Jobs at International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC)

Scope of Work

• Execute the work activities under the supervision of the FERARI Crop-Soil Simulation Modelling and Mapping and FERARI Country Coordinator.
• Critically review, quality control and analyze field data of agronomic trials
• Support development of a FERARI database system
• Analyses fertilizer yield trials using advanced statistical methods and modelling
• Supervision of Master students in statistics, modelling and scientific writing
• Draft reports and scientific journal articles
• Travel in Ghana for field visits, teaching and meetings.

Required Skills

Required Experience

Requirements

• MSc degree or PhD in agricultural or crop sciences
• Several years of experience in agricultural sciences and practice
• Experienced in the use of statistical packages and conversant with modelling in R
• Excellent conceptualizing capabilities to utilize theoretical analyses for disentangle practical problems
• Good communication skills and ability to teach
• Proven record of writing project reports and peer reviewed journal articles

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Scope of Work

• Execute the work activities under the supervision of the Modelling and Mapping Specialist and the Director.
• Support development of a database system
• Quality control database formats and data from experimental trial and survey data
• Understand and adapt crop-soil simulation models for country specific purposes
• Conduct analyses of fertilizer yield responses using advanced statistical, modelling and mapping techniques
• Teach in hands-on use of models and mapping
• Supervision of Master students in modelling and mapping
• Co-draft reports and scientific journal articles
• Travel in Ghana for field visits, teaching and meetings.

Required Skills

Required Experience

Requirements

• MSc/MPhil degree in agricultural sciences, agricultural engineering, soil science, geoecology
• Experience in crop growth-soil-water modelling and Decision Support System
• Good knowledge of crop physiology, plant nutrition and experience in statistical data analysis
• Knowledge of geographic information systems is an asset
• Excellent conceptualizing capabilities to link theoretical modelling and mapping approaches to help disentangle drivers for yield from practical experimental data
• Good Experience in data modelling via R/Python/Java Script or Julia languages programming and use of data manipulation and statistical packages Good communication skills and enjoyment of scientific teamwork.Ability to write project reports and scientific papers

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 Scope of Work

• Execute the work activities under the supervision of the Modelling and Mapping Specialist and Director.
• Support development of a database system
• Quality control database formats and data from experimental trial and survey data
• Understand and adapt drone imagery and analyses for country specific purposes
• Teach in use of drones and analyses of drone imagery
• Supervision of Master students
• Co-draft reports and scientific journal articles
• Travel in Ghana for field visits, teaching and meetings.

Required Skills

Required Experience

Requirements

• MSc/MPhil degree in agricultural sciences or geosciences with a strong background in agriculture.
• Very good knowledge in UAV and drone use application chain
• Good experience in precision farming and analyses of spectral data
• Good experience in satellite and drone images processing
• Excellent conceptualizing capabilities to link drone and remote observations to help disentangle drivers for yield from practical experimental data and from farm fields
• Very familiar with Pix4D, Agisoft Metashape, DJI Terra, ArcGIS, ENVI and QGIS software
• Good Experience in data modelling via R/Python/Java Script or Julia languages programming and use of data manipulation and statistical packages
• Good communication skills
• Ability to write project reports and scientific papers