in 40 countries around the world. GNI in Rwanda is legally registered and has endeavored to improve child sponsorship and protection, health, education, WASH, Agriculture& livelihood, Humanitarian assistance, advocacy, and social economy in 19 districts (Gasabo,Kicukiro, Nyarugenge, Kamonyi, Gisagara, Nyamagabe, Nyaruguru, Bugesera, Rwamagana, Kayonza, Ngoma, Kirehe, Gatsibo, Nyagatare, Gicumbi, Rulindo, Musanze,Burere, and Gakenke).

Overview:

In October 2023, GNI signed a partnership agreement build from WFP’s existing initiatives and aligns with the Mastercard Foundation (the Foundation)’s ‘Young Africa Works strategy’ and address the areas of support identified in the Foundation’s Rwanda’s agricultural sector diagnostic study to implement Shora Neza Project.

Shora Neza is a five-years project aiming to create new and strengthen existing employment opportunities for young men and women, while considering their different needs, through strengthened, interlinked, and efficient agricultural value chains. 

Specifically, the partnership will focus on contributing to achieving the following outcomes of the project:

1. Market Access: Increased smallholder farmer incomes by connecting them to premium public and private markets for sales at national and regional levels.
2. Post-harvest Management (PHM): Improved quality and reduced post-harvest losses through the promotion of a vibrant, youth-led market for post-harvest (PH) equipment and services.
3. Access to Finance:  Enhanced linkages to formal financial products and services by project beneficiaries.

In this regard, Good Neighbors International is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill a following position:

Agribusiness Senior Coach (3) ( 2 in Eastern Cluster, and 1 in Northern Cluster)

Tasks and Responsibilities

• To contribute to the technical design, coordination, implementation of, and day to day delivery of all Shora Neza project’s Farmer Services Centers (FSCs) development related activities implementation in Northern province.
• To support in the due diligence and profiling of a dynamic database for potential young women Farmer Service Centers (FSCs)
• To facilitate in the development of an incubation programme for the 200 young women FSCs with customized and tailor made for their capacity and market needs, user-friendly training, peer-learning content and digital technologies
• To promote the adoption of good agri-business practices that can be extended through various implementation platforms including the good agronomical practices (GAP) and how to effectively support youth engage in agri-business and marketing 
• To organize, and facilitate the regular participation of youth women and men in agri-show and other exhibition events
• To promote and facilitate Coaching, mentoring and peer-learning among the FSCs for better business performance
• To facilitate the regular performance monitoring of FSCs and the supported young/Youth farmers to track progress of their personal and business growth.
• To collaborate with the project Service provider to empower FSCs through post-harvest handling and storage (PHHS) and commodity standards training, and establishment of conservation agriculture demo plots for youth farmers.
• To support coaching and mentorship activities for the established FSCs
• To support in the establishment of online and/or offline channel to disseminate weather and crop insurance information to all youth in agri-food system
• To prepare impact stories, reports, and presentations in support of programs delivery.
• To perform additional jobs assigned by the supervisor (Country Director, Project Manager, and/or Cluster Mangers)

Qualifications and experience required

• Bachelor's degree in the field of Agribusiness, agronomy, crop sciences, , and/or related fields from a recognized University with at least 3 years’ field experience in similar position/field
• Full working knowledge of English and Kinyarwanda languages
• Should pay respect to custom and cultural behavior of residents of operating area
• Good computer skills (Microsoft word, Excel, power point) and report writing skills
• Honest and transparent 
• Good communication and interpersonal skills 
• It is a field-based position. He / she should be ready to travel to field in the rural areas

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure

All interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, kindly submit the CV as follow;

     1) Kindly download and fill in the attached ‘GNI Application form’ 

     2) Kindly rename and save the file as ‘Name, Position’ 

     3) Kindly submit the CV, and GNI Application form well filled through email: gnrwanda.hr@gmail.com,

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