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General Information:

  • Job Title: Non-Ruminant Nutritionist
  • REF: NRN/LGFNR/16/25
  • Grade: HG 13
  • Minimum Base Salary: Birr 42,084 per month
  • Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support and coordinate poultry feed-focused youth employment interventions in RAYEE II project areas, including developing and deploying poultry feeding packages and feed sources with high autonomy.
  • Coordinate the introduction of innovative and cost-effective poultry feeding technologies for organized women’s and youth groups in the RAYEE II project areas (e.g., precision feeding, alternative protein sources such as black soldier fly larvae, or BSF).
  • Facilitate collaboration with RAYEE II project partners and local stakeholders for joint implementation of poultry feed-related innovations.
  • Coordinate poultry feed capacity development activities, including the preparation of training materials and other documentation, with a focus on job creation.
  • Provide tailored training, advisory, and support services for women and youth groups on poultry feed formulation, production, and marketing.
  • Collaborate with the project team in documenting and disseminating lessons learned, case studies, and innovative success stories related to poultry feed delivery.
  • Contribute to quality technical reporting, including preparation and timely progress submission and annual technical reports.
  • Conduct data analysis using appropriate statistical and econometric software.
  • Coordinate stakeholder workshops, including consultative, planning, and review workshops.
  • Conduct a literature review on poultry feed-related subjects with special focus on alternative and indigenous feed resources.
  • Prepare research papers, guidelines, tools, briefs, and scientific presentations, as well as technical reports.
  • Perform any other related duties as may be required.

Academic and professional qualifications:

Education:

  • Master’s degree in animal nutrition, Animal Production, Animal Sciences, poultry Science, or a relevant field

Experience:

  • A minimum of three years or more of relevant work experience in poultry feed research for development activities

Skills:

  • Practical experience in feed inventory studies
  • Practical and working knowledge of ration formation and training farmers/youth, if possible, in other alternative feed sources such as BSF and Banana stems
  • Extensive experience in the poultry value chain development, including engagement with farmer /women and youth-related interventions
  • Extensive understanding of the different poultry production systems in Ethiopia
  • Proven ability to train and mentor youth and SMEs
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to innovate

How to Apply:

Applicants should provide a cover letter and curriculum vitae; names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to be included in the curriculum vitae. The position and reference number: REF: NRN/LGFNR/16/25 should be clearly indicated in the subject line of the cover letter. All applications to be submitted online on our recruitment portal: http://ilri.simplicant.com/ on or before 17 November 2025. For more details visit official website: www.ilri.org

Company Overview:

The International Livestock Research Institute or ILRI is an international agricultural research institute within the CGIAR – formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research. It was established in 1994 by merger of the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases in Nairobi in Kenya, and the International Livestock Centre for Africa in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.