Experience

Remote Works

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Consultant

  • Jun 2012 - Present

  Providing professional services to businesses engaged in agriculture, specifically: •Planning and leading the execution of feasibility studies and business plans for horticulture projects (onions, passion fruits, carrots, chili, grapes) in various farmer’s cooperatives. •Support the preparing training manuals engaged in the horticulture value chain on various subjects (marketing, youth, and women engagement, strategic leadership). •Preparation of strategic plans for coffee cooperatives. •Support various companies engaged production and exports of cereals, spices, and nuts in finding and linking them to potential markets and partners in the region and beyond. •Supporting companies to source efficient logistics channels to move their products from collection hubs to regional markets. •Prepare and lead markets survey for fruits and vegetable products •Support farmer’s cooperatives and individuals to file requests for horticulture grants. Show less



One Acre Fund

• International Trade and Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Trees Nurseries Manager

  • Jan 2019 - Mar 2023

  One Acre Fund is a social enterprise based in East Africa that supplies smallholder farmers with the tools and financing they need to grow their own way out of hunger and poverty. As a manager, I supported the TREE team in the management one of trees nursery that produces over 3.5 millions agroforestry trees each year and distributed to farmers in the Eastern province of Rwanda. RESPONSIBILITIES: •Working closely with the Infrastructure team to ensure the nursery’s physical features are adequate and kept up well and suggested improvements that might be needed. This will include things like water access, accessibility to trucks, size, quality of physical materials, and ease of removing the shade cloth for hardening off. •Managing the workers needed to run the nurseries activities. Generally, this included managing permanent & temporary officers who carry out daily activities like watering, weeding, and KPI collection and who help to manage the casual laborers during peak work periods •Oversee officers and casual laborers' activities and run regular training for new ones. •Devise and implement strategies to monitor the quality and speed of the work and incentivize workers to work faster and better. •Make payment requests in a timely manner and follow up on any issues that arise (like failed mobile money numbers). •Oversee materials & inputs acquisition and keep records of all materials received (quantity, quality) and maintain an inventory of any reusable materials, kept a record of anything damaged or lost before the following season •Monitor and ensure the health of tree seedlings in the nursery including daily KPI collection on plant germination, survival, visual health ranking, any symptoms seen, the height of the plant. Show less



Enterprises Nkubili Alfred

• Fertilizer distribution coordinator

  • Jan 2013 - Oct 2016

  Coordinated and facilitated both fertilizer and seeds distribution from warehouses to agro-dealers stores across the North-Western districts of Rwanda. RESPONSIBILITIES: • Responsible for identification of agro-dealers and building relationships for our products; • Follow up on loading and offloading activities in assigned zones; • Coordinate and facilitate both fertilizer and seeds distribution from warehouses to agro-dealers stores; • Verify that all delivery notes are collected from agro-dealers; • Ensure all delivery notes are transferred to headquarters; • Responsible for promoting good collaboration with all local authorities to ensure that they have approved fertilizer and seeds distribution to all agro-dealers; • Control the concordance of quantities on delivery notes with a list of customers; • Ensure the packing and transporting of products to and from the field sites and ensure that there are adequate systems for tracking and documentation to support the distribution processes; • Responsible for ensuring and maintaining good relationships with clients, by making regular visits to them on the field with a view to maintaining loyalty and optimizing sales revenue; • Ensure that all products sold on credit are being paid regularly; • Prepare stock requisition for all agro-dealers in the assigned fields; • Prepare sales report for management information and performance evaluation and monitoring. IMPACT: • Managed to reduce the fertilizers delivery delay by 70% • Built a strong customer base and competitively establish the company brands in the region. • Increased the number of customers by 60%. Show less