The Brooke Ethiopia

Job Description

Introduction:

The Brooke hospital for animals (Brooke) is a UK based international animal welfare charity with over 90 years’ experience dedicated to improving the lives of working horses, donkeys and mules with a vision of creating a world where working animals are free from suffering. Brooke’s agendas are directly linked to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal of supporting strong and resilient livelihoods of communities who depend on working equines. 

The Brooke has been working in Ethiopia since 2006 with a country office in Addis Ababa. Currently Brooke runs its animal welfare health improvement programmes in three regions of Ethiopia.

Since April 2022, Brooke focused on strengthening the existing animal health systems by supporting the development of competent, confident, and compassionate animal health practitioners (as defined by Brooke animal health mentoring framework) by closely working with VTI and this job is related to ensuring this and wider objectives that promotes Brooke values with VTI 

Main tasks and responsibilities

1. Project Development
   • Work closely with the team leader and woreda team in collecting information on equine health and welfare, as a basis for equine welfare and health interventions.  This will include identifying and assessing local networks (farrieries, cart and harness makers etc). 
   • Participate in the assessment of animal based indicators baseline (ABI) and KAP of owners and users to inform local and need based programing 
   • Participate in planning meetings to triangulate animal based indicators and KAP baseline findings, and to plan The Brooke’s activities within the project area.
2. Programme Implementation 
   • Actively participate in the data collection of non-intrusive researches conducted in the Woreda
   • Understand the issues faced by the animals by monitoring their daily work/ routine ‘from home to home’
   • Jointly work with the community engagement field officer demonstrating  owners of horses, mules and donkeys how to improve and adapt good husbandry and management practices; like how clean wounds or resolve eye problems by themselves, using locally available materials
   • As per the plans work with rural based structures like FTCs and CBOs (like churches, mosques, schools ETC…) where they exist to promote better animal husbandry and management practices 
   • Participate in community engagement meetings with owners and users to promoting best practices 
   • Lead the Brooke initiated training courses for government veterinary health staff on equine health.
   • Undertake regular monitoring of the clinical quality service and the drug and vaccine revolving fund in each government vet clinic.
   • Lead discussions on challenges that vets faces included difficult cases and provide advice as necessary, including for emergency cases 
   • Support the linkages and coordination between the government vets and private health care service providers (where they exist)  to ensure that the quality of health care services to equines is not compromised 
   • Complete and submit an outbreak report immediately to the government vets and the Brooke if you encounter an animal with a notifiable disease or concerning levels of disease spread (AHS, Anthrax, LSD…).
   • Support the government vet service providers and communities to annually initiate preventive measures before seasonal outbreaks occur.
3. Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting:
   • Work closely with the Woreda team to develop quarterly and monthly plans, and implement as a team
   • Produce and submit quality monthly progress reports to the woreda team leader 
   • Prepare monthly report  from the  AHMF ( Animal Health Mentoring Frame work) findings from the monitoring/mentoring of the health care service providers 
   • Maintain and updated records of equines, equine owners and local service providers within the Brooke operational areas. 
4. Documentation, learning and Sharing 
   • Coordinate and support Research works as appropriate (in collaboration with other teams/departments)
   • Ensure that best practices in the Program Area with regard to Equine Health Welfare issues are documented and shared        with relevant stakeholders (in collaboration with the ICO).
   •  Ensure that key lessons from the programme are captured and documented, and used for programme development.
   • Prepare a one page monthly program update report and submit to the POM for publication by the Communication Department. 
5. General
   • This has included, for example, owners of stone-carrying donkeys; fire wood and timber carrying equines, gharry horse owners, cart donkey owners, equine owners associations etc…to improve the welfare of urban working equines 
   • Meet with the group regularly (perhaps every two weeks/monthly), showing the how to handle their animals well to avoid injuries, and how to treat basic welfare issues effectively. .        Ensure that any Brooke resources in your custody are managed in accordance with relevant Brooke policies and guidelines (financial procedures, fleet management policy, HR manual)

   • Ensure that the Brooke animal health and welfare policies and approaches are promoted and adhered to in your work (including minimum standards, vaccination, deworming)