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The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works to improve food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for better and more sustainable use of livestock. ILRI is a CGIAR research centre - part of a global research partnership for a food-secure future.
Key Responsibilities
Scientific leadership
As a member of the institute’s senior management team, provide outstanding scientific leadership that puts ILRI’s research at the forefront of livestock research for development; motivate and supervise scientific teams; ensure research is aligned with ILRI’s strategy and the One CGIAR Research and Innovation Strategy.
Institutional relevance
Ensure maximum salience of ILRI’s bioscience (Animal and Human Health) research activities to development challenges and target beneficiaries; coordinate the centre’s biosciences (Animal and Human Health) research so that it has internal coherence and contributes significantly to the Initiatives under the One CGIAR from January 2022.
Research strategy
Working closely with the DDG-Integrated Sciences and the DDG Biosciences (Genetics and Feeds), to implement and operationalize ILRI’s strategy to 2022; the DDG-Biosciences (Animal and Human Health) also works closely with the Assistant Director General for Planning and Partnerships as well as with the Chief Operations Officer and Director-People and Organizational Development to ensure that internal processes and systems are fit for the purpose of delivering on ILRI’s mission.
External representation
Productively engage key ILRI stakeholders at national, regional and international fora; persuasively articulate the rationale for livestock biosciences (Animal and Human Health) research for development (e.g. its roles, innovations and impacts) and the unique position of ILRI’s teams and facilities in using livestock biosciences to meet development goals.
Partnerships and communications
Strengthen ILRI bioscience (Animal and Human Health) research by fostering partnerships with leading Private and Public bioscience research teams globally.
Staff supervision
Supervise, motivate and lead ILRI’s bioscience (Animal and Human Health) leaders, ensuring that teams across biosciences and integrated sciences work together towards a common purpose.
Resource mobilization
Contribute substantially to designing and executing the centre’s resource mobilization strategy, including building good donor relations, generating new initiatives, raising funds, monitoring funding needs and gaps, and overseeing development of funding proposals with a view to increasing the proportion of biosciences research in ILRI.
Requirements
- PhD in relevant discipline, with Fifteen years relevant experience
- 10–15 years` experience in conducting livestock research, managing human resources and administration responsibilities at a progressively senior level and with demonstrable high levels of scientific credibility and integrity
- Strong research, teamwork, publication, management and communication skills
- Demonstrated success in developing, funding and implementing large transformative project
- Solid understanding of the role of animal bioscience in improving livestock productivity and adaptation
- Knowledge of global livestock systems, and how they relate to addressing the global challenges of hunger, poverty, climate change, human disease and environmental degradation
- An established record of research achievement, including a substantive history of scientific publication in peer-reviewed journals
- Experience working in or with private sector life science organizations or upstream Biomedicine research organizations is highly desirable; developing-country experience is desirable but not required
- Experience managing research in organizations in transition
Closing: 4 October 2022
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Scope of Work:
The consultant will undertake the following activities:
- Develop plan of activities for consultancy, including timeline, field work and deliverables, as well as documentation for ethical approval application. (1 day)
- Learning needs. Identify key constraints and learning needs in relation to broadly defined business and enterprise issues, including cash flow and financing, among small scale vendors in the informal dairy value chain in Kenya, with particular emphasis on women. This activity will involve review of literature, secondary data, semi-structured interviewing and/or FGDs with relevant stakeholders. (7 days)
- Develop an inventory of existing trainings or capacity development programs directed to business operators in formal or informal food markets in East Africa or elsewhere, and that address some of the identified learning needs. This activity will be a desk review. (3 days)
- Analysis, report write-up and presentation of outputs of (2) and (3). (3 days)
- Adaptation of existing training program for dairy vendors and re-design as Vendor Business School (VBS) tool. Based on the diagnosis and learning needs assessment, revise modules that will be retained from existing programs, and draft new modules. Structure the VBS considering group vs individual participants, gender, sessions (frequency of meetings -weekly/ bi-weekly, time availability of the vendors, etc.). Develop a proposed outline of the training content and program. (7 days)
- VBS review workshop. The VBS review workshop will involve women and men vendors of different kinds working in the dairy sector, training and marketing specialists, market management representatives and others. This workshop will be organized (4 days, including preparation, implementation and report write up)
- Finalization of Vendor Business School (VBS) tool. Full development of the content and outline of the training program (15 days)
Final products:
The consultant will deliver.
- Consultancy time plan, including timeline of activities and deliverables.
- Report of learning needs and inventory of capacity development programs
- Presentation of findings from report (see deliverable 2 above)
- Draft report of program outline and content
- Report of VBS review workshop
- Final program content and outline.
Consultancy Fee: Lumpsum or by mutual agreement based on agreed milestones and deliverables
Post location: Nairobi, Kenya
Duration: September 2022– December 2022 (working days: 40 days)
Essential skills and qualifications
- MSc in agriculture related field, including economics. PhD or MBA would be an asset
- Experience in capacity development programs with agriculture and agrifood businesses.
- Experience in development and delivery of training programs
- Proficiency in English and Kiswahili in speaking and writing
- Excellent team communication skills
Closing: 7 September 2022
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