Research & Development Officer Jobs – Xclusive Uganda

Job: Research & Development Officer

Organisation: Xclusive Uganda

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Business Development Director.

About US:

Xclusive Uganda is a group of horticulture companies with approximately 500 employees, based between Gayaza and Zirobwe. We are known for our innovative way of working, care for our employees and the community around us and for our flat organizational structure where we achieve things together.

Job Summary:  We are looking for a Research & Development Officer. Do you have knowledge of research concepts, and practices in horticulture? Are you result oriented, pays attention to details and focus on quality? Do you recognize yourself in our core values? Are you creative? Are you a team player? We are looking for you! We offer an interesting job with a lot of responsibility and autonomy in which you are to generate knowledge, systems and conditions so that production department can raise efficiency and effectiveness in maintaining crops and taking production to a higher level of quality and quantity.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Measure, analyses and make a follow up on the inner quality of cuttings and then develop the growing strategies in order to give the production department the options to meet the highest quality.
• Developing and evaluating growing strategies (fertilizers, water, light application & crop maintenance) to improve production per square meter and inner quality.
• Searching for and developing a better way to have strong, healthy and clean crops. Going away from chemicals towards IPM (biological). Identifying pests and diseases where production doubts. Evaluating crop plans. Defining, controlling & evaluating the right procedures & systems. Developing & maintaining strict hygiene protocols.
• Locating, preparing, packaging, labeling and sending samples to the laboratories (local or abroad) for analysis as necessitated by production team or growing consultants.
• Making sure routine and other data is well recorded analyzed and adds comments. This includes but not limited to; – pulse data, chlorophyll content index, percentage dry matter, performance trials, analysis results from the laboratory, and any other trials that may come up.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree in horticulture, Agronomy
• Good expression in English and Luganda
• Experience in research environment
• Our core values are: Quality, Integrity, Ownership, Collaboration, Sustainable and Innovative

Behavioral competencies:

• Multitasked
• Problem Analysis
• Attention to Detail

How to Apply:

Do you think you are the right fit? Then send your Curriculum Vitae, including a motivation letter to the HR Manager: mauda.lubega@xclusiveuganda.com

Deadline: 19th February 2021.

NB: If not contacted you can consider your application as unsuccessful. Applications without a motivation letter will not be considered.