Experience

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  JOKOF ROYAL ENTERPRISE

  • KUMASI, GHANA

  • Managing Director

    • Jul 2021 - Present
    • KUMASI, GHANA

    • Manage and oversee the overall business operations including finance, administration, sales, and logistics.• Document processes and draft SOPs to comply with regulations and company policies.• Monitor and evaluate the quality of information received and question conflicting data for analysis. U...

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  Ghana Union Movement

  • Wassa Amenfi East, Western, Ghana

  • Parliamentary Candidate

    • May 2019 - Dec 2020
    • Wassa Amenfi East, Western, Ghana

    Contested for Parliamentary seat.Led the Ghana Union Movement (GUM) as a Parliamentary Candidate in the 2020 General Elections at the Wassa Amenfi East Constituency. Managed the constituency finances and campaign activities. Solved problems and conflicts within the GUM at the constituency.

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  Cocoa Health and Extension Division, Ghana Cocoa Board

  • Principal Technical Assistant/Community Extension Agent

    • Nov 2010 - Nov 2020

    Community Extension Agent, May 2014 – Nov 2020• Perform agriculture extension duties on cocoa production, Quality assurance, Good Agricultural Practices, Good Environmental Practices, Good Social Practices, Emerging issues in the cocoa industry, Sustainability, and Traceability.• Manage and supervise twelve (12) workforce teams and newly established farms under a cocoa rehabilitation project in my operational area. Monitor and evaluate progress against Ghana Cocoa Board standards.• Collect data such as measuring cocoa farms, surveying cocoa-grown areas, and collecting farmers’ biodata.• Implement, coordinate, and supervise farmers’ intervention programs such as artificial pollination, Cocoa rehabilitation program, and Cocoa farm inputs distribution.• Recruit, train, and orient pollinators, nursery workers, and farm hands and ensure compliance on the field, ensuring quality delivery.• Organise and facilitate Farmer Business School (FBS); formation of cocoa farmer groups and cooperative Associations; and building partnerships.• Educate farmers on additional livelihood, child labor, pesticide residues, use of agrochemicals, and profit sustainability in collaboration with other government institutions and financial institutions.• Select and prepare farmers for awards on the National Farmers’ Day.• Implement Ghana Cocoa Board policies to maintain quality cocoa beans through the supply chain per standards. • Communicate and present information to stakeholders about all contract-related matters. • Monitor contracts and move forward with close-out, extension, or renewal according to what's best for the company. • Solve any contract-related problems that may arise with other parties and internally with the company itself.• Review the contract with the clients yearly and prepare contract renewal with the clients when needed.• Prepare reports daily, weekly, and monthly.

  • Senior Technical Assistant/Acted as Administrative Assistant/Store keeper

    • Nov 2010 - Apr 2014

    • Perform general administrative duties, Sales, warehouse, customer service, and logistics management.• Formulate and implement plans and strategies; supervise sales team and sales activities including campaigns.• Providing administrative support to team members to ensure profitability and customer satisfaction.• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders.• Manage, and supervise the CODAPEC project and cocoa Artificial Pollination projects and ensure effective monitoring and evaluation. • Monitor and control the contracts' finances, ensure health, safety, environmental, and quality compliance is maintained, and the Company's procedures and objectives are achieved.• Lead department teams with moderate resource requirements for efficient results.• Prepare and manage clients' contract agreements with individual farmers and farmer cooperatives.• Review the contract with the clients yearly and prepare contract renewal with the clients when needed.• Provide technical discipline solutions to department leaders, communicate complex messages to negotiate with other departments, and influence peers to adopt a different point of view. to take action that may meet external partners, vendors, or customers' needs.• Maintain accurate bookkeeping, documentation, and databases, and handle confidential information with discretion.• Recruit, train, and orient casual workers; prepare vouchers and pay their monthly remunerations.• Monitor project progress, identify risks, and proactively implement solutions to timely delivery.• Collect data from the field staff, enter it into the company’s system for processing, and generate monthly reports.• Prepare invoices, reports, memos, letters, Petty cash, and other documents, using MS Office and Google Docs.• File and organize documents as well as assist with budget preparation and management.• Provide daily updates and monthly updates to regional management for decision-making.

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  Cocoa Merchants - Ghana Ltd

  • Ghana
  • Farming
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Port Officer

    • Sep 2005 - Oct 2010

    Responsibilities:• Manage and oversee the entire Port and discrepant warehouse operations. Core functions include Administration, logistics, Finance, report writing, and discrepant stock management as well as loading, offloading, and reloading.• Prepare invoices, waybills, vouchers, reports, Petty Cash, memos, letters, and other documents.• Receive cocoa consignments from districts level and hand them over to the cocoa marketing company for shipment, and collect Cocoa Taken over Receipts.• Hire casual workers to work on discrepant cocoa whenever the need arises; and supervise their work to ensure compliance with the Ghana Cocoa Board standard.• Plan and ensure regular fumigation and disinfestation at the discrepant depots.•• In collaboration with the Quality Control Division, collect sample data, and analyze to ensure and maintain the quality of the cocoa beans.• Manage port operations to ensure internal quality systems work perfectly to maintain quality delivery. Recondition and prepare discrepant stocks for re-submission to port; and sell the sub-standard cocoa to companies dealing with sub-standard cocoa.• Plan, organize, and control the movement and transfer of vehicles as well as regular maintenance.• Prepare and share monthly reports with the management.• Other duties.

  • District Manager

    • Jul 2003 - Aug 2005

    • Manage and oversee daily district operations, including administration, finance, purchasing, and sourcing.• Recruit and train Purchasing Clerks (PCs), drivers, Security guards, and other supporting staff.• Handle discipline of purchasing clerks as needed to ensure profitability and customer satisfaction of assigned contracts.• Manage and supervise the distribution of Seed funds and logistics at the district.• Set performance goals and standards and conduct regular performance evaluations for quality cocoa bean sourcing.• Develop and execute strategies, and plans to streamline operations to maintain customer satisfaction.• Coordinate with other departments, provide professional leadership that influences effective policy implementation, and ensure delivery within the area of responsibility.• Assign contracts, communicate, and present information to stakeholders about all primary evacuation contract-related matters.• Monitor contracts and move forward with close-out or renewal according to what is best for the company.• Solve any contract-related problems that may arise with other parties and internally with the company itself.• provide administrative support to team members and ensure proper documentation.• Verify compliance with financial policies and accounting procedures against national regulations.• Identify opportunities to improve customer service procedures and make recommendations for decision-making.• Improve resource utilization with data management systems, reducing costs through strategic coordination and contract analysis.• Provide service agreement, time, and material program management.• Monitor, and crosscheck to ensure that correct data is inputted to avoid wrong reports.• Handle escalated customer inquiries and complaints that cannot be resolved by the frontline agents.• Analyse data to identify trends and areas for improvement.• Prepare waybills, invoices, bank reconciliation, cashbook, reports, and other relevant documents.

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  Penworth Professional Institute

  • Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana

  • Teacher

    • Mar 2007 - Sep 2010
    • Kumasi, Ashanti, Ghana

    • Teaching and assessing students.• Perform an internal audit to ensure compliance with internal controls to prepare adequately for pre- and post-external audit issues.• Provide technical advice to the accounts department and school authorities on Ghana education regulations and standards to asce...

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  JAMILAASOAH ENTERPRIS (FMCG Dealer)

  • Dunkwa, Central, Ghana

  • General Manager

    • Aug 2001 - Jun 2003
    • Dunkwa, Central, Ghana

    • Manage and oversee the day-to-day business operations including administration, finance, report writing, sales, logistics, procurement, and inventory.• Recruit, orient, and train workers including sales teams; motivate them; and ensure compliance.• Implement Ghana Cocoa Board policies to mainta...

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  Ministry of Food and Agriculture

  • Dunkwa, Central, Ghana

  • Technical Officer

    • Oct 1999 - Jul 2001
    • Dunkwa, Central, Ghana

    • General Agriculture Extension duties• Educate farmers on how to apply recommended fertilizers and other chemicals.• Prepare monthly situational report.

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  Cocoa Services Division, Ghana Cocoa Board

  • Denkyira Dominase, Dunkwa, Central, Ghana

  • Technical Assistant

    • Mar 1993 - Sep 1999
    • Denkyira Dominase, Dunkwa, Central, Ghana

    • Agricultural Extension duties (cocoa and coffee production).• Educate farmers on how to apply recommended fertilizers and other chemicals on their farms.• Educate famers on good agricultural practices through farmer training, group meetings, farm visit, field demonstration, and rallies.• Nomina...