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• Attend and organize on-site trainings and
  information sharing for male and female livestock farmers mainly in market
  places and demonstration areas
• Provide capacity building trainings to
  smallholder farmers, local farmer groups, related CBOs, local
  cooperatives, collection centres and private sector to ensure increased
  livestock production, productivity, quality and prices benefiting
  smallholder farmers.
• Support the collection of market data while
  at the markets.
• Support other GHG pilot and livestock
  activities as needed.
• Help develop and disseminate pictorial
  extension materials on livestock production, health, feeding, forage
  production/conservation, value addition, market orientation and marketing
  to both male and female farmers.
• Carry out meetings with focus groups and make
  minutes of such meeting.
• Reporting the activities on monthly basis.
• Help female farmers to plan and implement the
  livestock activities.
• Help to link the FGs with the service
  deliverers such as agro-dealers CAHWs and PVP etc
• He/she should be ready to travel to field and
  conduct meetings with livestock farmer groups (male and female).
• Display good husbandry and health practices
  during market days as a learning practice for the community
• Work closely with the GHG livestock team to
  identify and pilot interventions in a way that maximizes productivity and
  competitiveness of small-scale livestock producers and accurately captures
  production data.
• Support businesses, farmers and youth groups
  to plan for, develop, and monitor the performance of new livestock-related
  activities, such as feed block manufacture, silage production, milk
  distribution, and fattening activities.
• Regularly monitor intervention activities and
  collect beneficiary qualitative and quantitative information, document
  success stories and maintain proper records and filling systems.
• Prepare and submit periodic work plans and
  activity reports to the project manager.
• Apply a gender and youth lens to activities
  in the program cycle.

• Establish and maintain productive working
  relationships with community, sub-county and district level leaders and
  solicit their participation in all activities where appropriate
• Make on-site field visits regularly to
  monitor progress of activities and provide strategic measures for progress
  to maximize program impact.
• Work closely with team leader(s) and Mercy
  Corps technical staff in order to bring synergy among different components
  of the project.

• Create a dynamic program environment that
  promotes inquiry;
• Establish procedures and guidelines to
  monitor and evaluate the progress and impact of economic development
  support work including setting and measuring benchmarks along results
  chains;
• Submit data on time on which the number of
  livestock producers reached during the reporting period
• Develop tools to simplify data gathering and
  reporting and ensure teams gather and report necessary data, including
  Progress made on improve production;
• Provide data in support of team’s submission
  of timely monthly and quarterly reports that will be indicative of program
  progress during implementation.
• Work with Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning
  and Information Officers (MELIOs) to ensure accurate and timely flow of
  information from the field into database and for preparation of
  communication reports

• Carry out research projects on specific
  subjects critical to team success and recommend hiring of external
  support, where necessary;
• Where needed, support external evaluations by
  research partners;

• Contribute data, analysis and write-ups to
  regular organizational publications and reports;
• Work closely with GHG-Livestock team to
  develop publishable communication material about the project activities
  (mainly on the livestock extension activities);
• Author occasional papers for wider
  distribution;

• Conduct himself/herself both professionally
  and personally in such a manner that brings credit to Mercy Corps and to
  not jeopardize its humanitarian mission;
• Other duties as assigned by the line manager.

• The ideal candidate for the Mercy Corps Livestock
  Extension Specialist job vacancy should preferably hold a degree in
  Livestock Production with major focus on livestock Production and
  husbandry
• A minimum of five years’ experience in
  livestock production or husbandry practices especially in a rural or
  pastoral community.
• Ability to interact effectively with a wide
  range of partners; private sector, government and civil society;
• Proven quantitative skills, including
  familiarity with livestock extension activities
• Superior writing and analytical skills
• Proven skills in networking, assessing
  information needs and developing appropriate tools
• Skills in team work, holding community
  consultations and organizational development;
• Excellent reporting, communication and
  representation skills
• Willingness to work in the field with
  livestock producers, community animal health workers, kraal leaders,
  businesses in the value chain and communities;
• Good spoken and written English. Fluency in
  Ngakarimojong and Ethurr is an advantage

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