Vacancy title:
Senior Dairy Production & Cluster Coordinator

Jobs at:
Heifer International

Deadline of this Job:
March 10th, 2017

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Job details:
East Africa Dairy Development-II (EADD-II) is the second phase of an ambitious Five-year program designed to transform the lives of resource poor farming families through a competitive and inclusive dairy value chain in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Reporting to the EADD-II Held Operations Manager, and working closely with Business Development Manager. Social Capital & Gender Coordinator and MLE coordinator, the Senior Dairy Production & Cluster Leader will provide leadership to the team on business and farm production and will he responsible for managing and providing technical guidance to the business operations of the dairy enterprises in the Cluster for the EADD-II project. S/he will ensure increased production and productivity in the dairy industry which is a key outcome of the project. Leading and working through a team of Cluster personnel and other consortium staff, he/she will provide technical guidance and support to producer organization boards, stall and farmers on dairy production and productivity issues.

Responsible

• Lead the Cluster team in designing strategies and actions that support Producer organizations increase the value proposition to the farmers and business profitability.
  
• Develop implementation plans in collaboration with the Cluster team and ensure that all activities planned for the period are in line with the projects goals and objectives. Ensure these plans cascade down to monthly plans in order to ensure they achieve agreed objectives.
  
• Lead the Cluster team in designing programs that can select and support the development of model farms and put in place strategies upscale adoption of productivity enhancing technologies.
  
• Provide leadership to the Cluster team in strategy development and creative initiatives to nurture and build linkages between producer organizations, local government& private sector BDS providers and other development players.
  
• Working closely with the Country MLE Officer and Field Operations Manager at Country project office; create, execute and monitor action plans to support Cluster office livestock data bases at the Po with a view of the enterprises to use the data for Improving management and profitability of the enterprises.
  
• Lead the development of a farm business model as a profitable sustainable and growth proposition to small holder farmer, which could be used to replicate and advise interested farmers particularly_ youth to adopt dairy farming.

• Lead efforts to undertake technical productivity analysis in the Cluster EADD-II program.

Minimum Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Animal Science or other related field, with five (5) years’ managerial experience in dairy production, dairy value chain management, agriculture development with at least one (1) year experience of how cooperatives work.
  Preferred Requirement
• Master's degree in Animal Science or a related field, plus at least five (5) years’ experience in dairy production management with a background in dairy enterprise management.
  
• Experience in developing private public partnerships especially at country level working in matrix reporting environment.
  
• Possess the experience and ability to demonstrate dairy as a financial viable business proposition at both the farm and producer organization.

Most Critical Proficiencies

• Clear understanding of the dairy value chain and Heifers value based model
  
• Proven team leadership, project management, motivation supervisory skills with ability to train and work cooperatively with a diverse staff.
  
• Demonstrated knowledge of the latest developments in advancing good! best practices in value chain development that target women, youth, and under privileged.
  
• Demonstrated creativity, ability to think systematically, willingness and ability to incorporate innovative solutions and design catalytic activities within the production dairy value chain (e.g. the concept of business development services provision).
  
• Demonstrated experience in setting robust and sustainable extensor systems for producer organizations. This requirement is in line with tm need to have built-in exit strategies within the project as a measure of ensuring that there are self-sustaining businesses by end of project.
  
• Having a business approach to dairy farming.
  
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in facilitating development of farm-level business plans and feasibility studies including the computation of the associated key financial ratios and benchmarks.
  
• Experience in implementing supply promotion/stimulation strategies in the context of dairy sub-sector.
  
• Computer literacy, including facility with Word, Excel and other relevant Microsoft Office Suite applications, as well as any other databases.
  
• Proficient oral and written communication in English including knowledge of local languages spoken in the Near East. South western and central parts of Uganda.

Job application procedure
Persons who meet the specific job requirements for positions above should send copies of cover letter with a C.V indicating two professional referees to: The Country Director Heifer international Uganda by Email: hr@heifer.org  or through the online platform: www.heifer.org/career  not later than Application Deadline of: March 10th, 2017 on the address above.
Only short listed applicants will be contacted. Can