Senior Officer, Livestock & Economic Opportunity, Africa (24-month LTE)

Tags: Environment
  • Added Date: Friday, 09 May 2025
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The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, weโ€™re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The TeamThe Africa team works to enable the foundationโ€™s ambitious goals of scaling evidence-based interventions that target a range of diseases and socio-economic conditions across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The team implements its responsibility through direct country engagement to deploy interventions and delivery models, and by building the partner architecture to replicate successful interventions and models across multiple countries.

The Enabling Country Systems (ECS), Africa - Agricultural Development Program (AgDev)
The Agricultural Development (AgDev) program aims to catalyze a country-led, inclusive, agricultural transformation (IAT) process by developing and scaling products, services, policies, and system-wide innovations that benefit small-scale producers (SSPs), empower women, and improve nutritional outcomes. We want farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia (SA) to be empowered with the knowledge, tools, and technologies to improve their livelihoods and lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

ECS-Africaโ€™s overall goal is to drive IAT through better policy engagement with governments, improving the technology adoption by both the public and private sectors and catalytic investments through our key partners.

ECS Africa portfolioโ€™s Bodies of Work (BOWs) jointly focus on: a) accelerating IAT at the country level through clear country strategies that reflect government priorities and increase potential impact and b) driving demand-led innovative products and scaling practices within SSA through building regional platforms for scaling technology adoption, data for decision making and private sector engagement.

The work by the team includes interpretation, packaging, and communicating our comparative advantage in technological innovations for SSPs, aligning with leadership vision at the country level and nurturing partnerships that drive co-creation and implementation of interventions that drive IAT. The BOWs are discrete areas to better track our progress against a set of portfolio targets and milestones. The prioritized investments from across AgDev portfolios come together in focus countries to support the strengthening and modernization of select systems.

Your Role

We are seeking a strategic, results-driven, and transformation-oriented Senior Officer, Livestock & Economic Opportunity, Africa to lead the execution of African Regional Officeโ€™s (ARO) Africa livestock-focused flagship programs, ensuring alignment with country priorities and driving inclusive economic transformation across key focus countries and the broader Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. This includes:

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