About Apollo Agriculture Apollo Agriculture (a venture-backed scaleup, pleasesee herethe Series B raise overview) is the commercial farming platform for small-scale farmers that helps farmers maximize their profits. Apollo uses agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver financing, high-quality farm products, and optimized advice that can more than double farm profitability, starting in Kenya. Our team brings together technology and operations experience from The Climate Corporation (acquired for ~US$1bn), Acre, Google, and One Acre Fund. We value evangelical pursuit of mission with a pragmatic approach, humility in the face of challenge, active discussion of disagreements, and considerate listening.
About the RoleWe’re seeking a driven and creative problem solver to join our Sales team as Sales Training Assistant. The successful candidate will be responsible for performing various training duties, primarily focused on developing and evaluating training materials for digital delivery. As the Sales Training Assistant, you will be involved in the creation, refinement and sense-checking of sales training materials before these are shared with the intended audience. You will work closely with the Senior Manager, Sales Training to ensure that field sales agents country-wide receive clear and concise training to equip them with the right skills to sell our products.
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Reporting Lines: This role reports to the Senior Manager, Sales Training Responsibilities:
- Creating impactful digital training content: Convert key business training problems into digital training content that support different teams to succeed. This will require high level of creativity and comfort using visual design tools like canva, adobe illustrator etc
- Training content testing: Provide support in testing developed training content to maximize teams engagement, comprehension and impact. This will require engaging agents both in person and through the phone to ensure that all the digital content uploaded on our digital content is tested with different samples of our agent demographics
- Training delivery testing: Participating in sales training sessions run by trainers/Field sales manager to check on the flow and content delivery to provide reports on actions points.
- Reviewing agent training performance and recommending actions: Monitoring training agents scores through the provided dashboards to make recommendations on areas of improvement on the process
Requirements:
- More than 2 years of experience working with field sales teams or farmers
- Creativity and innovative thinking to develop engaging training content.
- Strong proficiency in visual design tools (e.g., Canva, Adobe Illustrator).
- Data and insights collection skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to engage with and gather feedback from diverse groups of teams.
- Detail-oriented with a keen eye for quality.
- Knowledge of adult learning principles and instructional design is a plus.
We:
- Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers.
- Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise.
- Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve.
- Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree.
- Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth.
- Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment.
- Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package and challenging projects.
- Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and respect.
- Are excited to hear from you!
Apollo Agriculture does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. Apollo Agriculture is an equal opportunity/equal access employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce.Apollo Agriculture is committed to providing a safe and productive learning and living community. To achieve that goal, we may conduct background investigations for all final candidates being considered for employment. Background checks may include, but are not limited to, criminal history, national sex offender search and motor vehicle history.Apollo Agriculture does not charge money or any kind of fee at any stage of the recruitment process.