I. Description
TechnoServe is implementing a project that is supporting the growth of private sector to ultimately achieve wheat flour and edible oil fortification in Ethiopia. This consultancy work is aimed at providing expert technical assistance to achieve the objectives of the project.
II. General Description of the Work
The consultancy work will include the following.
1. Review and development of aggregation strategy for small scale oil processors so that the oil produced by those small processors can be refined and fortified.
2. Review of needs assessment report, and provision of customized technical assistance to oil processing companies on oil fortification
3. Support in development of private sector capacity development strategy for wheat flour fortification
III. Specific Tasks
· Undertake thorough review of past and current approaches to edible crude oil aggregation strategies from previous strategy documents and industry knowledge
· Support the project team in developing a tool for undertaking a case study of an existing oil cluster where efforts are underway to aggregate and refine oil
· Upraise technical feasibility of fortifying such oil that is aggregated from different sources
· Develop assessment report with key recommendations on how to aggregate, refine and fortify oil that is produced by small scale oil producers
· Review finding of major oil processors’ needs assessment conducted by the project team and co design quick win capacity development interventions and provide specialized oil fortification related support in implementing the interventions
· Support in development of oil fortification guideline
· Review and analyze current and past approaches to the different private sector capacity development efforts for fortification
· Develop draft strategy and present for validation and submit final version
· Master’s degree or equivalent in Food Science/Nutrition and other relevant field or a Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience
· At least five years of relevant professional experience in oil and wheat flour fortification directly working with the industry
· Knowledge of the industry and particularly of the oil and wheat flour fortification status
· Strong network with the private sector, government stakeholders and development partners in the oil and wheat flour fortification
· Thorough and expert level skill in oil and wheat flour fortification
· Experience in training development and delivery
· Experience working independently and managing projects
I. Level of effort: This task is expected to be completed within a maximum of 45 days. This is for sum of number of days’ different experts may engage in this task. These days are not fixed and can decrease based on actual demand of the task.