Micro-agribusiness and food security specialist K’anchay, Vila Vila & Cochabamba, Bolivia International Service Bolivia (UNAIS) www.isbolivia.org Job Opening

Many children in rural communities in Bolivia face a lack of educational opportunities, including through a scarcity of secondary schools, distance from school, and a national curriculum that doesn't respond to local realities.

K'anchay ("to illuminate" in Quechua) manages/co-manages 8 boarding schools that focus on validating Quechua traditions and agricultural knowledge through experiential learning.

The K'anchay centre in Vila Vila provides training in sustainable agriculture, soil conservation, reforestation, nutritional crops, small animal husbandry and preventive health care, as well as preparing young people for leadership positions within their own community.

Your role will be to support the agricultural/agribusiness training programme at Vila Vila as well as supporting organisation-wide planning processes at K'anchay's headquarters in Cochabamba.

You will be involved in designing curricula, delivering training in basic agribusiness skills, helping to strengthen local agricultural markets, and supporting K'anchay's board members in planning, monitoring and evaluation and fundraising.

Good spoken and written Spanish and a willingness to learn Quechua are essential.

See www.isbolivia.org/blog or www.internationalservice.org.uk for more information or to apply for this position. Job reference number: (REF: BOL/49) Position open until filled Posted October 28, 2008.