Scientific Officer-Plant Breeding and Seed Systems Full-Time

ICRISAT seeks applications from Mozambican nationals for the post of Scientific Officer-Plant Breeding and Seed Systems to plan and execute demonstration protocols and participatory variety selection trials for groundnut and pigeon pea, sorghum, pearl millet and chickpea. This position is based in Mozambique. This is a nationally recruited position.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.

ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. Please visit www.icrisat.org

Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan and execute demonstration protocols and participatory variety selection trials for groundnut and pigeon pea, sorghum, pearl millet and chickpea.
• Operate research equipment where possible including data collection, entry and analysis, while complying with seed stewardship standards.
• Conduct data quality check and assurance to enable timely development of project reports, and scaling of selected technologies to the last mile.
• Write progressive reports, manuals and scientific articles to share knowledge and learning.
• Supervise and motivate the labour, capacity building of farmers, students and other collaborators.
• Manage relationships with co-operators/partners to ensure timely completion of collective efforts for quality delivery.
• Support the project PI in Procurement of farm inputs and consumables, and their timely delivery.

Requirements

• Masters in Agricultural Sciences, plant Breeding/Crop Improvement or Bachelors with 5 years relevant experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in plant breeding and seed systems.
• Experience in conducting field trials and data analysis, technology scaling and knowledge dissemination.
• Familiarity with seed quality and seed production processes.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement technology/seed delivery.
• Experience in managing research for development projects.
• Experience working with crop breeding and socio-economic software and tool.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Fluency in English.

General: 

• This is a contractual role for a period of 12 months (1 year)

How to Apply

Applicants should apply with their latest Resume, and the names and contact information of three references that are knowledgeable about their professional qualifications and work experience. All applications will be acknowledged; however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

ICRISAT is an equal-opportunity employer.