Summit Recruitment & Search Centre of Excellence Team Leader Jobs in Nakuru, Kenya

Summit Recruitment & Search Centre of Excellence Team Leader Jobs in Nakuru, Kenya

Summit Recruitment and Search Africa is a leading Recruitment and Executive Search agency head quartered in Kenya providing outstanding talent to a wide range of companies and NGO’s in various business sectors across Africa.

Our client, a dynamic Agriculture Company based in Nakuru is seeking to recruit a Centre of Excellence Team Leader to be based in their Nakuru office.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing vision, leadership, resource management, staff performance guidance, support, dissemination of knowledge on Conservation Agriculture, soil health, productivity improvement, and monitoring and evaluation of project progress.

The ideal candidate Must have a Commercial mindset and have experience in the agriculture sector.

Key Requirements:

Provide vision, identify goals and clear goals of the Centre of Excellence as is needed to execute its mandate to promote Conservation Agriculture, encourage crop rotation and support farmers.

Set clear goals for the team and develop strategies, guide and support the team towards the realization of the goals.

Onboard, train, support and ensure the Field Officers are adequately prepared to execute their mandate to support farmers embrace Conservation Agriculture and grow canola

Develop work plans and ensure timely implementation of activities in line with work plans and activity schedules.

Provide inspirational leadership to the team, build trust, and inspire team spirit and a supportive culture within the team and across other Company activities.

Develop and maintain effective communication channels with Field Officers working in remote locations.

Track day-to-day work of staff in each region through meetings, visits, telephone calls, emails and electronic software.

Prepare Centre of Excellence’s annual operational budget needed to support

the goals for consideration by the top management.

Keep relevant Centre of Excellence data and information and ensure its availability in a timely manner.

Identify, monitor, sort and advise on challenges and risks facing the Centre.

Prepare annual progress status reports for senior management and the Board of Directors.
Work with various stakeholders.

Ensure appropriate structures and conditions are in place to enable regions to produce enough canola seed for processing at the two factories.

Develop and maintain a clear forecasted conduit for seed from the planning, contracting, growing, harvesting through to delivery to the Company’s factories.

Qualifications:

Relevant Bachelor’s Degree

Excellent planning skills, and ability to work within set deadlines.

Direct experience working in an agricultural context is required,

Resource planning, assessment requirement and budgeting skills.

Effective communication and excellent interpersonal skills.

Good organizational and decision-making skills.

Able to work with people from different backgrounds and culture.

Self-driven and able to work under minimum supervision.

Can work under pressure to deliver results.

Highly technically proficient with equipment and IT.

Able to identify, implement and maintain technical solutions.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Summit Recruitment & Search Centre of Excellence Team Leader Jobs in Nakuru, Kenya

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