Education

• Animal husbandry specialist;
• Specialist in livestock economics; including pastoralism and cross-border transhumance, higher qualifications in one of the following areas: agro-economics, zootechnics, agronomy, and/or diploma related to pastoralism.

Professional Experience

• 8 years in livestock development projects, developing value chains, including 5 years in Sub-Saharan Africa, and with proven competence in at least 3 livestock value-chain and pastoralism projects in Africa;
• in livestock farming and pastoralism economics and at least 5 years’ in institutional and organizational support in the sector of development of the livestock, meat, feed and local milk sectors and livestock marketing.

• Good knowledge of the regional  institutional landscape and of existing regional and national strategies and policies on livestock and/or pastoralism;
• head of mission, at least (5) five similar missions to formulate or evaluate livestock development projects or strategies.

• Worked in sub-Saharan Africa, preferably in Eastern Africa for at least five (5) years.

• Language skills: English