Location: Roo Bay Farm, Homabay
As an Intern to Graduate Aquaculture Learning & Training Program (GALT)position, you will support data collection and optimization for Victory Farms Aquaculture operations. You will be supporting in the management of diverse projects ensuring protocols and guidelines are strictly adhered to. On successful completion of the internship period (3 or 6 months), you will be fully integrated in the GALT program (2 years program)
Roles & Responsibilities:
Data collection and optimization:
• Work directly in the field with aqua teams optimizing data collection ensuring high levels of accuracy.
Supporting Projects
• Manage diverse aquaculture projects, ensuring timely delivery, monitoring project performance and implementing corrective actions where needed.
Data Analysis and Reporting:
• Advanced Data Analysis – Leverage advanced Excel skills and other analytical tools to meticulously analyse aquaculture data, extracting valuable insights to inform decision-making.
• Insightful Reporting – Generate comprehensive and insightful reports that clearly communicate fish performance, trends, and key metrics. Ensure reports are actionable and provide strategic recommendations to drive efficiency.
• Effective Communication – Present findings and strategic recommendations to senior management in a clear, concise, and compelling manner. Tailor presentations to address key concerns and highlight areas of improvement, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Trend and Performance Analysis – Conduct in-depth analysis of data to uncover trends, and identify areas for improvement.
Skills and qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in data science, Operations Research, aquaculture or a related field.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work with complex data sets.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data analysis and visualization techniques.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication, interpersonal skills and team working skills.
• Pro-activeness and ability to work independently without supervision.
• Willingness to work in the field, work in ponds and get dirty.
• Experience in the aquaculture, food industry or operations will be an added advantage.
Benefit:
• Visibility into the world’s fastest growing aquaculture company.
• Ideal for a candidate looking to dive into a mission-oriented Organization.
• The team is committed to the candidate’s success and will provide coaching, mentorship, and unique exposure to people and experiences that come from the most successful leaders in the entrepreneurial community and the social sector.
About Victory Farms
Victory Farms is building the most sustainable and scalable protein business in Africa through an innovative aquaculture business platform. This vertically integrated protein platform owns and operates the inputs to fish production: feed, genetics and hatchery. The platform owns and operates farming sites, where tilapia is produced efficiently in the pristine waters of Lake Victoria (Kenya) and Lake Kivu (Rwanda). Victory then processes its fish and operates cold chain to move fresh and processed fish throughout Kenya and Rwanda. And lastly, Victory operates 80 retail locations in Kenya and 5 retail locations in Rwanda, where the fish are sold to tens of thousands of market ladies, who serve the mass market consumer.
Victory Farms aspires to be the world’s first truly regenerative aquaculture business. The Company uses two simple metrics to track its achievement toward this goal: carbon negative and biodiversity positive. The first major step to achieve carbon negative operations, the company has built the world’s first 100% geothermal feed mill. More programs are underway. To achieve biodiversity positive on land and water, the Company has a number of land-based and water-based restoration projects, which can demonstrate progress toward improved biodiversity on all the company’s earth footprints.
How to apply
Please send a 2 paged CV and cover letter expressing your interest and qualifications to recruit@victoryfarmskenya.com by 20th November, 2024. Indicate the Job Title as the email subject – Intern to GALT position.