Value Chain Expert/advisor - Dairy at SNV Netherlands Development Organisation

Background

SNV Kenya is bidding within a consortium to deliver advisory epertise within an upcoming dairy project that aims to improve the incomes of smallholder dairy farmers in a number of counties in Western Kenya by ensuring that dairy value chain in the target counties:

• Increases average income for farmers from the sales of specific products in the promoted value chain
• Increases employment
• Increases productivity of small-scale farms

The Position

SNV is recruiting a long-term national expert in either cooperative development or dairy farming. The expert will work under the projects team leader/project manager to assist the project manager in achieving project outcome and output as listed above; implement the support strategy of the dairy value chain component: either in cooperative development or/and agricultural extension or/and training in dairy farming or/and commercial fodder production and ensure close coordination with team leader of this project within SNV and other programme manager(s) within the consortium.

Responsibilities

• Achieving project outcome and output
• Management of team of short term consultants
• Close coordination with programme manager with respect to development and implementation of dairy value chain support strategy
• Ensuring implementation of result oriented monitoring and evaluation system
• Being in charge of technical implementation of support measures of at least one of the following technical areas: agricultural extension or cooperative development or commercial fodder production
• Participation in the international dairy working group of the Project as agreed with the programme manager
• Ensuring the connectivity of the dairy project with established practises by applying Capacity WORKS
• Supporting the team leader in updating and/or adapting the project design on the basis of the five success factors of Capacity WORKS
• Participating in external and internal networks as agreed with Team Leader

General qualifications:

• University Degree (at least master degree) in agricultural science, agricultural economics, animal science, cooperative development, agricultural extension
• At least 20 years of working experience in rural development projects either in the area of agricultural extension or/and cooperative development or/and dairy farming

Specific qualifications:

• Practical knowledge of ATVET approach and excellent training skills
• Excellent knowledge of dairy value chain support activities of government and non-government organisations and donors in Kenya and good networking abilities
• Extraordinary coordination and communication skills
• Fluent (written and spoken) in English

Additional:

• Client and partner orientation, efficient work practices, interdisciplinary thinking and training experience are mandatory
• Experience of collaboration with GIZ or other donors is an asset

Terms of Appointment

This is a full-time national position with the successful candidate being contracted on a 2-year period.