Intervention Manager in Livestock – Enabel

The new country programme for the Belgo-Rwandan cooperation 2019 – 2024 foresees to intervene in the agricultural sector with the following general objective “Increase revenues for farmers’ households and other private actors in the agricultural value chains in a sustainable manner”.

Three complementary interventions are foreseen, each with its specific objective:

1) Support through the MDTF the implementation of PSTA4 to promote the commercialisation of agricultural value chains.

2) Develop inclusive and sustainable feed, pig & poultry value chains in which all actors run a profitable business.

3) Attract private investment to develop a modern value chain to produce high quality meat products and eggs to substitute imports as well as to export.

The first specific objective will be managed through a Grant with the World Bank.

The last two interventions are closely linked to each other and will be managed together by the intervention manager in livestock.

The Intervention Manager in Livestock will assure the strategic and operational piloting of both interventions in the pig and poultry sector. He/she will lead a team of one international expert in private sector development and several national experts, and will work in close collaboration with the Rwanda partners

(Ministry of Agriculture, Rwanda Agriculture Board, NIRDA, Districts, private sector federations).

Function

• Expected results of the function:
  • Assure the strategic and operational piloting of both interventions (2 and 3);
  • Assure the overall coherence and the coordination between both interventions;
  • Assure the quality control of all the technical aspects of the program either directly or through consultancies
• Main tasks:
  • Assure the role of intervention manager (Daily Management) for both interventions in the pig & poultry sector;
  • Assure the  technical expertise on all production and processing related aspects of the poultry, pork and animal feed value chains ;
  • Guide and support  the development of quality extension services for pig, chicken and animal feed production
  • Guide and monitor the roll out of the training components for veterinary services
  • Guide the development of an adequate regulatory  framework (norms and standards);
  • Jointly with the Private sector development expert support the Belgian contribution to the sector dialogue in the agriculture sector

• Master’s degree in agriculture, veterinary or animal sciences, livestock management or related technical discipline
• At least 5 years of experience in project management in international development projects/programmes (international experience is a must)
• Proven relevant experience in the area of livestock development
• Experience in leading agricultural value chain development interventions
• Experience in East Africa or Rwanda in particular is considered an asset
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop collaborative relationships, especially in a multi-component project with multiple implementation partners
• Ability to work under stressful conditions with no objection to working overtime and undertaking field missions
• Fluent in English, knowledge of French, Dutch or Kinyarwanda is considered an asset
• Good knowledge of ICT (Word, Excel, Power Point and Database)

You will work on a full-time basis.

Duty station: Kigali – Rwanda, with frequent travelling in Rwanda.

Preferred starting date : 1st of November 2019

Duration of the assignment: until the 30th of June 2024

Monthly salary package: (cat.1 – B476) between 5.824,95 euro and 8.124,22 euro (this includes the gross monthly salary and the expat benefits: hardship allowance and expat allowance). The salary will be calculated in function of the actual years of relevant experience.

Furthermore, our expatriate staff members are also offered expat benefits such as a (capped) housing allowance, a moving allowance, an installation allowance, coverage of school costs for children accompanying, an insurance package for the whole family, including repatriation insurance, and an annual round-trip flight ticket for each family member.

A recruitment pool may be constituted following this recruitment procedure for similar functions in our intervention countries.