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Posted 3 years ago
JOB TITLE: Consultant – Assignment on Food Systems Dialogues
JOB LOCATION: Abuja
JOB DETAILS:
Duties and Responsibilities
- The objective of this assignment is to review and analyze all the reports from all the dialogues held in Nigeria including the inception, exploratory and independent dialogues among other relevant documents harvested in the course of the implementation of the UN Food System dialogues in Nigeria. Working collaboratively/under the supervision of the National Convener of the Food Systems Summit in Nigeria, the consultant’s tasks will include:
- Comprehensive desk review with emphasis on the Nigeria food systems;
- Review all dialogues reports (inception, exploratory and independent dialogues), and other background reports/documents such as the food systems mapping report;
- Identify approaches, strategies, actions and interventions proposed for prioritisation in addressing the identified food system gaps and challenges at the different levels /stages;
- Based on the dialogues and in line with the Action Tracks, identify series of concrete actions and key messages suggested by stakeholders that can support the transformation of the Nigeria food systems
- Identify and synthesize two transformative strategic plans for the Nigeria food systems to be implemented in the short term (3-5 years) and in the long term (5-10 years) including ideas, solutions, challenges and risks, partnerships and strategic action plans;
- Undertake a stakeholder consultation to validate the report;
- Perform any other task related to the consultancy as may be assigned by the Convenor;
- Submission of report to the Convenor for comments;
- Finalization of report.
Key Performance Indicators
Expected Outputs:
Deliverables:
- In close collaboration with the overall Country Team, the national consultants will deliver on the following outputs:
Deliverable 1:
- Identified transformative actions, practices and policies that will have the greatest impact on the achievement of the desired future and vision of the Nigeria food systems;
Required Completion Date:
- 1st July, 2021.
Deliverable 2:
- Outline the possible ways to assess progress towards the transformation of Nigeria food system to achieve sustainability and resilience as well as meeting the need of all.
Required Skills and Experience
Minimum Requirements:
- Advance University degree in Agriculture, Nutrition, Food Security, Food Systems, Agricultural Economics, Rural Development and any related discipline;
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in the agricultural/rural development sectors including working experience with Government, NGOs, UN and Donors agencies;
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Nigeria Food Systems;
- Demonstrated previous working experience on similar assignments;
- Proven experience in developing country-level agricultural/food systems analysis reports;
Evaluation Criteria:
- Relevant academic qualifications (relevant degree, refer to list in the TOR) : (10 Marks)
- Relevant level of academic qualification (Bachelors, Masters, PhD, Post Graduate Diploma) – holder of master’s or higher degree scores: (15 Marks)
- Relevant Work Experience (Minimum 5 Years), the higher the better: (15 Marks)
- Relevant Employment History: Gov’t (7 points), UN (7 points), INGO (3 points), Donors (3 points); Other 2 Points maximum: (20 Marks)
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Nigeria Food Systems: (10 Marks)
- Experience in writing developing country-level agricultural/food systems analysis reports (report quality and punctuality, publications record): (10 Marks)
- Previous working experience on similar assignment: (10 Marks)
- Other considerations: Languages, Gender (females have added advantage), etc: (10 Marks).
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Deadline: June 10, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Consulting / Business Strategy/ Planning |