Associate Scientist – System Agronomist at ICRISAT Tanzania

Associate Scientist – System Agronomist at ICRISAT Tanzania October 2024

Associate Scientist in System agronomy
Resilient Farm & Food Systems – Landscapes, Soil Fertility & Water Management
Designation Associate Scientist
Experience 3 – 6 yrs
Location Tanzania
Job Type: Full-time
Duration 24 month(s)
JOB CODE RA24_0991

ICRISAT
seeks applications from dynamic and highly motivated professionals as
an Associate Scientist in System Agronom who can work on a wide range of
topics, with particular emphasis on cropping systems, agroecology,
nutrient management, and resilience. The candidate should be strong in
partnership engagement at different levels – national, regional, and
local scales, and will be responsible for overseeing projects from
conception and design through implementation, monitoring, and impact
measuring to deploy scalable solutions. The ideal candidate should be
able to carry out and supervise the piloting and scaling of various
agronomy and soil-related solutions.

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 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 mandated
crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and
finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses
its work on drylands and on 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

Responsibilities:

• Providing
  leadership and technical guidance on the design, planning, and
  execution of nutrient management, system’s agronomy, soil and water
  management, agroecology, and crop livestock resilient practice-related
  projects.
• Leading partnerships and co-designing of agronomic,
  soil health, and landscape solutions with national partners and
  stakeholders.
• Providing leadership, monitoring progress, and ensuring stakeholder expectations are managed for project deliverables.
• Supporting
  the development of databases, decision support tools, and dashboards
  and other geospatial tools to address key research questions and
  hypotheses.
• Coordinating data analysis and impact measuring approaches targeted to addressing specific challenges.
• Developing,
  coordinating, and contributing to the delivery of quality research
  outputs and knowledge assets globally in coordination with the ICRISAT
  national and global team.
• Leading and contributing to the writing of peer-reviewed papers, technical notes, and project reports.
• Leading and contributing to project proposal writing and fundraising.
• Communication with larger partnerships and ICRISAT teams

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Requirements:

• PhD in Agronomy, Agroecology, Soil Science/Natural resource management or related areas, with more than 3 year’s experience.
• Proven
  capacity in research design, implementation, data collection and
  analysis, data visualization, and scientific writing, particularly in
  the use of different modeling and machine learning approaches.
• Experience with farm and landscape processes, their interactions, and adaptation of practices to the local context.
• Knowledge
  of the context of smallholder farming in humid and drylands and
  extensive knowledge of crop livestock production systems.
• Proven
  track record as a research leader and manager in the field of system
  agronomy and field experimentation · Records of peer-reviewed scientific
  publications.
• Documented ability to use advanced quantitative
  analytical tools, including advanced statistics, and preferably R/Python
  scripts, spatial tools, Google engine for qualitative data sets.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken, including scientific communication and report writing.
• Strong ability to lead, prioritize, and organize workload; take initiative and work under pressure.
• Excellent
  interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in a highly
  dynamic, interdisciplinary, and multicultural team.

General:
This is a contractual position for a period of 24 months.

How to apply:
This is Full-time
Job, Applicants should apply on or before 10th November 2024 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.