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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics Senior Scientific Officer Malawi ICRISAT Jobs 2024
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics looking for “Senior Scientific Officer”. Applicants with an Advanced degree may apply on or before 19-Jul-24.
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics has published a job vacancy announcement on 28/06/2024 for qualified applicants to fill in the vacant post of Senior Scientific Officer to be based in , Malawi. For more jobs, please visit https://unjoblink.org
Company Name: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Job Title: Senior Scientific Officer
Duty Station: , Malawi
Country: Malawi
Application Deadline: 19-Jul-24
About the Company:
ICRISAT seeks applications from Malawian nationals for the post of Senior Scientific Officer-Plant Breeding and Seed Systems to execute breeding and crop improvement activities. This position is based in Malawi. This is a nationally recruited position.
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 a 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 mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in 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
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Requirements:
General:
This is a contractual role for a period of 12 months (1 year)
How to apply:
Applicants should apply on or before 19 July 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