Senior Research Associate- Agriculture Value Chain Transformation Job at CIAT

The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT is seeking a Senior Research Associate to plan, coordinate, and implement research activities related to sustainable farming and climate adaptation in agriculture.

Responsibilities:

• Planning, coordinating, and accompanying the roll-out of stakeholder engagements, sustainable farming, and related research activities.
• Guiding the project team in championing interventions that increase productivity and enhance climate change resilience and landscape sustainability.
• Supporting the adaptive capacity of SMEs and landscape partners, including smallholder farmers, in light of evolving climate risks.
• Supporting SMEs to design market strategies for adopting climate adaptation inputs and practices.
• Building and coordinating ongoing public and private sector support to climate-resilient smallholder production, value chain coordination, and market access.
• Guiding all landscape resilience interventions, including capacity building of SMEs, farmers, and relevant institutions.
• Promoting climate-smart innovations in close collaboration with existing Government and other partners.
• Supporting program planning and coordinating implementation working with other project team members.
• Representing CIAT in dialogues relating to Growing Together Tanzania.
• Supporting SMEs to develop value chain-based CSA packages, deploy, and monitor their implementation in the project selected regions.
• Supporting the development of capacity strengthening of SMEs and smallholder farmers on scaling up climate-resilient/regenerative agricultural production and diversification.
• Upgrading data collection sharing platforms and protocols for knowledge management on climate-resilient agricultural systems.
• Participating in sector convening dialogues on sustainable production, CSA, Regenerative Agriculture to share knowledge and best practice from the project.
• Liaising closely with the procurement specialist, gender specialist, agronomists, seed experts, markets experts to ensure smooth implementation of all project activities.
• Producing quarterly reports on project performance and delivering requirements.

Requirements:

• Experience and/or knowledge of climate adaptation and regenerative agriculture options
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills
• Demonstrated understanding of issues related to gender and Climate Change Adaptation, sustainable agriculture
• Experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis and report writing
• Good understanding of national and state government priorities, policies and planning process in climate change in Tanzania
• Project life cycle experiences

Application Process:

Applicants are invited to visit https://alliancebioversityciat.org/careers to get full details of the position and to submit their applications. Applications MUST include reference number REF: (RFP300506) Senior Research Associate- Agriculture Value Chain Transformation- Arusha, Tanzania as the position applied for. https://bioversityinternational.zohorecruit.eu/recruit/PortalDetail.na?iframe=true&digest=qI3O8xGxSt3KVRTj0liQz1hub7mNqsj@bQ6GxjA9t40-&jobid=11911000013476626&widgetid=11911000000011497&embedsource=CareerSite