Cocoa Health and Extension Division (COCOBOD) Recruitment 2025/2026 | The Cocoa Health and Extension Division (COCOBOD) is currently recruiting, APPLY NOW.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified employees of COCOBOD for the following positions stated below:
Job Title: Assistant Administrative Officer
Duties/Responsibilities
- Maintain personal files and file all correspondence on them accurately.
- Keep personal files under strict confidential control.
- Release personal files only upon instruction from a superior.
- Prepare monthly report on staff at the post and separate report (to include resignation, termination, dismissal, interdiction, and death)
- Draft letters and process all claims namely: T&T, Vehicle maintenance allowance, loans, insurance, medical bills, bereavement grants, etc.
- Process resignation, retirement, and dismissal letters.
- Prepare a list of job applicants.
- Supervise the secretarial staff at the office of the registry to ensure that they work efficiently.
- Prepare a list of staff recommended for promotion/increment and withholding of increment
- Prepare annual staff incremental sheet for both senior and junior staff
- Prepare Leave Advice
- Perform any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.
Core Competencies
- Excellent knowledge of filing system
- Excellent knowledge of Human Resource Matters
- Proficiency in the Labour Act
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- High level of integrity and trustworthiness.
Skills
- Excellent communication skills: both written and oral
- Strong analytical and logical reasoning skills
Qualifications
- Diploma in Management Studies /HND Business Management
- Knowledge in the relevant computer applications.
Job Title: Assistant Audit Officer
Duties/Responsibilities
- Check transactions recorded in the books of accounts generally by the audit program.
- Verify assets, inventories of stores, and cash.
- Inspect purchased items before processing bills for payment.
- Pre-auditing of bills and vouchers for payment/
- Assist in conducting routine audits
- Perform any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.
Core Competencies
- Ability to promote the value of internal audit among key employees within COCOBOD
- Keeping abreast with regulatory changes and industry standards
- Knowledge in auditing, internal auditing standards, fraud awareness, professional ethical standards
Skills
- Excellent communication skills: both written and oral
- Strong analytical and logical reasoning skills
- Research and teamwork skills
Qualifications
- HND/ Diploma in Accounting / Commerce
- Knowledge of the relevant computer applications.
Job Title: Assistant Accounts Officer
Duties/Responsibilities
- Pay and keep terminal benefits records.
- Prepare staff salaries, wages, loans and advances.
- Monitor and check salary payment and allowance on computer input and outputs.
- Maintain all loan ledgers(i.e personal loans and educational loans)
- Maintain welfare and store ledgers.
- Write cheques.
- Write and keep cash books and reconcile with ledgers.
- Establish Letters of Credit.
- Prepare low-stock advice for stock replenishment
- Prepare Monthly stock returns for receipts and issues
- Reconcile store returns with stores and nominal ledgers on a monthly basis
- Receive and pay cash and cheques.
- Perform any other duties that may be assigned from time to time
Core Competencies
- Excellent analytical, computational and mathematical abilities
- Proficiency in book-keeping programs and related software
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- High level of integrity and trustworthiness
Skills
- Excellent communication skills: both written and oral
- Strong analytical and logical reasoning skills
- Research and teamwork skills
Qualifications
- Diploma /HND in Accounting/Commerce
- Knowledge in the relevant computer applications.
Job Title: Assistant Procurement Officer
Duties/Responsibilities
- Assist in preparing procurement plan and keeping updates
- Preparing; specifications of items for purchases, tender documents evaluation reports.
- Analyzing price and other proposals best offers for goods and services and of suppliers to assist in negotiation.
- Preparing recommendations for the award of contracts, order issuing, handling receipts of goods, and managing contracts.
- Assist in clearing and evacuation of Agro-chemicals, jute bags, and other farm inputs while maintaining and updating the database
- Expediting: purchase request and approval, payment bills of suppliers, and other procurement correspondences.
Core Competencies
- Excellent analytical, computational and mathematical abilities
- Proficiency in Procurement Law
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- High level of integrity and trustworthiness
Skills
- Excellent communication skills: both written and oral
- Strong analytical and logical reasoning skills
- Research and teamwork skills
Qualification
- HND/Diploma in Procurement and Supply Chain Management
- Knowledge in the relevant computer applications.
Job Title: Data Entry Clerk
Duties/Responsibilities
- Key data
- Edit and check data entry
- Control input data from the time of receipt from user department
- Perform any other duties that may be assigned from time to time
Core Competencies
- Excellent typing skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- High level of integrity and trustworthiness.
Skills
- Excellent communication skills: both written and oral
- Strong analytical and logical reasoning skills
- Research and teamwork skills
Qualification
- Five (5) credits including core English and Mathematics at SSCE/WASSCE/GCE”O Level”
- Knowledge in the relevant computer applications
Job Title: Cook
Duties/Responsibilities
- Look through each patients’ diet plan, and determine what ingredients will be required
- Prepare food items by cutting, chopping, marinating, and cubing meats, vegetables and fruits
- Make soups and stocks, according to specified recipes, making sure that the right amount of seasoning is used
- Assist the hospital management in creating recipes, along with the help from doctors and other healthcare professionals
- Cook nutritious meals, according to standardized protocols, ensuring that cleanliness is given the highest priority
- Perform portioning activities on trays or plates, by following set instructions, on per-patient basis
- Ensure that patients’ meals are delivered to them promptly so that they can take their medicines on time
- Oversee the cleanliness and sanitization of kitchen areas such as counters, floors, and walls
- Perform predictive and regular maintenance on kitchen appliances such as stoves, ovens, grills, fridges and freezers
- Timely perform food rotation activities so that food spoilage is kept in check
- Perform any other activities that may be assigned from time to time.
Core Competencies
- Excellent cookingskills
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- High level of integrity and trustworthiness
Skills
- Excellent communication skills: both written and oral
- Strong analytical and logical reasoning skills
- Research and teamwork skills
Qualification
City and Guilds 706/1
Job Title: Plumber
Duties/Responsibilities
- Repair faulty fixtures in the clinic
- Pump water from the ground floor to roof to storage tanks
- Install newly acquired plumbing fixtures
- Perform any other activities that may be assigned from time to time
Skills
- Ability to install plumbing fixtures
- Ability to maintain and repair plumbing fixtures.
Qualification
- NVTI Grade 1 certificate in plumbing
How to Apply for COCOBOD Recruitment
Interested applicants should send their applications and curriculum vitae through their respective Heads of Department, Divisions or Subsidiary to the following address:
DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCE
GHANA COCOA BOARD
P. O BOX 933
ACCRA
Application Deadline: Friday, January 29, 2021.
Only shortlisted applicants will be invited for an interview.
