Summary
Date Posted: Monday, May 24, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) 18 a membership-based organization. Its mission objective is “to promote and safeguard the interests of members as individual farmers, individuals, corporations/companies, purveyors other organizations involved in the business of agriculture and related activities in order to achieve sustainable agricultural, economic and social development.”
To contribute to this mission objective, the Union is now hiring and invites applications for the following position

Head of Membership and Member Services Unit
Reporting to the Executive Director, the employee will head the Membership and Member Services Unit and his/her specific functions will be as follows:
• Focus on membership attraction and retention through provision of sustainable member services;
• Promote farming as a business by designing innovative interventions for the benefit of members
• Design new avenues for income generation for the Union through innovative membership levy schemes and structuring of stand-alone donor-funded projects;
• Undertake regular reviews of the exsting income sources for the Union against costs to ensure that net income accrues to the ZNFU
• Designing, proposing, and negotiating effective and efficient ways of raising more or appropriate income from all the ZNFU members, namely, small-scale farmers, large scale farmers, corporate members’ agribusinesses, commodity/specialized associations, and commodity industries;
• Designing, implementing, and monitoring membership structures that capture district farmers’ associations, agribusinesses in the districts and interface with specialized/commodity associations;
• Any other duties assigned by the Executive Director

Skills and Qualifications
• You need to be self-driven an innovator with go0d interpersonal and management skills plus possess post qualification experience of at least 10 years, negotiation and persuasive skills,
• Holder of a BSc degree in Agriculture and an MSc Agriculture
• Other relevant skills include field experiences dealing with farmers and managing projects through preparation of project proposals for business development purpose; monitoring project implementation and evaluation plus report writing ability; making oral presentations to various audiences; computer literate which should include internet. Microsoft Programmes (Word. Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.;) capability, results-driven and able to cope in a dynamic work environment.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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Job application procedure
ZNFU is an Equal opportunity employer, both genders are encouraged to apply. Kindly send your application and CV to the undersigned by Tuesday 8th June 2021. Ensure you drop the documents in the designated box.
Executive Director
Zambia National Farmers’ Union
Tiyende Pamodzi Drive, Showgrounds
P.O Box 30395
LUSAKA

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