Consultant - Veterinary Doctor

Description
DELIVERABLES
Promote scientific Goat/Backyard Poultry practices in rural farmers for increase in income and nutrition of the family. (50%).

• Ensure quality and timely animal healthcare delivery (prevention and treatment).


• Ensure good husbandry practices (breeding, nutrition, housing, feeding, watering, and waste management and other ecological production methods etc.).


• Ensure regular supply of quality inputs.


• Ensure good quality output products.


• Develop training material and conduct trainings for field workers/entreprenurs.


• Develop innovative models as per the field situation.


• Support in Business and Marketing activities of goat/Poultry


• Facilitate CAVEs time to time for project implementation


• Organise trainings for the CAVEs on Goat, BYP and strengthen their knowledge and skills


• Meet the project targets timely in terms of scale up production, targeted families, income increase and business goals.

Monitoring, review and reporting of the program (20%)

• Ensuring timely submission of reports.


• Ensure that the partner meet the Heifer’s monitoring and evaluation requirements and the deadlines


• Reviewing the project progress (physical and financial) with partner staff on monthly basis


• Ensure that the Activity based reforecasting is prepared following the participatory method and the other stakeholders (PMC, co-funder, etc)


• Documentation and sharing of the best practices


• Work in collaboration and consultation with Regional Program Office (RPO) and Country Program Office (CPO) team

Facilitate the well-being of all small ruminants through the adoption of improved animal management and productivity practices and standards in the program (15%).

• Ensure quality and timely animal healthcare delivery (prevention and treatment).


• Ensure good husbandry practices (breeding, nutrition, feed and fodder management, housing, watering, and waste management and other ecological production methods etc.).


• Ensure regular supply of quality inputs.


• Ensure good quality output products.


• Develop training material and conduct trainings for field workers/entreprenurs.


• Develop innovative models as per field situation.


• Support in Business and Marketing activities of small ruminants.

Liaison, networking and resource mobilization to strengthen the program effectiveness (10%)

• Sharing the Heifer’s model with other stakeholder and building a fruitful relationship with them


• Networking and relationship building with Government, CSR, Foundations, and other stakeholders and linking the project participants to their schemes


• Promotion cross earning and exchange of the knowledge


• Supporting the partners in mobilization of the committed co-funding/ Local Resource Leverage (LRL)


• Organizing and participating in donor visits.


• Time to time participation in state level events, workshops, and roundtables

May perform other job-related duties as assigned/ requested (5%)
Minimum Requirements
Support other projects as and when required.

A bachelor’s degree in veterinary science or equivalent plus five (5) years of Poultry Management related experience is required. Other job-related education and /or experience may be substituted for all or part of these basic requirements.

Preferred Requirements
Master’s degree in veterinary science with specialization in Goat & Poultry Science.

• Knowledgeable of and experience in working with poultry and livestock programs.


• Knowledge and experience of running Campaigns.


• Knowledge of and experience with or within community organizations.


• Fluent in Odia, Hindi, English spoken as well as written.


• Good leadership qualities.


• Good communication skills.


• Have an interest animals/agriculture Community development.


• Excellent organizational skills including strong attention to details.


• Skills with Microsoft Office packages, internet browser and other appropriate technology.