Shea Coordinator wanted for immediate employment.

Location: Field
Office: Tamale, Ghana
Mission Start: June 1st
Contract duration: 2 years local contract

Job summary:
The shea coordinator is attached to a determined sector, he is managing the women groups in this sector.

His target is to build/gather women groups who could be suppliers of StarShea Ltd for nuts and butter. Benefitting from StarShea access to market and increasing their revenue.

He is their coordinator and main contact for all relations with StarShea Ltd: commercial transactions, logistic issues, pre-financing.

Organize Shea processors into groups, clusters, associations & a network, provide technical & group & business management training to strengthen the Shea network, and provide other business advisory services that will enable groups sell to StarShea or other buyers.

A. Organize Shea processors into groups, clusters, associations & a network.

•  Identify & assess communities suitable for shea production;
•  Assess & select shea processors who meet the requirements for participation to the network;
•  Form groups of shea processors in the selected communities from the qualified producers;
•  Facilitate the formation, selection of leaders & functioning of associations & the network of shea processors in each  district,, develop and document bye-laws for the groups;
•  Asses existing shea groups in communities, check group functionality and dynamic, provide them with additional group management training of necessary.
•  Train groups of shea processors on group dynamics & management;
•  Strengthen the ability of the leaders of the shea network to function effectively to enable the network meet the requirements of buyers;

B. Capacity building of shea processors & the shea network

•  Train the women on business management & how to process quality nuts & butter;
•  Monitor, coach and mentor the groups and their secretaries throughout the year in their processing and business activities;
•  Work with the women to optimize their cost of production with any adequate action.

C. Provide other services to enable women sell qualitative and optimized products.

•  Facilitate access to credit from other sources (MFI’s, ..)
•  Facilitate the shea processors & their groups to acquire any necessary tools for their business activities: protective clothing, mobile phones, stoves, roasters, …
•  Implement the shea quality assurance system of the network at the field level to ensure high & consistent quality of products;
•  Identify the women in need of a cash advance, determine the level of pre-finance needed. Gather all demands and formalizes the disbursement demand to StarShea Ltd.
•  Receive the money to disburse and proceed to individual disbursement. Supervises the reimbursement in products or collection in community warehouses.

D. Organizes the supply chain for the product delivery

•  Assist the network leaders to organize the shea processors to deliver products to StarShea Ltd.
•  Collect the relevant data required for utilizing the Rural Management  software to facilitate the management of orders from buyers;

Reporting line

•  Directly reports to CEO

Transversal lines

•  For all administrative stuff: per diem, technical support, administrative questions he refers directly to the Administrative manager
•  For the training he will be integrated in the PlaNet Finance project team

Compensation
The compensation will be in three parts

•  Fixed amount monthly
•  Variable amount, every 3 month on KPI’s (to be determined yearly and agreed upon with the management
•  Variable amount, yearly

Qualification Required & Experience

•  Mandatory: northern languages: gonja, wali, dagari
•  Business mindset, cost effective,
•  Organized and autonomous
•  Familiar with Office tools (excell, word, powerpoint) and ICT (traceability system to be managed)
•  Ability to ride motorbike and to be field based
•  Motivated to work with women in villages to empower them

Salary: GHS 700 - 800 gross monthly

How To Apply For The Job

apply by sending coverletter and resume to:

info@starshea.com

Closing Date: 03 January, 2013