Aquaculture & Feed Production Officer at INTERSOS Nigeria – MMC / Jere (2 Openings)

INTERSOS Nigeria is recruiting two Aquaculture and Feed Production Officers to improve fish farms in MMC, Jere and Mafa and strengthen the Mafa Fish Feed Production Centre in Borno State.

Responsibilities

• Assess ponds, water supply, fish survival, feed conversion, stocking history, output and farm profitability.
• Develop production plans, stocking cycles and rehabilitation recommendations with project engineers.
• Manage pond preparation, quality fingerling procurement, stocking and fish health, biosecurity and feeding practices.
• Train pond teams to monitor water quality, growth, feeding, mortality and harvest records.
• Help specify and commission replacement feed-mill equipment and formulate locally sourced feed for different fish growth stages.
• Implement ingredient and feed quality assurance, batch records and safe storage, and train community operators.
• Develop fish processing, smoking, drying and packaging methods and strengthen market linkages and cost recovery.
• Prepare maintenance procedures and records, support sustainable community handover and collaborate with government extension officers.
• Submit production and profitability reports and apply environmental, safeguarding, gender-inclusion and humanitarian standards.

Requirements

• BSc or HND in Fisheries and Aquaculture, Animal Science with relevant fisheries or nutrition training, or a related discipline; MSc is advantageous.
• At least four years’ practical fish-farming experience, preferably catfish production.
• Hands-on feed formulation, local ingredient procurement and feed-mill operation or supervision.
• Experience coaching community producers; NGO or government programme experience is preferred.
• Strong fish nutrition, water-quality, biosecurity, FCR analysis, spreadsheet and training skills.
• Fluent English and good Hausa; Kanuri is an advantage.