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Job Vacancy at Digital Mobile Africa - Project Agronomist

 

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Digital Mobile Africa (DMA) is Big Data-Driven AgriFintech with A Certified Agrodealer Agent Network, MSME Retail Merchants and Mobile-focused Digital Financial Services for Smallholder Farmer Ecosystem.

We are strong believers in Tech, especially mobile technology, as a catalyst to rapid economic growth, Financial Inclusion, International Development, Sustainability and Eradication of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa where Mobile Devices are now accessible to the under-served and disadvantaged masses.

Our Vision is to be The Most Respected Fintech Company in Africa and to achieve this, means doing business ethically and putting human needs and value first. We have set goals to bring easy to use financial services products on mobiles to the communities, stakeholders and individuals we serve. We also shall partner with those who have tried before us, learn and improve our solutions to grow Agribusiness Digital Extension Services throughout Africa for the development and continued value addition to business growth and better livelihoods.

Key DMA Value Propositions are to drive Access to Trade Finance, Access to Quality Agricultural Inputs at the right price at the farm gate, GAP Information, Know-how and Access Markets and Buyers.

We do Customer  eKYC profiling, Collect and maintain Live Ground Truth Datasets to offer Trends, Insights, Predictive Analytics, AI and Data Science-powered Financial Services, Digital Marketplace, Products & Services to the ecosystems we serve.

Key to achieve our mission is to work closely with Regulators, Governments and key value chain stakeholders to lead in the data management standards, data protection and provide Real Financial Services Value to all our customers.

Our Approach is to embed our solutions into the lifestyles of our customers who we believe act both individually and as a community and therefore need solutions that bring a best-of-both-worlds customer experience.

Our Promise is to provide the best Digital Social Banking Experiences to Groups of business-minded individuals.

About the job

DMA Limited seeks 1 Project Agronomist to assist smallholder farmer communities in Dodoma, District and Village level to improve their livelihoods through engaging in agriculture as a business. Increase of number of smallholder farmers moving from subsistence farming to Agribusiness. The shifting trigger demands of Agri-inputs and hence Agri-inputs supply, Financial Services, Climate Smart Agricultural Information Services and Sustainable Market and Buyers access. Digital Mobile Africa (DMA) has a mission to ensure smallholder farmers become more market and business-oriented by establishing a mix of digital and boots-on-the-ground ecosystem interventions through which farmers can increase productivity and incomes served via Digital Agents (VIDA) and Mobile Village Agent Digital Extension Services.

Main responsibilities:

The Project Agronomist is the key frontline staff member for DMA in the field. S/he will support Smallholder Farmer communities by providing them with agricultural knowledge support and introducing DMA systems and ensuring farmers’ groups access digital Agribusiness services at the last mile. This person shall also play a linkage role between DMA and local communities, promoting community development and mobilization of DMA field teams, partners and providing detailed training on best practice agronomy. S/he will also promote dissemination of market information. The Project Agronomist is responsible for overall supervision of farmer Data collection, Agri-inputs demands aggregation, post-harvest services, warehouse operations, ground buyer/market support and monitoring these activities through DMA’s VIDA Local platforms. S/he regularly, visits VIDA Agrodealer shops, Warehouses, Demo farms and provide Agri-inputs and produce handling training workshops at village, groups and AMCOS levels.

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