Company Address: Address P.O. Box 30772-00100 Nairobi, Kenya
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Senior Research Officer I
Overall Purpose of the Job The Senior Research Officer I will take the lead in evaluating the contribution of new agricultural approaches on nutrition and food safety towards a One Health Approach. The candidate is expected to develop, coordinate and implement longitudinal studies to assess household determinants of nutrition and quality of life. The candidate…
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Laboratory Officer
Overall Purpose of the Job The job holder will ensure ongoing compliance and appropriate use and maintenance of the Martin Lüscher Emerging Infectious Diseases (ML-EID) laboratory, ensuring that Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) are maintained. He/she will also maintain and update ML-EID lab records, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and equipment maintenance and sample storage records. Specific…
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Software Engineer Research Scientist (Social Sciences and Impact Assessment Unit)
Overall Purpose of the Job The Software Engineer is expected to establish agile methodologies that meet standard software engineering principles in delivering high-quality data-driven web software (with GIS integrated) that will meet icipe’s 4-H paradigm (Environmental, Plant, Human, and Animal Health Themes) expectations. Specific Duties Design, implement, test, and deploy robust, secured, and containerized web-based…
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Postdoctoral Fellow (Vector Chemical Ecologist)
Overall purpose of the job Reporting to the Senior Scientist and Head of Animal Health Theme, the successful applicant will be responsible for: Work within the research group focused on developing and implementing an Integrated Vector Management (IVM) strategy to counter the threat of transmission of vector-borne diseases to livestock and humans. The holder will…
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Head of Communications
Overall purpose of the job In collaboration with the management team, the successful candidate will design and implement a Centre-wide communications strategy, boosting the visibility of the Centre to its international donors, and sharing the results of its research widely. A communications team of full-time staff, consultants and several communications officers and social scientists across…
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Manager, People and Organisation Development (MPOD) Director General (DG) Head, Behavioral & Chemical Ecology Unit
Overall purpose of the job The Manager, People and Organisation Development (MPOD) reports to the Director of Finance and Administration (DFA). The MPOD leads in the provision of HR services and other applicable services to all the Centre’s staff, applicable hosted staff, visiting scientists, students and consultants. The MPOD implements employee attraction, retention, development and…
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Geospatial Research Officer
Overall Purpose of the Job To provide GIS and earth observation support to the Malaria Vector Atlas project through developing high-quality GIS products of mosquito vectors and associated diseases that will be published to the vector Atlas data hub. Specific Duties Develop high-quality study area and baseline GIS map products using various GIS software (e.g.,…
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Research Officer I (Human Health Theme)
Overall Purpose of the Job To support research projects based at ITOC Mbita and Muhaka Filed Station with One Health and veterinary component; this includes the support of experimental work with animals, development of animal health protocols and animal surveillance at a community level. Specific Duties Support the development of study protocols and standard operating…
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Bioinformatics (Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Unit)
Overall purpose of the job The job holder will offer icipe Bioinformatics Leadership, Data Analysis support, and capacity building. Specific duties Provide support for Bioinformatics data analysis within icipe (genomics, transcriptomics, and metagenomics data). Build Bioinformatics capacity within the center by developing and maintaining analysis workflows, establishing infrastructure, and training programs. Develop and maintain bioinformatics software for different…
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Research Officer I
Overall Purpose of the Job Handling the following research activities: Virus isolation, Arboviruses Surveillance. Molecular identification of DNA pathogens from ticks. ISFVs colony maintenance in the insectary. Conduct ISFV superinfection experiments. Specific Duties Cell culture maintenance and virus isolation in C6/36 (from Aedes albopictus), Sua 5b (from Anopheles gambiae) and Vero cells from monkey kidney.…