Extension and Field Project Manager 3277 views

Extension and Field Project Manager

Key Duties and Responsibilities

To manage all extension activities of all projects undertaken – including technical field work activities, work plans, farmer trainings, participating in budget preparations and controls; To coordinate and manage the extension team providing the leadership, monitoring, evaluation and assessment of the team; Oversee that all milk collection centres are visited for viability assessment, extension services implementation and audited once a year; Coordinating the review meetings and technical trainings of farmers/farm workers; To plan, strategize and manage the dairy extension and member services required for the implementation of the Association’s Strategic Plan; Conducting farm visits for the purpose of training and advising farmers on profitable and clean raw milk production; Training smallholder dairy producers on most appropriate types of dairy breed to be used; Implementing milk production technologies for smallholder farmers; Providing training to farmers in liaison with other industry stakeholders on the most appropriate fodder conservation methods; To establish and manage the dairy information hub of the association ensuring dairy statistical and industry information is readily available – National Dairy Statistics, Industry Statistics, Milk Collection Centre performance status, Dairy Trend analysis – (pricing, feed, production), Cost of milk production, Dairy Viability analysis and Regional/Global Comparisons.