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About the Company
Uzima Chicken Uganda is a social enterprise focused on making smallholder farmers healthier and wealthier. Uzima Chicken distributes an improved breed of chicken that is 4x more productive than local breeds in terms of egg and meat production, while requiring the same levelof management and care as the local chicken. Rearing a flock of 10 improved breed chickens can generate a 270,000 UGX net profit uplift for a smallholder family. With Uzima’s bird, ruralhouseholds in Uganda can build income resilience, confidently pay for their children’s school fees, and introduce larger volumes of animal protein into their daily diets.
Uzima Chicken seeks to reach every rural household by 2025 and aims to be the leading small holder-focused poultry enterprise in East Africa. In the past 2 years of operations, UzimaChicken has attracted investments from AgDevCo, Acumen, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Uzima Chicken Uganda prioritizes hiring and developing Ugandan talent and offers significant professional growth opportunities and leadership development. Further, Uzima is committed to female empowerment across the company and is proud that 40% of staff are women.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVE
Uzima Chicken will recruit recent graduates with degrees in Veterinary Medicine, Animal
Science or Animal Production. The objective of the Poultry Leadership Develop Program (LDP) is to provide fresh recruits with the skills they need to be successful to step into supervisory and managerial positions in the poultry industry. In addition, Uzima believes it is critical to provide this class with experience across different functions so that they:
(i) have a strong understanding of key technical functions that lead to Company success(ii) reinforce our Company culture by establishing relationships and understanding the commitment of all of our employees.
On boarding will be one of the most critical times of the program. The new trainees will spend the first week in the same location, learning about the purpose of the Company, the vision, and
meeting the full senior management. In addition to this orientation period, the class will
participate in team building and listen to presentations from existing technical site managers. LIn addition, the Production Manager and other selected presenters will provide technical
overviews of breeding and hatchery. Trainees will read all standard SOPs during the first week, and take a pre-test on poultry knowledge.
After the first week, the trainees will be assigned to 3 months in a single position. While inthese positions, the trainees will start off in entry level positions to learn the business from theground up. On the breeding farm and hatchery, they will be attendants and vaccinators thenfinally they will do a rotation reporting directly to the Production Manager as dataanalysts/quality control analysts.
This intensive period is designed to give the trainee exposure to the entire Company from a technical and functional perspective. This will also give department managers the opportunity to work with trainees and to allow for the selection process.
One day per month during this period, trainees will be trained on finance, HR, admin, and procurement processes and procedures.
At the end of the month, the trainees will receive testing on all 5 rotations and administrative information. A minimal score must be achieved to pass the training.