Lead: Grower Programmes, Pre

2 months ago

Centurion, South Africa Land Bank Careers Full time

**Job Advert Summary**:
To provide support to farmers beyond financing, through the implementation of grower programmes and the provision of technical support to farmers, within the context of partnership programmes.

**Key Performance Areas**:
**1. Grower Programme Development**
- Develops Grower Programmes for farmers, within the ambit of partnership programmes; for specified commodities.
- Partners with Credit Risk and Agricultural Economics and Advisory to determine commodities where the Bank has financing appetite in order to prioritize Grower Programmes
- Establishes relationships with off-takers and leverages their expertise and the market networks to support the growth and success of farmers.
- Identifies and selects supplier aggregators based on set criteria to create market access for and to support the development of low-scale farmers.
- Ensures that grower programmes enable sustainable farming practices, manage stakeholder interests and enable market access.
- Makes data-led decisions regarding resource deployment and continuous improvement of grower programmes

**2. Grower Programme Capacitation**
- Recruits farmers to grower programmes by using a development and merit-based process for farmer selection.
- Builds a pipeline of qualifying grower programme participants, to ensure the long-term continuity and viability of programmes.
- Works collaboratively to leverage the Bank’s marketing capabilities to create market awareness of grower programmes and success stories via digital, social and traditional media channels.
- Effectively maps stakeholders and formulates comprehensive plans to engage and consult community leaders and relevant authorities where required.
- Develops robust systems for collecting, tracking and analysing data pertaining to grower programs and farmer data.

**3. Farmer Development**
- Works collaboratively across functions within the bank to establish and develop programmes and content input for the Land Bank Farmer Academy.
- Ensures that grower programmes provide structured market access to farmers to increase trading volumes while simultaneously achieving significant social impact with regard to development farmers
- Selects and implements organizational models that enable high levels of farmer-partnership interaction to build trust, while transferring knowledge and skills to ensure the long-term viability and sustainability of farmers enrolled in grower programmes.
- Facilitates increased private sector investment in developing farmers; promoting sustainable sourcing practices through strategic procurement linkages that are commercially viable for Land Bank.
- Puts structures in place to support farmers in meeting the compliance, governance and contractual obligations applicable to grower programmes and strategic partnership agreements.

**4. Farmer Development Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation**
- Develops models for monitoring of development farmers’ projects.
- Encourage comprehensive risk management strategies within grower programs, emphasizing the importance of adopting insurance solutions provided by LBI.
- Manages varied projects including status reporting and program management across multiple projects.
- Develops and maintains effective interface across business areas to understand the business transformation agenda, priorities and delivery needs.
- Ensures compliance with governance practices, standards and architectural standards in the delivery of grower programmes and farmer pre and post-support initiatives.

**5. People Management**

**Performance Management**
- Ensure the overall team is meeting their targets as prescribed by the Head.
- Monitor manager’s achievements against their development plans.
- Provide inputs to head on performance tracking and monitoring of managers.
- Participate in performance reviews with the head.
- Provide coaching and feedback to subordinates.

**Capacity Planning**
- Determine the human resource requirements, in accordance with the expected deliverables and current capacity.
- Set out the resourcing and human capital requirements to the head to ensure that deliverables will be met in accordance with the expected targets.
- Minimise staff turnover.
- Lead the subordinates in such a manner as to foster innovation.
- Demonstrate behaviour aligned to the corporate Land Bank values.
- Equitable distribution of responsibilities and accountabilities and plan appropriate human capacity and full utilisation for projects under management.

**Preferred Minimum Education and Experience**:

- Degree in Commerce / Science / Agriculture
- A minimum of 7 years experience at management level.
- A minimum of 3 years experience in the development and implementation of grower programmes.

**Critical Competencies**:

- Business development and networking
- Farmer development
- Stakeholder and client management
- Operationalising strategy
- Legislative and regulatory context

**Additional Requirements**:

- Knowledge of PFMA

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