2 Senior Dairy Production & Cluster Coordinator Career Opportunities – Heifer International

Organization: Heifer
International
Project Name: EADD-II
Duty Station: Mbarara and
Kamuli, Uganda
About Heifer:
Heifer International, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1944 in
the United States of America, works with resource constrained families in 125
countries worldwide to develop innovative solutions to the underlying causes of
hunger, poverty and environmental degradation.
About Heifer EADD-II Program:
The East Africa Dairy Development (EADD-II) is 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. Heifer International as a lead partner is implementing this project
with its consortium partners that include; The Livestock Research Institute
(ILRI), Techno serve (TNS), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and African
Breeders Total Cattle Management (ABS-TCM).
Job Summary: The Senior
Dairy Production & Cluster Coordinator will provide leadership to the team
on business and farm production and will be responsible for managing and
providing technical guidance to the business operations of the dairy
enterprises in the Cluster for the EADD-II project. The incumbent 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, staff and farmers on dairy production and
productivity issues.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:  
  • Steer 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 project’s goals and objectives. Ensure
    these plans cascade down to monthly plans in order to ensure they achieve
    agreed objectives.
  • Take lead of the Cluster team in designing
    programs that can select and support the development of model farms and
    put in place strategies to upscale adoption of productivity enhancing
    technologies.
  • Lead efforts to undertake technical
    productivity analysis in the Cluster EADD-II program.
  • 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.
  • Provide leadership to the Cluster team in
    strategy development and creative initiatives to nurture and build
    linkages between producer organizations, local governments, private sector
    BDS providers and other development players.
  • Steer 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.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate should hold a
    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.
  • Possession of a 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.
  • Previous exposure and 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.
  • 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).
  • Broad knowledge and understanding of the
    dairy value chain and Heifer’s Value based model.
  • Proven team leadership, project
    management, motivational and 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 underprivileged.
  • Demonstrated experience in setting robust
    and sustainable extension systems for producer organizations. This
    requirement is in line with the 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.
  • Extensive 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.
  • Previous exposure and experience in
    implementing supply promotion/stimulation strategies in the context of
    dairy sub-sector.
  • Computer literacy skills 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,
    southwestern and central parts of Uganda.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send copies of
certificates, cover letter with an updated C.V indicating two professional
referees to: The Country Director- Heifer International Uganda by Email: hr@heifer.org
Deadline: 10th March,
2017

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