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Agriculture Manager
Preferred by Nature. Lead agriculture services across Africa, ensuring quality, timely delivery and compliance with accreditation requirements .
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead agriculture services across Africa, ensuring quality, timely delivery and compliance with accreditation requirements
- Serve as Regional Engagement Lead, with a 70% agriculture services and 30% regional engagement allocation
- Manage regional performance, resources and budgets
- Support financial targets and effective operational processes
- Lead and develop geographically dispersed teams through goals, coaching, workload planning and performance reviews
- Strengthen relationships with clients, certification schemes, auditors and regional stakeholders
- Identify and mitigate business, operational and certification risks, including dispute resolution and crisis response
- Provide technical expertise through auditing, task management and report review within qualification scope
- Pursue business opportunities and support marketing and promotion
- Share market intelligence to inform regional priorities
- Represent Preferred by Nature externally and collaborate across teams
- Establish team and stakeholder relationships and agree agriculture and regional engagement priorities with both directors
- Deliver against regional service, quality and financial targets
- Demonstrate progress in client retention, service growth and regional visibility
- Review team performance and development and agree priorities for the following year
Requirements
What you’ll need- Graduate or postgraduate degree in Agriculture, Forestry, Natural Resource Management, Natural Sciences or Environmental Science
- 6–10 years of leadership experience, including business development and leading dispersed or multicultural teams
- Good working knowledge of English
- Strong client, stakeholder and public communication skills
- Experience managing operational performance, budgets and business growth in certification, assurance or sustainability environments
- Experience in sustainability certifications such as Rainforest Alliance, Fairtrade, RSPO, FSC, ISO, Organic or Carbon
- Strategic planning, networking, sales and marketing skills, including proposals, negotiation and closing deals
- Established network across NGOs, business, donors and the public sector
- Commitment to Preferred by Nature's mission and values
- French, Swahili or Amharic language skills or exposure to sustainability projects and advisory services are advantageous but not necessary
Benefits
Comp & perks- Global work culture
- High degree of flexibility - remote work, work from home
- In-depth onboarding and professional training
- Excellent opportunities for growth and professional development
- Potential future international travel opportunities
- Friendly, international team of colleagues
- Pleasant work environment
- 20 days of vacation leave per year