Job Description: Responsibilities & Requirements
If you are an individual who thinks on their feet and outside the box. Someone keen to move up the ladder with a growing company and have visited our website: Portal Forest Estates. If you are willing to relocate where accommodation is provided and a good fit for the company, perhaps this challenging yet rewarding position is for you.
The Role
Our Agronomist will be involved in all aspects of our 207-acre forest located in the Central Region of Ghana.
- Aid reforestation plans at all levels.
- Understand and participate in large-scale clearing operations, and site excavations.
- Assess sites for forest reclamation and rehabilitation work.
- Manage inventory and work resources that include nurseries, sites, seeding, planting, controlling weeds, and pruning.
- Carry out seed harvesting and cultivation of young trees.
- Review research and literature relating to current discoveries in the field.
- Review health and safety data relating to the field, region, and time of year.
- Collect field and control samples of biological samples and non-living media in order to perform analyses.
- Take forest measurements, including species, height, diameter, age, and quality.
- Enforce fire regulations to protect forests.
- Survey, measure, and map forest areas and access roads using GIS or land technology.
- Assess new growth or rehabilitated areas.
- Supervise the use of organic herbicides and organic insecticides to implement pest, weed, and disease control.
- Monitor compliance with regulations governing forest operations.
- Inspect sites for environmental field reports.
- Work in remote locations in all weather conditions.
- Process specimens and samples.
- Have working knowledge of all species.
- Soil and composting testing.
- This position reports directly to the CEO.
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Academic/Professional Qualification
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Agronomy is preferred but a degree in farming or agriculture will also work from a recognized tertiary institution.
Work Experience
- A minimum of three (3) years post-qualification work experience.
- Must have completed one (1) year of National Service.
- Bonus if you’ve worked with the Forestry Commission or equivalent.
Desired Competencies
- Strong communication skills.
- Computer proficiency.
- Communication and interpersonal skills.
- Research and data analysis.
- Team player.
- Report writing skills.
- Knowledge of Forestry Commission and Government regulations.
Salary: GHS 2000 -3000
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If you are an individual who thinks on their feet and outside the box. Someone keen to move up the ladder with a growing company and have visited our website: Portal Forest Estates. If you are willing to relocate where accommodation is provided and a good fit for the company, perhaps this challenging yet rewarding position is for you.
The Role
Our Agronomist will be involved in all aspects of our 207-acre forest located in the Central Region of Ghana.
- Aid reforestation plans at all levels.
- Understand and participate in large-scale clearing operations, and site excavations.
- Assess sites for forest reclamation and rehabilitation work.
- Manage inventory and work resources that include nurseries, sites, seeding, planting, controlling weeds, and pruning.
- Carry out seed harvesting and cultivation of young trees.
- Review research and literature relating to current discoveries in the field.
- Review health and safety data relating to the field, region, and time of year.
- Collect field and control samples of biological samples and non-living media in order to perform analyses.
- Take forest measurements, including species, height, diameter, age, and quality.
- Enforce fire regulations to protect forests.
- Survey, measure, and map forest areas and access roads using GIS or land technology.
- Assess new growth or rehabilitated areas.
- Supervise the use of organic herbicides and organic insecticides to implement pest, weed, and disease control.
- Monitor compliance with regulations governing forest operations.
- Inspect sites for environmental field reports.
- Work in remote locations in all weather conditions.
- Process specimens and samples.
- Have working knowledge of all species.
- Soil and composting testing.
- This position reports directly to the CEO.
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Academic/Professional Qualification
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s or Master’s in Agronomy is preferred but a degree in farming or agriculture will also work from a recognized tertiary institution.
Work Experience
- A minimum of three (3) years post-qualification work experience.
- Must have completed one (1) year of National Service.
- Bonus if you’ve worked with the Forestry Commission or equivalent.
Desired Competencies
- Strong communication skills.
- Computer proficiency.
- Communication and interpersonal skills.
- Research and data analysis.
- Team player.
- Report writing skills.
- Knowledge of Forestry Commission and Government regulations.
Salary: GHS 2000 -3000
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