One Health Advisor (Animal Health)

One Health Advisor (Animal Health)

(Open to Vietnamese Citizens)

Veterinarians without Borders/Vétérinaires sans Frontières (VWB/VSF) provides volunteer placements for veterinarians and other animal and public health professionals.

VWB/VFS is currently co-funding the Volunteers Engaged in Gender Responsive Technical Solutions (VETS) project with Global Affairs Canada (GAC). The VETS project utilises the skills of volunteers to support smallholder farmers, primarily women, to reduce poverty by improving family income and nutrition principally through improved production of livestock and crops. The program is built around the One Health concept, which recognizes that the health of people, animals and the natural environment are interconnected. It promotes the production of more and better food and increased incomes from livestock, all the while promoting land rehabilitation and conservation for sustainable development.

VWB/VSF is currently seeking a volunteer One Health Advisor (Animal Health) to support VWB/VFS partner organization in Vietnam, the Institute of Environmental Health and Sustainable Development (IEHSD). The main aim of the assignment is to assist IEHSD and its local partners to design, implement and evaluate VETS project activities aimed at promoting a One Health approach to livestock production in target communities in Thai Nguyen Province.

The specific objectives of the assignment are to:

• Lead partner and stakeholder engagement and coordination to deliver VETS project activities in the target communities.
• Lead the design and implementation of One Health Demonstration Site activities in the target communities.
• Assist a volunteer Canadian Veterinarian in designing and implementing Community Animal Health Worker training in target communities. 
• Lead the monitoring and evaluation of VETS project activities in target communities.

The assignment is for a period of nine months starting in July 2022. The position will be based in Thai Nguyen City with regular travel to VETS project target communities in Bao Cuong Commune, Dinh Hoa District and Lau Thuong Commune, Vo Nhai District. The placement is open to citizens of Vietnam only.

Candidates will ideally have previous experience in designing and conducting field-based trainings on veterinary medicine, animal husbandry, environmental health, or public health topics in rural communities.

Other desired qualifications and skills include:

• Tertiary qualifications in Veterinary Medicine, Animal Husbandry, Environmental Health, Public Health or related discipline, preferably at the postgraduate level.
• Good understanding of the principles and practices of the One Health approach.
• Experience in teaching complex concepts to community stakeholders with limited technical understanding of the topic.
• Strong coordination skills, including the ability to engage and motive teams/working groups of partners and stakeholders towards achieving a common goal.
• Experience in collecting and analyzing monitoring and evaluation data and information. 
• Good working knowledge of Englishand ability to act as an English-Vietnamese interpreter.
• Advanced computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Experience working on donor-funded projects.
• Commitment to the principles of volunteer cooperation and familiarity with participatory approaches to development, including the promotion of gender equality, good governance and environmental sustainability.

Successful candidates will receive a monthly living allowance of 1,500CAD (approximately 27,000,000VND). VWB/VSF will provide health insurance for the duration of the placement.

Interested candidates are invited to send their curriculum vitae (CV), and cover letter outlining their interest in working on the VETS project, in English via email to [email protected] by 8^th June 2022.