Vacancy title:
Agronomist

Jobs at:
Rwanda Mountain Tea Ltd

Deadline of this Job:
26th October 2018 at 5:00pm

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: 20th September 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

JOB VACANCY
Job Title: Agronomist
Job Location: Kagugu – Gasabo/ City of Kigali
Contract Duration: Open-ended
Rwanda Mountain Tea Ltd is a private investor in Rwanda tea industry, established in 2006 with a core mission to manage and invest in tea estates.

The vision of Rwanda Mountain Tea is to be a regional leader in exporting top quality tea to world markets. The tea companies source the green tea leaf from their own plantations and from out growers and process it into black tea mainly for export markets. So far, the teas from factories under Rwanda Mountain Tea Ltd management attract some of the best prices on the Mombasa tea auction market.

JOB SUMMARY:
Rwanda Mountain Tea would like to recruit a motivated and qualified Agronomist to manage its marshland with great purpose of crop diversification and modern farming.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Play a central role in dealing with maize and soya beans crops production;
  
• Provide technics related to Marshland drainage for cultivation;
  
• Apply knowledge on Agri-mechanical;
  
• Ensure the agriculture calendar and crop rotation is observed at a site
  
• Establish a good balance of cost and benefit towards labor cost in soya beans and maize crop production;
  
• Demonstrate the managerial skills to coordinate all workers at a farm
  
• Any others responsibility assigned by the supervisor.
  

QUALIFICATION, SKILLS, AND COMPETENCIES:

• A bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, crop production and Rural Engineering;
  
• Skilled in agriculture planning is an added value
  
• Fluent in Kinyarwanda, English or French, Knowledge of all is a plus
  
• Use of Information and Communication technology for reporting, presentation, data Management, and analysis
  
• High level of Integrity