Site Station Manager Job Vacancy at Truenorth Africa in Uganda

 Job Title: Site Station Manager Job Vacancy at Truenorth Africa 

JOB DETAILS:

The Site Station Manager is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the petrol station, ensuring smooth functionality, exceptional customer service, and adherence to safety and regulatory standards. This role involves managing staff, maintaining inventory, and optimizing overall station performance.

Activities:

• Participate in hiring and training service station staff.

• Handle money and banking

• Manage, train, and evaluate site staff performance.

• Manage operational excellence of the site.

• Sharing the daily sales report with the Territory Manager

• Report engineering, maintenance, and repair hiccups with the territory manager

and the operations manager as soon as they are detected.

• Drive sales and targets.

• Handle customer complaints and queries in a professional way.

• Manage the relationship between the site and customers.

Assign, schedule and monitor the tasks given to site staff.

Answer and resolve customer needs and objectives.

• Ensure joyous experience to customers and guests through great pleasant services.

Chair functional team meetings and events to enhance quality in services.

• Train other site staff of customer service and product knowledge.

• Do inventory controls of materials, items, and products.

• Maintain the service station premises in a neat and organized manner.

Maintain good relationships with the vendors and suppliers.

• Bill and collect payments from customers for services rendered.

• Receive money from pump attendants and verify the amounts.

• Enforce the Health and Safety activities.

• Manage the miscellaneous expenses.

• Pay site bills like water, electricity, security and so on.

• Monitor and follow up the standards set for the site like automation, UHOT, hygiene

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree/ Diploma in Business Management or a related field (preferred).

Experience:

• Proven experience in retail management, with a focus on petrol station operations.

Compulsory Skills & knowledge:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong written & spoken English language.

• Basic Computer Skills in Excel and Word

• Strong leadership and team management skills.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities.

• Proficiency in financial management.

• Sound understanding of safety regulations and compliance.

• Customer-focused with a commitment to delivering exceptional service.

• Problem-solving skills and ability to handle challenging situations.

• Adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced environment.

• Proficiency in using software for sales tracking, inventory management, and reporting.

Job Experience:No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure

You can apply by submitting your CV to ola.jobs@truenorthafrica.com , include your area of residence within you application.

All application documents Must be in either PDF or MS. Word.

NOTE: The qualified applicants will be kept in the database for selection as and when needed

Careers at Uganda Ecumenical Church Loan Fund (ECLOF) - Agronomist

Job Title: Agronomist

Employer: Uganda Ecumenical Church Loan Fund (ECLOF)

Duty Station: Kigumba, Uganda

Application Deadline: 13^th Feb 2015

Job Description:

Duties and Responsibilities:

·         Mobilize farmers groups to undertake commercial agricultural farming practices by  planting high yielding crop and carry out a farmers training in specific crops with tangible disbursement amounts and client numbers.

·         Link the farmers to a market or develop a marketing strategy to benefit the farmers during harvest time.

·         Develop an agricultural Training curriculum and promotional material for least 4 crops; with specific details on planting, spacing, use and application of seed, fertilizer, herbicide, pesticide and post-harvest handling, etc.

·         Set up demonstration gardens on ECLOF farm on identified crops and advise management on topography plans.

Job requirements:

·         A degree in Agriculture plus Post graduate qualification in Agronomy.

·         Qualifications and experience in agronomy especially commercial agriculture, animal, crop husbandry

·         Knowledge of inherent risks associated with specific crops such as sunflower, Maize, beans and horticulture and domestic animals such as cattle, etc.

·         Experience in training commercial farmers in agricultural activities such as planting, spacing, seed variety, post-harvest handling, irrigation, crop insurance, etc.

·         Experience in developing demonstration farms, marketing strategies, seed contracts and long term partnership.

·         Experience in agricultural microfinance and FEW an added advantage.

How to Apply:

Interested applicants for the above positions should send in their applications addressed to the Chief Executive Officer, marked with position of interest in the upper right hand corner of the envelopE. It should include a cover letter, copies of academic certificates, detailed CV, submitted to the administrator, ECLOF-Uganda, P. O. Box 22886, Kampala, Kati House Building, ground Floor, Plot 2 Kyaggwe Road.

For any inquiries please call 0414-344249.

Only short listed candidates shall be contacted.

Business Services Specialist Jobs at ACDI/VOCA in Uganda

Job Title: Business Services Specialist

Employer: ACDI/VOCA

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Application Deadline: 23rd Jan 2015

Job Description:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and technical direction to the;
• Savings and Credit/Association Development Officer
• Honey Support Officer
• Farming as a Business Officer
• Savings and Credit Officer
• Marketing Support Officer
• Support officers under the Business services unit to;
• Develop appropriate training materials
• Offer appropriate TOTs to Field Extension Workers (FEWs) in coordination with the Field Extension Coordinator
• Make periodic follow up of the FEWs on delivery of appropriate trainings to program beneficiaries and that uptake is strong
• Support the Savings and Credit/Association: responsible for the development officer to promote the development of viable farmer associations
• Support the Marketing officer in promoting marketing initiatives at individual farmer, farmer group and association levels covering crops, honey and livestock
• Actively monitor the establishment and development of relevant private sector initiatives targeted at supporting RWANU beneficiaries in the honey sector and others
• Serve as RWANU's liaison officer with other organisations that have agri-business related interventions for purposes of sharing best practices and approaches
• Perform any other task as required by the immediate supervisor

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant should hold a business related degree with a bias in agribusiness.
• A minimum of five or more years’ professional experience supporting agribusiness initiatives preferably in hard to reach areas like Karamoja.
• Computer literacy skills with excellent command of word processing and spreadsheets
• Possess the ability to supervise staff
• Excellent communication and reporting skills
• Proven ability to delegate and work with a team
• Ability to work with minimum supervision
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Language: Fluent written and spoken English language skills are a must.
• NgaKarimojong language skills highly desirable.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested candidates who desire to work in the USAID RWANU Project should send their applications (only by e-mail) addressed to the Human Resources Manager attaching their application letters and CV to: jobs@acdivocaug.biz

NB: Women are encouraged to apply as ACDI/ VOCA is an equal opportunity employer. Only those shortlisted for interviews will be contacted.