Civil Engineer Expert Consultant

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  • Added Date: Sunday, 04 May 2025
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    Job Title: Civil Engineer Expert Consultant

    Type of contract: Short Term / Regular Consultant

    Unit/Division : Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)

    Duty Station (City, Country): Lomรฉ, Togo

    Contract Duration: 03 months

    BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:

    Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, has a population of 8.6 million. Located in the Gulf of Guinea, Togo serves as a key corridor to the landlocked countries of the Central Sahel region. Agriculture and food systems are critical to Togo's food security, livelihoods, and development. Togo's economy relies heavily on commercial and subsistence agriculture, with both sectors providing employment for 60% of the workforce.

    The Government of Togo, in its 2025 roadmap, has positioned agriculture as a priority engine of growth for production, income, and job creation. The sector has proven to be more effective than others in poverty reduction and job creation, and the sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems is seen as supporting the economic development of many African countries. Togo's Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) was established in November 2022 as a key initiative of the Presidency (BdP) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MAVHDR) with the support of WFP's Agri-Food Transformation Advisory Support Center (TASC) program. The ATA is tasked with supporting Togo in implementing its 2025 National Roadmap which places agriculture at the heart of economic growth by creating opportunities to increase production, income, and job creation for smallholder farmers in ZAAP (Planned Agricultural Development Zones) and by meeting the country's food needs.

    Togo's ADA's ZAAP program intervention model is a multi-year effort to pilot ever-increasing services to 60 ZAAP through private sector engagement. ATA uses a contract farming approach to involve the private sector in the provision of services (inputs, information, mechanization, procurement) that are technically and economically viable and offer a good return on investment while addressing the challenges of climate change using climate-resilient techniques. From 2024, ATA Togo is implementing several programs: Contract Agriculture (CA), Cantonal Mechanized Works Company (ECTM), Hydro-Agricultural Development (AHA), Agricultural Land Use Planning (ZAAP) and Storage. Storage (e.g., warehouses) is part of Phase 3 of the approach used by ATA to transform agriculture in Togo. The Storage program, which will be launched in 2025, aims to put in place structures and practices that allow for better conservation/safety of agricultural inputs and products, ensuring better product quality, reducing post-harvest losses, compliance with contractual obligations and seizing business opportunities. These structures include village storage warehouses and drying areas. The ATA's ambition is to ensure that each ZAAP has a storage warehouse and a drying area and knows how to operate them.

    The purpose of this position is to provide technical assistance to the Agricultural Transformation Agency for (i) the definition of needs, (ii) the recruitment of the project manager, and (iii) strengthening the capacities of the ATA staff to understand the fundamentals of civil engineering applied to the work of the ATA. Also, the expert (iv) will provide his or her expertise in civil engineering to the Agency on an ad hoc basis for its hydro agricultural development and agricultural land development activities.

    The incumbent will work both independently and as part of a team, using technical knowledge and expertise to conduct field diagnostics and assessments, analyze data, prepare reports, provide advice and solutions to problems, identify opportunities for improvement, and build the capacity of ATA staff to apply engineering principles to ATA's agricultural projects.

    The day-to-day activities and overall technical assignment of the incumbent will be managed by the ATA of Togo. The civil engineering expert will report to the Director General of the ATA. Administrative oversight will be provided by the WFP country office in Togo.

    ACCOUNTABILITIES/ RESPONSIBILITIES:

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