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- ILRI vacancy: Epidemiologist/ Food Safety Expert (closing date 26 March 2014)
- ILRI vacancy: ILRI Graduate Fellowship – call for applications: Agro-economist (MSc student) – Closing date: 16 March 2014 or until a suitable candidate is selected
- ILRI Vacancy – Research Associate in ICARDA (closing: 12 March 2014)
| ILRI vacancy: Epidemiologist/ Food Safety Expert (closing date 26 March 2014) Posted: 26 Feb 2014 06:17 AM PST The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit an Epidemiologist or Food Safety Expert for a two year research project in Zambia. The objective of the project is to rapidly assess the food safety and related issues in Western Zambia in order to a) identify the priority food safety problems; b) assess their impacts on health and livelihoods; c) identify opportunities for managing priority risks; d) develop a proposal for risk management. ILRI works to enhance the roles livestock play in pathways out of poverty in developing countries. ILRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium, a global research partnership of 15 centres working with many partners for a food-secure future. ILRI has two main campuses in East Africa and other hubs in East, West and southern Africa and South, Southeast and East Asia. www.ilri.org. CGIAR is a global agricultural research partnership for a food-secure future. Its science is carried out by 15 research centres that are members of the CGIAR Consortium in collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations. www.cgiar.org. Background: Millions of poor farmers, many of them women, supply the rapidly increasing markets for fish, livestock products and fresh fruits and vegetables in developing countries. These high value perishable foods offer pathways out of poverty for producers and traders as well as highly nutritious foods for poor consumers; but they are also a major source of food-borne disease. As food safety becomes more important among the public and policymakers alike, agricultural research needs to support the ability of poor farmers to produce safe food and to reduce the food safety risks associated with the informal sector. Agricultural research programs: The CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS) is undertaking research in Barotse, Western Zambia to transform the livelihoods of poor farmers dependent on aquatic systems. The CRP on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) is contributing to this research by providing resources for addressing food safety challenges in this system. The work is linked to a broader portfolio of research on agriculture associated disease in poor countries. Responsibilities:
Essential Skills and Qualifications will include:
Post location: The position will be based in Lusaka, Zambia. Position level: The position is Research Associate level (4A) dependent on qualifications and experience. Duration: 2 years fixed term. Terms of appointment: ILRI offers a competitive international remuneration and benefits package which includes: Medical insurance for staff and dependents, Life insurance, Education allowance for children, Housing allowance, Baggage Allowance, Home leave, Annual holiday entitlement of 30 days+public holidays. Base salary from USD 35,000 per annum with an attractive international benefits package (tax free*) dependent on skills and experience. *Benefits are tax free subject to compliance with tax regulations of country of citizenship. Applications: Applicants should submit a cover letter and curriculum vitae which includes a list of publications and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the applicant's professional qualifications and work experience. The position title and reference number: EFSE/02/2014 should be clearly indicated in the subject line of the cover letter. All applications to be submitted online on our recruitment portal: http://ilri.simplicant.com on or before 26 March 2014. To find out more about ILRI visit our website at http://www.ilri.org To find out more about working at ILRI visit our website at http://www.ilri.org/ilricrowd/ ILRI is an equal opportunity employer. Subscribe by email to ILRI jobs alert    |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2014 05:19 AM PST Project: CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish (L&F) in Tanzania Location: Nairobi (Kenya) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Duration: 6 months, starting between April and May 2014 The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI, www.ilri.org) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. Part of the CGIAR Consortium (www.cgiar.org), ILRI leads the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish (L&F, http://livestockfish.cgiar.org/) which means to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable to poor consumers across the developing world. In Tanzania, L&F focuses on supporting the country's dairy value chains. Along with population growth and urbanization, milk demand is increasing in Tanzania and growth rates of current milk production cannot keep pace with this increasing demand. The biggest challenges of the Tanzania dairy value chain are: strengthening dairy agribusiness; growing the national dairy herd; and addressing feeds scarcity. One of the tools used by L&F is an overarching innovation platform approach that supports learning and exchange to deliver the development outcomes outlined above. An innovation platform is a network of different stakeholders who come together to exchange knowledge and develop joint action to bring about change in livelihoods and natural resource management. In Tanzania, ILRI has helped set up the Dairy Development Forum (DDF) to facilitate multi-stakeholder coordination and engagement in the dairy sector. The forum participants include key dairy stakeholders from the government, academic and research institutions, dairy development programs, membership organizations and private sector. One year after its inception the current development objective of the DDF is to continue to nurture smaller platforms nationally and regionally to address the three dairy value chain bottleneck challenges identified above. ILRI is currently developing a conceptual framework to monitor and evaluate the impact of innovation platforms hypothesizing that the structure of the platform has an impact on the conduct of its participants, which in turn has an impact on the performance of the platform. The position: The Agro-economist (MSc student) will use methods from marketing analysis to identify the relationships between factors that contribute to the performance of an innovation platform in reaching selected development outcomes identified above, in order to refine and test the conceptual framework for the monitoring and evaluation of the impact of innovation platforms. Key responsibilities:
Requirements:
Terms of appointment and stipend: The successful candidate will be supervised jointly by an ILRI Agro-economist and the university supervisor. While at ILRI Headquarters in Nairobi, he or she will also have access to many other ILRI researchers so as to develop his or her research. While in Dar es Salaam, he or she will be based with and report to the ILRI country representative. ILRI will provide a stipend of US$1,000/month to the successful candidate, economy return air ticket to Nairobi, plus travel allowance when on duty travel out of the duty locations, as well as insurance. ILRI will pay for the costs of research-related travel. Please apply to this Agro-economist (MSc student) position online: http://ilri.simplicant.com/ ILRI is an equal opportunity employer. Suitably qualified women and citizens of developing countries are particularly encouraged to apply.    |
| ILRI Vacancy – Research Associate in ICARDA (closing: 12 March 2014) Posted: 26 Feb 2014 02:30 AM PST Vacancy Number: A/015/14 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) seeks to hire Research Associate who assists the spring bread wheat breeder to all duties and responsibilities needed to carry out the spring bread wheat breeding program at Kulumsa and Debre Zeit stations of Ethiopia. The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is an international autonomous, non-profit, research organization temporarily based in Beirut, Lebanon supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ICARDA is committed to the improvement of livelihoods of the resource-poor in dry areas by enhancing food security and alleviating poverty through agricultural research, and the equitable use of natural resources. For more details: http://www.icarda.org Responsibilities: • Undertaking field operation of all spring bread wheat trails at Kulumsa and Debre Zeit stations in Ethiopia; Requirements: Experience: Skills: Position level: 3A. Minimum Base salary: Terms of appointment: Initial appointment is for a one year, fixed term, renewable appointment based on performance and funding availability. ICARDA offers a multicultural, collegial research environment with competitive salary and excellent benefits in line with ILRI salary applicable for its Nationally Recruited Staff. ICARDA is an international and equal opportunity organization and believes that diversity of its staff contributes to excellence. The ILRI campus is set in a secure, attractive campus on the outskirts of Addis Ababa. Dining and sports facilities are located on site. Applications: Applicants should provide a cover letter and curriculum vitae; names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate's professional qualifications and work experience to be included in the curriculum vitae. The position and reference number: A/015/14 should be clearly indicated in the subject line of the cover letter. All applications to be submitted online on our recruitment portal: http:http://ilri.simplicant.com on or before 12 March 2014. To find more about ICARDA, visit our Website at http://www.icarda.org. To find out more about ILRI, visit our websites at http://www.ilri.org To find out more about working at ILRI visit our website at http://www.ilri.org/ilricrowd/ ILRI is an equal opportunity employer Subscribe by email to ILRI jobs alert    |
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