Farmer Community Manager

**WELCOME TO INPLANET**:
**_ Based in Piracicaba with travel in SP state mostly Language skills: Portuguese native and advanced English_**

An excellent opportunity for someone with a **true passion and knowledge for sustainable agriculture **with **exceptional relationship-building** skills to drive community engagement and commercial success = agronomy x relationship x partnerships

We are an impact-driven, remote-first, AgTech startup headquartered in Germany and Brazil with the goal to reverse climate change and make tropical agriculture more regenerative, low-carbon and sustainable. We are working with Enhanced Rock Weathering in tropical agriculture, currently with focus on Brazil. We do that to create a liveable planet for future generations and, in specific, to regenerate soils and ecosystems, grow nutritious food, increase food security and sovereignty in the tropics. Our stakeholders and clients are from all over the world, and we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Our Vision is to remove gigatons (that's billions of tons) of CO2 from the atmosphere in a permanent, scalable and safe way.

Our Mission is to enable farmers in the tropics to replace synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and limestone with (silicate) rock powder from local mines.

**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESIRED OUTCOMES**:
As InPlanet Farmer Community Manager you will be the key person building a **strong community of innovative and revolutionary farmers**. You will be the one keeping close contact to the participants of our **remineralization and carbon removal projects**, coordinating the activities in the field under close collaboration with our science team. You are responsible for developing and implementing** new protocols** aimed at quantifying **carbon removal and agronomic benefits of rock powder use (enhanced rock weathering)** in different crop and management systems on the field level.

You will also be involved in **developing new projects throughout Brazil** where you have to win new farmers and support their contracting together with InPlanets legal team,** COO and Country Manager**. To give you a perspective: In 2024 InPlanet plans to spread up to 250.000 tons of remineralizer on ca. 25.000 ha of farmland. Through your charisma and dedication you will need to win the farmers for our projects and maintain a healthy and happy relationship.

Your activities will also include** representing InPlanet at events** as well as developing activities with interested farmers where you need to answer their questions and stand your ground. You will also be responsible for **co-creating and sharing exclusive materials with our farmers** (webinars, papers, posters, etc), this way increasing the attractivity of our community.

Furthermore you will participate in the process to **create novel Business Models** to attract farmers for remineralization and carbon removal activities in the long run, always with the goal to create a win-win situation for the involved farmers and mines. The role would be based in **Piracicaba and require travel, in a first step in São Paulo state**. Over the next few years, we intend to scale our activities to the whole country and extend our team to enable InPlanet to operate on a national level.

**KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES WE ARE LOOKING FOR**:

- Studies in **Agronomy **or related field
- Prior **knowledge about remineralizer**s in tropical agriculture** is a big plus
- Expertise in multi-stakeholder, **project management**
- Experience in **operational reporting**, e.g. measurement and sharing of project progress, project analytics via (key) performance indicators
- Prior expertise in setting up and accompanying **agronomic trials** on the field level
- ** Technical experience** with agronomic experiences and machinery is a plus
- Strong knowledge about **operations on field/farm level**
- Prior work experience **(3+ years) in agriculture and farming**
- If you already worked with larger farmer communities and have **contact to relevant farmer associations** or cooperatives that is a big plus
- Experience with** sales and account management **is a plus
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Go-getter, hands-on**, sociable and confident communicator
- Strong communication skills in **Portuguese, advanced English**
- High **dedication, precision** and love for detail
- Intrinsic motivation for **personal and professional improvement**
- Passion for **sustainable, regenerative agriculture** and climate change mitigation (e.g. carbon farming)
- Positive, **can-do mindset**
- Disposition to relocate to **Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
**LIVING OUR VALUES**:
At InPlanet,we are on a big vision of solving climate change, and we are looking for individuals who are genuinely passionate about making a positive difference to the world of Carbon Removal Solutions. As a fast-growing startup, we are also in the process of identifying and further articulating our culture and key values on which we hold each other accountable for in the compa