Overview
The Fishery Officer (Aquatic Food Value Chains) role focuses on supporting the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, with specific emphasis on aquatic food value chain development.
Key Responsibilities
- Researches, analyses and provides access to fisheries and aquaculture technical, social, economic, environmental, institutional and technology related data, and information and/or related policy issues.
- Produces a variety of technical data, statistics, information and reports, as well as input for technical documents and web pages.
- Provides technical, statistical, and/or analytical services on various studies, projects and initiatives, and/or assessments; provides technical backstopping to field projects.
- Participates in the development of improved/updated technical, statistical and/or analytical tools, methodologies, systems, databases and/or key social/economic/environmental/ nutritional and/or early warning indicators.
- Participates in multidisciplinary teams and/or leads working groups/teams; collaborates with other Divisions/Offices/Centres on work groups and committees and promotes best practices.
- Collaborates in, provides technical backstopping to and ensures the quality/effectiveness of capacity development activities within Members.
- Promotes knowledge sharing and best practices at international meetings and conferences and influences partners in stakeholder consultations.
- Supports resource mobilization activities.
- Supports the formulation, interpretation and implementation of policy guidelines and best practices for efficient national, regional and international implementation of Blue Transformation, with specific focus on aquatic food value chain development.
- Plans, formulates, and manages aquatic food value chain efficiency and sustainability improvement projects and programmes as well as in other related pro-poor projects, guides their implementation.
- Develops, provides advice and guidance to Member Nations, international organizations and industry organizations on food loss and waste reduction, aquatic food processing, value added products.
- Supports the development, revision and implementation of the appropriate methodological guide for food loss assessment.
- Contributes to the design, implementation and evaluation of capacity building related to multidimensional solutions to reduce FLW in aquatic food value chains.
- Identifies studies and interventions for aquatic food value chain development in ways that contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction, improved utilization and address gender inequalities within a pro-poor framework.
- Supports the Committee on Fisheries (COFI), the Sub-Committee on Fish Trade (COFI-FT) and the Sub-Committee on Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI-SCA) on aquatic food value chain issues.
- Collaborates with other FAO units, international organizations, Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) in the field of aquatic food value chains.
- Performs other related duties.
Required Experience
- Five years of relevant experience in food value chain development and related fields.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions, is desirable.
- Extent and relevance of experience in aquatic food value chain assessment, FLW assessment and solutions in aquatic food value chains.
- Experience in aquatic food value chains with background on food loss and waste is highly desirable.
- Extent and relevance of experience in developing countries and countries in transition
- Extent and relevance of experience in organizing international meetings, seminars and training courses
- Extent and relevance of experience in policy and technical guidance in aquatic food value chain development
- Experience in aquatic resource utilization and processing are highly desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in agricultural/fishery economics, food science/technology, business administration or other fields relevant to food value chains.
