Water and Land Resource Centre (WLRC)Vacancy AnnouncementPosition: Livestock Management ExpertThe specific duties of the Livestock Management Expert• Under the direct supervision of Regional Project Manager, the Livestock Expert shall see to it that livestock (including poultry, apiculture and fishery) productivity is enhanced and livelihoods options diversified.The specific duties shall include but not limited to:• Assess state, constraints and potentials of livestock production in the Kunzila watersheds.• Participate in the integrated watershed management plan preparation and development of an inbuilt exit strategy and make sure the livestock management and improvement are well covered.• Identify suitable and marketable livestock development strategy that best fits the area and made it part of the IWM plan,• Design introduction/improvement modalities of new potential livestock breeds or management options using Farmers Research Groups, homesteads and scaling up strategy,• Assess, design and introduction of improved animal health services that can improve productivity and marketability of live animals in the project area,• Introduce new income generating activities in watersheds in general and area closure implementation sites in particular (honey bee rearing related like colony splitting, queen rearing and others)• In collaboration with the IWM expert and all other project staff plan introduction and development improved forage materials on all available niches (i.e., nursery sites, hillsides, homesteads, rehabilitated gullies, on farm terraces, etc),• In consultation with communities and local authorities design Zero or control grazing system and follow its implementation,• Prepare different guidelines on livestock management and follow its use,• Establish and follow livestock producers groups and link them to market,• Support and guide establishment of income generating cooperatives like fattening, milk collection and processing cooperatives, poultry processors and marketing cooperatives, honey producers and processors marketing cooperatives etc…,• Prepare training materials and combating mechanisms for illegal fishing activities in Lake Tana adjacent kebeles of the project area,• Design and introduce small scale animal feed processing technologies that can easily be implemented by involving jobless youths,• Produce postharvest product management protocol for major livestock products and follow its implementation• Prepare training materials for experts and farmers and train them as per approved action plan• Regular monitoring and evaluation on private and together with team members,• Link with different projects working on livestock development and management• Submit quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports to the line manager,• Carefully document activities/progresses achieved/ before, during implementation and results after intervention for learning and future improvement of project implementation (both pictorially and textually),• Do other related tasks as requested by the Regional Project Manager and Director General- Duty station is Bahir Dar Town (and/or Kunzila Town) with frequent travel to project sites and HQ at Addis Ababa. - Contract will be one year with possible extension upon performance.- Salary will be as per the project scale.

Master's

Qualification and Experience:
• The Live stock Expert shall have an MSc degree or above in livestock production, and management; MSc +5 years or above, PhD +2 years and Above; and a minimum of two years working with communities. Knowledge and working experience in the region is an advantage.

5-10 years

• Interested and qualified applicants fulfilling the above criteria for the different jobs can make online registration by visiting http://wlrc-eth.org/vacancy site and upload all necessary documents including their CV as per the specification in the website before June 20, 2020. For clarification, the applicant can ask by telephone: +251 918 350 939 or send an e-mail to tekeba.t@wlrc-eth.org• Any application that is outside the specified criteria will be disqualified. Those eligible for exam will be notified by e-mail and list will be released through the above website. Cost of application and exam will be covered by the applicants themselves, WLRC will not be responsible for this.