Head of Membership and Member Services Unit

Reporting to the Executive Director, the employee will head the Membership and Member Services Unit and his/her specific functions will be as follows:

• Focus on membership attraction and retention through provision of sustainable member services;
• Promote farming as a business by designing innovative interventions for the benefit of members
• Design new avenues for income generation for the Union through innovative membership levy schemes and structuring of stand-alone donor-funded projects;
• Undertake regular reviews of the existing income sources for the Union against costs to ensure that net income accrues to the ZNFU
• Designing, proposing, and negotiating effective and efficient ways of raising more or appropriate income from all the ZNFU members, namely, small-scale farmers, large scale farmers, corporate members agribusinesses, commodity/specialized associations, and commodity industries;
• Designing, implementing, and monitoring membership structures that capture district farmers associations, agribusinesses in the districts and interface with specialized/commodity associations;
• Any other duties assigned by the Executive Director

Skills and Qualifications

• You need to be self-driven an innovator with go0d interpersonal and management skills plus possess post qualification experience of at least 10 years, negotiation and persuasive skills,
• Holder of a BSc degree in Agriculture and an MSc Agriculture
• Other relevant skills include field experiences dealing with farmers and managing projects through preparation of project proposals for business development purpose; monitoring project implementation and evaluation plus report writing ability; making oral presentations to various audiences; computer literate which should include internet. Microsoft Programmes (Word. Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, etc.;) capability, results-driven and able to cope in a dynamic work environment.