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. Mainstreaming the AHMF in VTI
   • Work closely with the university faculty staff, clinical year students and the Brooke management to ensure that AHMF is used to mentor and assess clinical year students

   • Training of clinical year students in equine medicine and AHMF application 

   • Train teachers and students on good animal welfare practices, compassionate handling 

   • Together the focal person, conduct AHMF training for university instructors and students. Lobby university academic administration bodies in mainstreaming AHMF in the university teaching-learning practice, enable the utilization AHMF tool as part of measuring student competency.
   • Ensure availability and utilization of essential drugs in the university
   • Undertake initial AHMF baseline for clinical year students and follow-up on quarterly basis 
   • Integrate CSL training with AHMF in the AWHT centres  
2. Establishment of CSL in VTI
   • Work closely university academic staffs and focal person in establishing and strengthening of CSL. Mainstream CSL in the course curriculum as part of standalone or integrated approach for teaching and learning
   • Coordinate the university CSL innovation activities (ensure innovation, adoption of best and appropriate clinical skill model with local resources)
   • Support welfare friendly teaching-learning practices in place through utilization of clinical skill models
   • Help the establishment of  actively moving and innovative animal welfare club from all willing and innovative vet students 
   • Meet regularly with the animal welfare clubs to promote innovativeness and replacement of models in sustainable way
   • Ensure that the protocols set for the use of the CSL by students is being adhered 
   • Ensure that the Brooke animal health and welfare policies and approaches are promoted and adhered to in the university and operational area (euthanasia policy, working with animals, CH etc...)
3. Lead clinical year students outreach programmes 

• In close collaboration with the university staff, facilitate welfare friendly community services/outreach programs by clinical year students.

• Work with other urban and rural local service providers and communities to ensure that services are welfare friendly and acceptable/ adaptable by owners and users.

• Ensure that students apply their AHMF skills during all outreach programmes and use essential medicines 

• Promote  standardisation exercise and feed backing between clinical year students and mentors 

1. Mentor and support the VTI focal persons 
   • Train and support the VTI focal persons to deliver their roles related to the joint agreement with the VTI and the Brooke. 
2. Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting:
   • Participate in the assessment of EWOB and other animal based indicators (ABI) and KAP of owners and users to inform local and need based programing 
     • Participate in planning meetings to triangulate EWOB findings.
     • Quarterly report AHMF findings of the clinical year students and other mentored AHPs in precise and quality way
     • Compile stories of change from learnings at least once in a quarter 

• Maintain and update records of equines, equine owners and local service providers within the operational areas.

• Coordinate and support Research works as appropriate (in collaboration with other academic staffs  and/or focal person)

• Ensure that best practices in the Program area with regard are documented and shared   with relevant stakeholders (in collaboration with the university focal person).

•  Ensure that key lessons from the programme are captured (preparation of case and success stories), documented, and used for programme development

General

• Undertake any other repentant tasks assigned by the line manager in ways in which it will not harm the objectives of the stated job mandates 

• Participate in training s and other capacity development programmes that support your roles 

• Mandatory safeguarding training and adhere to it

• Mandatory pre-training agreement to be signed by students and instructors