Livestock Expert

Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI)

NGO

Closing date: 04 Jun 2009
Location: Sudan - North Darfur

Organisation InformationCOOPI has been active in North Darfur since 2004 in two sectors: Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL) and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), mainly implementing activities in remote and underserved rural areas.

Areas of intervention in North Darfur are the northern localities of Mellit and Malha and the south-eastern localities of Um Kadadah, Al Tawisha and Al Lait.

COOPI interventions aim at mitigating the impact of recent crisis on marginalized rural households affected by conflict, recurrent droughts, environmental degradation and with very limited access to basic service provision, protecting/enhancing livelihoods of communities and restoring/preserving basic standards of water provision for the target groups.

Overall purpose of COOPI program intervention is to contribute to reduce vulnerability of Darfur populations, enhancing food security and livelihoods assets and improving access to safe water and improved hygiene practices.

Main donors and partners of COOPI in Sudan are ECHO, FAO, UNICEF and the Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF).

COOPI implements interventions in cooperation with national and local Government authorities, in particular with Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Animal Resources, WES and the State Drinking Water Corporation.

At the moment COOPI is recruiting a qualified Livestock Expert to help coordinating COOPI Food Security and Livestock Interventions in North Darfur, mainly funded by the DG of the European Commission for Humanitarian Aid - ECHO.

The project main activities are; an animal treatment campaign (vaccinations), CAHWs training and awareness raising, drugstores setting and goats redistribution.

Responsibilities

Responsibility of designing, managing and implementing the livestock sector activities and results in the frame of COOPI North Darfur Programme

Close monitoring of project activities in the program implementation areas

To ensure the implementation of the project activities according with the implementation schedule.

To maintain ordinary contacts with institutional and operational interlocutors involved in the project.
To take part to sector meetings

To supervise and monitoring tasks and activities carried out by the personnel working in the project.

To put into practice on the job training for the personnel operating in the project.

To assure that during the project implementation support document are created, timely collected and analysed

To submit, on monthly base, work progress report to the Project manager

Minimum requirements

University Degree in Veterinary
A minimum of three years of relevant working experience in the field;
Fluency in English language.
Computer literate.
The knowledge of ECHO procedures will be an added value

Position Details:
Duty station: North Darfur, Sudan El Fasher base and implementing areas
Entry on duty: 15 June
Duration: 6 months (renewable)
How to apply
Please email a CV and cover letter quoting "Sudan – Livestock Expert" in the subject line, to: selezione@coopi.org