Director – REAP Consortium

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit for the role of a Director of the Rural Employment through Animal Feed production (REAP) program to lead an integrated consortium under ILRI’s overall leadership, maintaining partner accountability, donor confidence, and alignment with approved objectives, budgets, and commitments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead REAP as an integrated program across countries and partners, accountable for delivery against its approved theory of change, results framework, targets, budgets, timelines and partnership commitments.
• Oversee annual and multi-year workplans, ensuring that country plans are realistic, sequenced and adequately resourced, and that milestones and partner commitments are actively managed.
• Ensure that country coordination, staffing and delivery arrangements are fit for program scale, and resolve significant implementation constraints.

Requirements

• PhD in degree in agriculture, natural resource management, agribusiness, economics, development studies, market systems, business administration, public policy or another relevant field with senior technical and program leadership experience.
• Professional training in program management, organisational leadership, finance, risk management, market systems or related disciplines.
• At least 15 years of progressively senior experience in development, agriculture, food systems, market systems, youth employment, enterprise development, inclusive finance or related fields…

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