Current Opportunities at Bioversity International

About the position

• The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT is looking for a highly skilled Consultant to support the climate action teams in Data and Marketing area. 
• The Consultant will play a pivotal role in the following areas:
• Create interaction guide to build trust with agribusiness partners
• Formalize ‘softer’ elements of partner selection rubric, like openness, honesty and how willing the partner is to collaborate

Key duties & responsibilities

• Competitor analysis for the EMBE data product - Report comparing the client's products/services with competitors, identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
• Customer segmentation analysis - segmentation the target market based on demographic, psychographic, or behavioral characteristics to help clients better understand their customer base
• Product feasibility study - Assessments of the viability and potential success of a particular business venture or marketing strategy.
• Strategic recommendation deck based on market demand estimation.

Requirements
Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or marketing
• Experience in corporate marketing strategy and implementation in Kenya
• At least 7 years of experience in marketing strategy, marketing analytics or market research in Africa.
• Preference for experience in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and/or Uganda

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About the position

CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security is searching for a highly talented professional to serve as Research Team Leader for Eastern Africa, with a strong background in peace, migration, displacement, and conflict studies, policy, climate-smart agriculture, and related fields to support the following research areas:

• Evidence 4 Peace: Understanding the complexity of climate and security for informed decision-making that is gender sensitive and socially equitable. This research area will help unpack the main impact pathways that link climate, agriculture, migration, displacement, and security in different geographies to enrich our knowledge of the complex, context-specific, socially variable, and dynamic pathways through which climate affects the risk of conflict and fragility.
• Programming 4 Peace: Developing climate security sensitive operations in agricultural settings. The main goal of this component is to develop tools and guidelines to inform the design and implementation of integrated programming at regional, national, and subnational level improving interventions, research, policies, and investments to mitigate and prevent conflicts and displacement, reduce people’s inequalities and vulnerabilities, and increase resilience.
• Policy 4 Peace: Articulating the role of food systems in a climate crisis for policies and frameworks. This research area aims to engage with communities, civil society, and governing actors across multiple scales of governance to assess and improve the coherence, integration, and performance of policies within climate-related and security domains.
• Finance 4 Peace: Increasing conflict sensitivity of climate funds but de-risking investments of international, regional, national, and local investors, including governments to increase the reach of climate investments in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

Key duties & responsibilitie.

• Lead establishment and expansion of the CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security regional hub covering East Africa.
• Lead the implementation of research initiatives and projects in the respective countries and regions focusing on assessing and developing co-benefits for peace and migration of climate smart agriculture and climate adaptation interventions.
• Build empirical mixed-methods models to unpack the climate, migration, displacement peace, and security nexus.
• Designing theoretical and evaluation frameworks and related methodology to link CGIAR climate-smart practices with peace, security and displacement.
• Establish a new research track on environmental peace-building and related knowledge products.
• Publish peer-reviewed articles, position papers, policy briefs and commentaries.
• Develop a policy outcome strategy to influence relevant policy decision-making processes the CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security research on respective countries and regions.
• Structure a set of roadmaps for selected countries/institutions to help improve climate security mainstreaming in policy and recovery pathways.
• Lead the engagement with climate security, peace-building, migration, and security analysts, as well as policy- and decision-makers from relevant countries and regional level institutions and bodies in the respective countries and regions.
• Lead the development and implementation of fundraising strategies in the respective countries and regions.
• Report/communicate to supervisor and donors and discover/respond to tendering processes.
• Supervise national and international staff, research assistants, visiting researchers and/or students.

Requirements

Required qualifications and experience

• PhD degree in international relations, peace, migration and conflict studies, development studies, social policy, or other related social sciences. 
• Excellent knowledge of the climate, peace, migration, displacement and security literature and discourses.
• Excellent qualitative analytical skills (QCA, discourse/content analysis, field work and primary data collection).
• Experience in international organizations for applied research and development programs or development-focused organizations, working on climate issues in the context of peace and security.
• Experience in international, multicultural settings and in interaction with researchers, policymakers, donors, and civil society across a wide range of contexts.
• Great interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team-oriented, multi-cultural environment.
• Ability to interpret and analyze data, evidence and text and communicate results.
• Solid conceptual thinking to develop innovative research approaches.

Closing Date

18/06/2024

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About the position

• The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT is looking for a highly skilled Analyst to support the Climate Action – Lever 3 Global Support Team.
• This position is part of the Climate Action – Lever 3 Global Support Team (L3GST) and will focus on providing administrative and logistics support to research staff of Climate Action team in Africa in coordination with the rest of the L3GST and being supervised the L3GST manager.

Key duties & responsibilities

• Provide support and carry out administrative and logistical procedures for the Climate Action projects following L3GSP guidance.
• Process all travel requests, ticket flight options, ticket requests, monitoring of the trip (departures/arrivals on time, advance travel processing, insurance, visas, requirements and attention for urgent cases mostly Africa requests), legalization and reimbursement of expenses.
• Work with L3GSP in the coordination for the logistics and organization of events, including several high-profile international conferences in collaboration with partners and/or donors in Africa.
• Support key event tasks in West and Central Africa such as planning and execution of logistical support for all meetings, workshops and conferences related to the lever, both internal and external.
• Execute the process of reimbursement of expenses through organization of invoices, payment authorizations and collection accounts that are generated for the different workshops and meetings.
• Execute all procurement requests (office supplies, material for events, business cards, etc.)
• Support tasks related to HR matters related to hiring processes, including contractual agreements for research staff, consultants, interns, and visiting researchers.
• Process consultant’s payment thru the different hubs in Africa.
• Ensure that donor rules regarding the use of funds for services, trips, events, and consultancies are enforced (Collection and correct registration in Share Point of required documentation)
• Support L3GSP in the development of the different management reports requires by the units leaders.

Requirements
Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Finance, or related fields
• Minimum two (2) years of work experience in similar positions
• Proficiency in English at an intermediate level, with additional language skills considered beneficial.

Competences

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team with people in a multi-cultural and multidisciplinary environment, including with external stakeholders, and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to provide a high level of service under pressure

Applications closing date: 18th June 2024