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 Uzima Chicken Uganda

Title: Marketing officer

Location: Naguru,Kampala with frequent travel across the country

About Us:

Uzima Chicken Uganda is a social enterprise focused on making smallholder farmers healthier and wealthier. Uzima Chicken distributes an improved breed of chicken that is 4x more productive than local breeds in terms of egg and meat production, while requiring the same level of management and care as the local chicken. Rearing a flock of 10 improved breed chickens can generate a 270,000 UGX net profit uplift for a smallholder family. With Uzima’s bird, rural households in Uganda can build income resilience, confidently pay for their children’s school fees, and introduce larger volumes of animal protein into their daily diets.

Uzima Chicken seeks to reach every rural household by 2030 and aims to be the leading smallholder-focused poultry enterprise in East Africa. In the past 2 years of operations, Uzima Chicken has attracted investments from AgDevCo, Acumen, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Uzima Chicken Uganda prioritizes hiring and developing Ugandan talent and offers significant professional growth opportunities and leadership development. Further, Uzima is committed to female empowerment across the company and is proud that 40% of staff are women.

Job Description:

We are seeking a motivated Marketing Officer,  The role is responsible for producing sales and marketing materials such as flyers, banners, T-shirts, signage, and digital content. The Marketing officer also supports field events, demonstrations, and agent recruitment activities aimed at reaching smallholder farmers. Regular reporting, market insights, and coordination with internal teams help ensure effective execution of marketing strategies that increase awareness, credibility, and customer engagement.

Key responsibilities

• Work with the Sales team to create and implement marketing campaigns across all areas of UzimaChicken’s work
• Conduct market research to identify opportunities for promotion and growth. – Analyze market trends and success of marketing campaigns, create reports and implement improvements as needed.
• Collect best practices from both internal and external Uzimachicken and share to the team as learning tools
• Develop short training videos from different sectors and share through all channels  – Deliver audience focused social media content using effective scheduling, monitoring and evaluation tools and ensuring best practice.
• Provide editorial guidance, editing and proof reading to ensure all external content is in line with Uzima Chicken’s brand guidelines.
• Benchmark Uzima Chicken’s communications and marketing activities against competitors and their impact on the market.
• Assist with product development and pricing strategies
• Build Uzima Chicken’s brand identity in Uganda.
• Work closely with partner organizations to deliver collaborative digital content and campaigns based on audience needs.
• Work with the field team to plan and coordinate training days, farmer field events, and promotional activities in rural areas.
• Collaborate with the sales team to generate leads and provide marketing materials to agents.

Requirement Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Agribusiness, Mass Communications, or a related field.

Competences

• Strong understanding of rural and peri-urban markets in Uganda.
• Experience in developing and executing marketing campaigns.
• Excellent communication skills in English .
• Proficiency in digital marketing tools, social media, and content development.
• Ability to travel frequently within the country, especially to rural and farming communities.
• A passion for agriculture, rural development, and farmer empowerment.
• Results-driven, with a focus on metrics and performance management.
• The ability to work with cross-cultural and cross-functional teams, adapting to an ever- changing environment

Experience

• Minimum 2 years of experience in marketing, preferably within the agriculture industry.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Uzima Chicken is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, women and other diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.

How to Apply: Please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing your qualifications and interest in this position to careers.ug@uzimachicken.com. We look forward to reviewing your application.

Title: Customer Insights  Officer

Work location: Head Office, Kigali

Deadline: 20th January 2026

Reports to: Customer Insights Supervisor

About the Company

Uzima Chicken Rwanda is a social enterprise focused on making smallholder farmers healthier and wealthier. Uzima Chicken distributes an improved breed of chicken that is 4x more productive than local breeds in terms of egg and meat production while requiring the same level of management and care as the local chicken. With Uzima’s bird, rural households in Rwanda can build income resilience, confidently pay for their children’s school fees, and introduce larger volumes of animal protein into their daily diets.

Uzima Chicken seeks to reach every rural household by 2025 and aims to be the leading smallholder-focused poultry enterprise in East Africa. In the past 3 years of operations, Uzima Chicken has attracted investments from the AgDevCo and Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund. Uzima Chicken Uganda prioritizes hiring and developing Rwandan talent and offers significant professional growth opportunities and leadership development.

Summary of Position

The Customer Insights team strives to provide Management and the Sales Team with actionable insights best to serve Uzima’s customers and smallholder farmers across Rwanda. The team acts as the Voice of the Customer, providing feedback that informs business decisions and direction while leveraging marketing tactics to support the Sales team in geographic launches.

Responsibilities include:

Customer insights

• Conducting phone surveys (post delivery (7 days&45 days), dropped customers, satisfaction,Feed dealer survey, etc.) and collecting data to measure customer satisfaction, operational excellence, and Uzima’s competitive advantage in the region.
• Present and share actionable research findings to the Uzima team to inform strategic decisions and improve operational processes that will enhance customer experience
• Serve as the voice of the customer by identifying pain points, trends and improvement areas across the customer journey; provide input to various Uzima teams (sales, operations, marketing)
• Ensure customer grievances that arise throughout the survey process are directed to the appropriate parties for redress (Sales Manager, Operations Manager, etc)
• Identify and report customers with major disease outbreaks and breed complaints; Liaise with the sales teams for on-farm assistance and training.
• Manage all Uzima SMS platforms
• Prepare weekly customer mortality reports and share them with the sales team leadership.
• Other duties and responsibilities assigned by your manager.

Sales Support

• Maintain and update smallholder farmer and agent databases accurately and consistently.
• Capture data of high quality that can be used to inform policy and means to serve our customers better
• Execution of phone surveys that aim to identify areas for improvement and inform operational and strategic decisions.

How to Apply: Please Submit your resume and a cover letter detailing your qualifications and interest in this position to careers@uzimachicken.com. We look forward to reviewing your application.

Title: Technical Veterinary Services Manager – Sales

Location: Naguru, Kampala, with frequent travel across the country

Application deadline: 20 November 2025

About Us:

Uzima Chicken Uganda is a social enterprise focused on making smallholder farmers healthier and wealthier. Uzima Chicken distributes an improved breed of chicken that is 4x more productive than local breeds in terms of egg and meat production, while requiring the same level of management and care as the local chicken. Rearing a flock of 10 improved breed chickens can generate a 270,000 UGX net profit uplift for a smallholder family. With Uzima’s bird, rural households in Uganda can build income resilience, confidently pay for their children’s school fees, and introduce larger volumes of animal protein into their daily diets.

Uzima Chicken seeks to reach every rural household by 2030 and aims to be the leading smallholder-focused poultry enterprise in East Africa. In the past 2 years of operations, Uzima Chicken has attracted investments from AgDevCo, Acumen, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Uzima Chicken Uganda prioritises hiring and developing Ugandan talent and offers significant professional growth opportunities and leadership development. Further, Uzima is committed to female empowerment across the company and is proud that 40% of staff are women.

Job Description:

We are seeking a motivated Technical Veterinary Services Manager – Sales working closely with the National Sales Manager, Managing Director, and suppliers. Technical Vet Sales is responsible for overseeing commercial stock performance with customers. He/she will specifically focus on disease surveillance and controls, biosecurity measures, overall commercial chick managements, sampling laboratory specimens, vaccination protocols, diagnostic techniques and communicating with the field team. It will also require training the field team to build their capacity and knowledge with current practices of vaccination and other technical aspects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee all technical and veterinary aspects of the commercial chicken performance.
• Implement disease surveillance and control protocols, including ongoing regular flock monitoring and sampling.
• Conduct traceability during High mortality in customers and set corrective action
• Regular DOC, Feed and other delivery drivers training and Evaluations Group Chief Technical Officer, external vet consultant
• Develop, distribute and implement veterinary-related Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and veterinary control documents in all field teams.
• Develop clear veterinary quality control systems including chicks, vaccine and medicine transport, storage, preparation and application.
• Monitor and revise vaccination schedule and protocols to provide strong and economical resistance to disease threats of commercial flocks, with consultation with the Company vet
• Ensure the mortality rate in brooding, rearing, and production is within customer standards and not far from breeder standards.
• Improving customer performance and responding to customer issues in coordination with the field team
• Coordinate with the feed mill team on feed quality monitoring and getting disease-free feed for customers (including quality of raw materials), and provide feedback
• Establish and improve standard operating procedures and processes by addressing issues and risks of customers
• Ensure that environmental requirements are met at the federal, state, and local government levels at our customers’ houses.
• Train the field team in the best veterinary practice standards and veterinary control documents. This includes translating and distributing the materials.
• Train field team and extension workers on disease diagnosis, biosecurity, treatment, including postmortem and ante mortem training.
• Make sure all the postmortems done by the sales teams/ extension workers are collected and compiled, and reported to the production director
• Provide regular reports to the Production Director on flock performance, health status, and biosecurity monitoring at customers
• Report any findings in lab results, like clinical or subclinical evidence of diseases, after receiving every lab test (blood sample results or any other microbiological lab results with actions going forward
• Provide weekly and monthly flock performance reports, including comments that should include details on flock health, disease surveillance, vaccinations, and medicines/vitamins administered (in quantity and value).
• Conducting audits of commercial chickens on management, vaccination, and surrounding environments to support quality controls.
• Coordinate Sample taking, analysis periodically and interpretation of the results to be communicated to the Production Director or the relevant team.
• Develop a training plan for self and the team on relevant fields of practice.
• Develop clear and realistic goals and direction for the field team with emphasis on work culture, ethics and success.
• Ensure duties deemed necessary by direct reports are completed on time in consultation with the Production Director.  

Key KPIs:

• Customer satisfaction with technical service >95% for both feed and DOC
• First week Mortality <2%

Requirement Qualifications:

• Degree in Veterinary Science, Animal Science and related fields.

Competence

• Ability to communicate fluently both in written and spoken English
• Basic computer skills, especially MS Office skills (Moderate to high proficiency in Excel will be an added value)
• Highly committed personality
• Priority will be given to the longest-serving individual with a good reputation and proven consistent performance.
• Prior knowledge of budget making and implementation will be mandatory.

Experience

• Served in any sales position or equivalent position for a minimum of 8 years in either production or sales departments.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Uzima Chicken is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Women and other diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.

How to Apply: Please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing your qualifications and interest in this position to careers.ug@uzimachicken.com not later than 20th November 2025 before 5 p.m. We look forward to reviewing your application.

Request for Proposal (RFP) 

For Structural Engineering Review and Audit of Uzima Chicken Uganda Operational Sites 

Company Overview 

Uzima Chicken Uganda is a poultry business dedicated to improving the health and wealth of smallholder farmers. Our mission is to distribute an improved breed of chicken that is four times more productive than local breeds, thereby significantly boosting egg and meat production. Despite its enhanced productivity, our breed requires the same level of management and care as local chickens. By raising a flock of 10 improved breed chickens, smallholder families can enjoy a net profit uplift of up to 500,000 UGX. This increase in income empowers rural households to afford essentials such as their children’s school fees and introduces greater volumes of animal protein into their diets. 

Uzima Chicken aims to reach every rural household in Uganda by 2025 and aspires to become the leading poultry enterprise focused on smallholders in East Africa. Last year, we engaged over 110,000 smallholder farmers across 80+ districts of Uganda. 

1. PROJECT CONTEXT

Uzima Chicken, whose head offices are located on Plot 21, Lower Naguru east Road,Kampala Uganda, invites proposals from qualified and experienced structural engineers or engineering firms to conduct a comprehensive structural review and audit of existing facilities across its farm sites.

The primary objective of this assignment is to assess the integrity, safety, and reliability of key structural components, with particular emphasis on: 

● The overall structural integrity of all farm buildings and facilities; 

● Roof structures of poultry houses; and 

● Structural stability of elevated water tank platforms. 

The audit will cover three (3) operational sites located in two (2) different regions. The exercise aims to identify potential structural risks and provide actionable recommendations to strengthen the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of Uzima Chicken’s farm operations. 

Each site has standard ancillary buildings (office, residence, egg store, wood shavings store, generator house, and shower block), with Katugo having 5 poultry houses of 996 m² each, Buruli 5 poultry houses of 1,620 m² each, and Kyankwanzi 3 poultry houses of 1,620 m² each. 

2. SCOPE OF SERVICE 

The selected Structural Engineer/ Engineering firm will be expected but are not limited to:

● Conduct comprehensive structural inspections and audits across all three (3) farm sites. 

● Assess the condition, strength, and durability of poultry house roofs, identifying any structural weaknesses or risks, including load-bearing elements and materials. 

● Evaluate the structural integrity of elevated water tank platforms, including foundations, support systems, and material soundness. 

● Identify structural deficiencies that may pose safety hazards, operational risks, or financial liabilities. 

● Consider environmental factors, such as weather impacts and the age of structures, in the assessment. 

● Provide practical recommendations for remediation, reinforcement, or preventive maintenance. 

● Deliver a consolidated risk analysis, with clear prioritization of findings (critical, moderate, low). 

All reviews and recommendations should be based on the Ugandan building code as well as the relevant construction rules and regulations. 

3. DELIVERABLES

The selected Structural Engineer / Engineering Firm will be expected to provide the following:

● Detailed audit reports for each site, outlining findings, identified risks, site-specific recommendations, and associated cost estimates 

● A consolidated summary report covering all sites, including an executive summary for management. 

● A comprehensive risk assessment, detailing the likelihood, severity, and recommended mitigation measures for each identified risk. 

● Practical guidance on preventive maintenance and strategies to enhance long-term structural resilience. 

● Visual documentation of structural conditions, including photos, diagrams, and any relevant sketches or schematics. 

4. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Interested firms are invited to submit a comprehensive proposal that includes the following:

● Qualifications of the firm or team – Evidence of a structural engineer, engineering firm, or architect with appropriate local qualifications to conduct this type of study. 

● Company profile and experience – Relevant experience in conducting structural engineering audits, particularly in agricultural or industrial facilities. ● Legal and compliance documents – Valid Trade License (current fiscal year), TIN and VAT Registration Certificates, and Supplier Registration Certificate (if applicable). 

● Proposed methodology and approach – A clear description of how the firm intends to execute the assignment. 

● Work plan and schedule – Estimated timelines for completion of the audit and reporting. 

● Key personnel profiles – Qualifications and experience of the staff to be assigned to the project. 

● Financial proposal – Detailed breakdown of professional fees, travel, and any other related costs. 

● References – At least two references from previous clients with similar project experience. 

5. EVALUATION CRITERIA

Proposals will be assessed based on the following:

● Relevant experience and technical expertise – 15% 

○ Demonstrated experience in structural engineering audits, particularly in agricultural or industrial facilities. 

● Soundness of methodology and approach – 25% 

○ Methodology will be evaluated based on practicality, accuracy, and adherence to safety and regulatory standards. 

● Qualifications and experience of proposed personnel – 20% 

○ Competence and relevant experience of key personnel assigned to the project. 

● Proposed work plan and timeline – 15% 

○ Feasibility and realism of the proposed schedule for completing the assignment. 

● Competitiveness and clarity of financial proposal – 25% 

○ Transparency, reasonableness, and completeness of costs. 

● Financial Proposal Requirements: 

○ Unit price per site and total price (including VAT and delivery costs). ○ Proposed payment terms. 

N.B: All financial proposals should be submitted in Ugandan Shillings only. 

6. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your proposal to the following contacts before Friday, 07^th November 2025 :

● Amanyire Peter, Clerk of works, apeter@uzimachicken.com, +256 757 825 709 ● Sharon Namugenyi Kisawuzi,Human Resource & Admin Manager, snamugenyi@uzimachicken.com , +256 774-460-221 

● OR, Hand delivered to Plot 21, Lower Naguru East Road, Kampala Uganda

Any requests for clarification regarding this RFP should be directed in writing or by phone to: 

● Name: Amanyire Peter 

● Title: Clerk Of Works 

● Email: apeter@uzimachicken.com 

● Phone: +256 757 825 709 or +256 776 696 655 

Questions must be submitted in writing no later than 07^th November 2025.

7. PROJECT TIMELINE

● Deadline for Submission of Proposals: Friday, 07^th November 2025.

● Notification of Selected Firm: TBD after review of the proposal ● Commencement of Work: TBD after review of the proposal 

Uzima Chicken aims to complete the structural review and audit before the end of 2025; therefore, applicants should ensure availability and readiness to commence work shortly after the proposal submission deadline, with all completion reports submitted within this timeframe. 

8. RIGHTS RESERVED

● Acceptance or Rejection of Proposals – Uzima Chicken reserves the right to accept or reject any or all proposals without providing reasons.

● Costs of Submission – Uzima Chicken shall not be liable for any costs incurred by applicants in the preparation and submission of proposals. 

● Contractual Agreement – The selected service provider will enter into a formal agreement, which will include detailed terms of reference and contractual obligations. 

● RFP Cancellation or Modification – Uzima Chicken reserves the right to cancel the RFP or adjust its scope at any time without prior notice.