Agronomist (Field Technical Services)

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 TrustChem's products. ● Travel intensively across Uganda's 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). ● Bachelor's 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.