Career Opportunities at ACDI/VOCA - 4 Positions

The CLA Director will carry out the following responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership for M&E to the project team to ensure USAID and Feed the Future M&E requirements are met on timely basis and guides data collection, management of the data, and display of the results. This includes data analysis, reporting, and dissemination, building capacity of M&E and technical staff in these areas, and ensuring compliance.
• Develop efficient and accurate data collection system that includes efficient processes for collecting data and ensuring data quality.
• Provide general oversight of the M&E database, using it to track progress and trends, generate reports per USAID requirements, and conduct data quality checks.
• Design the project’s Learning Agenda including surveys, case studies, and other tools to evaluate project impact, trends, and other learnings. Provide comprehensive analysis of learning outcomes to inform project interventions.

• Master’s degree in social sciences, computer science, or relevant field.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in organizational learning, knowledge management, M&E systems for international development projects.
• Proven record of designing and implementing data collection tools including surveys.
• Experience managing large M&E databases and conducting timely data analysis and developing reports.
• Experience developing and implementing learning activities a plus.
• Familiarity with USAID M&E requirements strongly preferred; knowledge of Feed the Future M&E system desired.
• Basic understanding of livestock/agricultural development, resilience preferred.
• Excellent communications skills, fluency in written and spoken English required.
• Ability to use the latest ICT technology and computer software programs, including GIS mapping software and M&E databases.

The Investment and Partnerships Director will carry out the following responsibilities:

• Design activities and partnerships that expand and/or rehabilitate market infrastructure across communities in Northern Kenya.
• Identify and shepherd through the investment cycle innovative business plans that increase access to markets and services for pastoralist communities.
• Design partnerships, and identify needed investments, to strengthen backward and forward linkages between pastoralists, service providers, including financial institutions, and end markets.
• Build the capacity of communities to identify priority upgrades that strengthen competitiveness and social safety nets.
• Build awareness of producers, private sector, impact investors and financial service providers of opportunities in Northern Kenya.

• Advanced degree in degree in business administration, finance, agronomy or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of practical experience in facilitating investment in agricultural market systems, preferably in the livestock sector.
• Demonstrated understanding of the economic, social, and cultural dynamics of pastoralist production systems in Northern Kenya.
• Demonstrated networks and trust relations with pastoralist communities.
• Demonstrated track record of working with financial service providers, investors, and private sector.
• Demonstrated strong writing and oral presentation skills in English and Swahili.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to maintain the highest ethical standards

• Provide technical leadership to activities that improve livestock productivity, which include but is not limited to animal health and nutrition, husbandry and breeding practices, herd management, and feed.
• Design, test and scale market-led mechanisms to promote and deliver inputs and services to livestock producers.
• Develop partnerships to increase year-round access to affordable and high quality animal feed.
• Design embedded extension solutions to facilitate the transfer of improved livestock rearing practices to producers.
• Improve learning and adoption of technologies and practices.

• Advanced degree in degree in veterinary science, agronomy or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of practical experience in livestock production and marketing, including at least 5 years spent working in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL).
• Demonstrated track record of working with service providers in the livestock sector, including veterinary and input services.
• Demonstrated understanding of the economic, social, and cultural dynamics of pastoralist production systems in Northern Kenya.
• Demonstrated networks and trust relations with pastoralist communities.
• Demonstrated strong writing and oral presentation skills in English and Swahili.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Strong team player.

• Identify market and business enabling barriers to livestock sector competitiveness, and work with project partners and stakeholders to develop private-sector led solutions.
• Identify capacity gaps across the broad range of livestock market system actors, and facilitate capacity building plans and access to training services.
• Design and implement a market-led strategy that incentivizes private sector investment in upgrading the livestock market infrastructure and supporting services.
• Identify and work closely with lead and intermediate private sector firms, building their capacity on firm-led services reaching pastoralist communities.
• Facilitate private sector investment in embedded services, expansion to rural areas, and other innovative solutions.
• Liaise closely with financial institutions, end-markets, and service providers to increase pastoralist access to markets.
• Promote a culture of learning across project stakeholders that leads to improved and more transparent market access, improved natural resource management, and inclusion of vulnerable groups, women and youth.

• Advanced degree in degree in business administration, finance, agronomy or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of practical experience in facilitating investment and partnerships in agricultural market systems, preferably in the livestock sector.
• Demonstrated understanding of the economic, social, and cultural dynamics of pastoralist production systems in Northern Kenya.
• Demonstrated networks and trust relations with pastoralist communities.
• Demonstrated track record of working with financial service providers, investors, and private sector.
• Demonstrated strong writing and oral presentation skills in English and Swahili.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.