AddressGalana Plaza, 4th Floor, Wing C, Suite B, Galana Road, Kilimani Nairobi, Kenya
About GALVmed
animal health products * livestock * partnership * food security * sustainability * Africa * South Asia Millions of people in Developing countries rely on livestock to pay for their daily needs. GALVmed is working with partners to make livestock health products available, accessible and affordable t... read moreo people living in poverty.
What is GALVmed?
• A Livestock health Product development & adoption Partnership organisation • A not-for-profit Public-Private Partnership - registered charity
• Pro-poor focused: working with key partners to make a sustainable difference in access to animal health products for poor livestock keepers
• Currently supported by the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with projects having been funded by the European Commission & BBSRC.
What does GALVmed do?
We make available and facilitate adoption of livestock health products by poor livestock keepers. We do this by:
• Intervention in all necessary links of the value chain including:
• Product development, registration, manufacture, distribution, commercialisation and delivery to the end user
• Building capacity (upstream and downstream)
• Market development and adoption by creation of sustainable value chains
• Understanding and influencing policy to enable the above
• Advocating for livestock as a route out of poverty
Purpose: Protecting Livestock - Improving Human Lives
Mission: To make a real difference to the livelihoods of resource-poor livestock keepers by facilitating provision of animal health tools, within a sustainable economic framework
Vision: Better livestock health contributing to a transformational improvement in the livelihoods of poor livestock keepers
Competitive Salary
Ideally based in Nairobi, Kenya (Other East Africa locations may be considered)
Regular international travel
Interested?
If you have …
A Bachelor’s Degree in agr
Job description
Closing Date: 4th December 2017
Start Date: 8th January 2018
Fulltime: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Dependent on Experience
INTERESTED? IF YOU HAVE
A degree in Biological Scienc
