Job Description
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Specific Objectives
- Review, consolidate, and validate existing consultation instruments, datasets, and evidence from Kenya, Nigeria, and relevant regional initiatives to build a robust evidence base.
- Produce foundational tools for standardization, including: A Core Data-Element List (to define priority information fields); A Common Lexicon (to ensure consistent terminology across geographies); and A Minimal Metadata Template (to support data documentation, traceability, and quality assurance).
- Draft the Pastoral Data Collection and Sharing Standards & Guidelines covering: Data collection protocols and instruments; Metadata standards and quality controls; Interoperability requirements for digital platforms and systems; Governance structures for data access and use; and Protocols for dissemination, cross-border related data exchange, and sharing practices.
- Develop an adaptation and adoption frameworks to support country-level contextualization and adoption, including: Guidance notes for national adaptation while preserving continental comparability; Refined Terms of Reference for Task Forces overseeing implementation; Review and alignment of 12-month work plans for Kenya and Nigeria as demonstration cases for broader continental roll-out.
Scope of Work
- The consultant will provide technical leadership to consolidate existing evidence and consultation inputs and develop a continentally generalized package of Pastoral Data Collection and Sharing Standards & Guidelines that can be adopted and adapted across APMD geographies (as indicated in the Specific Objectives, above). The scope will cover the following core areas:
- Consolidate and quality-assure consultation artefacts, datasets, and related evidence from Kenya, Nigeria, and relevant regional initiatives; identify overlaps, gaps, and priority areas that require harmonization; and produce a synthesis that will form the technical evidence base for the Standards & Guidelines.
- Develop the foundational harmonization tools (Design a Core Data-Element List identifying priority information fields relevant to pastoral livestock sector; Develop Common Lexicon to standardize terminology across geographies and disciplines; Create Minimal Metadata Template to insure data quality, traceability, sand comparability) to serve as building blocks for standardization.
- Draft the Pastoral Data Collection and Sharing Standards & Guidelines, addressing standardized protocols and instruments for pastoral data collection; Metadata and quality assurance requirements; Digital and system interoperability provisions; Governance frameworks for data management and access; and Dissemination, and cross-border data-sharing practices.
- Develop practical guidance notes to support country-level contextualization while maintaining continental comparability; Refine and strengthen Terms Of References (TOR) for Task Force that will oversee national adaptation and operationalization; and Review and align the 12-month work plans of Task Forces in Kenya and Nigeria, as demonstration cases for wider continental roll-out.
Qualifications and Skills
- Advanced degree (Master’s or higher) in rangeland/livestock sciences, agricultural economics, data science/information systems, or closely related field.
- Demonstrated excellence in technical writing, standards documentation, and facilitation of multi-stakeholder technical processes; strong organizational and communication skills.
General Professional Experience
- 10+ years working with data ecosystems in pastoral/livestock value chains within Africa (public sector, research/academia, or development programs), including lighthouse or cross-country initiatives.
- Proven experience leading desk reviews, evidence consolidation, and consultative processes involving ministries, national statistics offices, sub-national authorities, private data providers, and regional bodies.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should submit the following documents:
- A Technical proposal on how the applicants will accomplish the assignment: description of the proposed methodology to accomplish the assignment, time line and stakeholders and information resources maps.
- Detailed curriculum vitae of key main expert / expert-consortium.
- Copies of professional and academic certificates,
- Three referees and samples of / links to previous relevant tasks
- Signed Declaration on Exclusion Criteria for the consult or consortium (format provided)
Deadline of Submission
All applications should be submitted via email to procurement@au-ibar.org with a copy to albert.obiero@au-ibar.org and should include the title “Development of Pastoral Data Collection & Pan-African Standards & Guidelines” on or before 29th October 2025 at 23:59 Nairobi Local Time.
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