Openings at Bioversity International

Duties and responsibilities

•  Support in report writing for various projects as guided by respective project leaders and researchers.
•  Conduct cost and benefit analysis as per guidance of respective project leaders and researchers.
•  Support the active communication and visibility of the programme including through social media activation, website presence and blogs for seed systems, agronomy and MEL.
•  Support in building and sustaining strong partnerships of various actors and institutional linkages for enhanced technology adoption.
•  Support in capacity building of seed and grain producers on good agricultural practices (GAPs) for improved productivity.
•  Support the logistical and organisational output of the programme through generation of agenda, invitations, talking points and power point preparations.
•  Regularly communicate status and progress made on activities assigned to respective project leaders and scientists.
•  Support value chain actors’ investments analysis and options.
•  Any other duties that will be assigned.

Requirements

•  Completed a Masters’ degree in Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, or related areas. Knowledge of Geographical Information System (GIS) will be an added advantage.
•  Knowledge on the use of data analysis tool such as R statical software, SPSS, GenStat, and other GIS packages.
•  Experience of the use of digital data collection tools such as ODK, Survey CTO will be added advantage.
•  Excellent report writing skills, capable of producing high-quality analytical documents and organising and summarizing materials clearly for a variety of audiences.
•  High analytical computing skills with good knowledge of MS Office applications.
•  Knowledge on data management ethics.
•  Good communication, written and interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in a multicultural team with minimal supervsion.
•  Good knowledge of English language and Swahili
•  Good knowledge of value chain development

Deadline: 07/08/2023

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Position Summary

The Climate Action research area of the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT is searching for a highly skilled Full Stack Developer to join our team in Nairobi with experience in both front-end and back-end coding languages and frameworks. The candidate will contribute to design, development and maintenance of scalable web-based platforms to disseminate output from agro-climate modeling exercises. The successful candidate will work with a multidisciplinary team of researchers working on developing data science driven solutions for agricultural development in the developing countries.

•  Carry out the design, development, adjustment, and maintenance of information management and dissemination platforms to be used by wide range of stakeholders, including the CGIAR Research community, NARS and farmer-facing organizations.
•  Build the front-end interface following user-center design principles.
•  Develop APIs for data access to support end-user data access.
•  Work with data architects and scientists to build and manage databases.
•  Conduct regular bug fixing and carry out performance enhancements.
•  Generate technical documentation and data reports.
•  Identify and implement software engineering process improvements.
•  Provide technical support to different groups of users.
•  Attend regular meetings through the project cycle to assist the team.
•  Participate in the design, documentation, and creation of scalable and secure software.
•  Breakdown of large-scale requirements into smaller ones oriented to user stories/technical tasks

Requirements

•  Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
•  Proven work experience as a Full Stack Developer for at least 2 years.
•  Proficient in both front-end and back-end languages, frameworks, and databases, such as: angular, react, Python, node JS, MySQL, MS SQL, Mongo.
•  Experience implementing Web Services (REST API), authentication, CI/CD lifecycles and pipelines.
•  Experience building software in cloud environments, AWS, cloud-based solution implementation and maintenance and service-oriented architecture.
•  Experience facing user stories to address the end-user requirements.
•  Experience working with Git and GitHub.
•  Analytical and assertive communication skills.
•  Excellent communication skills in English.

Deadline :08/08/2023