Local Food Safety Specialist - Ho Chi Minh City, Việt Nam - SAFEGRO

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Alinea International - Employment Opportunity

Vietnam Safe Food for Growth Project (SAFEGRO) - Local Food Safety Specialist (HCMC)**
Position: Local Food Safety Specialist - SAFEGRO Project


Employment Type:
Full-time, for duration of project


Location:
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam


Reports to:
Project Director

Alinea International Ltd.

(Canada) provides management and technical expertise to developing and transitional country partners on projects that promote sustainable growth and meaningful opportunities for people to improve their lives.

Alinea is currently recruiting a Local Food Safety Specialist for the Safe Food for Growth project (SAFEGRO) which is funded by the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada (GAC).

The project will operate across the agri-food value chains by engaging and building the capacity of three main target groups: the public sector (enabling environment), the private sector (supply side), and the consumer (demand side) to achieve 3 inter-related component outcomes:

• Intermediate Outcome (1100): "Improved performance of national and subnational governments in food safety regulation enforcement along the value chain to meet international standards";
• Intermediate Outcome (1200): "Increased competitiveness of poor farmers and other actors, particularly women, supplying safe agrifood products to domestic and international markets";
• Intermediate Outcome (1300): "Increased consumer demand for safe and affordable agrifood in Vietnam".

In partnership with the University of Guelph (Canada), Alinea International works with national and sub-national governments to enforce food safety regulations, private sector suppliers to increase the competitiveness of Vietnamese food products domestically and internationally, and consumers to improve demand for safe food in Vietnam.

Key partners on this project include The Ministry of Agriculture Rural Development (MARD), the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT), the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh city agencies, and other Vietnamese Academic Institutes.

In Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), the project works in coordination with Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Department of Food Safety, and other agencies through local Intersectoral Working Group[1] and Supporting Group to provide technical support to selected agri-food value chains (e.g.

vegetables from Phu Loc Cooperative and Phong Thuy company, and aquaculture from Tuong Lai - Can Gio cooperative), Binh Dien wholesale market, etc.

Local Food Safety Specialist will be based full-time in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, reports directly to the Project Director (PD) or his/her designated Project Manager and will be responsible for the overall day-to-day delivery, results-based management, monitoring and reporting on progress of technical assistance and capacity development activities from the project in HCMC and the adjacent supply chain provinces.

She/he will work in a team of international and national specialists to ensure high quality support to the Government agencies and chain actors to achieve the expected project outcomes.

Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Engage with local government partners, through local Inter-sectoral Working Group and Supporting Groups, with support from Local Project Coordinator, to ensure good coordination of project technical assistance and training inputs in HCMC.
• Work with other international and national specialists to deliver high quality and well coordinated technical assistance and training activities to local government agencies and chain actors to achieve the project outputs and outcomes, as identified in the Logic Model where food safety risk assessment and detailed value chain analysis is required with a focus on HCMC to:
• Provide assessment of local capacity in risk assessment and advise on setting up a national risk assessment network with a focus on HCMC.
• Develop guidance on the implementation of an assessment for both qualitative and quantitative food safety risks.
• Develop training materials, guidance manuals and other technical documents specifically related to sciencebased and riskbased approaches to food safety decisionmaking.
• Plan and conduct training workshops on the concepts of hazards, risks, exposure assessment in risk analysis and food standard setting.
• Coordinate and oversee the analysis of selected Vietnamese agrifood value chains as well as constraints and opportunities related to agribusiness investment options with emphasis on the functionality of markets, support services, trade policies, market institutions and organizations, risk management systems, food safety control systems and private sector engagement.
• Coordinate and oversee the implementation of training programs throughout the value chain including farmer field schools and other aspects of specific training for value chain nodes.
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