Internship Roles at Bioversity International

About the position

• The Tropical Forages Program is looking for an MSc student intern to work in Nairobi, Kenya. The intern will support the Tropical Forages team in applying the I-CLEANED methodology to assist with ongoing livestock and environmental research work in Africa and Asia.

Key duties & responsibilities

The intern will support the following activities:

• Review crop and livestock management practices, and forage agronomy from existing datasets to identify livestock breeds, feeding practices, and crop/forage data in different production systems.
• Populate a database with crop, livestock and forage data gathered from the literature reviews and household surveys
• Perform ex-ante environmental analyses and generate reports using the gathered data
• Test I-CLEANED releases and suggest improvements
• Support other project-related activities as required from time to time

Requirements

• MSc in Agriculture, Climate Change, Environmental Sciences or a related field
• An interest in livestock, the environment, and tropical forages
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
• Ability to uphold team ethics and work in a multicultural environment
• Good command of English and Kiswahili
• Experience in statistical analysis software, especially R, will be an added advantage

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About the position

• The Tropical Forages Program is currently implementing several projects that require spatial analysis support. As part of these projects, the Tropical Forages Program is looking to hire an intern. The intern will support the team in our ongoing research projects with spatial data collection, analysis, visualization and reporting.

Key duties & responsibilities

The intern will support the following activities:

• Mapping potential and optimal zones for forage production in East Africa.
• Mapping of areas where rain fed rice is currently grown in East Africa.
• Extract relevant climate data and soil properties for running the DSSAT perennial forage model.
•  Collate spatially explicit data on below- and above-ground carbon stocks in dryland.
•  Support the upgrade and maintenance of https://targetingtools.ciat.cgiar.org/
• Support any mapping tasks as required by team members within the tropical forages program.

Requirements

• MSc degree in Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems Mapping or related fields
• ​Proficiency in English, additional language skills considered beneficial.

Competences

• Experience in GIS mapping.
• Ability to independently and within a team setting.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications.
• Past experience in report mapping