Open Positions
How to apply: Submit application to careers.ug@uzimachicken.com
Location: Nakasongola
Vacancies: Two (2)
Deadline: 15th July 2024
About the Company
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 localbreeds in terms of egg and meat production, while requiring the same level of management and care as thelocal 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, confidentlypay 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 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 professionalgrowth opportunities and leadership development. Further, Uzima is committed to female empowerment across the company and is proud that 40% of staff are women.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE
Uzima Chicken will recruit recent graduates with degrees in Veterinary Medicine, Animal Science or AnimalProduction. The objective of the Poultry Leadership Develop Program (LDP) is to provide fresh recruits with the skills they need to be successful to step into supervisory and managerial positions in the poultry industry. In addition, Uzima believes it is critical to provide this class with experience across different functions so that they:
- have a strong understanding of key technical functions that lead to Company success
- reinforce our Company culture by establishing relationships and understanding the commitment of all of our employees.
On boarding will be one of the most critical times of the program. The new trainees will spend the first week in the same location, learning about the purpose of the Company, the vision, and meeting the full senior management. In addition to this orientation period, the class will participate in team building and listen to presentations from existing technical site managers.
In addition, the Production Manager and other selected presenters will provide technical overviews ofbreeding and hatchery. Trainees will read all standard SOPs during the first week, and take a pre-test on poultry knowledge.
After the first week, the trainees will be assigned to 3 months in a single position. While in these positions,the trainees will start off in entry level positions to learn the business from the ground up. On the breeding farm and hatchery, they will be attendants and vaccinators then finally they will do a rotation reporting directly to the Production Manager as data analysts/quality control analysts.
This intensive period is designed to give the trainee exposure to the entire Company from a technical andfunctional perspective. This will also give department managers the opportunity to work with trainees and to allow for the selection process.
One day per month during this period, trainees will be trained on finance, HR, admin, and procurement processes and procedures.
At the end of the month, the trainees will receive testing on all 5 rotations and administrative information. A minimal score must be achieved to pass the training.
Qualifications required
- BA Animal Science, Animal Production
- Strong problem-solving
- Exceptional analytical and interpersonal
Experience:
Fresh Graduate / 2023 or 2024
Competences
- Passion to learn and grow professionally and to serving small holder farmers with improved breeds of chicken
- Ownership mentality and commitment to work hard
- Strong problem solvers that find practical solutions
- Fast learners with a record of high achievement
- Adaptable/Willing to work in fast-paced environment
- Ability to communicate clearly with
- Computer Skill
- Critical thinking
- Communication
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Start Date: July 1,2024
Deadline: 14th June 2024
Reports to: Accounts payable – supervisor
About the Company
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 breedsin 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 build income resilience, confidently pay fortheir 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 2 years of operations, Uzima Chicken has attracted investments from the AgDevCo, Acumen, and Innovations Against Poverty. Uzima Chicken Uganda prioritizes hiring and developing Ugandan talent and offers significant professional growth opportunities andleadership development. Further, Uzima is committed to female empowerment across the company and is proud that 40% of staff are women and over 85% are youth.
Job Summary
The Accounts Payable Accountant is responsible for managing Uzima’s accounts payables, including recording, posting, processing payments and reconciliation of bank accounts. The role requires a high level of attention to detail, coordination with other departments, and responsiveness; it offers broad visibility into the business operations of a rapidly growing startup, growth opportunities to better understand budgeting and key cost controls, and exposure to different departments.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Function
Accounts payables
- Manage key accounts payables activities, including posting of invoices, preparation of weekly payments against available budget, and execution of proper financial documentation controls
- Post non inventory vendor purchase orders and invoices in Xero before processing payments and attach supporting documentation.
- Ensure timely processing of monthly team facilitation, expense refunds, medical refunds, advances and other critical expenses (e.g., taxes)
- Process Vendor payments after approval
- Post all payments in Xero Accounting system
- Ensure that all payments by both cheques and Online are processed have all supporting documentation
- Oversee the preparation of investor support documentation (Payment vouchers, Invoices, Receipts and Payment proof to suppliers)
Bank reconciliation
- Prepare weekly and monthly revenue bank accounts reconciliations
- Review and maintain accurate records of Aging payable on a weekly basis
- Updating and maintaining accurate Fixed Asset records in Xero
- Maintain accurate Prepayment schedules on a monthly basis
Monthly Reports
- Update and share monthly Medical report, AgDevCo report, ARAF report and IAP report
Policy implementation
- Implement and maintain accounting policies and processes in compliance with both IFRS and local regulatory guidance
- Foster appropriate internal control systems and financial procedures
- File and maintain appropriate Company documentation and compliance with regulatory and tax-related requirements
- Ensure that internal reporting deadlines are met. E.g weekly and monthly submission of reports
Other tasks
- Weekly update of cash KPI
- Train Interns as assigned by your supervisor
- Participate in monthly stock taking
- Carry out any other activities as assigned from time to time by your supervisor.
Key Qualifications, Skills, and Experience
Uzima Chicken is seeking a candidate who has the following Abilities:
- Passionate about positively impacting smallholder farmers and customers in rural areas
- Degree in Business administration (BBA) in Finance and accounting, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) in accounting and Finance or Accounting and taxation, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) in accountancy or related field; relevant certification
- Highly detail oriented, with a passion for accuracy and thoroughness (prefers to do a task
once and right)
- Analytical in approaching and solving problems
- Strong communication and ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- High level of integrity and accountability
- Experience and proficiency in accounting software tools (Dear)
- Experience and proficiency in excel
How to apply: Submit application to careers.ug@uzimachicken.com
Title: Customer Insights Intern (2 positions)
Work location: Kampala, Naguru
Period: 3 months
Reports to: Customer Insights Supervisor
About the Company
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. 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 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 Ugandan 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 Uganda. 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, dropped customers, satisfaction, 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.
- Support the preparation of weekly customer mortality reports and share them with the sales team leadership.
- Other duties and responsibilities assigned by your manager.
Key Characteristics
Uzima Chicken Uganda is seeking a candidate who has the following characteristics:
- Demonstrated strong and effective communication skills.
- Adequate computer skills with some knowledge of Google Suite (sheets, DOC)
- Strong team and time management skills: You know and understand your role, welcome collaboration and are willing to be coached to success. You bring a positive attitude to the department to help your team hit deadlines.
- Self-driven: You’re an independent worker who can complete tasks assigned to you with limited follow-up
- Passionate and excited about positively impacting smallholder farmers and customers in rural areas: You are excited by the possibility of directly impacting millions of Ugandans, helping them build sustainable livelihoods and improving nutritional outcomes.
- Entrepreneurial and Growth mindset: You are energized to generate ideas, learn and grow, proactively seeking feedback from your managers or proposing new ideas and seeking out learning opportunities.
Required skills
- Degree or diploma in Marketing, Business Admin, Office administration, Record management or any related field.
- Computer skills with good knowledge of Google Suite (Sheets, Docs)
- Fluent in one of the following local languages; Runyankole, Rukiga, Langi, Acholi
- Very good interpersonal skills.
Join Us!
We are a quickly growing social enterprise with a wide range of job opportunities at various levels. We are always looking for individuals who are passionate about our mission, vision and values. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as on-the-job training and learning opportunities to ensure our team has the necessary tools to excel in their respective positions.
For job inquiries, please contact:
jobs.ke@uzimachicken.com (Kenya)
careers@uzimachicken.com (Rwanda)
careers.ug@uzimachicken.com (Uganda)
