Supervisor: Quality Control and Purchasing Manager / Deputy General Director
Location: Northern/Northeastern/Central Plateau, Haiti
Start Date: July 2025
Contract Type: Fixed term contract
Travel: 90% (regional)
About Acceso:
Acceso (www.acceso.org) is an award-winning social enterprise that is revolutionizing food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean to put smallholder farmers first. Acceso’s mission is to create fundamental and lasting positive economic change in the lives of rural smallholder farming families. Acceso’s seed-to-market model provides smallholder farmers with a sustainable way to participate in formalized markets, enabling them to work themselves out of poverty with dignity and to prosper. Acceso is currently a team of over 600 determined and driven change-makers supporting over 35,000 smallholder farmers across Colombia, Haiti, El Salvador and Guatemala.
About the role:
The Quality Control and Agricultural Products Purchasing Assistant supports the Quality and Purchasing Manager with field activities aimed at ensuring the effective implementation of quality standards and processes to guarantee that products and services meet defined standards and stakeholder expectations.
Key responsibilities:
The duties listed below are intended to illustrate the types of tasks that may be performed. The omission of specific tasks does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment for this role. The Assistant shall:
- Monitor quality testing stock levels in regional depots and follow up on supplies.
- Provide technical support to field teams regarding purchasing and quality control.
- Organize training sessions and raise stakeholder awareness on good quality control practices.
- Assist in verifying seed quality.
- Conduct regular inspections to ensure compliance with established quality requirements.
- Identify and report any non-conformities related to stored products.
- Execute the 2025 purchasing plan.
- Support the coordination of purchases and deliveries of produce from farmers and other suppliers.
- Mobilize and record transactions and relevant supporting documents.
- Collect and report purchase prices from designated markets.
- Carry out any other duties deemed important by the Quality and Purchasing Manager.
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- Agronomy Technician, bachelor’s degree or diploma in food safety, quality control, or a related discipline.
- Proven experience of at least one (1) year in agriculture or a related field.
- Strong sense of initiative (proactive).
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks effectively.
- Structured, organized, and efficiency-oriented work method.
- Flexible and adaptable to change.
- Good oral and written communication skills in Haitian Creole and French.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
Application Instructions: To apply, please submit your CV/Resume and Cover Letter via the form below. For your application to be considered, please submit all materials in English.
For more information about Acceso and careers with us, please visit Acceso.org/careers. Acceso is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, HIV/AIDS status, protected veteran status, disability and all other protected class