Regional Training Officer (Western) Job at SunCulture Kenya Limited… See details on how to apply for the opportunities available at SunCulture Kenya Limited.
Description:
Since the sale of our first kit in 2013, SunCulture has been on a mission to help smallholder farmers in Africa improve both crop yields and quality. We are driven to constantly innovate and improve our technology to make solar-powered irrigation solutions truly affordable for the millions of farmers on the continent.
Responsibilities:
- Actively participate in the recruitment and selection process of new sales agents in the region.
- Onboard all new sales agents by scheduling the orientation process, training the agents on the sales process.
- Assist in the development of a training curriculum and ensure the training conducted is as per the training curriculum
- Developing the individual coaching plan for each sales agent and ensuring all resources needed by the agent are provided.
- Coaching each agent by observing what they are doing and providing guidance whenever needed.
- Identifying the knowledge gap among the sales agents by spending more time with them in the field and giving a necessary recommendation in filling the gaps.
- Developing training materials, conducting training sessions, evaluating and recommending areas for improvement.
- Supporting the training financial objective by ensuring training activities are within budgets allocated and controlling costs.
- Ensuring all training done is towards achieving the sales strategy in place and reporting on the impact of the training program.
Key Requirements:
- Passionate about developing others’ capabilities and empowering those around you.
- Willing to gain experience in ‘doing’ what is being asked of others before learning how to train it.
- Effective communicator in front of small-medium-sized groups of people.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and experience working in a dynamic environment.
- Have discretion in using budgetary allocations for the region and/or department
- Experience in solar/ off-grid pump systems would be an advantage.
- Experience working in a start-up would be an advantage.
- Experience training experientially would be an advantage.
- Work experience as a sales agent is an added advantage.
