Cluster Technical Consultant – Livestock job at Heifer International

Vacancy title:
Cluster Technical Consultant – Livestock

Jobs at:
Heifer International

Deadline of this Job:
Saturday, August 23 2025

Duty Station:
Busoga Sub-Region | Jinja | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, August 13 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

Scope and focus of the assignment:

The overall purpose of this consultancy assignment is to provide on on-farm and enterprise-based technical-agribusiness support and provide expertise and guidance to farmer groups and agri-enterprises on all aspects of livestock management. The scope of work includes advising on animal health, nutrition, breeding, and sustainable farming/production practices, building a vibrant community-based extension system, as well as helping farmer groups and agri-enterprises navigate biosecurity, regulatory standards, and access markets. The expert will also play a role in knowledge sharing, developing/reviewing training materials, delivering ToT training, on-site technical support, and promoting best practices within the livestock sector. 

Specifically, the livestock expert will:

• Technical support and hands-on support: Providing advice on disease prevention, treatment, and maintaining optimal animal health and welfare standards. Lead in addressing all aspects of livestock production and build a vibrant, private sector-led, community-based extension system with a large team of subject matter experts and frontline extensionists, located in the project areas. 
• Livestock Nutrition and Feeding: Developing feeding regimes and strategies to ensure animals receive proper nutrition, considering factors like breed, age, and production goals.
• Breeding and Genetics: Offering guidance on selecting appropriate breeding stock, understanding genetics, and implementing breeding programs to improve herd or flock characteristics.
• Sustainable Practices: Promoting environmentally friendly and sustainable farming practices, including pasture management, waste management, and minimizing the environmental impact of livestock production.
• Business Management: Support project participants to adopt a farming system that represents a proper combination of farm enterprises and the resources available to the farmer to raise them for profitability. Provide advice and develop tools on record-keeping, financial planning, and marketing strategies to improve the profitability of livestock businesses.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring youth farmers understand and comply with relevant regulations related to biosecurity, zoonosis, animal welfare, food safety, and environmental protection.
• Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to internal and external knowledge development, ensures lessons learned are harvested, documented, communicated, and applied in daily practice, and may be appointed as (national) focal point of an expertise network.
• Market Access: Assisting clients in identifying and accessing markets for their livestock and livestock products.
• Sector coordination. Build strong collaboration with livestock actors in the region from public and private sector, keep track of new development and trends to inform learnings and adaptations  

Geographical Scope

The Livestock Expert will be in charge of a cluster consisting of 3-4 districts, working with a team of 10-15 extension frontline workers.  

Deliverables 

A consultant will be engaged to conduct the assignment and is expected to propose a suitable methodology to achieve the objectives. The following activities could serve as a guide.  Inception report covering field and frontline capacity assessment, details of how the expert will play the roles listed above.

• Monthly and special technical reports with respect to the roles stated in the scope of work above including documentation of lessons learned and best practice. 
• Tailor made tools on record-keeping, financial planning, and marketing strategies to improve the profitability of livestock businesses.
• Tailor-made training manuals and materials developed with input of the project team.   

Time Frame:

The terms of the assignment shall commence on effect from the date of signature by both parties. The assignment will take a maximum of 12 months. The consultant shall observe various timelines and be able to deliver the final outputs on time as follows.

Consultant Profile  

•  Minimum a bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred) in veterinary fields. 
• At least 10 years' experience in facilitating commercial livestock production and management.
• Extensive knowledge of agribusiness and livestock landscape in the region, social inclusion in Busoga sub-region
• Demonstrated experience in workable and innovative models
• Business planning skills, including SME development, market studies, and value chain analysis
• Strong networking and relationship-building skills with an ability to work with producer organisations to link smallholders to markets
• Fluency in English (knowledge of other languages spoken in the East and central parts of Uganda).
• Excellent report writing skills in English
• Speaking and delivering the content in Lusoga language is highly preferred.
• Good understanding of poverty and exclusion in Busoga and the work
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.

Management Logistics 

The Livestock technical expert will report to the Value Chain Specialist and collaborate with the Cluster Coordinator for field project coordination within the target areas. He/She will serve as the primary contact for livestock production and management across the cluster, working with the district field extension team.  

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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