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We create chemistry for a sustainable future In line with our corporate purpose, around 113,000 employees contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our broad portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products and crop protection products to oil and gas. In 2014, BASF posted sales of â 74.0 billion and income from operation...

One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty.About The Role: Your focus will be to develop programs and training content to maximize adoption of integrated pest management amongst smallholder farmers. You'll report to the Global Director of R&D, and work within t...

Research Associate III Agronomy at International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Position summary:This position is responsible for ensuring the feedback from users and other internal and external stakeholders is gathered and used to improve the farm and landscape frameworks. They will also communicate the content of these frameworks and provide training material content for its users. In close collaboration with the Quality of Implementation teams, s/he will support the senio...

Summit Recruitment and Search Africa is a leading Recruitment and Executive Search agency head quartered in Kenya providing outstanding talent to a wide range of companies and NGOs in various business sectors across Africa.Our client an Agri chemicals company is seeking to hire a Sales Executive (Agrichemicals) to be based in Nairobi. The role holder will play a pivotal role in driving sales and ...

Program / Department SummaryWith funding from USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), Mercy Corps' Nawiri Program is leading a consortium of Kenyan and international partners on a 8 year journey to sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition in Turkana & Samburu Counties of Kenya. Through a phased approach that emphasizes evidence gap analysis, as well as partnership, learning, and...

The Rainforest Alliance is a growing network of people who are inspired and committed to working together to achieve our mission of conserving biodiversity and ensuring sustainable livelihoods. Through creative, pragmatic collaboration, we aim to rebalance the planet by building strong forests and healthy communities around the world. Position summary: This position is responsible for ensuring th...

Mercy Corps is a global humanitarian aid agency engaged in transitional environments that have experienced some sort of shock: natural disaster, economic collapse, or conflict. Program / Department Summary With funding from USAID s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), Mercy Corps Nawiri Program is leading a consortium of Kenyan and international partners on a 8 year journey to sustainably re...

Key ResponsibilitiesActively identify and pursue new sales opportunities, including prospecting potential clients, generating leads, and closing sales deals to achieve or exceed assigned sales targets.Develop and maintain strong relationships with farmers, distributors, and key stakeholders in the agricultural sector. Understand their needs, provide product recommendations, and offer solutions to...

NKPCU/HRM/06/202 4Terms of Service: Permanent and PensionableBasic Salary: Kshs. 47,714 (Minimum) Kshs. 69,326 (maximum)Other remunerations: Based on prevailing Government guidelinesReporting to Senior Agricultural Extension AssistantDuties and Responsibilities:Identifying potential areas to source coffee for milling;Preparing and maintaining a coffee milling and marketing incidental register;Lia...

OBJECTIVE & STRUCTUREOur Graduate Program is designed to launch, support and accelerate your career. The objective is to help you develop a broad understanding of the company and its diverse activities, and to provide opportunities for you to build your network across a number of areas.The Graduate program at LDC is a 3-phase process:Phase 1 - Build business experience and skills: Graduate Traine...

OBJECTIVE & STRUCTURE Our Graduate Program is designed to launch, support and accelerate your career. The objective is to help you develop a broad understanding of the company and its diverse activities, and to provide opportunities for you to build your network across a number of areas. The Graduate program at LDC is a 3-phase process: Phase 1 - Build business experience and skills: Graduate Tra...

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities across a diversified range of business lines span the entire value chain, from origination to distribution, helping to feed and clothe up to 500 million people every year. OBJECTIVE & STRUCTURE Our Graduate Program is designed to launch, support and accelerate your career. The objective is to help you ...

Company Description Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world.Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Lo...

We are a one-stop resource cum enterprise center based in Kisumu West along Kisumu Busia road. Our key enterprise is aquaculture farming. However, to optimize on this, we have intergrated our fish farm with both poultry and crop farming where we mainly practice horticulture farming. In this model, we are able to work and partner with several farmers for mutual beneft. In the process of production...

OverviewThis position serves to deliver the technical aspects of CIFOR-ICRAF's private sector hub Resilient Landscape. Resilient Landscapes turns the scientific knowledge of CIFOR-ICRAF into impact investment opportunities that transform landscapes and communities worldwide.The Project Designer supports strategic development and design of multiple international projects driven by impact.The posit...

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is a non-profit, scientific institution that conducts research on the most pressing challenges of forest and landscape management around the world. Using a global, multidisciplinary approach, we aim to improve human well-being, protect the environment, and increase equity. Overview This position serves to deliver the technical aspects of CIFO...

The World Resources Institute is a global research non-profit organization that was established in 1982 with funding from the MacArthur Foundation under the leadership of James Gustave Speth. WRI is a global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human well-being What will you do: Research (50%): Conduct need assessment to buil...

What will you do:Research (50%):Conduct need assessment to build evidence on local degradation challenges and production suitability across the different ecological zones within the restoration champions sitesConduct analysis on agronomic and restoration practices, degradation trends and contributing factors in restoration sitesAnalyse existing data on soil health (from government institutions) o...

This position ishybridrequiring a few days per weekinthe WRI Africa office in Nairobi, Kenya.Existing work authorization is required at the time of application submission. WRI is unable to sponsor any visa work sponsorship for this position. About the Program: The Restore Local project provides Restoration Champions (community-based organizations, and small and medium enterprises) in priority lan...

Summit Recruitment and Search Africa is a leading Recruitment and Executive Search agency head quartered in Kenya providing outstanding talent to a wide range of companies and NGOs in various business sectors across Africa.Our client an Agri chemicals company is seeking to hire a Sales Executive (Agrichemicals) to be based in Nairobi. The role holder will play a pivotal role in driving sales and ...

Key ResponsibilitiesActively identify and pursue new sales opportunities, including prospecting potential clients, generating leads, and closing sales deals to achieve or exceed assigned sales targets.Develop and maintain strong relationships with farmers, distributors, and key stakeholders in the agricultural sector. Understand their needs, provide product recommendations, and offer solutions to...

Summit Recruitment & Search was established in 2009 to address the recruitment, mass recruitment, executive search, outsourcing and training needs of companies based in Kenya or wanting to enter the Kenyan, East African, South African and African market. Key Responsibilities Actively identify and pursue new sales opportunities, including prospecting potential clients, generating leads, and closin...

Job SummaryThe job holder will be a key part in supporting the implementation of the Horn of Africa Child Wasting Initiative (HoA CWI) in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.The Child Wasting Initiative aims toaddress drivers and implications of wasting through a multi-sectoral programming approach;support innovation in programming and partnerships, to prevent wasting;engage in active learning, contextua...