The extension and outreach agent is responsible for the overall outreach, communication, and branding of the MCI products in the field. He/she establishes relationships throughout outreach within the   farmers communities (particularly SHF) by participating in events, leading education and awareness, coordination vaccination programs and establishing marketing initiatives.

Specially, the incumbent will:

• Work closely with distributors and veterinary community including veterinarians, veterinary paraprofessionals, and vaccination teams of the project.
• Coordinate with the area coordinator to facilitate the registration prosses of MCI products
• Raise awareness among small holder farmers of the importance of vaccination against major diseases and its impact on the productivity on their animals 
• Promote vaccination to help increasing the vaccination rate
• Monitor vaccination campaigns and collect relevant data from vaccinated herds
• Animate the vaccination team network and organize workshops for awareness, training and data collection as required 
• Control and validate vaccination data entered by vaccinators in the Mobile Data Collection Application
• Prepare weekly reports describing activities accomplished including sale data, extension data, registration data and vaccination campaign; and submit these report to area coordinator.  
• Performs other duties as assigned by the area Coordinator

Requirements for the profile

• a veterinarian or a specialized veterinary technician with experience in working in animal health  and veterinary practice in the field
• Knowledge of the veterinary drugs market
• Knowledge of product registration procedures and the functioning of veterinary services
• Has strong communication skills
• has a proven track record of establishing relationships through outreach
• provides exemplary customer service
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 Language skills:

• Working level of English (East Africa)
• Working level of French and English (West Africa)