Poultry Promotion Officer at Land O’Lakes Venture37 Tanzania

Poultry Promotion Officer
Poultry Promotion Officer at Venture37 May, 2024
Poultry Promotion Officer – Tanzania
Tanzania, United Republic of
Ref#: 1820

Project Description
The
Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative (AIDI) is a CGIAR initiative
consisting of a series of rapid impact interventions aiming to ensure
that smallholder farmers in key food production areas of sub-Saharan
Africa have the information and innovation they need to offset the
increase of food, fuel and fertilizer prices brought on by the war in
Ukraine. The initiative aims to support resource-poor smallholder
farmers to increase crop production and productivity through access to
know-how, fertilizers, improved seeds, and financing mechanisms.

Land O’Lakes Venture37
has a sub-agreement with the International Livestock Research Institute
(ILRI) to implement a rapid impact intervention focusing on the
commercial and indigenous poultry value chains in Tanzania. The
Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative-Livestock (AIDI-L) is a
24-month project whose overall aim is to contribute to improved food and
nutrition security and rural incomes in Tanzania. Specifically, the
project’s purpose is to improve productivity and availability of poultry
meat and eggs at household and local market levels through widespread
adoption of sustainable livestock innovations. AIDI-L
aims to reach 17,000 smallholder households in Tanzania though private
sector-led, women- and youth- focused innovations in poultry, and
400,000 through poultry vaccination and media campaigns.

AIDI-L
objectives: Improve access to and scale-up of improved dual-purpose
chickens, agricultural inputs and agricultural information, through
private sector agribusinesses providing bundled advisory services and
inputs in areas where added advantages for these breeds are identified.
Support cost-share of start-ups and scale-ups of small-scale poultry
enterprises in production, and marketing of locally produced chicken
meat and eggs.
Provide advisory services through mass media and
extension services to raise awareness of key poultry diseases,
preventive health practices, and business skills, supporting and
facilitation of private sector engagement.

Position Summary:
The
Poultry Promotion Officer implements AIDI-L field activities as per
project work plans in a defined geographical area. The Poultry Promotion
Officer will engage poultry producers and support in scaling up Poultry
Producer Groups (PDGs), including delivering producer and training of
trainers (TOT) trainings, trial innovative poultry production systems,
and support access to and scale up of improved dual purpose backyard
village chickens and commercial poultry from hatcheries and brooders.
The Poultry Promotion Officer will work closely with other team members
and stakeholders to support investments in poultry, development of
Village Savings and Loan schemes, organize Learning Exchanges, and
strengthen delivery of media advisory campaigns on vaccines, health,
hygiene, and production.

This posts is based in Dodoma.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Ensure in the mobilization and engagement of poultry producers to
  build capacity of Poultry Development Groups (PDGs) in area of
  operations to strengthen ability to access services and inputs.
• Work with stakeholders to support in the development and the
  establishment of poultry incubation clusters which encompass hatcheries,
  brooders, and producers.
• Provide training to producers on
  poultry production, husbandry, health, and climate smart approaches
  which increase production and productivity.
• Identify lead
  farmers, facilitate training on use of mobile corrals and CSA
  approaches, trial mobile corral systems, and use model farms and
  training-of-trainers to enable peer-to-peer learning to increase
  adoption and scale-up of improved production practices.
• Link
  with hatcheries and brooders through the incubation clusters to
  facilitate producer access and scale-up of improved breeds of
  dual-purpose backyard village chickens; as well as commercial
  enterprises access to broilers and layers.
• Provide on-going
  extension support to poultry producers and TOTs to ensure improved
  poultry production, productivity, and reduced mortality.
• Support in facilitating learning exchange visits to lead farmers.
• Link producers and PDGs to Village Saving and Loan Schemes, access to
  cost-share finance, vaccine campaigns and other relevant poultry
  initiatives.
• Work with stakeholders to amplify media advisory campaigns on vaccines, health, hygiene, and production. eLuKuZK DmwvY8
• Collate all data generated into IMPACTS and submit reports, work plans,
  identified best practices, and all required information in a timely
  manner.

Reporting & Supervision:
This position reports to the Poultry Business Services Specialist
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Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degrees (BSc) in Animal/Poultry
  Science/Production, Veterinary science Agribusiness, Agricultural, Rural
  Development, or other relevant fields.
• A minimum of two (2)
  years of demonstrated relevant field experience in implementation of
  livestock development projects with an emphasis on poultry.
• Demonstrated experience training and providing extension services to
  small-scale subsistence and commercial farmers with an emphasis on
  poultry production.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Able to work with limited supervision and deliver on time.
• Team player with excellent interpersonal and written and oral presentation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft packages including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Fluency in oral and written English.
• Ability to ride a motorcycle over challenging terrain and can obtain a motorcycle license within 4 weeks of engagement.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• Possess a motorcycle license.
• A Higher National Diploma Animal/Poultry Science/Production, Veterinary science Agribusiness, Agricultural, Rural Development
• Experience working with indigenous/dual purpose poultry with small scale subsistence farmer in Tanzania.
• Experience providing training on small-scale poultry production.

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