Livestock and Environment Specialist
Closes: 02/Feb/2026, 10:59:00 PM
Primary Location: Italy-Rome
Duration: 11 months
About the role:
The incumbent will support the team in expanding and updating the approaches that are used to quantify emission baselines and the impact of mitigation interventions for livestock systems and recommend and implement new state-of-the art approaches for additional species and emission sources, a systematic collection and harmonization of relevant data sets globally, and adequate documentation following international standards, online visualization and advanced data management and analysis, technical guideline developments, e-learning course preparation, as well as the organization of sustainable livestock transformation conferences and livestock multistakeholder partnership events and activities.
Tasks and responsibilities:
• Review the current implementation of livestock/environment assessments and recommend updates, ensuring alignment with international guidelines, peer-reviewed literature, and emerging best practices;
• Develop and implement methods to quantify the impact of selected mitigation strategies on GHG emissions in selected countries;
• Design and deliver livestock technical capacity development products, including webinars, technical guidance, and online and in-person training workshops to strengthen national and regional stakeholders' ability to apply livestock environmental assessment and mitigation analysis;
• Support the production of scientific publications and technical reports, as well as communication materials for internal use and for public distribution on the environmental performance and opportunity that carbon markets offer to enhance the sustainability of the livestock sector;
• Contribute to the formulation of project proposals supporting countries to reduce environmental impacts of livestock systems, integrating climate change mitigation, biodiversity, nitrogen use efficiency, water use efficiency, soil carbon stock dynamics, and ecosystem resilience;
• Contribute to the harmonization, maintenance, and quality control of spatial and non-spatial livestock and environmental datasets within the division;
• Support the development of tools and methods to analyse and visualize data;
• Support the organization of the livestock related global conferences and events;
• Contribute to the organization of the livestock multistakeholder partnership activities;
• Attend and contribute to internal and external technical meetings, workshops, and conferences, presenting project updates, model developments, and mitigation analysis results;
• Perform other duties as required.