Agricultural Value Chain Supervisor

About the role

The Agricultural Value Chain Supervisor will coordinate project operations and nurture partner relationships to ensure inclusive performance across agCelerant’s agricultural value chains in Senegal. Reporting to the Director, the role combines field supervision, stakeholder mobilization, and performance monitoring to drive adoption of good agricultural practices.

Key responsibilities

• Daily supervision of youth‑incubated field extension agents.
• Provide technical advice, continuous training, and support to field agents.
• Organize agents to improve adoption of good agricultural practices by producers.
• Monitor and evaluate agents’ performance through the agCelerant supervisory cockpit.
• Mobilize local stakeholders, prospect suppliers and third‑party service providers.
• Conduct participatory evaluations with producers and support transaction monitoring between producers and value‑chain stakeholders.
• Produce weekly reports on agents’ activities and monthly inventories of campaign status by production zone.
• Participate in coordination meetings with agCelerant management.

Required profile

• Experience implementing training programs in rural areas.
• Background in agricultural value‑chain development.
• Ability to manage a team of several dozen colleagues.
• Strong independent work ethic with ability to meet reporting deadlines.
• Willingness to spend regular time in the field.
• Fluency in Wolof and French.

Required skills

• Proficiency with standard information technology tools.