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Senior Specialist: Agriculture Horticulture
2 weeks ago
Job Advert Summary:
The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa's only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank's sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach.
The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry.
As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Manage and lead the specific commodity (Grains, Livestock or Horticulture) team and ensure mobilisation of expert agriculture industry economics support services across the Bank with particular emphasis on where there are either skills / competency shortages or where potential investments are either highly complex or high value.
Key Performance Areas:
1. Manage and ensure Mobilisation of Specialist Skills into Business Case Viability
- Manage and lead the commodity team in their area of speciality in order to provide expert agricultural support to the Bank to facilitate accurate and efficient structuring of appropriate financial solutions and feasible transactions.
- Application of appropriate project management principles in the determination of the development phase of the farming venture, conducting the required valuation of the entity's assets crop inspection, determining the realisable assets value, calculation of the production value and related loan value.
- Manage and lead the collaboration with and support of other Bank divisions, conduct collateral management valuations in accordance with the relevant Land Bank policy and procedures.
2. Agricultural Knowledge Database and Knowledge Sharing
- To manage and lead the team in order to ensure support with the collection, process, and packaging of information in order to determine, amongst others, the following:
- Market value of property
- Production costs
- Establishment costs
- Profit margins
- Ensure relevant and updated information for knowledge sharing as and when required
- Contribute information to the national agricultural specialists' database
- To ensure knowledge transfer to the various Bank representatives in order to ensure skills transfer and empowerment in terms of technical context.
3. Customer and Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Build, foster and maintain consistent, effective and strong relationships with all stakeholders in order to strengthen relationships with the potential to secure new business opportunities for the bank.
- Ensure that all stakeholders remain aware of the value of the Land Bank's products, the processes and principles related to agricultural financing within the Land Bank environment.
- Stay up to date with provincial initiatives and developments and further strengthen the relationship to assess further business opportunities to promote longterm mutually beneficial relationships.
4. People Management
Performance Management
- Analyse the business plan to determine the applicable deliverables and targets
- Compile the Performance Management documentation in collaboration with the staff member in terms of:
- Job Profile requirements
- Key Performance Areas
- Personal Development Plan
- Conduct performance planning session and Track and monitor performance in accordance with performance contracts.
Capacity Planning
- Determine the human resource requirements, in accordance with the expected deliverables and current capacity
- Secure the human capital requirements to ensure that deliverables will be met in accordance with the expected targets
- Set and achieve employment equity targets.
- Minimise staff turnover
- Lead the department in such a manner as to foster innovation and technological excellence.
Preferred Minimum Education and Experience:
- Masters Level business Degree with Agriculture as base with project management experience
- Experience in Agricultural management and financial Extension Services 7 years
- Experience in Agricultural businesses, a Coop, or similar organisations, focusing on farm related financing 7 years
- Project Management experience 7 years
Critical Competencies:
- Microsoft Office
: - Knowledge / Experience of financial and business an
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