Milk Production Officer at Good Neighbors

Employment Period: 1 year renewable  

Employee Category: Fixed Term Contract 

Key Responsibilities

• Preparing livestock production information;
• Providing technical advice in animal production, livestock marketing, range management and ranching;
• Promoting economic livestock farming;
• Participating in organizing extension activities which include field days, field demonstrations, farmer field schools and farm visits.
• Participating in collaborative research activities;
• Disseminating livestock production technologies such as construction of livestock housing and structures, milk production, pasture and fodder production and conservation, farm planning, gross margins analysis, on-farm feed formulation.
• Implementing livestock production programmes/projects in such areas as dairy cattle farming, breeding programmes, fodder production and conservation, value addition to livestock products, emerging livestock and other animal husbandry interventions;
• Capturing, maintaining and storing livestock data.
• Assessing smallholder dairy and feed value chain practices and knowledge in the project area
• Conducting an assessment of smallholders’ dairy value chains ad identify potential interventions to enhance benefits to smallholder producers and other value chain actors in Kajiado County
• Identifying and developing portfolio for intensification and market orientation of potential livestock value chains providing case studies in dairy for commercialization of production with stimulating rapid change in feed-related elements of these value chains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in any of the following fields:- Animal Science, Animal Production, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Range Management, Livestock/Agricultural Economics, Dairy Technology, Or Agricultural Education and Extension from a recognized Institution;
• At least 7 year relevant experience
• Certificate in computer applications.