Composting Expert - Food System Challenge – FSC

Berytech has recently launched the call for applications. Twenty SMEs and cooperatives were shortlisted out of which 10 entities were selected to receive a support package of one hundred thousand dollar (USD 100,000) in cash grant and technical assistance to help them develop their solutions. Selected participants were chosen based on their project’s final impact on the food system in Lebanon, throughout the food value chain, be it on the producer end or at the consumer level. Impact includes improved food security, impact on local rural producers and communities, labor, and consumer. Within that framework, Berytech hire technical consultants to deliver the assistance within a specific scope determined on case-by-case basis after a thorough business needs assessments.

Berytech seeks an external consultant to support a well-established company in developing best composting practices to process chicken manure.

The Consultant’s scope of work is expected to fulfill, but not limited to, the following:

• Review feedstock mixture and support in building recipe tool and volume reduction assumptions.
• Support in establishing odor control and prevention protocols.
• Support in developing carbon material recovery strategy and cost structure.
• Support in establishing a leachate management and recovery systems.
• Provide best practices for curing withing the company’s available facility

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in agricultural engineering or any other related field
• At least 10 years of experience with proven record of working on similar projects
• Good communications and report writing skills.
• Fluent in English and Arabic

The selected Consultant is expected to start his/her activities the soonest after selection; exact timeline and effective working days are to be set based on both company’s and Consultant’s availabilities.

Candidates should submit the following documents:

• Technical (maximum two pages) describing the methodology to conduct the work based on the content suggested in section: “Scope of Work, Outputs, and Deliverables” elaborating it further.
• Profile and project references (maximum two pages): A brief explanation of the consultant(s) background should be submitted (CVs shall be included as annex) along with project references on the topic.
• Financial Proposal describing the expected remuneration and the proposed timeframe of the intervention.