Call for a Team Leader, Nutrition technical assistance and advisory services
About DAI:
DAI is an employee-owned global development company. For 40 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change. Our clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and national governments.
Objectives of the role: The Team Leader will be required to oversee the project.
Start Date: January 2014
Qualifications and Skills:
• Masters in sustainable agriculture or related field. PhD preferred
• Fluency in English and French
General Professional Experience:
• Fifteen years general experience working on international development projects or programmes in related fields (nutrition and health, nutrition and education, nutrition and food security, nutrition and social protection, nutrition and water, accountability and monitoring of nutrition, and food security, in developing countries)
• Ten years general experience in performing and/or supervising academic or other studies in related fields (nutrition and health, nutrition and education, nutrition and food security, nutrition and social protection, nutrition and water, accountability and monitoring of nutrition, and food security, in developing countries)
• Experience working in a developing country context
Specific Professional Experience:
• Ten years specific experience providing technical advice, studies, support to assist operational managers in EC HQ, Delegations and Partner Countries to improve project design, monitoring and evaluation and result frameworks
• Five years specific experience managing STTA or NKEs providing technical advice, studies, support to assist operational managers to improve project design, monitoring and evaluation and result frameworks
• Five years specific experience managing EC funded projects as a team leader
• Deep experience of EC PCM
• Applied knowledge of EC ROM
• Specific knowledge of sub-Saharan Africa or south-east Asia is an asset
Deadline for Application: 1st October 2013
