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  • Research Associate – Agronomist and Nursery Data Analyst Consultant

    Research Associate – Agronomist and Nursery Data Analyst Consultant

    The Position: The Research Associate will be expected to support in leading field activities with partners to support potato seed system development and potato production. Focus areas include apical cuttings and new varieties of potato, and technically backstopping nurseries and seed business producing and using apical cuttings, respectively. The Research Associate is to have expertise in potato agronomy, seed production and nursery management to produce apical cuttings. Maintaining partnerships in all activities is key applying to all responsibilities.

    This position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya and report to the Senior Scientist.

    Key responsibilities:

    Coordinate field activities for potato seed system development with focus on apical cuttings and new varieties
    Conduct capacity building interventions for seed multipliers, farmers, partners, private sector enterprises;
    Coordinate and support planning and delivery of field days and training sites managed by partners.
    Provide technical backstopping to nursery operators producing apical cuttings and seed producers producing seed from cuttings
    Work with partner to coordinate and monitor activities, such as extension training of trainers followed by farmer training, and monitor collection of all event and field data.
    Produce progress report of the field activities including maintaining database of monitoring data and managing and analyzing technical and economic data.

    Requirements

    Minimum MSc degree in Agronomy, Agribusiness, Agricultural Development, or a related field;
    At least six years’ experience in agriculture in general of which 3 years working with potato, of which at least 2 years with differing classes of seed potato.
    Excellent skills in managing partnerships with senior level officials to farmers
    Excellent knowledge and experience in supporting nurseries to produce apical cuttings of potato
    Excellent knowledge and experience in supporting seed businesses to produce seed potato from apical cuttings
    Excellent skills in coordinating and monitoring large scale agricultural training programs with several partners
    Collecting diverse kinds of data form all activities
    Excellent data analysis, synthesis and report writing skills
    Advanced level of MS Office. 
    Advanced written and oral communication skills in English.
    Fluent in Kiswahili.

    Benefits

    Why should you consider this opportunity?

    CIP is a global and reputable international organization that has a strong, state-of-the-art R&D background, and is a recent World Food Price Winner and awarded with the Al-Sumait Award for our Orange Flesh Sweet Potato work in Africa. 
    CIP is dedicated to achieving food security, improved nutrition and well-being, and gender equality for poor people in root and tuber farming and food systems of the developing world.
    CIP is a member of the CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food secure future dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources.

    What are the conditions?

    The position is Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position limited to Kenya nationals and permanent residents only. The employment contract will be for 5 months (with a 3-month probation period), possibility of renewal, subject to availability of funding. Any offer made with regards to this vacancy is conditional to the formal award of the grant.

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  • Operations Africa Consultancy

    Operations Africa Consultancy

    Purpose of Assignment

    Develop Finance and Operational manual and right tools which includes the areas of Logistics, Grants and Contracts, Information Technology, Security and Risk, People and Organizational Development.
    Develop and Update Travel policies and procedures.
    Strengthen fraud prevention and incident management: policies and procedures
    Standard Manual of operations for all country offices

    For all of the above, ensure that advisory internal audit recommendations are taken into consideration
    Deliverables
    The Consultant will deliver the following with the corresponding details:

    Finance and Operational manual
    Update Travel policies and procedures
    Update fraud prevention and incident management policies and procedures

    Requirements

    MBA or comparable qualification. The successful candidate will have about 8 to 10 years of experience in project-based organizations.
    Prior work experience in achieving results on the ground in more than one world region.
    Strong professional experience in management of financial resources preferably in a non-profit environment.

    Apply via :

    recruit.zohopublic.com

  • Consultant – Senior Advisor

    Consultant – Senior Advisor

    The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking to recruit a dynamic and experienced Senior Advisor on a consultancy basis.
    The Position: The Consultant will support the seed potato inspection and certification guidelines and protocol within the regulatory framework of vegetatively propagated crops in SSA.
    Key responsibilities:
    Review the seed production and certification regulations and protocols for seed potato in particularly the seed regulations, the inspection and certification manual for vegetatively propagated planting materials, taking into account the Regional and International best practices.
    Review the SSA certification scheme for seed potato to incorporate the EAC, COMESA and other international standards, in conformity with the seed Act.
    Prepare SWAT analysis of seed certification standards/procedure/protocol from Europe, USA, SSA.
    Selection Criteria
    At least a PhD. in Seed system, Agronomy, Pathology or related field.
    At least 20-30 years of relevant work experience in seed certification and regulation for vegetatively propagated crops.
    Demonstrated understanding of seed law and specifically seed movement in East Africa.
    Demonstrated ability to work effectively under tight and strict deadlines and produce quality outputs.
    Fluent in Kiswahili.
    Advanced written and oral communication skills in English.
    What are the conditions?
    This is a national consultancy position limited to Kenya nationals and permanent residents only. The consultancy will be for a period of 16 days.

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    cipotato.org

  • Consultant – Data Entry and Analysis

    Consultant – Data Entry and Analysis

    The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking to recruit a dynamic and experienced Data Entry and Analysis consultant.
    The Position: The Demand-Driven Sweetpotato Breeding Project (DS breeding project), implemented by the Internatinal Potato Center and its partners, conducted qualitative study involving sweetpotato farmers. Data were collected to facilitate understanding the traits farmers value in sweetpotato, how those traits are prioritized and of the reasons behind the selection of priority traits. Data were collected from both men and women producers using laddering technique and involving some 40 farmers. The purpose of this work is to enter the data collected in an appropiate software, analyze them and presents the outputs/results in the desired format.
    Key responsibilities:

    Conduct content analysis of laddering interviews to identify attributes, consequences and values
    Generate laddering codes from the interviews
    Enter qualitative data from 40 interviews into appropriate software, e.g., MecAnalyts or LadderUX
    Carry out analysis of the data and present the results in well formatted form
    Revise the laddering codes and results based on comments from the research coordinator
    Provide soft data

    Selection Criteria

    At least a BSc degree in agriculture, agricultural economics, agribusiness, Agricultural Education & Extension; Project Planning and Management or a related field. Master’s degree preferred
    Knowledge of laddering data interpretation, entry and analysis in qualitative software.
    Demonstrated experience in using MECAnalyst or LadderUX software.
    Minimum of 3 years of experience working with and analyzing laddering data.
    Demonstrated ability to effective present and communicate research results.
    Demonstrated ability to work effectively under tight and strict deadlines and produce quality outputs.
    Advanced level of MS Office.
    Advanced knowledge of database work
    Fluent in Kiswahili.
    Advanced oral communication and technical writing skills in English.

    What are the conditions?
    This is a national consultancy position limited to Kenya nationals and permanent residents only. The consultancy will be for a period of 3 months.

  • Consultancy – Adapting OFSP ToT manual into e-learning

    Consultancy – Adapting OFSP ToT manual into e-learning

    The position: (CIP) is seeking a consultancy firm that can adapt and develop the existing Sweetpotato (SP) Training of Trainers (ToT) manual entitled “Everything You Wanted to Know about Sweetpotato” into a series of self‐guided e‐learning modules. The sweetpotato ToT manual is a compilation of twelve topics on sweetpotato knowledge and accompanying hands-on activities. The course is currently delivered through classroom/workshop and field-based methodologies targeted at technical experts (agriculturalists, nutritionists, marketing, and gender experts). These trainers in turn deliver a shorter version of the course to extension personnel, community-based agents, or lead farmers who finally train the end users in their communities. CIP proposes to adapt this manual into a series of self‐guided e‐learning modules targeted at different levels in this chain and delivered alone or in combination with face-to-face interactions with the goal to reach wider constituencies more cost-effectively.
    The specific objectives of this consultancy include the following:

    Translate the technical content into relevant, engaging e‐learning modules suitable for a diverse audience in CIP’s target countries in Africa and possibly South Asia, and which can also be translated into local languages where applicable.
    Provide an effective and efficient learning experience to participants through both stand-alone e-learning and in combination with face-to-face learning events.
    Create training materials and user interfaces that utilize a range of stimulating formats and technologies, drawing on existing information and knowledge products and complementing these where needed.
    Provide options for CIP’s national and local partners to use this e-learning course for institutional staff development and quality control of technical competencies.
    Provide delivery options for multimedia e‐learning content to audiences in regions with limited or no regular Internet connectivity.

    Scope of Work
    The consultant will adapt the SP manual content into e-learning modules that will include the following components;

    Based on the existing ToT manual content, the consultant will design and develop blended (instructor-led and self-guided) e-learning modules that will include facilitator enablement (ToT), job aids and reference guides for participants.
    The e‐learning modules developed should be relevant, engaging, and suitable for a diverse audience in CIP’s target countries in Africa and possibly South Asia, and which can also be translated into local languages where applicable.
    E-learning modules developed should provide an effective and efficient learning experience to participants through both stand-alone e-learning and in combination with face-to-face learning events.
    Develop e-learning experience that will also provide delivery options for multimedia e‐learning content to audiences in regions with limited or no regular Internet connectivity.
    Use existing CIP videos and where there are gaps develop videos; photos audio, printed and interactive e-learning materials for the course.
    Set up; configure and populate an LMS (Learning Management System) to host and deliver the course content online, track participants progress and run reports.
    Advise CIP on the development of metrics to gauge the success and impact of the course and develop reports in the LMS to help track progress using key metrics.

    Attached is the link of the modules to be developed https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/98333
    Requirements:

    The consultancy team should include members with an advanced degree in education, agriculture & nutrition related courses, biological science, or other related fields.
    At least five years’ strong track record in the development of e-learning courses, training and technical assistance materials and other capacity development products.
    Experience in technical writing for international clients in the field of agriculture and nutrition.
    Adult learning, instructional design and curriculum development competence.
    Excellent communication and writing skills.
    Experience in graphic design tools such as Formatting and software skills e.g. Word, Photoshop and Illustrator.
    Good background knowledge of agriculture and nutrition.

    Time Frame: The consultancy contract will be between May 2020 and December 2020
    The financial proposal should contain:

    Itemized consultancy fees/costs;
    Acceptance to payment schedule of 40:60 being 40% upon achieving an agreed milestone and 60% upon submission of acceptable complete final report;
    Itemized administrative expenses;
    The financial quotations should be all inclusive.

    CIP will not meet any other costs related to the assignment.
    The consulting team profile should contain:

    The full names of all participating consultants and their roles, including technical expertise;
    References (Names, physical and email addresses and telephone numbers of three references for the consultancy organization which must relate to similar work done within the last three years, and the contact details (names, addresses and email and telephone numbers) of the persons who will be ultimately responsible and accountable for contracting the consultants for that work);
    Physical address of the firm;
    Telephone number(s) of the firm (if applicable) and participating consultants;
    Full name and contact information of the contact person within the consulting team;
    Copy of registration or other certificate, VAT and PIN;
    Full names of Directors/Proprietors;
    Clear and detailed work plan including a Gantt chart;
    All applications received by the submission date will be reviewed by a selection committee based on pre-determined objective criteria. Upon selection, the consultant(s)/consulting firm would be invited for a discussion and requested to submit a detailed inception report and work plan prior to starting.

    NB: The Technical and Financial proposals must be submitted separately:

  • Driver Driver/Office Assistant Senior Research Associate (Agronomist)

    Driver Driver/Office Assistant Senior Research Associate (Agronomist)

    The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking to recruit a dynamic and experienced Driver.

    The Position: The position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya, to support implementation of Development and Delivery of Biofortified Crops at Scale (DDBIO) program activities in Kenya. He/she will drive staff to project sites, deliver farm inputs to the to implementing sites and run various program related errands as required.

    Key Responsibilities

    Drive office vehicle for transportation of authorized personnel and delivery/collection of cargo and other items.
    Operate vehicles in a safe and courteous manner and always follow road safety standards.
    Ensure that the vehicles are kept clean and road worthy condition.
    Check vehicle condition/requirement and fill-in the Logbook properly.
    Ensure vehicle use complies with CIP motor vehicle policy.
    Ensure proper maintenance and servicing of vehicles.
    Provide day-to-day vehicle reports and report to the supervisor any noted defects on time.
    Report accidents or incidents to the supervisor in a timely manner.
    Meet official personnel at the airport and organize transfers to hotel.
    Make field trips in/or out-side the country.
    Run errands to collect goods, documents and other items as required.
    Prepare monthly summary of oil consumption and report to supervisor.
    Ensure that the steps required by the CIP driving policy are taken in case of involvement in an accident.
    Perform all other related duties.

    Selection Criteria

    The candidate should have a minimum of a diploma.
    At least 2 years of experience required in similar positions with a safe driving record.
    Good knowledge of driving rules and regulations.
    Valid driver’s license.
    Basic mechanic knowledge.
    Certificate of good conduct.
    Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.
    Computer literate in Word and Excel – an added advantage.
    Good communication and interpersonal skills and ability to exercise initiative and
    reasonable judgement.Why should you consider this opportunity?art R&D background, and is a recent World Food Price Winner and awarded with the

    Al-Sumait Award for our Orange Flesh Sweet Potato work in Africa.gender equality for poor people in root and tuber farming and food systems of the developing world.mostly located in the developing world and supported by more than 50 donor members.

    What are the conditions?

    The position is Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position limited to Kenya nationals and permanent residents only. The employment contract will be for a one-year term (with a 3- month probation period) and the possibility of renewal subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funds.

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  • Consultant – Senior Research Associate

    Consultant – Senior Research Associate

    The Position: The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking a dynamic and ambitious Consultant – Senior Research Associate (Agronomist) to contribute to Development and Delivery of Biofortified Crops at Scale (DDBIO) – Kenya project implementation. The Consultant will provide expertise in the design and direct implementation of a cost effective and sustainable sweetpotato seed system for DDBIO in Kenya. He/she will contribute to efforts to ensure and assure affordable, accessible and quality sweetpotato planting material needed to scale up the orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) in Kenya.
    The consultant will work closely with the DDBIO Kenya Team Leader, project implementing partners, and with the CIP country and global teams
    Key responsibilities:

    Contribute to the design and direct the implementation of a sustainable sweetpotato seed systems strategy for DDBIO – Kenya that will assure quality and accessibility of sweetpotato planting material for production and commercialization of the sweetpotato value chain.
    Design and implement a working, cost-effective and timely planting material dissemination approaches and root production plans with partners to enhance OFSP production among households both for food and nutrition security as well as commercialization.
    Work and collaborate with national government partners (KALRO/KEPHIS) and other stakeholders to initiate, coordinate and manage the National Performance Evaluation (NPTs) and varietal release process for developing commercially viable OFSP varieties.
    Participate in the development and, where possible, delivery of appropriate training modules in priority topics such as production, agronomy, post-harvesting management etc. The training will target sweetpotato value chain actors including farmers, extension agents, aggregators, processors etc.
    Provide support for the DDBIO M&E by facilitating timely, accurate and routine data collection required for project reports.
    Provide the technical expertise for private commercial partners and support their agronomist and extension staff to achieve the desired quality and quantity of raw materials for the successful puree processing business.
    Working with other stakeholders and colleagues develop linkages and contribute to online platforms for exchange of information about OFSP for widespread adoption.

    Selection Criteria

    MSc in agronomy, breeding, crop science or a related field.
    Minimum of 8 years of experience working with public and/or private organizations in seed systems or agronomy.
    Experience working with sweet potato and/or other vegetative propagated crops.
    Experience in designing and conducting and analysis of on-farm agronomic experiments.
    Experience with participatory evaluation of new technologies, innovations with farmers.
    Experimental design, Implementation, data collection, analysis and writing of scientific papers.
    Fluent in Kiswahili.
    Advanced written and oral communication skills in English

    What are the conditions?
    This is a national consultancy position limited to Kenya nationals and permanent residents only. The consultancy will be for a period of four months

  • Consultant – Monitoring Learning and Evaluation (MLE)

    Consultant – Monitoring Learning and Evaluation (MLE)

    The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking to recruit a highly talented Monitoring Learning and Evaluation (MLE) on a consultancy basis.**
    Objective of the Position:
    The EU financed CIP agriculture for nutrition project in SNNPR Ethiopia “Quality Diets for Better Health” (QDBH) has collected data for its end-line report in November and December 2019. In 26 kebeles in three woredas 2605 households were interviewed using a slightly adapted version of the standard MLE tool developed by the CIP MLE team in December 2018. The end-line report will allow the measurement of the impact on agricultural, dietary and knowledge indicators in three treatment arms.
    Due to the complexity of the sampling frame, the size of the data set, and the fact that the QDBH team doesn’t have in-house MLE capacity, CIP intends to hire a consultant who can support data cleaning, data analysis and reporting. The consultant will be based in Nairobi but frequently interact with the data entry staff in SNNPR,
    Key responsibilities:
    Preparation and cleaning of the data set

    Data cleaning: checking the data on consistency, missing data, outliers and data entry errors.
    Providing instructions to data entry staff for checking the paper forms as to the identification of mistakes and their correction in the questionnaires.
    Making the appropriate changes in the data file.

    Design analytical frame

    Design and apply the appropriate weighting factors for sub-sample groups in intervention and control kebeles.
    Design and apply the appropriate weighting factors for the treatment arms.
    Design and apply the appropriate weighing factors for the woredas.
    Propose formulas for composite scores.

    Selection Criteria

    PhD. in Econometrics or related field.
    At least 8 years of relevant work experience in agricultural related area or project coordination.
    Knowledge of (CIP’s) MLE tools for data collection of agriculture for nutrition interventions.
    Capacity to check inconsistencies in data set, to deal with complex sampling frames, apply weighting factors, use nutrition indices, create and assess composite scores.
    More than 05 publications in peer – reviewed journals indexed as the main author.
    Experience in data cleaning and analysis.
    Experience with statistical analysis software (STATA).
    Fluent in Amharic.
    Advanced written and oral communication skills in English.

    What are the conditions?
    This is a national consultancy position limited to Kenya nationals and permanent residents only. The consultancy will be for a period of Seventeen days.

  • Consultant – Training for managing virtual workshops

    Consultant – Training for managing virtual workshops

    The Position: SweetGAINS is an ambitious three-year project designed to modernize sweetpotato breeding in Africa. SweetGAINS will improve breeding operations and methodologies, ensure integration between breeding outputs and early generation seed availability, and strengthen a joint SpeedBreeders and Seed Community of Practice (CoP) by 2022. Due to the COVID-19 situation – physical meetings and workshops have been stopped. Therefore, we propose to run a virtual training for SweetGAINS colleagues (CIP and partners) on how to prepare and organize virtual meetings and workshops. This training should include review of potential ICT platforms for different types of meetings (together with CIP IT and data management team); on-line meeting process management; maintaining engagement to achieve meeting/workshop outputs.
    Key responsibilities:

    Preparation of virtual training e.g. needs assessment (content, process and ICT platforms), training plan, and sending pre-training tasks and notifications (2 days).
    Facilitate training: report on training, participants’ evaluation (8 hours to be allocated over a number of days/groups -to be agreed as part of point 1)
    Preparation of resource materials (e.g. 2 x quick tips) (1 day)
    Mentor and follow up: (8 hours)

    Selection Criteria:

    PhD. in Organizational change in multi-cultural teams.
    At least 20 years of relevant work experience in mentoring effective team processes.
    Experience in Training for facilitation of on-line/virtual meetings and processes.
    In-depth understanding of CGIAR.
    Strategic management and organizational change processes.
    Development of resource materials for virtual meetings/workshops.
    Experience in gender and diversity training.
    Advanced written and oral communication skills in English.

    What are the conditions?
    This is a national consultancy position limited to Kenya nationals and permanent residents only. The consultancy will be for a period of five working days.

  • Community Nutritionist – Intern Consultant – Communication Assistant

    Community Nutritionist – Intern Consultant – Communication Assistant

    Ref.: 2020/004/NRS/KE/SSA

    Community Nutritionist – Intern The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking a highly talented Community Nutritionist – Intern.

    The Position: The community nutritionist intern will dedicate his/her time working in counties linked to the OFSP seed and root value chain and work with the respective counties, national governments and other development partners to promote nutrition sensitive agriculture and biofortification in Kenya. He/she will assist the CIP Nutrition Scientist to coordinate nutrition sensitive agricultural activities around biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato in selected counties and assist in designing, overseeing implementation of nutrition education, communication and behavior change activities in the OFSP value chains.
    Key responsibilities:

    Be the projects contact person with the partners we will be working with to promote nutrition sensitive agriculture and biofortification in Kenya.
    Assist the CIP Nutrition Scientist to coordinate nutrition sensitive agriculture activities around biofortified orange fleshed sweetpotato in selected counties.
    Assist in designing, oversee implementation of nutrition education, communication and behavior change activities in the OFSP value chains.
    Provides consultation to and works with Volunteer Health Workers. Selection Criteria
    A bachelor’s degree in Nutrition, Community Nutrition, Public Health or a related field.
    A master’s degree in nutrition will be an added advantage.
    At least 1-year experience with community nutrition work specifically on maternal, infant, young child and adolescent nutrition (MIYCAN).
    Advanced level of MS Office.
    Advanced level in written and spoken English.
    Fluent in Kiswahili.

    Why should you consider this opportunity?
    CIP is a global and reputable international organization that has a strong, state-of-the- art R&D background, and is a recent World Food Price Winner and awarded with the Al-Sumait Award for our Orange Flesh Sweet Potato work in Africa.
    CIP is dedicated to achieving food security, improved nutrition and well-being, and gender equality for poor people in root and tuber farming and food systems of the developing world.
    CIP is a member of the CGIAR Consortium, a network of 15 research centers that are mostly located in the developing world and supported by more than 50 donor members.
    What are the conditions?
    The position is an internship position limited to Kenya nationals and permanent residents
    only. The internship will be for a period of three months.

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