The
Kenya Network for Dissemination of Agricultural Technologies is a local NGO
with a 20-Year old mission to empower smallholder farmers to sustainably
improve their livelihoods through innovative access to information, technology,
means and markets.
KENDAT has innovative Conservation Agriculture Value-Chain, Renewable Energy
and Animal Welfare programmes.
KENDAT innovative interventions are actualised under partnership efforts that
are propelled from village level Agribusiness Health Centres (AHCs).
These are the platforms from which smallholder farmers are engaged in
self-advancement training and development exchange with supply-side actors in
matters of understanding and participating in technology transfer processes
climaxing on information, means and markets in
supported livelihood journeys from subsistence to business farming.
KENDAT is best known for her specialised work in animal power and welfare and
particularly the highly specialized Heshimu Punda Programme. Undertakings here
have deeply grounded efforts that focus on human behaviour change through
animal welfare awareness and practice.
For 9 years, The Brooke Hospital for Animals (UK) has sponsored practical
community knowledge transfer efforts in donkey health & husbandry
management, preventive care and even policy influencing interventions.
KENDAT seeks to employ a Team Leader and Manager with
specialised knowledge and experience in sustainable and innovative development
interventions that influence positive change in human-animal interactions for
the betterment of work-animal welfare and household livelihood systems.
This Senior Staff position based in Nairobi (Kenya) requires a highly motivated
and animal welfare passionate individual, familiar with equine welfare and
Kenya’s agribusiness and logistical operations under farm and peri-urban work
environment.
Great familiarity with agribusiness and animal welfare partnership mobilization
and building at individual, group and institutional level, from farm to policy
levels is a mandatory backing.
The post has room for exploiting own innovative etiquette, leading a team of 20
to 30 able employees with a nudge for teamwork and self-growth as much as
organizational development.
The post carries an attractive remuneration package with attractive benefits.
The winning candidate will demonstrate skills and capacity to provide first
class leadership, include and attract stakeholders, coordinate staff and focus
on beneficiaries, to grow the programme and advance the KENDAT mission.
Working under the supervision of the Board and the CEO, the Manager will be the
prime programme planner, anchor and disseminator, supported by management and a
wide range of donor representatives to excel and fast-track the reach to
ever-more work animals, their use-regulators and beneficiaries.
Target profile and skills include:
- At
least a first degree in a relevant discipline such as agriculture and
livestock development studies, social sciences, management or other
related areas of agri-business value-chains and general rural development.
- Significant
experience working with a national or international animal welfare or
humanitarian, development NGO, with demonstrable and strong programme
planning, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation
experience.
- Knowledge
of basic animal welfare concepts and an understanding of the importance of
working equines to the economies of developing countries.
- Experience
in playing implementation as well as representational roles in partnership
building at local and senior levels, including policy and international
arena.
- Proven
experience in developing, leading and managing teams and building
partnership agreements, with confidence and due regards to dependable
budgeting of finance and other resource management.
- Credible
experience with organizational risk registers, security procedures, rural
development project M&E tools, conflict resolution, engagement of
children and the youth, animal risk and welfare assessment, micro-finance
and other group effort etc.
- Excellent
engaging communication and presentational as well as information
management skills and the ability to write clear concise reports for a
variety of audiences.
- An
excellent Team Player and Strategic Thinker with strong analytical and
problem-solving skills, backed by IT and internet savvy, social media and
other competence.
- Capacity
to prioritise and work with a high degree of independence and in flexible
work hours to undertake a heavy workload under pressure and tight
deadlines, including under international travel conditions.
- A
post-graduate degree, experience in agribusiness, draft animal power
engineering, equine health and husbandry, financial accounting and audit,
and international relations will be added advantages.
Send
Application Letter justifying your interest, stating current remuneration, CV
with full personal and 2 Referees’ contact details, enclosing copies of
relevant certificates/testimonials to:
The CEO, KENDAT,
P.O. Box 2859-00200
Nairobi,
or info@kendat.org;
by 25th January, 2012.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted no later than February 1, 2012.
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