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Agronomist (Field Technical Services)

Copper Quail


Job Location:

Kampala - Uganda

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 24 September 2026 (13 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 22 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Location: Uganda
Ugandan candidates only (open to all genders ethnicities religions and cultural backgrounds).

4.1 Key Responsibilities
Provide on-the-ground technical support to end customers from coffee estates and commercial maize farms to smallholder farmers including product recommendation application guidance dosing and safety instructions for coffee maize sunflower beans banana and horticultural crops.
Plan and manage field demonstration trials and efficacy trials on core local crops; document results and translate them into locally relevant product positioning.
Deliver training and technical presentations to farm staff agro-dealers retailers
cooperatives and farmer groups building local confidence in TrustChems products.
Travel intensively across Ugandas growing regions and periodically regionally within East
Africa to deliver technical services wherever customers are located.
Work closely with the Market Development & Customer Service Executive on field visits
farmer field days promotional events and trial-site coordination.
Gather field feedback (crop pest and disease issues product performance resistance
patterns) and report to the General Manager and HQ R&D to support product development
and registration expansion.
Support product registration work with local trial data and technical documentation where
required.

Requirements
4.2 Candidate Requirements
Ugandan national (open to all genders ethnicities religions and cultural backgrounds).
Bachelors degree or higher in Agronomy Plant Protection Plant Pathology Entomology or a
related agricultural science.
3 years of field agronomy experience; hands-on experience with coffee maize sunflower
beans banana or horticultural crops in Uganda is strongly preferred.
Practical knowledge of crop protection products their safe and effective use and field trial
methodology.
Willing and able to travel extensively in the field including periodic regional assignments;
a valid driving permit is an advantage.
Good communication and training skills; comfortable working with commercial farm
managers coffee estates agro-dealers and smallholder farmers alike.
Working English (written and spoken) for reporting to HQ; Mandarin Chinese is an
advantage.

Kindly consider your application unsuccessful should you not be contacted within 7 working days.


Required Skills:

4.2 Candidate Requirements Ugandan national (open to all genders ethnicities religions and cultural backgrounds). Bachelors degree or higher in Agronomy Plant Protection Plant Pathology Entomology or a related agricultural science. 3 years of field agronomy experience; hands-on experience with coffee maize sunflower beans banana or horticultural crops in Uganda is strongly preferred. Practical knowledge of crop protection products their safe and effective use and field trial methodology. Willing and able to travel extensively in the field including periodic regional assignments; a valid driving permit is an advantage. Good communication and training skills; comfortable working with commercial farm managers coffee estates agro-dealers and smallholder farmers alike. Working English (written and spoken) for reporting to HQ; Mandarin Chinese is an advantage. Kindly consider your application unsuccessful should you not be contacted within 7 working days.