Job Vacancies at International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Key Responsibilities:

Disciplinary & grievance management

• Review and assess submitted disciplinary and grievance cases.
• Conduct investigations and gather relevant facts.
• Coordinate and facilitate disciplinary hearing panels.
• Prepare documentation including show cause letters, hearing invitations, and related correspondence.
• Organize logistics for hearings and meetings.
• Compile panel recommendations for management approval.
• Manage appeals and grievance resolution processes.

Redundancy process support

• Analyze revised organizational structures and organograms.
• Manage separation processes, including letter preparation, clearance tracking, and severance calculations.
• Facilitate emotional support and counseling for affected staff.
• Organize change management training (e.g., financial literacy, building resilience workshops)

P&C projects

• Review existing HR practices, frameworks, and procedures to identify gaps and improvement areas.
• Propose enhancements to improve efficiency, compliance, and alignment with institutional and P&C goals.
• Contribute to review of compensation and benefits structures and systems.
• Review P&C data, trends, and dashboards to identify service improvement opportunities.
• Prepare briefing papers, reports, and communication materials on ongoing P&C initiatives.

Regional coordination & staff engagement

• Liaise with regional HR managers to address staff concerns and ensure consistent service delivery.
• Follow up on issues raised by the Staff Association and ensure timely resolution.
• Promote effective communication and coordination across regional HR teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources management, Law, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Relevant professional certification
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in HR roles, with exposure to strategic HR projects and employee relations.
• Strong understanding of HR principles, labor laws, and organizational dynamics.
• Experience in HR reporting and stakeholder engagement is highly desirable.
• Excellent analytical, writing, and presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication abilities.
• High level of discretion, professionalism, and emotional intelligence.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Proficiency in HRIS, data analysis tools, and Microsoft Office Suite.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Deploy SENAITE LIMS to the various labs in Mazingira Centre, ILRI (animal nutrition lab, soil and manure lab, GHG measurement lab, etc). This includes parameterizing the LIMS so that it is able to ingest measurement results directly from the instruments.
• Set up the various analysis workflows for the same (sample reception, worksheet creation, batch processing, partitions & aliquots, interfaces for instruments and import routines, quality control workflows and report generation and approval).
• Set up instrument metadata, calibration logs, QC triggers.
• Create custom calculation scripts as needed using Python.
• Tailor security policies, defining roles (analyst, verifier, publisher, lab clerk, admin).
• Deploy audit/tracing setup and logging for changes
• In so doing, interact proactively with the staff at Mazingira (Daniel Mulat and his team) to better understand the requirements of the lab users and staff.
• In doing so, interact with the DRMU team and with the ICT team in order to make sure the SENAITE LIMS solution seamlessly integrates with the larger research data ecosystem at ILRI and is readily extensible to other labs at ILRI, both in its Nairobi and Addis Ababa locations.
• As and when needed, perform some code development in Python, Javascript, HTML and CSS, for the backend and the frontend. Both are already defined and publicly available at https://github.com/senaite/senaite.core and https://github.com/senaite/senaite.lims
• As and when needed, liaise with the SENAITE LIMS development team, mostly Ramon Bartl from RidingBytes, GmbH, to better understand the architecture of the SENAITE LIMS software, to report bugs and to suggest fixes to be applied onto the abovementioned repositories.
• Provide training for lab clerks, analysts, managers, and technical staff.
• Avail technical documentation and knowledge transfer.

Requirements

• BA/BSc in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a software development or systems administration environment.
• Proven track record of software development in Python.
• Proven track record of frontend development with Javascript and CSS
• Proven track record of CMS deployment and/or development (e.g. Plone, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, etc)
• Lab domain familiarity: QC workflows, batch handling, instrumentation
• A track record of LIMS implementation, preferably with SENAITE, will be a definitive advantage.
• A previous professional experience with PLONE CMS will be a definitive advantage.
• A general knowledge of lab analysis workflows will be a definitive advantage.
• Strong customer service orientation with good communication and interpersonal skills that establishes a good working relationship with customers, with the attitude of wanting to assist people and pass-on knowledge and experience while grasping difficulties perceived by users.
• Excellent interpersonal skills enabling the consultant to interact efficiently with various teams.
• Good logical diagnostic skills and ability to exercise good judgement in the resolution of problems
• Ability to prioritize in dealing with several different issues at a time.
• Ability to work under high pressure, meet deadlines, monitor and follow-up on pending matters under minimum supervision.
• Ability to communicate fluently in English, both in writing and verbally.