SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us, and fight with CARE.

To address these underlying drivers of poverty, the CARE Food and Water Systems (FWS) Global Team has developed the “She Feeds the World” (SFtW) framework and the Right to Food, Water and Nutrition Impact Area Strategy (FY22-FY25), which underlay all of CARE’s food and water systems (FWS) programming towards the CARE 2030 vision. This leverages CARE’s experience and tools to influence broader systems to support empowered women and youth to a) GROW food and income-generating products, recognizing that healthy ecosystems, water management and climate resilience are critical to sustain water and grow food; b) USE resources, approaches, social protection mechanisms and technologies to reduce food loss and waste, increase WASH services, ensure nutrition; c) Buy and sell food and water-related goods and services in inclusive markets while diversifying their livelihoods and using market-based approaches. Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is at the center of achieving these outcomes in all of CARE’s FWS programs. CARE commits to work with partners around the world to support 75 million people, the majority of them women and girls, to fulfill their right to food, water and nutrition as part of Vision 2030. The intent is to directly reach at least 25 million people (at least 55% of them women), and to indirectly reach a further 50 million people by 2025.

The Agriculture and Market Systems Team (A&M) spearheads the FWS global efforts to improve women’s livelihoods through addressing access to productive assets and resources, increasing access to inclusive markets and reducing food loss and waste. The A&M team seeks to achieve this by developing and support in market based approaches that increase agricultural productivity and effective linkages to markets while promoting sustainable, climate resilient production and management practices. Supporting livestock development, and strengthening livestock production and marketing systems are seen as credible pathways to increase women’s income and livelihoods. In most Countries where CARE works, livestock keepers and pastoralists farmers particularly women face significant challenges to increasing their productivity and engaging effectively with market. They lack access to productive assets and resources, including finance, agricultural inputs, veterinary services and better feed and fodder. Women and other small scale producers also face significant challenges engaging with market given their limited experience and knowledge of the market systems.

Reporting to the Director Agriculture and Markets, the Senior Technical Adviser Livestock Systems will be a key member of the Agriculture and Market Systems Team and will play a key role in supporting the design and development of high level interventions in Livestock market systems development.

A significant portion of the time will be spent in supporting CAREs new drive to scale up the farmer field and business school approach which is CAREs flagship approach to enhancing and increasing small scale producer’s knowledge and engagement in agricultural systems to reach 15 million producers globally.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Assistance to Program Implementation for FWS Programs
• Resource mobilization for Livestock programming and other FWS initiatives
• Knowledge Management and Learning
• Innovation and New Business Development

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Agribusiness, Veterinary Agriculture, Animal HUsbandry, Livestock Development studies and or Economics.
• 8-10 years in Livestock Development Programming including program design experience, technical assistance and support as well as implementation.
• Experience in private sector development, business development and market linkage for Livestock producer groups and other collectives.
• Experience providing quality technical leadership and guidance to program implementation in an international and decentralized organization setting.
• Ability to Communicate and write efficiently in both English and French.