Aquaculture Specialist at Food and Agriculture Organization Of the United Nations

Post Number: 180873
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Organizational Unit: FRNIR
Type of Requisition: NPP (National Project Personnel)
Duration: Eleven months
 
Organizational Setting

• The crisis in Nigeria, located mainly around the Lake Chad Basin, is a complex emergency characterized by food insecurity, violence and displacement. Furthermore, subsistence based livelihoods are impacted upon by climate-induced desertification, drought, receding lake/water stress
• The FAO Lake Chad Strategy 2017-2019 includes ensuring sustainable and equitable access to resources and services as well as sustainable improvement of livelihood opportunities are therefore critical priorities.
• FAO in collaboration with UNWOMEN and WFP has received support from the European Development Fund (EDF) under the EU Support to Response, Recovery and Resilience in Borno State, to implement a 3-year programme to restore and improve sustainable agriculture-based livelihoods for food security, employment, and nutrition improvement in Borno State
• FAO’s interventions include supporting smallholder farmers (especially youth) to have diversified food source and income by enhancing nutrition sensitive value chain development for aquaculture.

Reporting Lines:

• The Aquaculture Specialist reports to the FAO Representative (FAOR) through the Deputy FAOR in Maiduguri and the project coordinator.

Technical Focus:

• For the effective field management of project implementation, FAO requires the services of an aquaculture officer. In particular he/she will be responsible for ensuring the technical soundness and timeliness of activities in his field of competencies in the design, planning, supervision of the implementation and monitoring phases of fish farming and processing activities of the project and related activities.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Under the overall supervision and guidance of the FAO Representative for Nigeria through the Deputy FAOR in Maiduguri, and with direct supervision of the Project Coordinator, in close collaboration with national and international consultants in the project team, the incumbent will undertake the following activities:
• Provide technical, programmatic and operational support for the implementation of the aquaculture component of the project
• Contribute to the identification of suitable locations for fish farming and fish fprocessing activities
• Contribute to the selection of the beneficiaries, their capacity building and their organization in cluster or network
• Provide effective technical support to beneficiaries engage in aquaculture production and fish processing and marketing.
• Support the adoption of good aquaculture practices ;
• Contribute to the preparation of the technical specifications of inputs i.e. fish farm starter kits, processing kits, etc. and letter of agreement with implementing partners
• Prepare case studies, guidelines, reports, publications and presentations in support of programme delivery.
• Perform any other related duties as required.

Minimum Requirements
Candidates will be assessed against the following:

• University Degree in Aquaculture, Fisheries or Rural Development with specialization or certification in aquaculture and fish processing systems.
• 6-10 years of relevant working experience with University Degree or 3-4 years relevant working experience with Advanced University Degree.
• Working knowledge of English
• Being a National of Nigeria

FAO Core Competencies:

• Results Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Building Effective Relationships
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Technical/Functional Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and Team spirit
• Experience of projects involving multiple and diverse stakeholders including
• Governments, private sector, civil society and end users.
• Working knowledge of the local language in Borno State. Experience on fish production, processing and marketing with emphasis on smallholder production and marketing schemes.
• Adequate competence in communication, planning and reporting in English and mother language
• Knowledge of computer skills (MS Office package: word, excel and power point).
• Experience with similar internationally funded development projects will be an added advantage
• Experience and competences in working with women and youths groups will be an advantage.

Additional Information:

• FAO does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, processing).
• Please note that FAO will only consider academic credentials or degrees obtained from an educational institution recognized in the IAU/UNESCO list.
• Only language proficiency certificates from UN accredited external providers and/or FAO language official examinations (LPE, ILE, LRT) will be accepted as proof of the level of knowledge of languages indicated in the online applications.
• Candidates with acceptable language certificate/s should upload them when submitting their application. For details, visit: http://www.fao.org/3/I8446EN/i8446en.pdf