Marketing Officer REF NO: 3/3/1/65/2025 at Department of Agriculture(DOA)

REQUIREMENTS :

• Applicants must be in possession of a Grade 12 Certificate and a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics (NQF7). A Minimum of 2-years relevant experience in Agricultural Economics environment.

Job Related Skills:

• Planning and organising skills. Reporting procedures. Analytical and innovative thinking. Submission and report writing. (Develop memoranda, letters and submissions). Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and under pressure. Extensive travelling. A Valid driver’s license. Render Market linkage programme. Investigate market requirements and publish the information to facilitate access by historically disadvantaged individuals (HDIs).
• Promote compliance to food safety standards and requirements (South African Good Agricultural Practices, Global Good Agricultural Practice, Good Manufacturing practice, Good Hygiene Practice, and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) by producers and processors of agricultural products to enhance market access. Render preferential market access programme.
• Administration of market access import and export quotas in terms of applicable trade agreements by means of issuing rebate permits. Monitor the utilisation of permits and quotas. Ensure compliance to permit conditions. Administer, record and monitor payment fees for import and export permits.
• Enhance participation of new and Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) traders in the rebate schemes. Manage an awareness campaign on the compliance to the BEE sector codes by beneficiaries of the department’s preferential market access programme. Render general administration services. Render a general office administrative service to management and clients. Undertake ad hoc activities.