Short-term Expert on Flexible Digesters for Biogas Production in Rural Areas

Short terme expert on flexible digesters for biogas production in rural areas - SRI LANKA

Project: ECODAIRY 2024-2026. Support for the productive and ecological transition of livestock models and value chains.

Completion: 1st half of 2025

Duration: 21 days in 3 missions

Mission : installation of two flexible digesters for training and demonstration purposes in rural areas

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Identification of two sites in 2 family dairy farms
• Preparation of plans, installation notice and operating & maintenance guide
• Installation of two flexi-digesters
• Orientation of livestock technicians and farmers on methanization and on domestic biogas production with flexi digesters
• On-the job training

 Qualifications and experience required:

• Proven practical experience of setting up, managing and using of flexible digesters for rural biogas production.
• Experience in international consultancy, preferably in South Asia and/or tropical regions
• Working and writing language: English

Applications that do not meet the minimum criteria will not be considered and no further information will be given. 

If you feel that your profile meets most of the above criteria, you are invited to reply online and/or send your updated CV to vigan.dervishi@idele.fr

indicating ‘BIOGAS CV’ in the subject line (nothing else, thank you).

 Shortlisted candidates will be contacted (no phone calls please).

The Institut de l'Elevage (Idele) is France's benchmark technical institute for the cattle, sheep and goat sectors. A non-profit, non-governmental organisation, Idele employs over 300 experts and has an annual turnover of €35 million. At international level, its International Technical Cooperation Office (BCTI) brings together the skills of all French livestock organisations to offer a full range of services: expertise, auditing, professional training, technical assistance and consultancy for the development of the cattle, sheep and goat sectors.

The BCTI supports both private investment and the development of public regulations or national programmes. In recent years, the BCTI has been involved in some fifteen countries in the Mediterranean basin, Eastern Europe (CIS) and the Balkans, Central Asia, Latin America and West and East Africa.