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The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking to recruit a dynamic and experienced Crop Management Scientist to support the second phase of the “Enhancing Agricultural Recovery and Combatting Malnutrition in Drought-Affected Southern Madagascar Utilizing Nutritious, Climate-Resilient Vitamin A Sweetpotato”, BHA project in Madagascar.

About CIP

CIP, a member of the One CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future. One CGIAR science is dedicated to transforming food, land and water systems in a climate crisis, and it is carried out by 13 CGIAR Centers/Alliances in close collaboration with hundreds of partners, including national and regional research institutes, civil society organizations, academia, development organizations and the private sector.

CIP works with partners in over 20 countries to improve diets and incomes of poor people in Africa, Asia and Latin America through scientific research, innovation, and capacity strengthening. Focusing on potato and sweetpotato as food systems entry point, CIP’s programs seek to strengthen broader agri-food systems to generate economic, social and nutritional benefits for farmers, enterprises and consumers emphasizing the priorities of women and youth in particular. CIP emphasizes the synergies between social and bio-physical sciences as a core strategy for making breakthroughs in our understanding of complex development challenges in food and agriculture and for our ability to overcome these. Within this pluralistic strategy, qualitative social science has a central, and increasing place for explaining human and institutional behavior and assessing benefits and risks for human development.

About the position

The Crop Management Scientist will be based in Ambovombe, Madagascar and will report to the Principal Scientist.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct extensive participatory varietal selection trials, comparing improved orange-fleshed sweetpotato varieties to dominant local landraces in Southern Madagascar to build a solid evidence base on agronomic performance and organoleptic acceptance
  • Coordinate the multiplication of cuttings required for all trials.
  • Conduct qualitative research to understand the functioning of the sweetpotato seed system in different agro-ecological settings, using existing tools and developing new approaches as required.
  • Collaborate with communication and monitoring team members to design field days and other events to promote commercialization of seed sales and knowledge about the intrinsic value of different sweetpotato varieties
  • Strengthen the capacity of national program scientists and local agronomists in varietal selection and relevant seed and crop management techniques.
  • Design and implement one rice-sweetpotato rotation trial, in collaboration with Africa Rice.
  • Prepare a comprehensive working paper on participatory variety selection using validated digital tools, paying particular attention to gender and age differences.
  • Understand the benefits and challenges experience by male and female farmers using the Triple S method for seed conservation and production.
  • In collaboration with the national sweetpotato program at FIFAMANOR, develop a catalogue of local landraces found in Southern Madagascar.
  • Interact with regional breeders and sweetpotato seed system experts to exchange experiences at least twice a year.
  • Backstop and train implementation agronomists on technical issues regarding sweetpotato crop management.
  • Contribute to quarterly reports in a timely fashion.
  • Prepare and submit 3 articles for publication.

Selection Criteria

Education and Experience

  • PhD in Plant Breeding, Agronomy, Plant Sciences or highly related field.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar position, including staff supervision and extensive field work in collaboration with colleagues.
  • Strong knowledge of how to breed and manage seed systems of a vegetatively propagated crop. Experience with sweetpotato highly preferred.
  • Excellent quantitative skills for analyzing and interpreting trial results.
  • Experience with qualitative methods (focus group discussions, informant interviews) for collecting data.
  • Evidence of teaching or mentoring capabilities.
  • Good publication record.

Key competences

  • Demonstrated leadership ability
  • Willingness to travel extensively by land
  • Ability and interest in working as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Languages

  • Fluent in French and English (writing and speaking).
  • Knowledge of Malagasy is a plus.

What are we offering?

  • Excellent working environment.
  • Compensation package commensurate with experience.
  • The contract duration is for an average of 18 months up to Dec 2024 which is the project end date.
  • Work in an equal and diverse workplace.

Condition: Any offer made with regards to this vacancy is conditional to the formal award of the afore-mentioned grant

Visit the link and submit your cover letter and a full C.V. with your references. Screening of applications will begin on June 12, 2023 and will continue until the post is filled. All applications will be acknowledged; however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

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The International Potato Center, known by its Spanish acronym CIP, was founded in 1971 as a root and tuber research-for-development institution delivering sustainable solutions to the pressing world problems of hunger, poverty, and the degradation of natural resources. CIP is truly a global center, with headquarters in Lima, Peru and offices in 20 developing countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Working closely with our partners, CIP seeks to achieve food security, increased well-being, and gender equity for poor people in the developing world. CIP furthers its mission through rigorous research, innovation in science and technology, and capacity strengthening regarding root and tuber farming and food systems.

CIP is part of the CGIAR Consortium, a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. CGIAR research is dedicated to reducing rural poverty, increasing food security, improving human health and nutrition, and ensuring more sustainable management of natural resources. Donors include individual countries, major foundations, and international entities.

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Our vision is roots and tubers improving the lives of the poor.

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Our mission is to work with partners to achieve food security, well-being, and gender equity for poor people in root and tuber farming and food systems in the developing world. We do this through research and innovation in science, technology, and capacity strengthening.

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0 USD Ambovombe CF 3201 Abc road Fixed Term , 40 hours per week International Potato Center (CIP)

The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking to recruit a dynamic and experienced Crop Management Scientist to support the second phase of the “Enhancing Agricultural Recovery and Combatting Malnutrition in Drought-Affected Southern Madagascar Utilizing Nutritious, Climate-Resilient Vitamin A Sweetpotato”, BHA project in Madagascar.

About CIP

CIP, a member of the One CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future. One CGIAR science is dedicated to transforming food, land and water systems in a climate crisis, and it is carried out by 13 CGIAR Centers/Alliances in close collaboration with hundreds of partners, including national and regional research institutes, civil society organizations, academia, development organizations and the private sector.

CIP works with partners in over 20 countries to improve diets and incomes of poor people in Africa, Asia and Latin America through scientific research, innovation, and capacity strengthening. Focusing on potato and sweetpotato as food systems entry point, CIP’s programs seek to strengthen broader agri-food systems to generate economic, social and nutritional benefits for farmers, enterprises and consumers emphasizing the priorities of women and youth in particular. CIP emphasizes the synergies between social and bio-physical sciences as a core strategy for making breakthroughs in our understanding of complex development challenges in food and agriculture and for our ability to overcome these. Within this pluralistic strategy, qualitative social science has a central, and increasing place for explaining human and institutional behavior and assessing benefits and risks for human development.

About the position

The Crop Management Scientist will be based in Ambovombe, Madagascar and will report to the Principal Scientist.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct extensive participatory varietal selection trials, comparing improved orange-fleshed sweetpotato varieties to dominant local landraces in Southern Madagascar to build a solid evidence base on agronomic performance and organoleptic acceptance
  • Coordinate the multiplication of cuttings required for all trials.
  • Conduct qualitative research to understand the functioning of the sweetpotato seed system in different agro-ecological settings, using existing tools and developing new approaches as required.
  • Collaborate with communication and monitoring team members to design field days and other events to promote commercialization of seed sales and knowledge about the intrinsic value of different sweetpotato varieties
  • Strengthen the capacity of national program scientists and local agronomists in varietal selection and relevant seed and crop management techniques.
  • Design and implement one rice-sweetpotato rotation trial, in collaboration with Africa Rice.
  • Prepare a comprehensive working paper on participatory variety selection using validated digital tools, paying particular attention to gender and age differences.
  • Understand the benefits and challenges experience by male and female farmers using the Triple S method for seed conservation and production.
  • In collaboration with the national sweetpotato program at FIFAMANOR, develop a catalogue of local landraces found in Southern Madagascar.
  • Interact with regional breeders and sweetpotato seed system experts to exchange experiences at least twice a year.
  • Backstop and train implementation agronomists on technical issues regarding sweetpotato crop management.
  • Contribute to quarterly reports in a timely fashion.
  • Prepare and submit 3 articles for publication.

Selection Criteria

Education and Experience

  • PhD in Plant Breeding, Agronomy, Plant Sciences or highly related field.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar position, including staff supervision and extensive field work in collaboration with colleagues.
  • Strong knowledge of how to breed and manage seed systems of a vegetatively propagated crop. Experience with sweetpotato highly preferred.
  • Excellent quantitative skills for analyzing and interpreting trial results.
  • Experience with qualitative methods (focus group discussions, informant interviews) for collecting data.
  • Evidence of teaching or mentoring capabilities.
  • Good publication record.

Key competences

  • Demonstrated leadership ability
  • Willingness to travel extensively by land
  • Ability and interest in working as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Languages

  • Fluent in French and English (writing and speaking).
  • Knowledge of Malagasy is a plus.

What are we offering?

  • Excellent working environment.
  • Compensation package commensurate with experience.
  • The contract duration is for an average of 18 months up to Dec 2024 which is the project end date.
  • Work in an equal and diverse workplace.

Condition: Any offer made with regards to this vacancy is conditional to the formal award of the afore-mentioned grant

Visit the link and submit your cover letter and a full C.V. with your references. Screening of applications will begin on June 12, 2023 and will continue until the post is filled. All applications will be acknowledged; however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

2023-06-13

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