Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, May 05, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Hatchery Technician
Kivu Choice is the sister company to Victory Farms, the largest fish farm in East Africa, based in Kenya. We launched our Rwandan business in October of 2021 and will have all standing functions up and running this year across Hatchery, Production, Processing, Distribution, and Sales. Over the next 5 years our plan is to scale to become the largest and most sustainable protein producer in the country, producing and distributing over 50 million fish meals per year across Rwanda, DRC, and Burundi.

Description
Kivu Choice is looking for an aspiring aquaculture leader to join our Rwanda expansion and play an integral role in building the country’s premier aquaculture business. Should you be chosen, you will be trained from the ground up and work side by side with our Hatchery Manager as we build out one of the largest hatchery operations in Africa.

What we’re looking for:
• The successful candidate is likely to have a background in agriculture, a technical profession, the sciences and/or aquaculture, preferably with at least a B.Sc. level of education
• Fish hatchery experience is preferred but not required as we will train you in all our practices
• Excels in a startup environment by taking initiative and jumping in wherever needed
• Be willing and ready to work in rural Rwanda
• Proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel
• Ability to perform strenuous physical activities
• Fluent in English

Duties:
• Make regular facility inspections including, for example, pumps, tanks, screens, filters, blowers, and other equipment adjacent to the hatchery
• Assist in breeding activities from spawning, incubation, nursing, and transferring to rearing hatchery systems as per the company production targets
• Assist in maintaining fingerling survivals and populations at predetermined company targets
• Coordinating the safe and efficient transfer of fingerlings from incubation to other hatchery rearing systems to predetermined monthly targets
• Assist in making standardized observations such as species identification, length, weight, behavior, growth, survival, reproductive condition, and/or signs of parasites, diseases or pathogens
• Monitor feed regimes and ensure they are followed so that growth and survival targets are met
• Assist in coordinating day-to-day activities and ensuring relevant data is captured by the Hatchery Incubation, brood stock management, Feed, Environment and Fish Handling sub-departments
• Assist in compiling weekly and monthly water quality, feed, and fingerling transfer results

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To apply, send your CV to recruiting@kivuchoice.com  

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