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Jobs in Tanzania 2024: New Job Vacancies at The
World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) 2024
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The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) Tanzania Jobs 2024
Intern
New Internships Opportunities at The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) August 2024
World Vegetable Center
Internship
Arusha
The World Vegetable Center promotes healthier lives and more resilient livelihoods through greater food diversity
The
World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) is a non-profit, autonomous
international agricultural research center with headquarters in Taiwan
and five regional offices around the globe. WorldVeg conducts research
and development programs that contribute to realizing the potential of
vegetables for healthier lives and more resilient livelihoods. For more
information, please visit our website: www.avrdc.org
The FRESH Project
As
part of CGIAR’s Research Portfolio, the Fruit and Vegetables for
Sustainable Healthy Diets (FRESH) Initiative is working with partners to
address the challenges that contribute to poor diets. The FRESH project
uses an end-to-end approach starting from consumers and working back
through the food system to increase fruit and vegetable intake for
multiple impacts. WorldVeg supports different work packages under FRESH.
This advert is related to Work Package 4 – postharvest and
inclusive markets with funding from Wageningen University &
Research, The Netherlands and the Australian Horticultural Research.
WorldVeg is piloting technologies for food safety improvement and
postharvest loss reduction such as evaporative coolers, plastic crates,
paper-lined wooden crates and cool boxes through a demand-led and
co-creative approach. The aim is to assess the effectiveness of these
technologies and design a scaling strategy. The target users are middle
stream actors including vegetable collectors, wholesalers and retailers
operating in Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions.
FRESH WP4 is
looking for an intern to provide support to the piloting of a plastic
crate business model for postharvest loss reduction along the vegetable
value chain.
Key duties of the intern
- To design a proposal on piloting the plastic crate business model and implement the pilot with various value chain actors.
- To
assess the effectiveness of the plastic crates in postharvest loss
reduction and the strengths and weakness of the plastic crate business
model. - To collect data, analyse and write a report on the
effectiveness of the plastic crates; and strengths and weakness of the
plastic crate business model. - To support the designing of a scaling strategy for the best performing postharvest technology.
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Requirements
- Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics / Food Safety / Agribusiness Management, or any other related discipline.
- Good understanding of postharvest loss assessment in agricultural value chains in developing countries.
- Strong
knowledge and experience in designing and implementation of postharvest
loss interventions along agricultural value chains. - Excellent quantitative and qualitative data collection skills.
- Proficient in data analysis using STATA.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- Ability
to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative, and
multicultural environment, and operate under tight deadlines.
Terms of employment:
This
is a competitive Internship Position with a contract beginning as soon
as possible until end of December 2024. The intern will work fulltime
from WorldVeg’s office in Arusha with frequent travels to the project
sites in Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions. The position is open for
Tanzanian nationals. A competitive monthly stipend will be offered for
the period of work.
How to Apply
Interested
candidates are invited to apply for the position by sending their
application letter and CV with contact details of referees to: info-esa@worldveg.org Please indicate “Intern- Postharvest” in the subject line. Applications must be received by 23rd August 2024. Only the successful candidate will be contacted. Go to our Homepage To Get Relevant Information. Please mention the position title in the subject line.
