Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), founded in 1858, is an international conservation organization based in Germany. In Ethiopia, FZS focusses on the Bale Mountains, supporting the Ethiopian Government and local communities in conserving Africa’s largest tract of Afroalpine habitat and the equally important Harenna forest through the development of conservation-compatible livelihoods.
FZS is part of a consortium led by Farm Africa and including, SOS Sahel-Ethiopia, PHE-EC and IWMI, which has secured funding from the EU to implement an integrated multi-sector landscape management programme in Bale Eco-Region in Oromia National Regional State of Ethiopia (the SHARE II project)
FZS is seeking to recruit:
Each will be based in one of the Bale Ecoregion woredas for a period of up to five years subject to a probation period.
The M&C Experts will work closely with the relevant woreda bureaus working side by side with government experts to implement the BER framework across identified woredas. The overall responsibility of the position holder is to coordinate planning and execution of marketing related activities of the project – working closely with the agriculture/livestock and NRM experts. He/she will be specifically responsible in planning, execution of capacity building training, facilitate market linkages, organize farmer groups, support co-operatives with technical advice, and provide technical support to government counterparts.
He/she ensures that communities are engaged in improved high value crop and livestock production, processing and marketing. In coordination with the project coordinator, he/she will ensure good partnership with government stakeholders, community members, CBOs, consortium partners, CSOs, private sectors and other relevant partners in the operational areas of the SHARE II project.
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