AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT OFFICER

CABCS is a company limited by guarantee without share capital and not for profit works in the Rwenzori region (southwest Uganda and her head office is in fort portal town.
CABCS envisions herself as a professional, self-sustaining, competitive, agribusiness capacity building services provider that empowers her clients to improve production, marketing and incomes from agriculture CABCS exist to "provide quality and cutting-edge agribusiness capacity services geared towards building a community of prosperous farmers who are environmentally responsible, food secure, with sustainable income from farming and diverse agro-investment options organized in marketing cooperatives that are profitable and with corporate leadership."
CABCS seeks to achieve this mission through effective coordination, networking, market intelligence, agribusiness knowledge brokering, capacity building, resource mobilization, crop financing and policy influencing. CABCS vales are Equity. Trust, Professionalism, Quality services, Result orientation, Accountability and Business mind.
The company seeks to recruit result-oriented persons of inner motivation to fill the listed vacancies.
POSITION: AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT OFFICER
The officer will technically support cooperatives in governance/ institutional and for better management of agribusiness. The officer shall conduct capacity-building processes tailored to the needs of CABCS clients in order to establish professionalism in their business operations.

Roles of the Agribusiness Management Officer
1. Develop together with CABCS clients' requirements to operate as formal marketing cooperatives having proper governance and management systems.
2. Develop in a participatory manner and present cooperatives' realistic business plans that guide their business agenda,
3. Build systems to enable clients in creative mobilization of working capital from internal sources and for access and recovery of funds from financial intermediaries.
4. Design and present clients' strategic business focus for organizational interventions to have measurable impact at cooperative and household level
5. Monitor and report on the effectiveness and adaptability rate of CABCS business solutions provided to her clients through training, mentoring and coaching processes.
6. 6 Prepare and present timely and quality work plans, schedules, budgets and reports in accordance with established criteria

Job requirement

Required Qualifications
• A bachelors' degree in agribusiness, economics, business administration, or any other relevant field
• Postgraduate qualification in community development disciplines is an added advantage
• At least 3 years of working experience in NCOS' Companies in agribusiness development
• Knowledge of computer office packages
• Business formulation processes
• Business planning
• Business operations management
Positions available: One
Nature of employment: Three years renewable contract
Salary: Attractive
Duty station: Fort Portal with a lot of travel to the field

How to apply

Apply to:
The Chief Executive Officer
Community Agribusiness Capacity Services. .
P.O. Box 460, Fort Portal,
Email: info@cabcs.org,
Website: www.cabcs.org

• Provide a hand written application
• Attach a CV detailing your technical skills, abilities and attach your recent photograph
• Photocopies of certified academic transcripts and other support documents
• A motivation letter
• Hand delivery of applications is accepted at plot 2 government avenue fort portal
• Only short listed applicants will be contacted

Application deadline: 3rd May 2011