Scientist – Agricultural/Food Systems Economist
ICRISAT seeks applications for the global position of Scientist – Agricultural/Food Systems Economist to support Technology Adoption and Impact Analysis Under the global Research Program Enabling Systems for Transformation. The Position will be based in any of the mentioned locations – Accra (Ghana), Bamako (Mali), Dakar (Senegal), or Kano (Nigeria), Niamey (Niger). The incumbent will report directly to Director – Enabling Systems Transformation and administratively to ICRISAT’s Country Representative of the designated country
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 millions 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
For the position:
The ideal candidate should be an expert in applied economics with considerable experience in advancing food systems transformation and impact evaluation, leveraging the potential of grain legumes, dryland cereals and oil seed crops towards improving smallholder farmers income, environmental stewardship and the improving the quality of people’s diets/dietary diversity and health in collaboration with other CGIAR partners. The candidate should be willing to work at select regional locations of ICRISAT in the WCA sub-region. The focus will be on qualitative and quantitative research, to deliver situation analyses and needs assessments ex- ante and ex-post impact assessments, informing focus country specific goals and strategies and engagement with global networks, and to guide intervention prioritization and planning, understand and evaluate the outcomes and impacts of ICRISAT and partners’ innovations, and develop scaling strategies for validated and promising innovations. The scientist will work, advise and support other teams on socioeconomic elements of a range of projects in its three global research programs. The new incumbent will be responsible for analyzing and reporting on results and findings. He/she will also have the opportunity to contribute to business development.
Responsibilities:
Required skills
General:
This is a contractual position for a period of 36 months.
How to apply:
Applicants should apply on or before 15 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
To apply for this position, click on this link – https://careers.icrisat.org/careers/jobs?id=MjY1&view=careers
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