Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) is mandated by the National Coffee Act, 2021, to regulate, promote and oversee the coffee sub sector; to regulate all on-farm and off-farm activities in the coffee value chain; and to provide for a coffee auction system; and for other related matters.

Its Vision is 'A sustainable coffee industry with high stakeholder value for social economic transformation’ and its Mission is “To facilitate increase in quality coffee production, productivity, and consumption”. UCDA believes in and aspires for Leadership, Integrity, Teamwork, Client Focus, Accountability and Professionalism.
In order to achieve its mandate, UCDA is desirous of recruiting motivated, qualified and competent professionals to fill the following vacant positions.

Job Title: Coffee Technical Officer (3 Positions)
Directorate: Development Services
Department: Technical Extension
Reports To: Technical Extension Manager
Duty Station: Ucda Field Offices

Job Purpose:

To inspect coffee factories, equipment and factory infrastructure to ensure good manufacturing practices, and to disseminate agro-technical knowledge and skills to coffee farmers, buyers, processors, exporters and roasters for enhancement of coffee quality standards and value.

Key Result Areas
• Inspect and evaluate coffee buying stores, primary processing factories, wet mills, export grading factories and roasters.
• Train coffee buyers and factory personnel (technicians, supervisors, and machine operators) in good coffee processing skills and maintenance of factories.
• Carry out regular field quality evaluations to determine out turn and screen size distribution.
• Disseminate information on factory infrastructure, equipment and new processing technology advances for enhancement of coffee quality.
• Register coffee buyers, coffee stores, coffee processors, primary coffee processing factories, wet mills, export grading factories, exporters and coffee.
• Train, advise and sensitize sector participants on good handling, processing and storage techniques for the maintenance of good coffee quality at post- harvest level.
• Train, empower and coordinate extension officers and other organs such as Agricultural Police, NEMA and local authorities in ensuring that coffee harvesting, post-harvest practices such as drying, buying, processing and storage of coffee conform to standards and the coffee regulations.
• Carry out trouble shooting task forces to assess the performance and compliance of coffee stakeholders to standards and coffee regulations.
• Prepare monthly reports on coffee technical extension activities.
• Carry out any other duties as may be assigned by Management.

• Minimum education
• A Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.

• Minimum experience
• At least 3 years relevant working experience in agricultural commodity processing.
• Membership of a professional body will be an added advantage.

• Skills and competences
• Flexibility to work upcountry.
• Good communication skills
• Report writing skills
• Good time management skills

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• Follow the following link below to access the available positions:
• https://mis.ugandacoffee.go.ug/cportal/career
• To be able to apply for a particular position, you are required to first signup before applying for the vacancy. In case you had already registered, simply log in with the credentials you created
• Identify the vacancy that interests you and click “Apply for this Vacancy”
• Fill the Application Form and follow the prompts accordingly
• Upload Curriculum Vitae, Academic and Professional Certificates as a single document of maximum size 2MB, in Portable Document Format (pdf).
In case you have any further questions about the role, contact us on
ucda_hr@ugandacoffee.go.ug
Please note the deadline for applications is 5th April 2022.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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