Food Safety Standards for Dairy Production - Trainer
In response to the current crisis in Syria, SIF want to extend its humanitarian response with a Food Security Project, aiming at scaling-up its emergency support to Syrian refugees and affected population and support the Lebanese Farmers. In view of the operation scale up, SIF is currently recruiting a Short Term Technical Consultant in Food Safety Standards for Dairy Production to train women and men groups in Iqlim El Kharroub.
The STTC will be under the line management of the Food Security and Livelihood Program Manager, or her designee.
MISSION CONTEXT
Based on SIF’s Food Security and Livelihoods Needs Assessment conducted in 2019 for the areas of Mount Lebanon and the North; SIF designed a Food Security and Livelihood project that aims at:
- Offering technical and financial assistance to farmers and rural women cooperatives in the aim to increase the added value of their products.
- Develop and support a marketing strategy for farmers and cooperatives
- Capacity empowerment for farmers and for rural women for a better quantitative and qualitative production.
The Project is part of a longer term strategy aiming at supporting and reinforcing capacities of local stakeholders, mainly farmers, local rural women cooperatives, and related governmental entities (MoA and MoPW).
MAIN RESPONSABILITIES
Design and deliver training for farmers on Food Safety Standards for Dairy production for a number of villages in Iqlim El Kharroub.
OBJECTIVE OF THE CONSULTANT MISSION
General Objective
The general objective of the consultancy is to train around 25 people on Food Safety Standards for Dairy Production in Iqlim El Kharroub.
Specific objectives
- Develop an appropriate curriculum and delivery for the training
- Provide recommendations to SIF and underline needs based on findings in training
The expected outcomes of this consultancy are as follows
- The Project expects the consultant to deliver the Food Safety Standards to the participants (herd owners and farmers working in dairy production).
- All the participants at the end of the training should be able to adopt food safety measures and standards in dairy production
Logistic
- The expert will take care of her/his transportation to the training location
Reporting
Reports directly to SIF’s Beirut Office, to the Food Security and Livelihood Program Manager. S/he will submit the following reports at the end of the training sessions:
- The Narrative Report which includes: the number of beneficiaries, SWOT analysis of the trainees in general
- Recommendations
Person qualifications
- Bachelor in Agriculture Engineering
- Masters in Animal Production or Food Processing
- More than 5 years of experience in agriculture or agriculture related projects
- Track record of training in rural areas
- Previous experience in training on similar subjects
- More than 2 years’ experience with international organizations
- Strong interpersonal skills and a supportive technical and communication style
- Strong command of Arabic (the training language)
- Knowledge of the Lebanese context in general and the mount Lebanon context in particular
- Publications in the domain are an asset
Ethic and professional practice
- Always respect of beneficiaries’ confidentiality
- Respect SIF’s Policies
- Address needs and requests in a professional way.
- Report any incident or act that causes any harm to beneficiary or to others.
- Help in ideas to support the team of the FS and Agricultural Livelihood
Work relationships
Line manager: Food Security and Agricultural Livelihood Program Manager
Job conditions
- Availability: October 2019
- Duty station: Iqlim El Kharroub
- Duration/ Type of contract: 2 days
How to apply
Kindly send the below to: [email protected] with the subject (Food Safety Standards for Dairy Production - Trainer )
- CV
- Technical offer (Curriculum)
- Financial offer
- References