Applications are open until 8th February.
‘This opportunity occurs at a significant and exciting time for AHDB as it looks to respond to global challenges facing the farming and food sectors over the coming decade,’ says the advertisement for the role on the AHDB website. The successful candidate will need to show they ‘have a passion and a desire to ensure that levy payers get the best value for money from AHDB.’
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After three years in office, Fiona Fell will stand down as an AHDB Board Member and Chair of the AHDB Potato Sector Board at the end of her term in office. Fiona, who is based in Northumberland and comes from a farming family in Worcestershire, will complete her term of office in March 2017.
Fiona said: “It is a real privilege to have had the opportunity to develop the potential of AHDB and to lead the Potato Sector Board. I appreciate the hard work and commitment that the Potato Board members and all the staff have put in, particularly over the last 18 months during the AHDB restructure.”
Fiona has completed nine years with AHDB, six as an independent member of the Potato Sector Board, including acting as interim chair, and three as a main AHDB Board Member and also as Chair of the AHDB Potato Sector Board.
AHDB chairman Peter Kendall said: “I thank Fiona for her contribution to the work of the Board during this period of change and the passion and thoughtful energy she put into the role.”
Fiona added: “For my successor this is an exciting time, as an AHDB board member, making a real impact; delivering a fresh strategy at a time when agriculture, horticulture and the food industry need AHDB to assist in meeting the challenges of a changing market both domestically and in terms of export opportunities.”
“It has been very satisfying seeing new ways of working to deliver benefits to levy payers. Enhancing the exchange of knowledge between growers and scientists via the Strategic Potato (SPot) Farms, and winning external funding to further modernise the facilities at Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research are recent achievements.
“Building the future of the industry with the Next Generation Scheme, PhDs, and Fellowships and leading ground breaking cross sector soils work, are laying strong foundations.
“We are mindful of how essential it is to value the reputation of our crops and produce, so are harnessing experience across AHDB and the industry to advocate all that is great about GB potatoes and potato products.”