Water Demand Specialist at Gabiro Agribusiness Hub (GAH) Ltd

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: 15^th 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

• MSC with 3 years of related experience in both pressurized and gravity fed irrigation systems.

• 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, 2^nd, July 2024 

Prepared by:                                                                     

Sylver Mudaheranwa                                             

HRM Specialist  

Verified by:  

Didier Rutagengwa

Chief Finance Officer    

Approved by:                     

Aloysius Ngarambe

Chief Executive Officer