EAGC Tanzania Membership & Communication Program Officer

EAGC Tanzania

Program Officer – Membership & Communication 
 

The Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) is a membership-based organization registered in Kenya with country offices in Uganda and Tanzania. 

Our members are key stakeholders and players in the grain value chain including cereal growers, millers and processors drawn from within and outside the East Africa States. 

Our core mandate is to develop and promote orderly structured marketing systems and provide market information for grains so as to reduce transaction costs and eliminate barriers’ to regional trade
 

The successful candidate should be highly professional, self motivated and a proven high achiever with good leadership skills. 

Reporting to the Regional Manager – Marketing Information Systems and Communication, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following amongst others:

• Implement the Tanzania membership development plan.
• Manage member communications including responding to regional EAGC member queries in Tanzania.
• Maintain accurate EAGC Tanzania membership records and database.
• Follow up on all EAGC Tanzania membership subscription fees
• Identify areas of research and conduct studies on key issues affecting the grain sector.
• Collate and develop articles for the grain newsletter.
• Coordinate EAGC Tanzania MIS products and services including RATIN.
• Collect information including market prices, volumes, direction of flow and local exchanges rates, source and destination of specified commodities.
• Coordinate the EAGC events especially member networking forums.

Qualification, Skills and Experience:

• A degree in relevant discipline.
• Additional qualifications in Communication and public relations will be an added advantage.
• Computer literate.
• Team player.
• Good report writing skills.
• Self initiative/starter
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• High integrity.
• Has initiative and highly organised.
• Capacity to manage several tasks simultaneously, be flexible and be willing to assume a range of unanticipated assignments.

If your background and competence match the above specifications, please send your application demonstrating how your qualifications and experience matches our requirements. 

It should include an updated C.V., your current remuneration package, valid email address, daytime contact number and full contact details of 3 referees including day time telephone number to: hr@eagc.org copied to dkiai@eagc.org by 12th September 2014.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.