ICRISAT seeks applications from motivated and dynamic Kenyan nationals for the position of Associate Scientist – Pigeonpea to support ICRISAT’s pigeonpea breeding team under the Global Research Program Accelerated Crop Improvement – Crop Breeding. This position is based at ICRISAT- Nairobi, Kenya.
ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that
conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa
with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square
kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over
2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT
and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome
poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural
production systems.
ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. Please visit – www.icrisat.org
Responsibilities:
- Handle
field breeding activities including population development and hybrid
parents breeding in Pigeonpea suitable for Eastern and Southern Africa
- Support
in developing new proposals, project management
- Summarize,
and interpret the data of the experiments; prepare reports for donors and
- Publish
research papers in the reputed journals
- Establish
seed stocks and seed productions for multi locational trials and breeding
nurseries
- Assist
the Pigeonpea breeding program activities in Eastern & Southern Africa
- Any
responsibilities assigned by the supervisor
Requirement:
- PhD
in Genetics and Plant Breeding
- At
least 2 years of postdoctoral experience in Pigeonpea breeding
- Knowledge
of pulse crop and breeding strategies will be an added advantage
- Sound
knowledge of developing breeding experiments and generation advancement
techniques through speed breeding in Pigeonpea
- Experience
in Field experimentation (Field layout, field book), data analysis and
interpretation (GENSTAT, R and SAAS).
- Excellent
communication and writing skills
- Proficiency
in computers skills MS-office
- Team
management and crisis-handling skills
How to Apply
