Relationship Manager

2 weeks ago

East London, South Africa OLP Full time

Job Position: Relationship Manager

Ref: 4273

Location: Mthatha / East London

**Salary**: R200 - R400 per hour

One year contract position - March 2023 - February 2024

(extension till December 2024 based on satisfactory performance)

Qualifications / Requirements:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Business, or Finance is preferred
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in the private sector in stakeholder engagement / relationship management
- Relevant experience working in the field crop sector in EC and strong connections with sector players such as input and service providers, as well as local organizations
- Strong understanding of smallholder crop farmers’ operations and challenges
- Understanding of the development sector around agriculture and smallholder farming operations
- Proficiency with MS Office programs, including Excel and Word and communication platforms such as Teams
- Good organizational and interpersonal skills
- Accuracy, attention to detail
- Ability to communicate fluently in Xhosa

Key Performance Areas:

- Seeking a Consultant to engage with the farming market systems actors to achieve the project results
- Typical stakeholders of the project are but not limited to:

- Local small, medium and large-size input suppliers for crop fields
- Mechanization service providers
- Local chiefs
- Municipal and regional Government
- Local associations, cooperatives, and Farmer organizations
- The position requires frequent engagement with project stakeholders
- The position sometimes may require travel to the project office
- The position is not office based and expects that the Consultant has a stable internet to perform the work as needed from their place of residence
- The Consultant will be provided with a laptop and phone with minutes to use for business-related purposes
- The Consultant is expected to operate their own vehicle to conduct the work (visit Farmers and existing and potential stakeholders)
- The vehicle operating cost will be reimbursed for a maximum monthly mileage set by the company based on (AA) rates per kilometre in compliance with South Africa Revenue Services (SARS)
- Facilitation (70 %):

- Facilitate and maintain private and public stakeholder engagement
- Identify and coordinate sales agreements for project lead Farmers with input suppliers, service providers, aggregators and end markets
- Negotiate and coordinate with media to participate and broadcast project demonstration activities
- Support the overall strategic direction of the project in collaboration with the project team
- Project Management and Coordination (30%):

- Recruit and work closely with the Project Players in terms of providing them with information and connecting them with input and output markets and capacitating them to become service providers
- Oversee the demo preparation
- Facilitate and coordinate relevant events in collaboration with the project team
- Provide the technical updates

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temp to perm
Contract length: 12 months

**Education**:

- Bachelors (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Degree in Economics, Business, or Finance: 4 years (preferred)
- stakeholder engagement / relationship management: 10 years (preferred)
- field crop sector: 4 years (preferred)
- understanding of smallholder crop farmers’ operations: 5 years (preferred)
- development sector around agriculture: 5 years (preferred)

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