ABOUT DIGITAL GREEN
Digital Green is a global tech nonprofit that leverages technology and data to help smallholder farmers build prosperous and resilient communities. Since 2008, it has reached over 3.6 million farmers in Ethiopia. For more than a decade, Digital Green has partnered with the Ethiopian Government’s agricultural extension system, training over 20,400 frontline workers using video based extension channels and co-creating digital solutions. Digital Green has launched FarmerChat, an AI-powered agricultural assistant that delivers real-time advisories in farmers' own languages. The organization works to improve farm productivity and increase farmers’ incomes by facilitating critical advisory services and enhancing the efficiency of extension systems through partnerships with public, private, and civil society actors. For more information, please visit Digital Green’s website: www.digitalgreen.org.
Job Title: Field Coordinator
Location: Jimma, Limu Kosa Woreda
Job Summary
The Field Coordinator, reporting to the Project Manager, will be in charge of executing and organizing initiatives focused on enhancing the incomes of coffee farmers in Jimma Zone. This position requires close collaboration with local partners, cooperatives, local bank for facilitating credit, agricultural extension workers, and farmers. The position provides guidance and technical support and ensures that program objectives and targets are met. Other responsibilities include training and capacity building for local intermediaries, overseeing farmer training video productions, ensuring quality of project activities, data management, facilitating input credits and access to inputs, supporting women self-help groups, and assisting other producer groups.
Job Purpose
To ensure timely, cost effective and efficient delivery of Digital Green Ethiopia ‘s services in the designated area of operation.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Work plans
- Work directly with the Project Manager to execute annual work plans and achieve targets and deliverables;
- Ensure progress and achievements are tracked against established work plans
Roll out FarmerChat activities for the project - Support the rollout and implementation of FarmerChat across target kebeles within assigned woredas.
- Train Development Agents (DAs) on FarmerChat so they can independently onboard farmers, and use FarmerChat to deliver advisory services to farmers who cannot use the platform directly due to a lack of smartphones and limited digital or basic literacy.
- Monitor farmer onboarding, platform usage, and farmer engagement facilitated by Development Agents.
- Ensure implementation activities follow the RCT study design, including maintaining a clear separation between treatment and control groups as required by the research protocol.
Provision of Video-Based Agronomy Training - Train and coach woreda partner staff on producing quality videos related to coffee and maize agronomy.
- Coordinate the development and production of video-based training materials.
- Support training sessions for smallholder farmers on coffee and maize agronomy using video-based materials.
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the video-based training program.
Facilitation of Input Credits and Access to Inputs: - Identify and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to facilitate input credits for coffee and maize farming.
- Develop and implement strategies to ensure smallholder farmers have access to quality inputs.
- Provide guidance and support to farmers on proper utilization of inputs for improved productivity.
- Monitor the distribution and utilization of inputs and provide regular reports.
Formation and Technical Support to Women Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and Honey Producer Groups (HPGs): - Facilitate the formation of women self-help groups and honey producer groups in collaboration with stakeholders
- Facilitate technical support and training to the groups on various income-generating activities related to agriculture for the SHGs and on honey value chain for the HPGs.
- Foster entrepreneurship skills among the groups to enhance their economic empowerment.
- Monitor the progress and impact of the groups and provide necessary guidance.
Quality Assurance and Supporting Impact Assessment - Ensure quality assurance by gathering data captured through observation sheets while observing video disseminations and video content and technical quality audits at Kebele level;
- Coordinate field travel for Digital Green team members as well as external stakeholders;
- Support the implementation of the various monitoring and evaluation methods determined by the Digital Green Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) team.
Reporting, Data Management, and Documentation - Ensure Partners complete necessary documentation and enter data acquired at Kebele level
- Document case studies, best practices, and success stories at Kebele level
- Ensure accurate and proper data management processes at Woreda and Kebele levels
- Report on challenges and difficulties encountered during program execution to Digital Green Program team to resolve issues on time
- Regularly review Digital Green’s data management system to monitor project deliverables, achievements, and regularly report to the team on activities, milestones and accomplishments
Key Collaborators - Project Manager and Project Team Members
- Government Stakeholders, Development Agents (DAs), and Extension Service Providers
- Farmer Organizations, Cooperatives, Self-Help Groups (SHGs), Honey Producer Groups (HPGs), and Community Representatives
- Financial Institutions, Input Suppliers, and Agricultural Service Providers
- Product, Program, and Technology Teams (including FarmerChat and Digital Advisory Teams)
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Team
- Research Partners and Field Study Teams
Job RequirementQualifications and Experiences - Bachelors or higher degree, in Agriculture, Agricultural Extension, Rural Development, or related agricultural fields.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in project implementation, preferably within an NGO setting
- Knowledge of coffee and maize agronomy and experience in providing agronomy training.
- Some experience in domains related to ICT for agriculture/health and nutrition/ will be preferred
- Ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders, including local communities, government officials, and NGOs
- Strong organizational and coordination skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Fluency in Afaan Oromo and English
- Basic knowledge of using internet/cloud applications, MS word, MS PowerPoint, etc.
- Basic skills for using data analysis tools like Microsoft Excel
To be successful as a member of the Digital Green team, you will also:
- Have a passion for our mission and a strong desire to impact an up-and-coming non-profit organization.
- Be an innovative and creative thinker – you are not afraid to try something new and inspire others to do so.
- Have a very high level of personal and professional integrity and trustworthiness.
- Have a strong work ethic, take initiative, and require minimal direction.
- Work well independently as well as part of a team.
Compensation
Digital Green is a great place to work and prides itself on a competitive and comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Digital Green is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Application timeline - until August 09,2026
