Gabiro Agribusiness Hub (GAH) Ltd
Recruitment of Water Demand Specialist
Vacancy Title: Water Demand Specialist
Company Name: Gabiro Agribusiness Hub Ltd (GHA Ltd)
Position: 1
Reporting to: Infrastructure Management and Maintenance Service Office
Deadline of this Job: 15th July 2024
Duty Station: Nyagatare
Job Profile
This position reports to the Infrastructure Management and Maintenance Service Office and is responsible for determinations of irrigation water requirements, water application methods and the amount of water for selected water application periods and irrigation seasons;
Key Responsibilities
- Leads the determinations of irrigation water requirements, water application methods and the amount of water for selected water application periods and irrigation seasons;
- Prepare water demand plans (ie. cost effective & timesaving plans) for field and office to be used for irrigation system operation.
- Evalaute the day to day water requirements for irrigation system and carryout water balance.
- Carry out field surveys, data collection, data analysis and interpretations for water use in the irrigation system.
- Undertake detailed survey to check feasible and suitable crops for irrigation project are planted; check and control cropping patterns, cropping calander, crop intensities and improved cropping systems.
- processing the selected crops to ensure maximum economic returns.
- Determine and quantify all input requirements for the crops to be grown in the irrigable area; work out crop budget and financial returns.
- Propose and analyse agricultural development options for irrigation project.
- Prepare standardized quality and cost effective and timely delivered irrigation water demand & Irrigation scheduling reports and desiminate to the staffs.
- Prepare & utilize guidelines, manuals, formats and others supporting documents for effective and efficient implementation of water demand analysis and irrigation scheduling tasks.
- Monitor the approach and methodologies; evaluate the irrigation water use procedure and then come out with valuable recommendations to ensure the continuing high level performance of the work procedure.
- Prepare detail work plans (weekly, monthly, quarterly, 6 months & annual) for his entire duties/works and accordingly submit progress reports to the IM&MS Office.
- Perform any duties assigned by IM&MS Office.
Qualification
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MSC with 3 years of related experience in both pressurized and gravity fed irrigation systems.
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BSC with 5 years of related experience in both pressurized and gravity fed irrigation systems
NB: Female applicants are encouraged to apply
The interested applicants shall submit their application files, in PDF as single document via recruitment@gah.rw by not later than 15 July 2024, at 5:00 pm
Contract Period: Open Ended
Done at Nyagatare, 2nd, July 2024
Prepared by:
Sylver Mudaheranwa
HRM Specialist
Verified by:
Didier Rutagengwa
Chief Finance Officer
Approved by:
Aloysius Ngarambe
Chief Executive Officer
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