Vacancy title:
Strategic Reserves Specialist (Under contract)

Jobs at:
Ministry Of Agriculture And Animal Resources

Deadline of this Job:
23rd November 2018

Duty Station:
Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: 19th November 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

Job Title: Strategic Reserves Specialist (Under contract)

Level: 2.V

Reports To: Program Manager

No. of Positions: 1

Job Description

• To help the Strategic Reserve Program Manager to coordinate all activities related to storage at national, community and household levels,
  
• To provide all technical advices related to storage management;
  
• To control quality of stored grains and oversee the plants/ warehouses operations.
  
• To monitor the progress of implementation of the action plan in storage,
• To help the Strategic Reserve Program Manager to manage properly country strategic reserves,
  
• To provide monthly report of activities to the Strategic Reserve Program Manager ,
  
• To help the Strategic Reserve Program Manager in monitoring and evaluation of policies, strategies and programs aimed at promoting agriculture postharvest handling and storage development;
  
• To help the Strategic Reserve Program Manager to develop appropriate systems to improve storage, processing and marketing of agricultural products;
  
• To determine and evaluate the needs for the warehouse and Silo plant
  
• To make sure that the basic principles of the inventory controls are respected,
  
• To make sure that all the book and report of stocks management are well filed out brought up to date and well classified
  
• To control regularly the state of the foodstuffs and to inform the supervisor of any abnormalities observed,
  
• Training and coaching of Warehouse managers in pest control and fumigation operation
  
• To work as a focal point of the National Strategic Grain Reserve in the area he(she) works
  
• To make all others activities asked to him by its superiors,
  

Job Profile

Ao in Food Science, Management and Agri business with a working experience of3 years in Grain storage management or a Master’s degree in Food Science, Management and Agri business with a working experience of 1 years in Grain storage management

Key Technical Skills & Knowledge required:

• Deep knowledge of Agriculture context development agenda;
  
• Knowledge in emergency response and recovery following natural disaster;
  
• Knowledge in designing and implementing appropriate and effective safety nets, including cash and/or food transfer programming;
  
• Skills in technical proposal writing, designing and implementing food security programs;
  
• Interpersonal Skills;
  
• Communication skills;
  
• Negotiation Skills;
  
• Problem solving skills;
  
• Analytical skills;
  
• Fluent in Kinyarwanda, English and/ or French; knowledge of all is an advantage.