Position: FARM MANAGER.
Deadline: 15 Feb 2019.
Date posted: 11 Feb 2019.
Location:Dar es Salaam.
Description:
Job Purpose
The Farm Manager will work in Developing egg laying chickens, small dairy and horticulture. The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning strategies for maximum yield, organizing farm administration,
working machinery, organizing associated businesses and managing staff. This will involve implementing the short and long term
business plans of the company's management.
Job Responsibilities
- Keeping financial records up to date
- Marketing the farm's products
- Buying supplies, such as fertilizer and seeds
- Arranging the maintenance and repair of farm buildings, machinery and equipment
- Worm farming;
- Making sure that products are ready for deadlines, such as markets
- Maintaining and monitoring the quality of yield
- Planning finances and production to maintain farm progress against budget parameters
- Ensuring that farm activities comply with government regulations
- Maintaining a knowledge of pests and diseases and an understanding of how they spread and how to treat them
- Applying health and safety standards across the farm estate
- Protecting the environment and maintaining biodiversity
- Understanding the implications of the weather and making contingency plans
- Planning activities for trainee staff, mentoring and monitoring them
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture
- 5+ years related field working experience as a Farm Manager
- Experience working in a team environment with proven leadership skills
- Demonstrated ability to work independently
- Demonstrated good organizational and record keeping skills
- Demonstrated farm planning experience and working knowledge of farm infrastructure
- Experience working with farm machinery
- Demonstrated good communication skills
- Self motivated, cooperative and flexible
- Responsibly manage administrative and record keeping tasks related to running the farm business and overall success of the company