Program Manager - Honey Bees

AgriFutures Australia is a statutory rural Research and Development Corporation (RDC), responsible for funding Research and Development (R&D) and related extension activity, on behalf of the 13 levied agricultural industries they support. With customer service at the forefront of what they do, AgriFutures delivers programs for Levied and Emerging industries and also deliver programs that address key challenges and critical issues currently facing Australian agriculture, including evokeAG. and growAG.Placing people at the centre of everything they do, AgriFutures listen, connect, and collaborate domestically and globally with emerging leaders in agriculture, industry bodies, other RDC’s and government. A dynamic and fast paced environment for staff.The PositionWithin the Levied Industries team, AgriFutures is seeking a Manager, Levied Industries to manage the Honey Bees program with opportunities to be involved in other industries and industry related projects across the Levied industries team. This role is a key conduit between the industry, partners and Agrifutures to help manage the many stakeholders and volume of workload.Reporting to the Senior Manager, Levied Industries, and working closely with the greater levied industries team you will have responsibility to help initiate, develop, and manage the operations of RDE programs, aimed to grow the portfolio of Honey Bees as well as supporting other programs across the team. Topical issues common to Honey Bees include pollination, disease resistance, promoting Honey Bees importance, their feeding strategy, ecological risk and more.Busy, exciting, challenging and highly rewarding, you will be the face of the industry and work to improve the overall success of the industryThe PersonTo be successful in this Manager role you will have:

• an entrepreneurial approach, comfortable working in a less structured open space, creating ideas and distilling concepts
• Tertiary education in science or Bachelor of Agriculture (Business) or related area preferred, however other relevant areas considered
• Contracting and procurement experience
• experience in rural RDE preferred
• Experience delivering outcomes to end users
• Strong demonstrated project management skills
• at least 5 years Program Management skills (outcome driven, planned and attention to detail)
• influencing and negotiation skills
• exceptional customer service skills focused on high level relationship management
• highly developed communication skills – both verbal and written
• a great team work ethic and approach

A passion for or experience in Honey Bees will be greatly valued.This is a role where you are required to be tenacious in your approach to work, have a varied and interesting work load and get to collaborate with teams internally and externally.If you’re looking to work in a team where you can apply your problem-solving skills to a diverse and interesting portfolio of work where you are working directly with industry stakeholders, this might be the opportunity for you!For confidential enquiries and a copy of the Position Description, please phone David Jackson or Al Kellaway on 1300 380 701 or apply via rimfireresources.com.auShare this jobInterested in this job?Save JobCreate as alertCreate As AlertConsultant Name: Consultant Email: Social AccountsLatest JobsSCHEMA MARKUP ( This text will only show on the editor. )Rimfire are leaders in agribusiness and natural resources recruitment, HR and benchmarking solutions across Australia and New Zealand.