Job Vacancy: Research
Associate
Nairobi, Kenya
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Research Associate to support sustainable livelihood options for dryland populations.
Nairobi, Kenya
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Research Associate to support sustainable livelihood options for dryland populations.
The successful applicant will play a
central role in supporting, managing, and implementing the research operations
of the team.
ILRI works to improve food and nutritional
security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for
efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock.
It is the only one of 15 CGIAR research
centres dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing
world.
Co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, it has
regional or country offices and projects in East, South and Southeast Asia as
well as Central, East, Southern and West Africa. www.ilri.org
The Position: This position will be part of the Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) team as it works to support sustainable livelihood options for dryland populations.
The Position: This position will be part of the Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) team as it works to support sustainable livelihood options for dryland populations.
The team’s original research for
development agenda focused on mitigating the negative effects of drought on
pastoralists by developing and scaling index insurance for pastoralists in the
Horn of Africa.
The IBLI team has recently added “improving
access to information from and in remote, data-scarce, pastoral regions” as a
second development agenda.
Currently, efforts associated with this new
agenda rely on collecting local information, processing those data, often by
cleaning and integrating them with additional sources of data, and then
disseminating the information (e.g., to policy makers, pastoralist).
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
·
Provide
research and analytical support to project scientist and contribute to research
papers
·
Engage
with stakeholders and policy makers to present our findings and further our
agenda
·
Write
research reports summarizing and analysing data
·
Contribute
to the team’s research for development agenda (research design and strategy,
survey instruments, sampling frame, survey implementation strategy, enumerator
training, data collection and analysis
·
Oversee
management of project data: data cleaning, data inventory and storage, data
analysis
·
Writing
and updating survey data code books that fully describe the research and survey
design, data collection methods, cleaning and inventory processes
·
Contribute
to communication, dissemination of research findings which should include
participation in meetings and workshops, giving periodic presentations to
participating institutions, and communicating to policy makers through web and
popular media
Requirements
·
A
Master’s degree in Economics, Development Economics, and Agriculture Economics,
Statistics or other related discipline
·
At
least 3 years of relevant experience in research for development
·
Minimum
2 years of experience in quantitative and qualitative household level
socio-economic data collection and analysis; experience must involve field
worked survey implementation as well as data analysis and report writing
·
Experience
with statistical packages (R, SPSS, STATA)
·
Excellent
computer skills in Microsoft packages
·
Excellent
communications skills and ability to engage well with stakeholders
·
Experience
in presenting and reporting on research outputs
·
Experience
working in the field in remote locations
Terms of Appointment: This is a
Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position based at ILRI’s Nairobi campus. It is
open to Kenyan nationals only.
The position is on a 3-year contract,
renewable subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funding.
Job Level: This position is at job level 2D and open to Kenyan nationals only. ILRI offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes; pension, medical and other insurances for ILRI’s Nationally Recruited Staff.
How to apply: Applicants should CLICK HERE to send a cover letter and CV explaining their interest in the position, what they can bring to the job and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to the Director, People and Organizational Development before 15 December 2017.
Job Level: This position is at job level 2D and open to Kenyan nationals only. ILRI offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes; pension, medical and other insurances for ILRI’s Nationally Recruited Staff.
How to apply: Applicants should CLICK HERE to send a cover letter and CV explaining their interest in the position, what they can bring to the job and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to the Director, People and Organizational Development before 15 December 2017.
The position title and reference number
REF: RA/IBLI/11/2017 should be clearly marked on the subject line of the cover
letter.
We thank all applicants for their interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts.
To find out more about ILRI visit our websites at http://www.ilri.org
To find out more about working at ILRI visit our website at http://www.ilri.org/ilricrowd/
ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.
We thank all applicants for their interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts.
To find out more about ILRI visit our websites at http://www.ilri.org
To find out more about working at ILRI visit our website at http://www.ilri.org/ilricrowd/
ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.
