Nutrition & Feeding Officer at Outsource Africa

Outsource Africa - Our client is a leader in a multidimensional value chain of poultry farming with strong impact on various components of the Food and Agri-Industries.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Nutrition & Feeding Officer

Location: Benin, Edo

Job Description

• We are looking for a candidate who can undertake research and plan diets in order to provide poultry and domestic animals, and livestock with nutritionally balanced food.

Responsibilities

• Assessing the relative nutritional value for various feeds for livestock.
• Formulating the best mix of food to produce healthy livestock.
• Oversea the feeding of poultry animals.
• Analysing nutritional disorders.
• Implement activities that support good poultry farming / livestock / industry practices that relate to the development and utilization of feed resources, efficient animal nutrition, feed safety and address the associated technical and policy issues trade in animal feedstuffs.
• Contribute to and technically support appropriate supplementary / emergency feeding interventions for livestock.
• Keep up-to-date and informed on relevant developments; design and conduct analytical studies on specific technical and policy issues affecting animal nutrition, feed resources and feed safety.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Animal Production / Science with specialization related to Animal Nutrition.
• Ability to undertake independent research
• 3 years experience in Poultry Operations
• Ability to write reports and good record keeping
• Quality of both oral and written communication skills on technical issues

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2020.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the applied "Job Title" as the subject of the email.