Market Access Associate
Thies, Thiès Region, Senegal

Title: Market Access Associate

Language Requirements: French and English fluency

About myAgro
myAgro is an award-winning non-profit social enterprise based in West Africa. We have pioneered a mobile savings model that allows farmers to invest their own funds in high-quality seed, fertilizer, and agricultural training to increase their harvest and income by 50-100%. Our North Star is to help 1 million farmers increase their incomes by $1.50 per day by 2025 and lift themselves out of poverty. Learn more from myAgro's founder and CEO?here.

About the Role
The Market Access Associate is a new and crucial role to help myAgro with its ambition to reach 1 million farmers. This is a role in an open field, with lots of opportunities to propose new solutions and ideas.

• Although myAgro does not buy back produce from our farmers, we want to explore how we could help our clients access new markets. Opportunities like these are often very local to a specific crop or specific region. myAgro would like to explore several of these opportunities by working with local partners. Reporting to the Director of Agriculture, you will work on 1 or more of these opportunities to test how a market access facilitation program could work. You should join our team in this role if:

• You are entrepreneurial. This is new terrain for myAgro - you will become our expert in it! You have a creative and versatile approach to problem-solving in changing contexts. You deal positively with obstacles and failures and turn them into opportunities.
• You are well suited to making difficult decisions. You can produce work without error in situations that are stressful or time sensitive. You are comfortable with data and able to use it to set the right course.
• You know how to build an agreement. We will partner with local organizations or companies. This requires identifying and understanding the interpersonal strategies, motivations and feelings of others and using these insights to do and say the right things and reach common goals.

You Will:
• Design market access programs strategies together with partner organization and myAgro's leadership
• Create tools and trainings for project implementation
• Train field teams on implementation of the market access plans and the communication to farmers
• Set up measurement and data management systems to inform decision-making.
• Use the insights of the market access programs to inform decision-making and shape the scale up of market access programs

You Have:
• Bachelor's degree in (agro)economics or related field
• You have 2 years of work experience and project management experience.
• You have 1 year of experience working with external partners
• Proven ability to work independently on important projects
• French and English proficiency

Our Benefits:
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Paid leave
• Retirement plan contributions
• Flight benefit
• Laptop and professional development stipends
• The opportunity to make a difference in the lives of farmers everyday.