Job Title: Extension Officer (Fresher Jobs)
Organisation: Nile Breweries
Duty Station: Jinja, Uganda
About Organisation:
Nile Breweries Limited is a leading beverage company in Uganda and a subsidiary of SABMiller, the second largest brewing group in the world. We aim to provide for a variety of career paths and patterns of working, a good work-life balance and comprehensive employee benefits.
Job Summary: Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
The key purpose of this role is to assist in the supervision of barley and sorghum farming and logistics planning to ensure consistent supply of high-quality raw materials to meet annual brewing requirements. Transfer technical information, research findings and modern agriculture practices to the farmers in order to improve productivity and profitability of the farming enterprise. Promote sustainability actions to help ABInBev achieve its 2025 goals.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure timely mobilization, recruitment and registration of farmers for barley and sorghum growing.
- Ensure Sorghum and barley farmers are legally contracted and sign contract forms
- Develop and register farmer associations at sub-county and district levels.
- Ensure that timely land preparation, planting, weeding, harvesting is carried out as per recommended practice
- Ensure soil, moisture conservation and crop rotation practices are observed and carried out by farmers
- Ensure that only pure seed supplied by NBL is planted by farmers and at the correct seed rate and NOT any other.
- Organize farmer seminars, workshops and demonstration plots to coach farmers
- Identify the acreage and corresponding quantities of inputs that will suffice your area of operation
- Advise farmers on proper spraying of chemicals as per operational calendar and recommendations
- Ensure that herbicide, fungicide and insecticides are applied at the correct time, correct rate
- Using the right calibrated equipment.
- Monitor the crop throughout the entire growth period
- In case of any abnormality e.g. disease occurrence, insect infestation then advise farmers on proper and timely corrective measures to be done.
- Promote adaption of Machinery i.e. threshers and planters use among barley/sorghum farmers
- Dissemination of new farming technologies to farmers
- Assist in the recovery of the costs of inputs advanced to farmers
- Coach farmers to manage farming as a business.
- Coach farmers on budgeting and production cost calculation to estimate financial requirements
- Keep a database tracking seed distribution, seed uptake, actual planted acreage and actual crop yield
- Ensure proper documentation is carried out in dispatching grain from farms to the processing plant.
- Ensure timely information sharing as per the company requirement
- Sensitize the farmers on Responsible Sourcing Protocol and report transgressions.
- Timely monthly reporting of Sustainability goal activities
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor of Science in Agriculture.
- Minimum of 2 years’ work experience in a related field
- Fluent in English and one major local language
- Conversant with Agro-chemical, farms machinery and equipment
- Conversant with cereal farming
- Good in extension services
- Computer literacy essential
- Ability to ride motorcycle with valid driver’s license
Key Attributes and Competencies:
- High energy, integrity and attention to detail with a balanced personality self-discipline and drive, conceptualizing and innovative thinking, goal orientation and a strong output bias.
- Proactive mindset, self-driven, self-starter and with initiative; ability to communicate
- (verbal and written)
- Go getter attitude
- Supervisory Skills
- Communication Skills
- Negotiation Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Decision Making and Advisory Skills
- Training and Coaching Skills
- Cooperative behavior with other people
- Team player
How to Apply:
All interested candidates who meet the above specifications should apply at the link below.
Deadline: 14th November 2025
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 24