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Plant Health Specialist

Job Posting: 13/Dec/2024

Closure Date: 27/Dec/2024, 10:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit : SFS – Subregional Office for Southern Africa

Job Type: Non-staff alternatives

Type of Requisition : Consultant

Grade Level : N/A

Primary Location: Botswana-Gaborone

Duration : Up to 11 months (renewable)

Post Number : N/A

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Organizational Setting

FAO’s Subregional Office for Southern Africa (SFS) is accountable for creating, selling, overseeing and implementing agreed methods for addressing subregional meals, agriculture and rural improvement priorities. It develops and maintains relations with subregion-wide establishments together with Regional Economic Integration Organizations (REIOs). The Subregional Office is a subsidiary of FAO’s Regional Office for Africa (RAF). The workplace supplies technical help and help to governments and nation places of work within the sub-region creating insurance policies, programmes and tasks to realize meals safety and to cut back starvation and malnutrition whereas utilizing their environmental and pure sources in a sustainable method.

Reporting Lines

Under the final supervision of the FAO Subregional Coordinator for Southern Africa (SFS) and the steerage of the Director of the Food Agriculture and Natural Resources Directorate on the SADC Secretariat, the Plant Health Specialist will work underneath the direct supervision of the STOSAR II Regional Project Coordinator and technical supervision of the FAO Plant Production and Protection Officer. The incumbent shall be accountable for the general coordination, administration, and organisation of all venture actions for the plant pests and ailments sector in Component 2 of the Action at regional degree and nationwide ranges. These actions shall be executed in shut session with the SADC Crops Programme Officer in addition to with the respective companions within the related Ministries.

Technical Focus

Plant manufacturing and safety with specific give attention to general administration and path on all features of the venture implementation on transboundary plant pests and ailments part of Component 2 of the STOSAR II venture particularly, (ii) enhancing entry to markets by way of domestication of regional plant pests methods developed throughout STOSAR I and implementation at nation degree, together with enhancing capacities to deal with sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) necessities for worldwide commerce whereas making certain deadlines and milestones are achieved.

Tasks and obligations

• Provide the general administration and path on all features of venture implementation on Component 2 of the venture (Improving entry to markets by way of implementation of plant pests’ administration methods on the regional degree, and in SADC member states, making certain deadlines and milestones are achieved).
• Support nation degree domestication of the regional transboundary plant pest and illness (TPPD) management methods developed underneath STOSAR I, working carefully with the SADC Plant Protection Technical Committee and its sub committees in session with the National SPS Committees.
• Translate nationwide methods into sensible motion for improved management of trade-sensitive TPPDs.
• Support and facilitate actions aimed on the strengthening of precedence TPPD administration capacities, together with the implementation of surveillance and early warning programs in addition to danger analyses and management on the regional and nationwide ranges.
• Carry out consciousness campaigns to tell crop worth chain actors of SPS laws and promote adherence/compliance to SPS laws.
• Support identification and collaboration with complementary initiatives (tasks, programmes) together with collaboration with Centres of Excellence in precedence thematic areas (e.g., management of precedence TPPDs, lab certification, SPS, and so on.).
• Support gear and accreditation of plant well being laboratories in order that they’ll carry out required companies effectively and as much as the set normal.
• Raise consciousness and promote implementation of Commodity-specific requirements for phytosanitary measures.
• Support implementation of digital Phytosanitary Certification of Exports (ePhyto) within the remaining 13 SADC Member States and make the SADC area e-Phyto compliant.
• Support SADC Plant Protection Technical Committee to carry out its statutory capabilities in relation to SADC Member States and worldwide normal setting our bodies.
• Support and implement advocacy initiatives to advertise uptake and acceptance of the developed modern approaches to danger administration of commerce associated plant pests at nationwide, regional and worldwide ranges.
• Ensure mainstreaming of cross reducing points into the plant pests’ part of the venture, together with’ Gender, HIV/AIDS, Poverty, Governance, sustainability and so on.
• Facilitate the event and implementation of a complete monitoring and analysis framework for element 2 of the venture with help from the important thing venture stakeholders and goal beneficiaries together with making certain well timed stories manufacturing and clearance.
• Monitor potential dangers that might constrain venture implementation and take well timed mitigating motion.
• Perform different associated duties, as required.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements

• Advanced University diploma in Agriculture, Crop Science, Crop Protection, Plant Health, or associated fields
• At least 10 years sensible and lively expertise of working with International and Regional Institutions and implementing improvement tasks of a regional nature within the fields of agriculture and plant well being in a creating nation context
• Working information (Level C) of English

FAO Core Competencies

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• Results Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Building Effective Relationships
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Technical/Functional Skills

• Strong administrative and organizational expertise,
• Computer literacy
• Good English technical report writing expertise.
• Work expertise in multiple location or space of labor
• Extent and relevance of expertise in plant safety and well being
• Familiarity with Southern Africa Region

Selection Criteria

• Experience of improvement work associated to plant well being in Sub-Saharan Africa shall be an added benefit.

Please be aware that each one candidates ought to adhere to FAO Values of Commitment to FAO, Respect for All and Integrity and Transparency

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