Job Description
Program Background :
Amalima, a USAID Office of Food for Peace funded program seeks to improve livelihoods through increased agricultural productivity, income diversification, increased access to financial services, and strengthened community-managed disaster risk reduction systems. Amalima also seeks to improve household nutrition through improved diets for women and children, improved caring practices for children, improved availability and use of water and sanitation, and facilitate better distribution of nutritious foods. The project will benefit over 200,000 individuals in the districts of Tsholotsho in Matabeleland North province; Bulilima, Mangwe, and Gwanda in Matabeleland South province in Zimbabwe. A combination of capacity building, training and mentoring, food rations, vouchers, matching grants, and community-based messaging and mobilization strategies will be employed to achieve the results.
Program Objective: Design and supervise dam construction and rehabilitation and dip tank rehabilitation as specified by Amalima, design and supervise implementation of catchment protection works around specified dams and dip tanks in Tsholotsho, Mangwe, Gwanda and Bulilima districts.
Period of Performance: 1st May to September 2018
Expected Start Date: 1st May 2018
Assignment Objective: The main objective of this assignment is to survey, design and implement plans for establishing a dam and rehabilitating dams and dip tanks in Bulilima, Mangwe, Tsholotsho and Gwanda districts. The consultant will also be required to assess the damage caused by rains to completed dams and non-Amalima supported dams and produces plans for rehabilitating these dams and supervising the rehabilitation process; and conducts environmental assessments of catchment areas of selected dams and dip tanks, produce implementation plans and supervise implementation of the plans using CFA labor. The consultant will be required to provide operation and training guidelines. The material should be available for use by Amalima project officers in training beneficiary farmers.
Scope of Work: Amalima requires the services of 2 Supervising Engineers/Consultants to assess selected Cash for Assets projects and supervise rehabilitation and catchment area protection works on the identified assets in Lot 1 (Gwanda and Mangwe) and Lot 2 (Bulilima and Tsholotsho) districts from 1st May 2018 to 30 September 2018. The rehabilitation/protection processes will be labour intensive targeting vulnerable and able bodied members of the community. The consultants will produce a narrative of the works to be done, design plans to rehabilitate works and provide technical support over the period indicated below in close collaboration with program staff.
Detailed Technical Requirements: The Supervising Engineers will be expected to work closely with the Environment and Resilience Specialist and the Natural Resources Management Team Leaders and Field Officers in the field to monitor quality of work, ensure good workmanship by all workers, ensure adherence to designs, and ensure best practices and norms during rehabilitation/construction/protection of assets.
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Submit cover letter and CV to
Amalima.consultancy.services@gmail.com and write title of the position they are applying for in the subject line by end of day on 16th April 2018.
Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
About the Organization
About CNFA:
CNFA is a not-for-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to stimulating economic growth in the agricultural sector by nurturing entrepreneurship, private enterprise and market linkages. CNFA specializes in fostering private sector investments in training, new technologies and marketing as a means to increase the overall competitiveness of agricultural value chains, to expand exports, and to develop skills in the rural workforce. CNFA assists smallholders in increasing household-level food security and nutrition through improved agricultural practices, introduction of new varieties, diversification of crop production, food preservation and storage, development of farmer-based organizations (FBOs) and strengthened linkages to markets.
