AGRA

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Job Reference: LA/PD/NG/01/2024

AGRA and its Work

AGRA is an African-led institution that actively supports the drive towards inclusive agricultural transformation and sustainable food systems. We do this by empowering the continent’s 33 million smallholder farming households to transform their agriculture from a struggle to survive to profitable businesses. The continent’s farmers regularly face challenges, and we aspire to provide uniquely African solutions that respond to their agricultural and environmental challenges, leading to increased harvests for reduced hunger and more income. 

Working in alignment with the development priorities of our focus countries, we enable farmers to access improved and high-yielding seeds, gain knowledge on sustainable farming, and linkages to profitable markets. 

In our work, we aspire to build the alliances, partnerships, and networks required to drive an inclusive agricultural transformation. We work with our partners to create an equitable youth-friendly environment that harnesses the youth dividend on the continent to drive growth and facilitate open employment opportunities for young women and men. We achieve our key objectives through a focus on the following four areas of intervention:

1. Policy and state capability – We support governments in creating an enabling environment for private sector involvement in agricultural transformation. 
2. Seed systems – We trigger higher productivity by increasing the availability and access to improved seeds by farmers allowing them to increase their harvests for food security and better incomes. 
3. Sustainable farming – We support farmers in building resilient farming systems for sustained high yields through interventions such as mechanization and irrigation. 
4. Inclusive markets and trade – We work to increase the linkages between farmers, and other market actors for a positive, sustained cycle of commercialization and reinvestment.

Implementing Our New Strategy Through People

People are the heart of our organization and remain the true drivers of our delivery and our impact.

We work with incredible people and partners who have roots in farming communities across the continent combined with an inclusive and diverse workforce from over 24 nationalities. Our commitment to a call to action goes beyond ourselves as we arise to catalyze African Food Systems transformation by being Deeply collaborative, Executing Excellently, Sincerely Constructive and Increasingly Entrepreneurial aligned with our values of (I-RISE; Integrity, Respect, Innovation, Stewardship and Equity).

We are looking for people who are passionate about Africa to join our innovative, growing, and multidisciplinary team. Together, we can grow Africa’s food systems improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Want to join us?

The Position

Logistics Assistant Job Reference: LA/PD/NG/01/2024

The Logistics Assistant  is responsible for providing driving and chauffeur duties to assigned staff/guests of AGRA. S/He ensures the highest standards of discretion and integrity, sense of responsibility while displaying excellent knowledge of protocol and security issues. S/He also demonstrates a client-oriented approach, courtesy, tact and ability to work with people of different nationality and cultural backgrounds. S/He coordinates the movement of personnel and deliveries and oversees the maintenance of AGRA office vehicles.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains register for monitoring and maintenance of vehicles.
• Delivers vehicles for servicing /repairs and check that they are in satisfactory condition.
• Repairs vehicles when they have minor breakdowns and delivers them to the garage for major repairs.
• Place all vehicle’s valid insurance stickers on the windscreen.
• Documents in the vehicle movement logbook and summarizes information into a monthly report on movement of vehicles and fuel consumption.
• Drive the staff to meetings, conferences, social engagements, and other events as requested.
• Coordinating with the Country Programs & Procurement Support to ensure that all requests are handled appropriately.
• Coordinates the movement of personnel and office deliveries.
• Monitoring traffic conditions, including road construction and congestion, and relaying information to the teams in advance so that alternative arrangements can be made where necessary.
• Collects cash/bank statements/bankers’ cheques from the bank when required.
• Deposits/collects cheques from the bank.
• Delivers letters and cheques to reviewers, suppliers/service providers when required.
• Any other tasks as may be required.

Key Qualifications and Experience required:

• Minimum 5 years’ accident-free driving experience preferably in an international organization.
• Positive attitude, courteous and strong service orientation.
• Minimum O-level certificate or similar level.
• Clean driving license and good track record.
• Good command of the English language.
• Basic knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, data entry, and email software.

If you believe you are the right candidate for this position, kindly submit your application with a detailed CV (including your e-mail and telephone contacts) to recruit@agra.org. Please quote the job reference number in the subject line of the application e-mail. 

Applications must be received on or before 2nd February 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

For more information on the AGRA, visit www.agra.org. 

AGRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer