Regenerative Agriculture & Agronomy Manager

Regenerative Agriculture & Agronomy Manager

Sucafina is a leading sustainable coffee company, connecting coffee producers with roasters worldwide. With a rich history and a global presence, we are committed to fostering sustainable practices, innovation, and strong relationships across the coffee supply chain. Our operations span sourcing, trading, and logistics, ensuring high-quality coffee reaches customers globally.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Regenerative Agriculture & Agronomy Manager to lead our agronomy team and drive our regenerative agriculture initiatives. This is a full-time position.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership and People Management

Lead, supervise, mentor, and develop the Agronomy Team. Establish clear objectives, responsibilities, and performance expectations for all direct reports through regular one-on-one meetings and performance reviews. Build a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and results orientation. Monitor team performance and implement corrective actions where required to ensure delivery against objectives and KPIs. Identify training and professional development needs within the team. Ensure effective communication, coordination, and knowledge sharing across the agronomy team. Oversee the delivery of high-quality technical support, training, and capacity building for Trainers of Trainers (ToT), Trainers of Farmers (ToF), agronomists, and field staff.

Planning, Scheduling, and Activity Management

Develop annual, quarterly, and monthly workplans for agronomy activities. Coordinate field schedules, farmer training plans, and extension activities. Monitor implementation against targets and ensure timely delivery of key outputs.

Regenerative Agriculture & Agronomy Program Management

Lead the development and implementation of regenerative agriculture and agronomy initiatives across cooperatives and farmer groups, including demonstration plots, water efficiency, Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Climate-Smart Agriculture, and sustainability interventions. Conduct soil analysis and soil health management, providing nutrient management recommendations to ToF to improve farm productivity and resilience. Support revolving fund programs through coordination of agricultural input distribution, farmer adoption tracking, and recovery reporting. Lead the design, implementation, and monitoring of demonstration plots to validate regenerative agriculture practices, soil amendments, soil rejuvenation techniques, agricultural inputs, and improved crop varieties.

Certification Support & Compliance Support

Support implementation of sustainability and certification programs. Ensure agronomic interventions align with certification requirements and project activities. Support audit preparation, corrective action implementation, and continuous improvement activities.

Gender Equity and Youth Inclusion

Promote gender equity and youth inclusion through farmer group development, entrepreneurship training, and income diversification initiatives.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting

Collaborate closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) team to ensure timely collection, validation, and reporting of field data. Monitor and report on the adoption and impact of regenerative agriculture and agronomy interventions, including productivity, soil health, water efficiency, and sustainability outcomes. Contribute to monthly, quarterly, and annual technical and narrative reports.

Stakeholder and Cooperative Engagement

Maintain strong relationships with cooperatives, farmers, service providers, and project partners. Collaborate with sustainability teams to strengthen farmer and cooperative compliance and continuous improvement. Coordinate agronomy activities with cooperative leadership and field representatives. Support development and management of agronomy budgets. Monitor expenditure against approved budgets.

Budget and Resource Management

Support development and management of agronomy budgets. Monitor expenditure against approved budgets.

Qualifications & Education

Bachelor’s degree in Agronomy, Agricultural Science, Environmental Science, Soil Science, Sustainable Agriculture, or a related field. (Note: The source text also mentions a bachelor’s degree in finance, Business Administration, or a related field, with an MBA or relevant certification as a plus. This appears to be an error, but we have included it as stated.)

Experience

Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience in agronomy, agricultural development, sustainability, or farmer support programs. Minimum 5-7 years of experience leading, managing, and developing field-based technical teams. Demonstrated experience managing geographically dispersed teams and driving performance through multiple levels of supervision. Proven experience in work planning, resource allocation, performance management, and team development. Experience implementing regenerative agriculture and sustainability initiatives is highly desirable.

Required Skills

Strong understanding of agronomy, soil health, and crop production systems. Knowledge of regenerative agriculture principles and climate-smart agriculture. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (mandatory). Familiarity with digital data collection and monitoring systems. Experience in project planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting. Budget planning and resource management skills.

Core Competencies

Strong people leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate, coach, develop, and hold teams accountable. Proven experience building high-performing teams and managing performance across multiple field locations. Excellent planning, coordination, and organizational skills. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities. Effective communication, training, and stakeholder engagement skills. Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in field-based environments. High level of integrity, accountability, and commitment to farmer impact and sustainability.

Preferred Qualifications

Coffee sector experience is not mandatory but would be considered an added advantage. Experience with farming communities or applied research. Wet mills operations. Innovation / Technology / Regen Ag (soil, water, carbon...) / M&E.

Soft Skills

Inspirational leader and strong communicator. Cross-cultural collaboration. Strategic, organized, and proactive.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should apply via the Sucafina careers portal on jobs.smartrecruiters.com. Please note that you should never pay for any notarisation, certificate, or assessment as part of any recruitment process. When in doubt,

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