Chris Gillitt Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Responsible for the planning and delivery of the CANEGROWERS Farm Business Resilience Project. The project is designed to take growers through a benchmarking and professional development program to allow them to be in a better position to assess, plan and develop actions for improved farm business resilience.

Brisbane, Australia

Pacific Labour Facility (PLF) project manager with Palladium is the managing contractor. The PLF supports the administration of the Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS), which is an Australian Government initiative that helps meet employer-worker demand in rural and regional Australia. The PLS enables citizens of nine Pacific islands and Timor-Leste to take up.

Brisbane, Australia

The role is focused on business development, project management, and technical advisory support for economic assessments, including a variety of sectors, opportunities and projects APAC Region. We engage with private and public sector institutions to build partnerships and implement programmes that have a lasting social and financial impact, using.

Dubai & Abu Dhabi (through 2017); 2018: Brisbane, Australia

My primary responsibilities in this position involved business development, project management, and providing technical input/sector expertise primarily on agricultural, but including a variety of sectors, opportunities and projects in the Middle East. The role included active engagement within the GCC private sector with a focus on agribusiness and.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Chris provided agricultural economic advisory services to Abu Dhabi farmers, as well as internal support to the organisation on all aspects of the operational value chain. The tasks for this role include:----------------------------------------In-depth economic assessments of various elements along the value chain. Crop gross margins, packaging review with.

North Coast Region, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Developed, coordinated, implemented and managed the actions arising from SACGA's business objectives directed at sustainable development of the local grower organizational structures. Manage and protect the interests of sugar cane growers and support the leadership of the organisation. Provided advice, information and technical support to growers and the.

Mount Edgecombe

The purpose of the position is to manage the data collection and analysis of the organizations economic database and includes development of surveys, techniques and reporting methods to enable timeous dissemination of results to internal and external stakeholders. The position includes the management of technical staff as well as management of the database.

KwaZulu-Natal

I worked as a farm manager on various farms during university vacations. These were mostly sugarcane and beef farming enterprises. I was responsible for the day-to-day management of these businesses whilst the owner was away. During this time I also managed a 24-hour haulage operation which delivered approximately 40 000 tons of sugarcane to the mill.

Pietermaritzburg Area, South Africa

I began my professional career as a computer programmer after completing a course in COBOL programming. The Bureau used DBL (Dynamic Business Language) which is similar to COBOL. I was required to troubleshoot programs which maintain clients’ company data. This was often stock data or company payrolls, which the bureau would manage on the clients’ behalf.

Msc Agric, Agricultural Economics, Cum Laude

http://www.ukzn.ac.za/

Education record

http://www.maritzburgcollege.org.za/