Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Purpose of the Role
• To coordinate Agronomic activities in Unilever Tea Tanzania – undertake trialing, support roll out and implementation of good agricultural practices and sustainable and regenerative agriculture initiatives

Key Responsibilities
Technical
• Undertake fertilizer calibration and harvesting experiments. Draft design and protocols, undertake trial sites identification and lay out agreed experiments to meet objectives.
• Coordinate the monitoring of crop nutritional status in all production fields and advise on remedial measures
• Evaluate new innovations in agricultural operations – planting, harvesting and general husbandry in line with company productivity improvements for the estates and the outgrowers
• Supervise collection, collation, and analysis of data from the field experiments
• Undertake preparation /drafting of agronomy trial reports
• Responsible for training of field research assistants and data clerks.
• Provide expert knowledge in Agronomy to ETT.
• Seek leadership agreement in adoption of novel cost-effective agricultural technologies
• Support the operations in the implementation of GAP at the divisional level through engagement with divisional managers and field visit.
• Collaborate with the company Tea breeders, the microbiologists, processing Technologists, and company engineers to develop and innovate growing and harvesting technologies.

Administrative
• Collate and present data for the R&D annual budget preparation
• Plan & supervise transport to experimental sites
• Provide technical assistance to estate managers
• Supervise data collection in line with the Unilever sustainable agriculture code of practice/ SA indicators
• Coordinate documentation relevant to agricultural/environmental certification schemes subscribed to by Unilever Tea Kenya.
• Maintain historical records and carry out biannual benchmarking with other competitor plantations.
• Provide data for updating of the GAP manual.
• Provide training to the estate managers on topical agronomic issues

Relationships
• Jointly provide agronomic/plantation management information to the Estate/divisional managers, Outgrower managers, Finance managers, and procurement managers for effective production and cost management.
• Engage with national research institutions in development of new tea growing technologies
• Support provision of quality specifications to procurement team for effective sourcing of farm inputs
• Evaluate and distil value from any research/plantation consultants.
• Liaise with legal for publication and protection of internally developed agronomic technologies.
• Work closely with R&D and field operations teams to understand challenges of green leaf production, interdependencies and potential solutions.

Scope
• Undertakes projects within Unilever Tea plantation Tanzania, Mufindi and Njombe Outgrowers network.

Challenges
• Influencing ability to gain commitment of the operations team
• Maintain solid understanding of current agronomic knowledge and trends in agricultural business dynamics
• Handling varied and often conflicting requests from operations

Competencies
• Strong analytical power, statistical acumen, Organizational awareness, influencing ability, and working knowledge on business acumen.
• Good team player and adept at building strong cross-cultural/ cross-functional working relationships.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

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