Overview
Provide technical leadership and support for the quality, coherence, and effective implementation of livestock-related activities across relevant projects in Sudan.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and guidance in the design, planning and implementation of livestock-related interventions.
- Support needs assessments, vulnerability and beneficiary targeting, feed balance and gap assessments, livestock value chain analyses and other technical assessments.
- Provide technical quality assurance during beneficiary selection, distribution of livestock and related inputs, vaccination and treatment campaigns, fodder establishment and other field activities.
- Provide technical oversight and support to implementing partners and monitor the quality and timely delivery of livestock-related activities and Letter of Agreement (LoA) deliverables.
- Coordinate with relevant federal and state veterinary authorities, State Ministries, private service providers, Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) and communities on vaccination, deworming, treatment campaigns, disease surveillance and cold-chain management.
- Support the strengthening of early warning, disease reporting and community-based animal health systems and contribute to contingency planning and livelihood protection measures.
- Promote livestock interventions that are resilient, conflict-sensitive, gender- and youth-responsive and adapted to climate variability and changing environmental conditions.
- Develop and facilitate technical capacity-building activities for implementing partners, veterinarians, CAHWs, extension workers, producer associations and women and youth livestock groups.
- Contribute to strengthening livestock value chains and producer organizations.
- Coordinate with land governance, natural resource management and other relevant technical specialists to address land–livestock conflicts, pasture use and sustainable natural resource management.
- Develop and apply appropriate technical indicators, beneficiary registers and monitoring tools for livestock-related outputs and provide technical inputs to project monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
- Prepare technical inputs for project progress reports, donor reports and missions, Results-Oriented Monitoring (ROM), lessons learned, visibility materials and other programme documentation.
- Ensure that livestock interventions incorporate appropriate safeguards, accountability to affected populations (AAP), prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), environmental and climate-related considerations, and risk mitigation measures.
- Contribute to operational research, after-action reviews and analysis of the effectiveness, cost-efficiency and value for money of different livestock intervention modalities.
- Represent and support FAO in technical meetings, coordination mechanisms, working groups and discussions with government authorities, UN agencies, clusters, donors, partners and other relevant stakeholders on livestock-related matters.
- Prepare technical case studies, success stories, lessons learned, policy briefs and other knowledge products to document and communicate results and good practices.
- Perform any other related duties as required.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in livestock production, animal health, veterinary services, livestock development, pastoral/agro-pastoral systems or related areas.
- Extensive and relevant experience in livestock development, animal health, veterinary services and pastoral/agro-pastoral production systems.
- Experience in the design, implementation and technical monitoring of livestock, livelihood, resilience or emergency interventions.
- Experience in animal disease surveillance, vaccination campaigns and community-based animal health services.
- Experience working with government institutions, implementing partners, UN agencies, NGOs and other stakeholders in livestock or related programmes.
- Knowledge of livestock production systems, fodder/feed management, rangeland management and livestock value chains.
- Experience in field assessments, monitoring and technical reporting, including the use of relevant indicators and monitoring tools.
- Experience working in conflict-affected, climate-vulnerable or humanitarian contexts is an asset.
- Knowledge of the Sudanese livestock sector and pastoral/agro-pastoral context is highly desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in Veterinary Medicine, Animal Science, Livestock Production, Animal Health, Agriculture, Natural Resource Management or a related field.
