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We are looking for a knowledgeable, thorough Agronomist who can develop better farming practices and find effective solutions for the food and farming industry. Experience with Avocado's and Macadamia nuts is required.
The successful Candidate will conduct research and field checks, take samples and make observations, perform tests, and identify and solve problems related to plant or soil nutrition, damage from insects or wildlife, weather or climate changes, or the use of specialized products, such as pesticides, fertilizers, etc. Using this information, you will also help farmers develop techniques to increase crop quality and yield.
Responsibilities:
Studying plants and soil in order to develop better planting, cultivation, and harvesting techniques, improve crop yield, and solve problems facing the agriculture industry.
Researching, developing, and promoting farming practices or products that diminish the effects of changes in soil, climate, and weather or prevent damage from pests.
Visiting fields to collect seed, plant, and soil samples and testing samples for nutritional deficiencies, diseases, or other changes.
Assisting with the plant selection process and the development of planting and irrigation schedules, budgets, and timelines.
Keeping detailed records regarding fields, customers, crops, and samples.
Generating reports and presenting findings to management, clients, or other interested parties.
Promoting products and techniques through educational presentations
Required Skills
Self-motivated and detail-oriented
Analytical with excellent listening, communication, and problem solving skills.
Ability to work outside, stand, walk, kneel, and stoop for extended periods.
Additional Requirements
Duties to include:
Managing day to day farming operations
Liaising with customers on a day to day basis
Staff management
Procurement
Administration and basic bookkeeping
Required Skills
Computer literate
Additional Requirements
The General Manager will assume full accountability for the overall management and results of the
farm and oversee all day to day operations.
Responsibilities:
Oversee the agronomy activities with the Farm Manager, including irrigation, processing and maintenance activities on the farm, as well as coffee production.
International and local sales, including its administration, marketing, and quality control.
Responsibility for all accounting and financial aspects of the business.
All administrative departments (IT, procurement, legal, security, etc.).
Delegating responsibilities and supervising the work of department heads, as well as providing guidance and motivation to drive maximum performance.
Representation of the company to shareholders/boards, external business partners and any other third parties, including local government and societies.
Required Skills
Good organizational skills with the ability and confidence to manage a team of expatriate and local managers, excellent team player.
Strong leadership, sound management principles and strong organizational skills.
Good understanding of accounting/financial principles and cost reporting/analysis.
Strong data management skills with accurate attention to detail, yet hands-on approach.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Additional Requirements
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Coordinates the surveillance of insects, pests and diseases in sugar cane fields and recommend suitable herbicides, insecticides and pesticide and report accordingly.
Develops and implements sugarcane production systems (SOPs) and ensure their adherence.
Plans and adhere to approved budget for control programs.
Produces seed cane of the required standard.
Monitors sugarcane growth measurements and report accordingly.
Required Skills
Computer literacy in MS Office.
Team player with ability to work under pressure and meeting deadlines.
Good interpersonal, time management and mentoring skills.
Additional Requirements
You will be required to run a 1300 Ha irrigated seed production and 250 Ha. avocado with extensive experience in:
- Hybrid seed Maize production
- Sunflower production
- Bean production
Manage company seed production
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Monitor/audit external production field selection, ensuring that grow-outs are technically managed to maintain seed purity and hybridity.
Collect samples of product and coordinate in-process testing as needed.
Travel to current seed production locations, potential growers, tradeshows, and conferences.
Develop and support the quality protocols to ensure parent seed integrity.
Forecast variety-level production needs to meet sales demand
Negotiate and coordinate grower contracts and processors to process, bag, and deliver seed.Demonstrate desire and ability to proactively develop grower relationships, clearly understand their capabilities, and match them to JSS production needs.
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Required Skills
Knowledge of hybrid seed maize production is essential
Knowledge of domestic and international regulations related to seed importing and exporting and certification standards.
Ability to develop key relationships internally and externally and focus on project details.
Proven ability to work effectively with others in the organization to influence the overall strategy and coordination of seed production needs.
Demonstrated ability to effectively manage time and multiple projects.
Working knowledge of standard office software (MS Word, Excel, etc.).
Additional Requirements
The Agronomist will head up the technical team and also interact with the companies marketing activities.
The role will also involve analysis of soil results and farmer recommendations, as well as travel to farms, attending field days and marketing events, so there will be a significant amount of travel.
The role will manage the agronomy team and interns on attachment.
Required Skills
Additional Requirements
Responsibilities:
Creates feed orders and transmits them to the feed mill
Direct the Hatchery to produce the highest quality chicks at the highest percentage hatch rate possible for the lowest cost.
Ensure that the Hatchery, Tech Advisors, and Contract Producers follow Animal Welfare guidelines.
Plans production, spending, and capital improvement projects.
Prepares yearly budget for the hatchery.
Controls cost in labor, repairs, supplies, and vaccines.
Prepares monthly reports and graphs on hatchery performance.
Reports egg fertility and hatching residue results, as needed, to breeder department.
Ensure compliance with Company and OSHA safety guidelines.
Ensures completion of all quality assurance checks for the following: chick quality, vaccination checks, equipment checks, and maintenance work.
Consults with company veterinarian before making changes.
Prepares employee schedules, approves vacation requests and hires new employees as needed.
Required Skills
Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
Communication, Written - Ability to communicate in writing clearly and concisely.
Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
Energetic - Ability to work at a sustained pace and produce quality work.
Ethical - Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
Honesty/Integrity - Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace.
Additional Requirements
Responsibilities and Duties Include but are not subject to:
Creates feed orders and transmits them to the feed mill
Direct the Hatchery to produce the highest quality chicks at the highest percentage hatch rate
possible for the lowest cost.
Ensure that the Hatchery, Tech Advisors, and Contract Producers follow Animal Welfare
guidelines.
Plans production, spending, and capital improvement projects.
Prepares yearly budget for the hatchery.
Controls cost in labor, repairs, supplies, and vaccines.
Prepares monthly reports and graphs on hatchery performance.
Reports egg fertility and hatching residue results, as needed, to breeder department.
Ensure compliance with Company and OSHA safety guidelines.
Ensures completion of all quality assurance checks for the following: chick quality, vaccination
checks, equipment checks, and maintenance work.
Consults with company veterinarian before making changes.
Prepares employee schedules, approves vacation requests, and hires new employees as
needed.
Required Skills
Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
Communication, Written - Ability to communicate in writing clearly and concisely.
Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
Energetic - Ability to work at a sustained pace and produce quality work.
Ethical - Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
Honesty / Integrity - Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace.
Responsible
Additional Requirements
Duties to include:
• building and leading a country wide team to promote sales of all seed varieties.
• establishing demonstration plots and training/upskilling farmers throughout the country
• setting seed production targets with contract seed producers
• preparing budgets and reporting on performance to the Board of Directors on a quarterly basis.
Required Skills
be a self-starter with a high level of integrity
proven experience in team-oriented leadership skills
be an excellent communicator
hold a driving licence
Additional Requirements
Duties to include:
Develop and maintain a grower evaluation system to drive increased yields and quality
Understand seed species and varieties, seed quality standards, and crop delivery requirements
Develop and implement programs regarding agronomic issues in production fields
Conduct and manage field productions of seed as required
Perform and coordinate seed logistics activities to ensure accurate records and movement of seed
Complete administrative duties such as signing grower contracts, collecting and inputting data for reports, pricing, and managing disposition of harvest
Remain current with latest production technology to support seed growers
Maintain relationships with growers, contractors and the local farming community
Satisfy internal production standards within quality, timeliness and financial objectives
Propose improvements to the field operations production program
Required Skills
Minimum of 5 years experience within a similar role Self motivated with strong people skills
Additional Requirements
Responsibilities and duties include but are not subject to:
Desk research
Conduct outsight research and liaise with other agriculture institutions in Zambia and elsewhere to inform trial questions. Many questions need more in depth research to improve trial planning and success. Some example topics include:
Reducing the cost of growing maize for organisations farmers
Moving forward with trials and scale up of reduction of weeds pressure
Developing a strategy to build soil fertility and structure for organisations farmers
Best practices for designing crop storage trials
Lead farmers’ preference tests for maize and other crops
Develop surveys, focus groups, semi-structured interview protocols and other farmer engagement strategies, and analyse data to discover and evaluate new trial ideas for improving impact along our 3 major impact categories: Farmer profit, Healthy soil, and Healthy families.
Designing and supporting execution of Research station trials
Play a leading role in trial prioritization and design for all research station trials.
Prioritize trials effectively based on research and station results
Create impact models for each product or idea to be tested throughout trials
Create crop management protocols and calendars for trials
Support the research station team in executing trials and solving problems
Gather feedback from research station teams to inform further trial ideas
Develop and deliver trainings to research station teams
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Designing and supporting execution of participatory farmer field trials
Prioritize trials effectively, particularly through use of desk research and research station trials results
Create planting protocols and calendars for trials
Support the Impact field team in executing trials and solving problems
Develop and deliver trainings to Impact field team
Data audit and analysis
Analysis and reporting
Following completion of trials, the Agriculture Research Manager will: <b>
Carry out statistical analyses and interpret results
Draft trial reports
Make recommendations for next steps e.g. repeat trial, add treatments, scaling-up.
Required Skills
Experience with trial management (research station and / or participatory farmer field trials) required
Strong work experiences, which may include a demanding professional work experience, successful entrepreneurial experience, leading a conference, starting a business, etc.
Strong project management, communication, and leadership experience.
Strong data management and analysis skills. Experience with Excel required; experience with R or Stata strongly preferred.
A willingness to commit to living in East Africa for at least two years.
The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.
Language: English required.
Additional Requirements
Manage formulation systems – upgrades, formulation procedures
Set and control global raw material specifications(STL Base Matrix)
Set and control all global feed specifications(Nutrients, Raw Material Bounds, Additives)
Control all feed and raw material specification adjustments
Set all Raw Material and Feed Quality Control requirement
Investigate and sign off all feed related claims
Technical support and liaison for farms
Technical support for the feed mill team
Initiate trails required
Improving the productivity of the operation by managing and implementing a Production Improvement Program(PIP)
Safeguarding all the intellectual assets of the feed milling operation provided to the staff in the best interest of the company
Working 5 days a week in which weekend is the normal days off
Working hours from 7h00am to 17h00pm Mon – Fri
Required Skills
Experience in management of trials, feed formulation and quality control
Technical competence and in depth knowledge of all aspects of Feed Formulation
Technical competence and in depth knowledge of all aspects of Raw Material Brokering
Ability to communicate well and interact effectively
Ability to learn quickly and be competent in areas which he is not familiar with
Good communication skills and good people management abilities
Ability to interact with persons from widely different nationalities and cultures
Computer literacy
Ability to motivate and create a team spirit
Highly numerate, planning and analytical
Knowledge of Bio-Security
Good verbal and written skills
Additional Requirements
Duties and Responsibilities include but are not subject to:
Define a medium and long-term strategy for the Informal trade with a clear understanding of their decision making processes, strategy and expansion plans
Compile weekly and monthly sales reports by monitoring sales performances against budget
Develop and implement a channel plan in order to maximise volume, profit and share performance
Ensure that objectives in terms of availability, visibility, volume, margin, quality and customer price of products are achieved for Informal Trade
Define customer trading terms in the commercial planning following guidelines from Head of Sales
Assess business performance of the Company and competitors in Informal Trade in order to enhance effectiveness of developed trade programmes
Manage expenditure budget for sales programmes
Recommend suitable sites for depot opening
Required Skills
Excellent sales and negotiation skills
The ability to motivate and lead a team
Excellent communication and 'people skills
Good planning and organisational skills
The ability to work calmly under pressure
Good verbal and written communication skills
Work well in a team and with a wide range of people
Be organised and methodical
Additional Requirements
The Successful Candidate will supervise leaf cultivation, harvesting, curing, fermentation, sortation and packing.
Required Skills
Proficiency with computers, especially MS Office and diagnostic scientific software
Strong research, decision making and critical thinking
Awareness of industry trends, technology, and developments
Generating reports and presenting findings to management, clients, or other interested parties
Self Motivated
Detail-oriented
