Assistant Centurion - Centurion
Impact Human Resources Pty Ltd
Looking for a Stewardship Assistant for a 1-year contract. This person will ensure responsible management, including all compliance obligations, seed treatments and traits from their inception (discovery) through to their ultimate use and discontinuation. The South Africa Stewardship Manager will leverage strong stewardship cultures to lead the industry and enable the Agriculture Division and its customers freedom to operate globally. Organization The RSA Stewardship Assistant will report to the EMEA Stewardship Leader and is part of the EMEA Stewardship team. The RSA Stewardship Assistant gets functional guidance from the AME Stewardship Leader Location Location for the South Africa Stewardship Assistant will be Centurion in South Africa. This role will support the entire business in South Africa, including Pioneer and Panner. Key responsibilities General Stewardship across platforms Set RSA Stewardship priorities with the AME Stewardship Leader and Country leader resulting in Country Stewardship Strategic plan for both Seed/Biotech business with actions that are tracked. Promote Stewardship Best Practices in RSA including IRM, HRM, WRM and IPM. Find opportunities for and manage stewardship training programs internally and externally and serve as an expert on stewardship matters. Support country team complying with regulatory requirements, internal stewardship standards, contract stewardship clauses and legal product registration requirements such as adverse effects reporting or risk mitigation measures. Support Country teams preparing for Stewardship Reviews of portfolio. Support Country team in preparing for Country Audits including Excellence Through Stewardship (ETS) for biotech seeds and providing post audit support. Ensure country team implements Compliance and Stewardship Incident Response process, including linkage to emergency response and complaints management and be the primary contact for stewardship incidents in RSA. Provide trial compliance support for IFS trials and GMO regulated trials Support implementation of MITT/SAP systems across all business and research platforms. GMO Traits Stewardship Knows the Stewardship obligations in Strategic in licensing trait Agreements, guides 3 rd party contractors for monitoring in-field compliance and obtains and submits monitoring reports to licensors. Guides the team on what stewardship obligations to include in out licensing trait agreements and monitors licensees on compliance. Develops and IRM strategy and roadmap including a monitoring plan, unexpected damage guidelines, damage investigation protocols and plan to assess IRM compliance in co-ordination with the Global IRM Stewardship Lead. Develops Technology Use Agreements , Product Use Guides, training templates and provides training to 3 rd parties / licensees. Create and maintain contract(s)/ Assessment documents for refuge field monitoring as part of permit conditions. Support 3 rd Party distributors, like Limagrain and Agricol, GMO traits on stewardship compliance including training Liaise with organisation such as Croplife/SANSOR/AfricaBio/IRAC/ISAAA/ETS. Qualifications Preferably 5 years' experience in Agricultural business, preferably seeds Fluent in English Self-starter Flexible to Travel Agriculture or Biology degree from a University See Description See Description
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