Senior Agricultural Economist REF NO: 3/3/1/06/2026 at Department of Agriculture(DOA)

REQUIREMENTS    :  

•  Applicant must be in possession of a Grade 12 Certificate and a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics (NQF 7) or A 3-year bachelor's degree plus Honors degree in Agricultural Economics. Job Related Work Experience: Minimum of three (3) years 'supervisor experience in agricultural economist environment.

DUTIES    :    

• Manage projects related to development, implementation, and evaluation of Agricultural Marketing Capacity programme. Conduct research on the agricultural marketing capacity building needs for smallholder producers. Contribute to implement of relevant pillars of the Agricultural Marketing Strategy for the Republic of South Africa. Conduct surveys for collection of data from producers, collaboration with various stakeholder such as commodity associations and farmer support officials at the provincial and local level. Develop agricultural marketing needs assessment reports and provide advice to the department regarding the status of agricultural marketing capacity development in the country. Conduct agricultural marketing needs assessments and develop agricultural marketing capacity building manuals.
• Undertake capacity needs assessment among smallholder producers in collaboration with Commodity Associations, Provincial Departments of Agriculture and other stakeholders. Identify suitably capacity development programmes in the sector to address the needs and/or facilitate development of demand-driven agricultural marketing capacity development programme. Development of marketing capacity building manuals in line with the agreed standard. Facilitate editing, design, layout and production of the manuals. Implement agricultural marketing capacity building programme among smallholder producers and other interested stakeholders. Organise and facilitate Agricultural Marketing Capacity Building workshops based on the identified needs.
• Identify beneficiaries of the Marketing Capacity Building Programme in collaboration with provincial departments, commodity associations and other role players. Develop training schedule in collaboration with provincial departments, commodity associations and other role players. Create and update database of producers who completed the agricultural marketing capacity building programme. Make contributions to agricultural marketing webinars, information sessions, and other relevant events. Management of stakeholders to ensure successful and collaborative implementation of the capacity building programme.
• Evaluate agricultural marketing building programme and develop progress reports on the implementation of Capacity Building Program. Conduct post-workshop evaluations. Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis of the workshops undertaken. Develop regular reports on agricultural marketing building and resent the findings to management and other forums. Management of records related to the capacity building programme.