Sector Lead- Livestock 82 views2 applications

Overview

Strengthening Host and Refugee Populations in Ethiopia (SHARPE) aims to increase livelihoods opportunities for refugees and host communities using the market systems approach. SHARPE will operate in 3 locations in Ethiopia, Jijiga, Dolo Ado and Gambella, with a coordinating office in Addis. The programme is expected to last for 3.5 years.

Role and responsibilities

The Sector Lead – Livestock will be responsible for providing technical expertise on the Livestock Sector, overseeing the market analysis, intervention design, and intervention implementation for activities that fall under the Livestock Sector.  The Sector Lead will provide technical assistance to the Senior Market Analysts and Market Analysts and oversee the use of short-term technical expertise to support sector interventions.

Sector Management 

• During inception, oversee the market analysis for the Livestock Sector, identifying and analysing specific value chains within the sector, mapping the landscape of the sector in the three locations, articulating growth areas for sector, and identifying initial opportunities and partners for interventions
• During inception phase lead on the sector analysis report and value chain analysis.
• Support the Market Analysts in developing the appropriate analysis for the sector, providing capacity building support in market systems analysis and the binding constraints within the sector where necessary and identifying intervention areas in the sector(s).
• During implementation, oversee the implementation of activities, and the design of new activities and interventions. Provide expertise on the scaling up of interventions to achieve target numbers and identify when interventions should be terminated for not performing as expected.
• Provide thought leadership to the sector activities, looking for innovative opportunities to leverage and identifying new partners.
• Maintain a range of interventions across the different locations and ensure that there is consistent quality of work undertaken on all interventions across all locations in their sector. Some interventions will be directly managed by the sector lead, other interventions within the sector(s) will be managed by the market analysts. The Sector Lead should retain oversight of all interventions in their sector(s).
• Coordinate with other Sector leads to ensure coherence of approach, strategy and resourcing requests against SHARPE’s overall programme objectives.
• Coordinate resources and support the coordination of SHARPE STTA when appropriate, for example when undertaking sector analysis or research.
• During implementation contribute with sector updates to weekly, quarterly and annual reporting at intervention and sector level.
•  Provide support, both technical and managerial, to the Market Analysts working on each intervention related to the sector. Maintain oversight of all interventions related to their sector ensuring interventions are managed by the team in a coherent way and as per the agreed intervention plan.

Reporting Support

• During inception phase lead on the sector analysis report
• During implementation contribute with sector updates to weekly, quarterly and annual reporting at intervention and sector level.
• Contribute to team meetings
• Ensure Market Analysts are storing documents on the agreed file storage systems

Stakeholder Relationship

• Develop and maintain relationships with relevant government, NGO and private sector partners for the Livestock Sector.
• Update relationship management tracker tool as relevant.

Grant and Financial management

• Support Market Analysts in developing budgets for interventions and partnerships, with clear and realistic milestones.
• Ensure that interventions are adhering to the SHARPE Resource Fund management processes.

Reporting

• The Sector Lead – Livestock is to report to the Portfolio Lead and will have functional and technical oversight of market analysts and intervention managers implementing interventions in the labour sector.
• The Sector Lead – Livestock will be expected to work closely with and support in the coordination of the SHARPE Short Term Technical Assistance (STTA) consultants.

The Sector Lead – Livestock is based in Addis Ababa with frequent travel required to SHARPE’s regional hubs in Jijiga, Dollo Ado and Gambella.

Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in managing market systems development activities, or experience working in livestock related business.
• Strong understanding of market dynamics, commercial business cases, and the private sector.
• Understanding of donor requirements in the implementation of complex donor-funded projects
• Undergraduate degree in relevant field.

Skills

• High level of written and oral communication
• Ability to build relationships and understand stakeholder needs
• Ability to understand market dynamics and identify market opportunities
• Strong time management, prioritisation and organisational skills
• Ability to work as part of a busy team
• Strong command of word and excel
• Fluency in English essential, Amharic and/or Arabic fluency an advantage