| ASI is seeking a Livestock Intervention Manager to serve on the Programme Management Unit (PMU) for an anticipated multi-year DFID-funded Zimbabwe livelihoods programme. The objective of the programme is to improve food security, reduce malnutrition and strengthen livelihoods amongst rural households, as well to facilitate market linkages in the agricultural sector. The programme aims to improve incomes of 100,000 vulnerable smallholders, 60 percent of whom are women.
The Livestock Intervention Manager will design and implement market-led interventions to strengthen the livestock market system within the programme’s strategic M4P framework. He/she will contribute to effective programme implementation, with attention given to improving overall VfM (Value for Money). This position is contingent upon ASI being awarded a contract.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and implementation of market-led activities within the M4P context to strengthen the livestock market system including through improved animal husbandry, facilitated access to markets, and strengthened resilience of smallholder livestock keepers.
- Work with the project market development team to conduct the market analysis of the livestock sector to identify market opportunities, the constraints to reaching those opportunities and potential areas of intervention for the project.
- Develop a livestock strategy for the program to address the underlying constraints to increased competitiveness of the sector through activities that are within the M4P framework, defining appropriate project interventions.
- Develop intervention tools and capacity building strategies that can be delivered through a tiered training structure to key stakeholders in the market.
- Contribute to monitoring and evaluation framework, reports and project outputs related to the livestock sector.
Qualifications:
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (livestock, rural development, agricultural economics). Master’s degree strongly preferred.
- More than 8 years of experience working in Southern Africa on livestock issues, particularly related to agricultural, nutrition, and/or food security is required.
- Research and delivery of private sector and market development interventions with focus on improved livelihoods through livestock activities.
- Experience in facilitating trainings for staff and beneficiary populations is required
- Experience with M4P programs and value chain experience essential.
No phone calls please. Only finalists contacted. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. EOE. |
