The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Research Supervisor
Location: Kano
Employment Type: Contract: 1-year renewable
Duties:
- Work with relevant public and private sector institutions that contribute to deploying and scaling up legume seed systems in Nigeria.
- Provide technical support to seed companies, NGOs, and NARS in designing and implementing seed road maps for legume seed system scaling to meet seed demand for target beneficiaries.
- Work with extension agents of relevant NARS for enhancing livelihoods, including demonstration of new varieties to generate demand and capacity building of local institutions.
- Support the development of approaches for promoting seed entrepreneurship amongst women and youth.
- Document work activities through high-quality reports that demonstrate project impacts.
- Assist in capacity building of farmers and seed producers and strengthening stakeholder partnerships.
- Perform any other job-related duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.
Qualifications:
- B.Sc / HND in Agriculture, Agronomy or related field with a minimum of three (3) years experience performing a similar role in a well-structured environment.
Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:
- Have skilled knowledge of seed production and delivery to farmers.
- Have experience working with research organizations, NGOs, private sector seed companies, farmers, grain traders, aggregators and other stakeholders in the legume value chain.
- Be committed and dependable and have the ability to work under pressure.
- Have excellent communication skills (written and oral).
- Be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and technology.
Benefits:
- We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.
Application Closing Date:
23rd January, 2024.
Method of Application:
Interested and qualified candidates should:
