About This Role
This is a field-based agricultural role that blends community engagement with compliance management. As a Junior Certification Officer at Kerchanshe Trading Company, you will be the bridge between the company and outgrowing farmers, ensuring they meet certification standards for sustainable or ethical production. It suits a professional who enjoys working directly with rural communities and has a systematic approach to documentation and training.
What the Requirements Say About This Role
The role seeks a candidate who can combine practical agricultural knowledge with administrative rigor. While the listing implies 1-3 years of experience, the core need is someone who can earn farmers' trust while enforcing rules—this demands patience, cultural sensitivity, and clarity in communication. The emphasis on training and inspections suggests a preference for candidates with experience in adult education or quality assurance in agricultural settings.
How to Approach This Application
Focus your application on examples of working with farming communities or managing compliance processes. Highlight any experience in farmer training, data collection, or certification audits. Employers in this sector prioritize candidates who can demonstrate both technical understanding of certification standards (like Rainforest Alliance or UTZ) and proven ability to work in rural Oromia conditions. Mention your fluency in Afan Oromo if applicable.
Who This Role Suits
This role is best suited for an early-career professional with a background in agriculture, rural development, or environmental science who is comfortable with frequent travel to production sites. Competition is moderate, as the role offers valuable field experience in Ethiopia's growing agricultural export sector.
Job Purpose
- Responsible to recruit farmers, training them and supporting them on implementing certifications rules and regulations. Also responsible for Overall compliance at production sites and farmers/community relations.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Serves as focal person for all certification and standards-related needs
Recruits and registers farmers , signs an agreement on behalf of the Company
Trains outgrowing farmers in annual basis and provide technical support
Recruits, trains and mobilizes internal inspectors
Plans and undertakes internal inspections
Undertakes yield estimation and reports it to site managers and the certification department
Organizes field data, makes an updates
Prepares certification documents and submits on timely basis
Prepares traceability documentation and makes a follow up
Monitors the implementation of policy documents, quality manuals, Standard Operational Procedures, at site level
Performs other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.
Qualification
- BSC in Environmental science, Agriculture, Natural resource Management, or other related fields.
- Excellent in writing ,Reading and Speaking of Afan oromo and Gedewegna language is mandatory.
Experience:
0 years experience
Skills
Communication and leadership skills,
MS Office skills,
Organization and planning skills,
Local language for the specific site
How To Apply
Applicants who fulfill the above-mentioned criteria could submit detailed curriculum vitae along with supporting documents/credentials accompanied by cover letter addressing [email protected] with the subject line of “Junior Certification Officer” from May 09,2026 up to May 20,2026.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
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