Job Description

Job SummaryPurposeOur client in Cenurion seeks to employ a Stewardship Assistant on a 12 month contract. The Stewardship Assistant will ensure the responsible management, including all compliance obligations, seed treatments and traits from their inception through to their ultimate use and discontinuation.OrganizationThe RSA Stewardship Assistant will report to the EMEA Stewardship Leader and gets functional guidance from the leaderKey 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 licensing trade Agreements, guides 3rd 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 trade agreements and monitors licensees on compliance.
• Develops the 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 3rd parties / licensees.
• Create and maintain contracts/ assessment documents for refuge field monitoring as part of permit conditions.
• Support 3rd party distributors, like Limagrain and Agricol, on stewardship compliance including training.
• Liaise with organisation such as CropLife/SANSOR/AfricaBio/IRAC/ISAAA/ETS.

Qualifications

• 5 years experience in Agricultural business, preferably seeds.
• Tertiary qualification- degree in agriculture or biology
• Flexible to Travel
• Agriculture or Biology degree from a university

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