Beekeeping Officers - 9 positions 🎉
- Dodoma, Tanzania
- viaSwahili Honey
3 months ago
Mid Level
Agribusiness
2 - 5 years
Bachelor, Diploma or Certificate in Beekeeping Science and Technology
Job Summary
Swahili Honey is the second largest producer of honey in Tanzania. We work with over 1800 smallholder farmers to produce world class honey that is ethically sourced and harvested. We are looking for beekeeping officers (9) to support our supply chain interventions through mobilization, training and mentoring of smallholder farmers.
Reports to: Project Accountant
Reports to: Project Accountant
Duties And Responsibilities
- Promoting beekeeping and improved/modern hives.
- Develop training sessions and materials on beekeeping, hive management, quality honey harvesting, refining and marketing
- Set up and train local beekeeping association and groups of farmers
- Set up, plan, supervise and monitor implementation of beekeeping projects by the local beekeeping association and groups
- Create and submit to the Accountant the budget for training of local beekeeping associations
- To ensure that all project reporting (internal and external) is completed in a timely and accurate manner following stipulated procedures and reporting formats
- Support management in all aspects of the project management cycle including activity planning and delivery, tracking expenditure against contractual budget, monitoring and recording progress
- Maintain a monitoring and evaluation database to generate evidence of achievements.
- Build effective relationships and develop networks with all stakeholders including local and regional authorities, and other stakeholders
- Support in distribution of modern hives to the trained farmers and maintaining proper documentation for the same
- To perform any other related duties as may be assigned time to time by the Supervisor.
Education Other Skills Required
- Bachelor, Diploma or Certificate in Beekeeping Science and Technology
- Completed training under the Beekeeping Training Institute
- Minimum of 1-year experience in beekeeping activities
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to train and coach others
- Ability to mobilize farmers at the grassroots level
- Competency in Microsoft Office and G-Suite
- Excellent administrative skills
