USAID-KAVES Jobs in Kenya

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USAID-KAVES Jobs in Kenya

The Kenya Agricultural Value Chain Enterprises (USAID-KAVES) project is a five year activity funded by the United States Agency for International Development working in 22 counties. An important objective of USAID-KAVES is to enhance food security and improve nutrition by increasing the productivity and incomes of smallholders and other actors along the dairy, horticulture and staples value chains.
The project integrates agricultural initiatives that focus on increasing productivity, to augment the availability of food, with nutrition interventions to improve family health especially for vulnerable groups including women of reproductive age and children.
In addition, the program aims to address hygiene and sanitation of targeted households by increasing access to improved sanitation facilities and safe drinking water.
1. Call for Expression of Interest: Implementing Nutrition Interventions
USAID-KAVES Call for Expression of Interest for Implementing Nutrition Interventions
With this in mind, USAID-KAVES is looking for Expressions of Interest (EOI) by organizations to implement the nutrition interventions as well as WASH components of the program.
The organization should have an understanding and experience in community based approaches that enhance nutrition and related community health interventions including applied nutrition, positive deviance/Hearth Approach (PD/Hearth), Community Led Total Sanitation among others and integrate with agricultural productivity to achieve the desired improved nutrition objectives.
2. Vacancy: Regional Horticulture Specialist
The regional Horticulture Specialist will coordinate activities of KAVES target horticulture value chains focusing on increasing: income of smallholder farmers; compliance with domestic and export market requirements, and value addition and product diversification through agro-processing.
Under the guidance of the USAIDKAVES Technical Director for Horticulture and the Chief of Party, s/he will ensure that all KAVES project supported activities implemented through sub-contractors are carried out in line with the strategic objectives and as per the recommended value chains interventions.
Qualification, experience and key skills
The ideal candidate should possess the following:

A university degree in horticulture or related field with at least ten years practical experience of the Kenyan horticulture export industry;

Practical experience in running out growers export horticulture schemes;

Working knowledge on GLOBALG.A.P. requirements;

Good understanding of horticulture products with large domestic markets;

Previously successfully cooperated with public and private sector stakeholders in the industry;

A team player with good leadership skills. Procedure for submission
Interested organizations should send a cover letter and relevant corporate ability citing past performance for similar assignments and preferred zones of operation in one of the following three regions; Eastern, Western or Nyanza and at least three (3) profiles of experts who would be responsible for implementation to:
Contracting Officer, USAID–KAVES
kaves-subcontracts@fintrac.com
by 4.00pm on Friday, 21st November 2014.
Only shortlisted companies will receive the full TOR and invited to submit technical and cost proposals.