Description :
Location: Daloa, Côte d’Ivoire
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Project Overview:
Addressing Mango Production and Post-harvest Loss and Increasing Fish Yields (AMPPLIFY) is a five-year project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Food for Progress Program that will facilitate a resilient and growing trade of mango and fish, sustained by profitable farmers making ongoing productivity and climate-smart investments to maintain the health and performance of their farms across Côte d’Ivoire. Over the next five years, the project will use a facilitative market-based approach that leverages the resources of the private sector to drive incentives and behavior change throughout the market system, which can achieve improved productivity, trade, and food security through the provision of high-quality, accessible goods and services for farmers and other value chains (VC) participants.
AMPPLIFY aims to strengthen access to finance across the value chain by increasing the amount of working capital and capital expenditure financing for key market actors. The program will prioritize access to working capital for new and existing input suppliers and other Micro-, Small-, and Medium-Sized Enterprises, working through existing Financial Institutions (FIs). For Value Chain (VC) actors, this will address the existing lack of available operating capital to purchase from Smallholder Farmers and lack of asset financing to acquire or upgrade machinery and equipment critical to productivity and quality improvements.
Summary of the position:
The Aquaculture Hatchery Specialist is responsible for helping design and for delivering high impact training, technical assistance, and coaching to hatcheries (with a focus on private ones) in the Project’s selected regions that leads to the achievement of the relevant Project Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), primarily the increase in fish yields. Reporting to the Senior Aquaculture Field Specialist, the Aquaculture Hatchery Specialist will actively support the Project’s efforts to improve the technical performance and operational excellence of tilapia hatcheries, including but not limited to improved brood stock, technology, disease control, and survival rate. They will also develop a set of hatchery standards addressing the key success factors of optimal hatchery performance including feed formulations and feeding regimens, stocking densities, water management, sex ratios, single sex production, and ensuring sustainable and environmentally responsible practices. The Aquaculture Hatchery Specialist will ensure that the requisite data and information to be collected for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) purposes is completed in a timely, consistent, and professional manner.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Actively support the Project’s efforts to build the capacity of existing aquaculture hatcheries.
Develop a comprehensive database of hatcheries including names, locations, capacity, utilization, sales, and other meta-data.
Work collaboratively with other projects and stakeholders with a mandate to support the hatchery sector, including CNRA, the Government’s main agricultural research and development agency.
Help design and deliver the Project’s technical interventions including training, technical assistance, and coaching of tilapia hatcheries that support the production of healthy fingerlings (e.g. sources of brood stock, agro-dealers supplying feed, vaccines, and other crop protection products, machinery and equipment, sales and distribution agents, where applicable.
Monitor the outcomes of activities in the field, including identifying and documenting success stories, case studies, lessons learned, and best practices.
Develop and ensure the delivery of the selection criteria and process of selecting AMPPLIFY’s aquaculture hatchery partners and beneficiaries.
Develop capacity building approaches as needed to maximize beneficiary buy-in, adoption rates, best practices, and self-monitoring and recording of the operational as well as financial results.
Work extensively in the field with hatchery partners and beneficiaries to a) support the delivery of training and technical assistance, b) build rapport and trust with public and private partners, and c) ensure efficient and effective progress toward project KPIs.
Produce tools that incorporate both in-person training as well as remote approaches.
leveraging digital tools to improve training efficiency and effectiveness.
Strengthen capacity and market-orientation of public and private hatcheries.
Promote capacity building of public and private aquaculture hatchery extension agents and services where possible.
Work collaboratively with the other technical components of AMPPLIFY (e.g., access to finance, public sector reform, enterprise development and gender and youth empowerment).
Work collaboratively with the other operational components of AMPPLIFY (e.g., Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), communications, finance, and logistics) as applicable.
Actively participate in gathering requisite data and information to support the MEL function.
Liaise with project staff and implementing partners and provide coherent, analytical, and organized activity updates to project leadership.
Contribute to the development and delivery of monthly, quarterly, and annual reports, work plans, and presentations.
Assist the Project’s MEL staff in the development of tables and charts and develop other meaningful data visualizations as needed.
Other relevant tasks as assigned by the supervisor or his/her delegate.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in animal science, economics, agriculture, aquaculture, or a related subject and 3 years of experience implementing aquaculture or similar programs focusing on hatchery design, development, and/or management. Alternatively a Master’s degree and 1 year of experience.
Experience in developing and delivering relevant aquaculture training.
Experience in collecting, analyzing, or presenting the findings, conclusions, and recommendations based on quantitative and qualitative data.
Experience with ODK (KOBO Toolbox) or other data collection software, as well as the administration of questionnaires, key informant interviews, and/or focus groups.
Preferred Qualifications
Previous field experience in resource limited settings is highly desirable.
Required Languages
Fluency in French.
Ability to speak English, Malinké and/or other local languages will be considered a plus.
Travel
Willingness to travel to other regions within CIV, including overnight stays.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Strong communication skills, particularly with the community and the ability to understand and integrate feedback from others.
Ability to work independently and proactively to meet project deadlines.
Great organizational skills and a good understanding of project management, research methodology and program evaluation.
Demonstrated ability to adapt quickly and effectively.
A strong work ethic and ability to maintain a positive attitude.
Supervisory Responsibilities
None
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