Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, August 11, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Gishanda Fish Farm is a community-based enterprise, run by Akagera Management Company Ltd (AMC Ltd), farming and harvesting fish products using a Recirculating Aquaculture System. The farm will operate to produce and process fish and fry on site for sales locally and nationally.

Akagera Management Company Ltd was created as a partnership between Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and African Parks Network (APN) to manage Akagera National Park and its complementary community enterprises. Through the management unit of Akagera Park, Gishanda Fish Farm is seeking to recruit suitable a candidate to fill the vacant post of Fish Farm Administrator.

JOB TITLE: Hatchery Operating Manager
REPORTING TO: Gishanda Fish Farm Manager

PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To run and control the hatchery operation of the fish farm. Help run daily farming operations (reproduction, feeding, harvesting)

Duties and responsibilities
• Manage the daily, weekly and monthly hatchery operations
• Collection and management of production data
• Manage a team of hatchery staff
• Quality control of operations

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Minimum Education Qualification
• Interested candidates should have a minimum of a Bachelor degree, with a major in Aquaculture a plus.

Required competencies
• No specific experience working in a hatchery required, just a positive and enthusiastic attitude to learning new skills. Experience with fish farming favourable
• Attention to detail and accuracy, results-driven mindset
• Excellent communication and reporting skills
• Very good English both spoken and written
• Experience managing staff
• Enthusiastic team player
• Self-motivated with strong sense of responsibility
• Ability to perform demanding and flexible work
• Happy to work with live fish
• Ability to live near Gishanda Fish Farm

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job application procedure

Cover letter together with CVs in English language providing details of three referees, email address and telephone contact should be submitted by email to amc.recruit@africanparks.org (with the attachment being in PDF format) not later than 25th August 2021. Application should be addressed to:

Park Manager, Akagera Management Company

You may be asked to complete an internship as part of the recruitment process.

Please note that only candidates with the needed qualifications and relevant experience will be contacted after being shortlisted. If you don’t hear from us 2 weeks after your application, know that your application has not been successful.

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