The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works to improve food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for better and more sustainable use of livestock. ILRI is a CGIAR research centre - part of a global research partnership for a food-secure future. This role involves leading international, regional, and national advocacy and external engagement initiatives to influence policy and investment decisions within the livestock, agriculture, or food systems sectors.
Key Responsibilities
Relationship building and strategic partnerships
- Rapidly map stakeholder landscapes in focal countries and identify strategic entry points through ILRI colleagues, partners and existing networks.
- Build and sustain high-trust relationships with government officials, private sector actors, cooperatives and civil society across diverse country contexts.
- Identify, cultivate and manage relationships with private sector delivery partners.
- Leverage partner relationships as bridges to new stakeholders, using collaborative approaches to expand engagement.
- Coordinate with cooperative leadership and/or county/local governments to design and roll out scalable delivery models.
Project management and reporting
- Manage activity scheduling, budgeting, and financial tracking.
- Manage project consultants working with the local level actors.
- Prepare periodic activity reports, progress updates, and risk assessments.
- Manage contracts and deliverables for national partners and consultants.
- Ensure timely organization of workshops, consultations, high-level meetings and missions.
- Work closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) specialist to ensure that influence–engage–inform indicators are tracked.
Stakeholder Engagement, Facilitation & Political Economy Work
- Support the establishment and operationalization of the different types of stakeholder platforms and facilitate stakeholder consultations to diagnose regulatory, institutional and delivery bottlenecks.
- Support design and delivery of targeted communications and advocacy materials, communications campaigns and community-level engagement around the different components.
- Monitor political economy dynamics and provide real-time strategic intelligence for adaptive implementation.
- Ensure the process is inclusive and attentive to gender, youth and marginalized groups.
- Monitor dynamics to address misinformation and disinformation and more broadly.
Support linkages to regional and global agendas
- Support the management of the ILRI Advocacy and Investment Hub.
- Identify ways to frame and position project outcomes for global and regional processes.
- Track risks, misinformation trends, emerging policy issues for global partners to pre-emptively address.
- Provide technical advice and support to ILRI projects and programs around advocacy and engagement.
- Document project learning, outcomes and impacts to regional and global processes.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online via the ILRI careers portal or the provided application link below.
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