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Agricultural Risk Data Scientist

Job Description
We are looking for a qualified person to coordinate and lead the development of data-driven analytical approaches to assess agricultural risk and risk-reduction interventions. The position will also provide thought leadership on new directions for CIAT’s data science research on agricultural risk management, financial services for agriculture (e.g. credit and insurance), and climate finance. The position will be full-time and based in Nairobi, Kenya, but will have a global mandate.

Main Responsibilities:

Coordinate and contribute to the planning and execution of climate impact modelling and data analysis activities for agricultural risk and climate-smart agriculture (CSA) profiling, ensuring quality of outputs and coordination amongst team members.
Lead the development of an agricultural risk profiling system and database targeted at financial services sector partners.
Implement existing and develop new climate and crop data analysis approaches for assessing the impact of climate variability and climate change on agricultural value chains.
Ensure timely delivery and quality control of modelling outputs, facilitate discussion and socialize results with other CIAT scientists.
Build strong links with CIAT research teams to enhance the potential for agricultural risk management collaborations across CIAT.
Lead a team of technical analysts, interns and students supporting data science work for ARM
International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Recruiting Agricultural Risk Data Scientist
Lead the writing of peer-reviewed papers on agricultural risk analysis.
Support relevant fundraising activities, as deemed important.
Contribute to the expansion of CIAT’s Agricultural Risk Management Strategic Initiative by exploring new potential opportunities to develop new agricultural risk management approaches and analytical products, and by seeking new partnerships and sources of funding related to agricultural risk management, financial services for agriculture (e.g. credit and insurance), and climate finance.

October 26, 2024
Bean Program Leader & PABRA Director

Beans provide a highly nutritious food, containing protein, fiber, complex carbohydrates, vitamins, and micronutrients; about 400 million people in the tropics eat beans as part of their daily diet. Beans also provide income for millions of people, particularly in Africa and Latin America. Farmers struggle to satisfy consumer demand, producing around 12 million tons of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) every year worldwide.
With our partners, CIAT develops improved beans that show resilience under harsh growing conditions, which are worsening as a result of climate change impacts. Decades of CIAT research on bean have led to massive uptake of improved varieties, with significant impacts on food security in major bean-producing countries. CIAT preserves the world’s largest and most diverse collection of beans. Most of the germplasm originates in the Neotropics where beans where domesticated thousands of years ago. Mexico, Peru, Colombia, and Guatemala are particularly well represented. The collection also contains important diversity from Europe and Africa and, to a lesser extent, Asia.
With the aim of successfully keep tackling these challenges and ensure relevance of CIAT’s research on common beans, the Center is looking for a strategic, highly motivated, and experienced Bean Program Leader & PABRA Director. The position will be located at CIAT’s regional office in Nairobi, Kenya.
Responsibilities:

Provide management, leadership, and strategic direction to all CIAT research for development initiatives within the Bean Program and supervise all aspects of global research implementation with special focus in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Responsible for coordinating all research efforts of the bean program with CIAT’s headquarters scientific team.
Identify opportunities for resource mobilization, proposal development and collaborative research, which respond to regional demand and facilitate follow-through on these opportunities.
Link with public and private sector research collaborators at the national, regional and global level.
Engage and maintain active relationship with key partners in the region, to influence CIAT-PABRA’s participation, and the Strengthening of PABRA partnerships.
Alignment and contribution of PABRA to CIAT Africa Business Plan
Encourage development of co-authored publications by CIAT-PABRA partners
Represent CIAT at meetings of all levels, providing updated information or presentations on project activities.
Orient and evaluate the Staff after setting individual and teamwork plans, and develop human talent of the Bean Program.
Plan and manage the budget in full accordance with the donors’ and CIAT policies.

Requirements and Qualifications

PhD or MSc with 15 years experience in agricultural science, rural development, food security and sustainable agriculture, crop science or related fields,
International experience of 10+ years managing scientific programs. Management experience in bean programs and/or agricultural research and development in Africa would be considered a plus.
The program/projects managed will have included the management of resource mobilizations, identification of new partnership opportunities and proposal development.
Proven ability to lead and develop multidisciplinary teams, communicate a common vision among diverse partners, and effectively work with diverse stakeholders, including senior government officials.
A demonstrated ability to elaborate high quality publications meeting international standards.
Full English language communication skills, both written and oral.
Spanish and/or French language skills would be considered a plus.

October 26, 2024
Agriculture Risk Profiles Coordinator

We are looking for a qualified person to coordinate and lead the development of national and sub-national baseline studies on agricultural risk and climate-smart agriculture (CSA), also known as Agricultural Risk Profiles and CSA Profiles. These Profiles are developed in close collaboration with teams of experts, donors, national government partners, private sector and other in-country stakeholders. The position will also provide thought leadership on new directions for the profiles to evolve, particularly related to agricultural risk management, financial services for agriculture (e.g. credit and insurance), and climate finance. The position will be full-time and based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Ensure on-going Agricultural Risk and CSA Profile projects are carried out successfully within the planned timeline and available resources.
Coordinate teams of consultants, editors, and designers engaged in the elaboration of the Profiles, including managing and supervising activities related to project planning, stakeholder engagement, data collection, analysis, infographics elaboration and layout of final documents.
Maintain communication of project progress and outputs with funder(s) and in-country partners, to ensure usability and ownership of the research products. International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Recruiting Agriculture Risk Profiles Coordinator
Give the final approval of Profiles documents, infographics and Supplementary Material by making sure that the outline and content is aligned to the CSA Profile guidelines and templates and incorporates peer review comments.
Build strong links with CIAT research teams to enhance the potential for the use of Profiles in a variety of research efforts.
Contribute to and lead the expansion of CIAT’s CSA Profiles portfolio by exploring new potential opportunities to develop new profiling products than can be developed, and by seeking new partnerships and sources of funding to support the development of the new Profiles, particularly related to agricultural risk management, financial services for agriculture (e.g. credit and insurance), and climate finance.

October 26, 2024
Human Resources Assistant Application Developer for IITA

Position Summary
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is recruiting for the position of Human Resources Assistant to be based at its office in Nairobi, Kenya. The position will provide administrative and operational support within the Human Resources Unit and frontline customer service to all CIAT staff who require access to services within the Human Resource Unit.
Main Responsibilities:

Participate in recruitment, selection and onboarding process including review of job descriptions, advertisements, screening of applications, interview, reference-checks and staff induction.
Contracts management: Track employee and student contracts ensuring adequate notice is provided for renewals and non-renewals.
Support management of staff transfers, exit and separation processes and update staff/dependant records accordingly.
Support talent management functions, e.g. performance management, training and development.
Participate in analysis of compensation data.
Manage staff records both in physical files and electronically and maintain confidentiality.
Participate in management of staff welfare schemes and initiatives.

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October 26, 2024
Forages Intern

Position Summary:
The Tropical Forages Program is seeking for a Student Intern to be based in Nairobi, Kenya. The intern will support research staff in activities related to modelling the impacts of forage technologies in livestock systems in East Africa using the Integrated Assessment Model.
Key responsibilities will include:

Perform a review on literature/datasets related to crop, livestock management practices and forage agronomy in order to identify existing crop data, forage data, livestock breeds and livestock feeding practices in East Africa.
Populate database with crop, livestock and forage data gathered from literature review.
Support the preparation of a list of data required that could not be found
Populate CsPro database with household, feed, and environmental data

Qualifications and personal attributes:

Bachelor’s degree qualification in animal science, agriculture, environment or related field
Final year student or less than one year after degree completion and should not have secured employment during this period.
An interest in livestock, the environment, and tropical forages
Competency in Microsoft Excel
Very good command of English, Kiswahili

Terms of Internship:
The Internship period will be three (3) months, renewable up to six (6) months depending on performance and availability of resources.

October 26, 2024
Research Associate – Seed Systems (S34D Project)

Project Information: The goal of Supporting Seed Systems for Development (S34D) Project is to enhance farmers’ access to a full range of seed choices and options to maximize their responsive decision making and planning for production.
The Project seeks to improve functioning of national seed sector in Feed the Future countries and in countries with resilience and emergency seed security programs. To deliver on this strategy, the S34D team seeks an agricultural/seed system specialist to backstop the work of the Humanitarian work of the project.
Position Summary: The Research Associate — Seed Systems (S34D Project) will work closely with the Emergency and Resilience Seeds Systems Advisor and an array of consortium partners (under S340) to: effect diagnostic analyses of seed and related input supply systems within target geographies (including of informal and integrated systems), build the capacity of project staff in working on seed and input supply systems, support project activities and monitor project performance.
S/he will explore innovative ways to enable farmers to access high quality inputs and work with partners in the public and private sector to ensure that humanitarian activities have optimum effectiveness and that farmers in stress areas, even at the Last Mile, have access to new varieties, high quality seed, and the information needed to make informed choices about crop and variety-specific decisions.

October 26, 2024
Research Assistant – Social Economics

Position Summary:
The Research Assistant-Social Economist has the responsibility to support field activities, data management, data analysis and scientific writing. He/she will work in close collaboration with experts in various projects to deliver on the required duties.
Main duties and responsibilities include:

Support development of survey tools for qualitative and quantitative data collection
Designing study tools in Survey CTO or ODK for data collection
Supervising data collection
Data management and analysis using STATA software
Contribute in writing project reports, discussion papers, scientific manuscripts, policy briefs, blogs and other communication materials related to the collected data sets

The candidate shall have the following competencies, skills and experience:

Degree in Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Sciences, or any other relevant field, with a focus and/or proven interest in rural development and food security topics.
At least three (3) years of relevant work experience in a closely related field gain in an international organization with key strength in data collection and management
Experience in designing survey tools in ICT based software such as Survey CTO or ODK
Experience in writing scientific articles will be an added advantage
Excellent in STATA analytical software
Excellent Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Power Point and Excel.
Very good command of English, Kiswahili is an added advantage
Interest in and proven editing and proofreading skills.
Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision, but also participate as a team member in accomplishment of duties
Possess excellent analytical skills, respect for confidentiality and high level of integrity
Good communication skills with a positive attitude and a strong service orientation
Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.

Terms of employment:
This a nationally recruited position and will be based at the CIAT Africa Regional Offices in Nairobi, Kenya. The contract will be for a one-year period, subject to probation period of three (3) months, renewable depending on performance and availability of resources. CIAT offers a multicultural, collegial research environment with competitive salary and excellent benefits; we believe that the diversity of our staff contributes to excellence. CIAT is an equal opportunity employer, and strives for staff diversity in gender and nationality.

October 25, 2024
Administrative Assistant

CIAT is seeking to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic Administrative Assistant who will have the responsibility of providing a wide variety of administrative support services, ranging from complex to routine, all of which contribute to the efficient and professional operation of the Finance and Administration Unit.
Duties

Coordinate visits of finance and administration (F&A) staff from HQ and the country offices by handling logistics and relevant appointments.
Review documents for the F&A coordinator’s approval/signature.
Assist in the quarterly monitoring and consolidation of workplans and achievements of regional F&A teams.
Coordinate and ensure efficient delivery of services/supplies to the F&A Unit.
Schedule and organize F&A staff meetings in collaboration with the coordinator, take minutes and assist in following up actions points.
Assisting with itinerary planning, flight and accommodation reservations for F&A staff and forums.
Support logistics processes by raising purchase requisitions through the organizational ERP
Manage the CIAT main front office
Maintaining and synthesizing a record of all CIAT agreements in the region keeping the F&A coordinator aware of due dates for renewal.

Job Qualifications

Degree in Business Administration, Management or other relevant subject with proven office management skills
Two years’ relevant work experience in a closely related field gained in an international organization.
High level of computer skills, ability to learn new applications quickly
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Knowledge of regional and international travel requirements
Strong ability to co-ordinate, prioritize and organize workload; take initiative and work under pressure.
Highly effective planning, organizational and multi-tasking skills with a positive attitude and strong administrative service orientation.

Terms of employment:
This is a national position and will be for an initial period of One (1) Year, renewable subject to three (3) months’ probation, assessment of performance, and availability of resources. CIAT is an equal opportunity employer. It fosters a multicultural work environment that values gender equality, teamwork, and respect for diversity.

October 25, 2024
Research Assistant – Social Economics

Position Summary:
The Research Assistant-Social Economist has the responsibility to support field activities, data management, data analysis and scientific writing. He/she will work in close collaboration with experts in various projects to deliver on the required duties.
Main duties and responsibilities include:

Support development of survey tools for qualitative and quantitative data collection
Designing study tools in Survey CTO or ODK for data collection
Supervising data collection
Data management and analysis using STATA software
Contribute in writing project reports, discussion papers, scientific manuscripts, policy briefs, blogs and other communication materials related to the collected data sets

The candidate shall have the following competencies, skills and experience:

Degree in Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Sciences, or any other relevant field, with a focus and/or proven interest in rural development and food security topics.
At least three (3) years of relevant work experience in a closely related field gain in an international organization with key strength in data collection and management
Experience in designing survey tools in ICT based software such as Survey CTO or ODK
Experience in writing scientific articles will be an added advantage
Excellent in STATA analytical software
Excellent Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Power Point and Excel.
Very good command of English, Kiswahili is an added advantage
Interest in and proven editing and proofreading skills.
Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision, but also participate as a team member in accomplishment of duties
Possess excellent analytical skills, respect for confidentiality and high level of integrity
Good communication skills with a positive attitude and a strong service orientation
Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.

Terms of employment:
This a nationally recruited position and will be based at the CIAT Africa Regional Offices in Nairobi, Kenya. The contract will be for a one-year period, subject to probation period of three (3) months, renewable depending on performance and availability of resources. CIAT offers a multicultural, collegial research environment with competitive salary and excellent benefits; we believe that the diversity of our staff contributes to excellence. CIAT is an equal opportunity employer, and strives for staff diversity in gender and nationality.

October 25, 2024
Administrative Assistant

CIAT is seeking to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic Administrative Assistant who will have the responsibility of providing a wide variety of administrative support services, ranging from complex to routine, all of which contribute to the efficient and professional operation of the Finance and Administration Unit.
Duties

Coordinate visits of finance and administration (F&A) staff from HQ and the country offices by handling logistics and relevant appointments.
Review documents for the F&A coordinator’s approval/signature.
Assist in the quarterly monitoring and consolidation of workplans and achievements of regional F&A teams.
Coordinate and ensure efficient delivery of services/supplies to the F&A Unit.
Schedule and organize F&A staff meetings in collaboration with the coordinator, take minutes and assist in following up actions points.
Assisting with itinerary planning, flight and accommodation reservations for F&A staff and forums.
Support logistics processes by raising purchase requisitions through the organizational ERP
Manage the CIAT main front office
Maintaining and synthesizing a record of all CIAT agreements in the region keeping the F&A coordinator aware of due dates for renewal.

Job Qualifications

Degree in Business Administration, Management or other relevant subject with proven office management skills
Two years’ relevant work experience in a closely related field gained in an international organization.
High level of computer skills, ability to learn new applications quickly
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Knowledge of regional and international travel requirements
Strong ability to co-ordinate, prioritize and organize workload; take initiative and work under pressure.
Highly effective planning, organizational and multi-tasking skills with a positive attitude and strong administrative service orientation.

Terms of employment:
This is a national position and will be for an initial period of One (1) Year, renewable subject to three (3) months’ probation, assessment of performance, and availability of resources. CIAT is an equal opportunity employer. It fosters a multicultural work environment that values gender equality, teamwork, and respect for diversity.

October 25, 2024