Organizational Setting
The Animal Production and Health Division (NSA) promotes the sustainable livestock transformation towards greater efficiency, inclusiveness and resilience. NSA integrates scientific and technical expertise and policy advice in the areas of animal production and animal health. It facilitates policy dialogue through intergovernmental bodies and multi-stakeholders partnerships, generates knowledge and provides information, analysis and technical assistance for the sustainable development of the livestock sector and the optimization of its contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
The position is located in the Sustainable Animal Production, Feed and Genetics Branch (NSAP) of the Animal Production and Health Division (NSA) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.
The work of the Branch is structured around five clusters: intergovernmental fora and outreach, through the celebration of international years and days; sustainable animal production systems; feed and feeding systems; pastoralism; and animal genetic resources management.
Reporting Lines
The Senior Animal Production Officer (Team Leader and Secretary of the Committee on Agriculture (COAG) Sub-Committee on Livestock) reports to the Chief, NSAP, and is under the overall supervision of the Director, NSA.
Technical Focus
The Senior Animal Production Officer (Team Leader and Secretary of COAG Sub-Committee on Livestock) will act as a Team Leader of the sustainable animal production systems cluster and as a Secretary of the Sub-Committee on Livestock of the Committee on Agriculture (COAG). She/he will provide technical and policy guidance on related issues.
Key Results
Leadership and technical policy expertise for the planning, development and implementation of divisional/cross-divisional programmes of work, projects, products, services in accordance with the FAO Strategic Framework.
Key Functions
- Plans, manages, or leads highly specialized or multidisciplinary teams, leads, coordinates, and/or participates on Organization-wide, cross-divisional committees, project teams, and working groups, and/or provides technical leadership/secretariat services on technical networks and/or international technical policy and standard setting bodies.
- Ensures the integration of gender equality and women's empowerment in FAO's work, including the disaggregation of data by sex and age where appropriate.
- Analyses global and country specific requirements and relevant technical issues to provide critical input into the FAO Strategic Framework, Programme of Work, work plans and the supporting budgets and/or resourcing strategies.
- Implements and monitors programmes of work involving the development of the approach, evidence-based strategies, and related tools, methodologies and the supporting system/database, monitoring and reporting frameworks for gender programming.
- Conducts, designs and oversees research and analysis activities from a gender perspective to support the development of technical standards, international instruments, innovation, technical reports, publications and/or on-going programme development as well as the provision of technical and/or policy advisory services.
- Provides technical and policy advice to Members and technical support to Decentralized Offices in the development and implementation of their programmes.
- Leads and/or collaborates in, provides technical backstopping to, and ensures the quality/effectiveness of capacity development and knowledge sharing activities within Members such as policy support, organizational development and individual learning events including preparation of related information, learning, on-line tools.
- Represents the Organization at international meetings and conferences, identifies and implements strategic partnerships, advocates best practices and increased policy dialogue and develops and negotiates effective working relationships/consensus and agreements with international and national stakeholders.
- Leads and/or participates in resource mobilization activities in accordance with the FAO Strategic Framework.
- Provides guidance, mentoring and advice to junior staff.
Specific Functions