Sustainable Agriculture Consultant (coffee)

The role of the Sustainable Agriculture Consultant (coffee) will be to work closely with our customers in the supply chain (farmers, processors, retailers, and input suppliers) to provide strategic guidance and hands-on delivery support to help them understand sustainability objectives and delivery on targets set. The role requires innovative thinkers that can work with our data scientists to process and interpret data in a way that offers value to our clients and helps navigate the complexities of farming systems. The role requires an understanding of the research-policy-farm interface and how productive farming can deliver positive environmental outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• To find out the sourcing area of green bean coffee, develop these areas and get more farmers, distributors or green bean coffee collectors

• To lead sustainability related client projects and ad-hoc consultancy.

• Work closely with our Head of Sustainability and product team to assist in the development and evolution of data-led sustainability models and metrics.

• Support account managers, nutritionists, vets and agronomists to help them understand from a sustainability perspective, the full benefit of the data generated and managed in their business activities.

• Lead and contribute to business development activities, client meetings and proposal writing.

• Present to clients and relevant industry forums on technical subject matter.

The key skills that will be required for this role include the following:

• An excellent knowledge and understanding of sustainability challenges in agriculture with a sound scientific foundation in.

• Innovation, ability to work with others to solve problems and generate valuable outputs for farmers and supply chain clients

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Flexibility, to cater for a range of client needs and deliver high quality outcomes

• Communication: excellent verbal and written communication including good written English and report and proposal writing skills

• IT skills: with the ability to work with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word to a good level

• Degrees of Agriculture/ Plant protection/ Crop Science... and Agriculture knowledge, awareness of farming systems and ability to communicate to technical and non-technical audiences in this area

• An understanding of environmental models and data analytics would be an asset Reporting The successful candidate will report to the Head of Sustainability

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