Ict Specialist

**Nelspruit Area - Mpumalanga**: Our client is looking for an ICT Specialist to join the team.

**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**
- Strong general IT proficiency
- Experience with implementation and administration of farm management systems
- Knowledge of agronomy and horticulture operations is required, specific avocado experience would be highly beneficial
- Basic knowledge of Structured Databases
- Data manipulation (including data extraction), analysis, and visualisation, including basic statistical analysis
- Good interpersonal relationship management and communication skills
- User support (for farming technology and farm management systems) and first line problem solving
- Ability to explain and train concepts and processes to users
- Clear oral and written communication in 1-1 and small-group settings
- Driven and hard-working individual
- Flexible attitude and open to change
- Ability to work under own initiative and to strict deadlines
- Used to working in a fast paced and busy environment
- Professional attitude
- Team player
- Good leadership qualities
- Displays integrity and can handle confidential data in a discreet and professional manner

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Support implementation of farm management systems
- Responsible for overall system administration and maintenance of farm management systems
- End User Training
- Documenting of SOPs for Farms operations
- Coordinate with service providers for support where internal expertise is not sufficient
- Participate in projects to evaluate different agricultural technology solutions, including on-farm activities such as technology installations and sample collection
- Monitor and report on system and technology utilisation, and support end-users to use systems effectively
- Evaluation of benefit from existing systems and technologies (deliver to user expectations), and identify and recommend areas for improvement
- Analyse and generate reports
- Visit grower partners and participate in technology implementations on their farms, including selected training and support of grower partners on the use of the relevant technology
- Coordinate ICT activities with operations, post-harvest activities and technical teams in support of grower partners