The
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Communications and Knowledge Sharing Specialist to work across the Africa RISING (Africa Research in
Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation) Program and support the
component projects, each of which has its own dedicated communications staff.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Full-time
Africa Rising Project
ILRI works with partners worldwide to
enhance the roles that livestock play in food security and poverty alleviation,
principally in Africa and Asia.
The outcomes of these research
partnerships help people in developing countries keep their farm animals’ alive
and productive, increase and sustain their livestock and farm productivity,
find profitable markets for their animal products, and reduce the risk of
livestock-related diseases
ILRI is a not-for-profit institution
with a staff of about 700 and in 2017, an operating budget of about USD83
million. ILRI is a CGIAR research centre working for a food-secure future.
ILRI has its headquarters in Nairobi,
Kenya, a principal campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and offices in other
countries in East, West and Southern Africa and in South, Southeast and East
Asia
The Position: The
Africa RISING Communications and Knowledge Sharing Specialist will seek to generate
and draw value from the collective program-wide activities, supporting learning
and exchange, developing specialist strategic partnerships, and helping to
guide and channel knowledge generated through the program for widest
application and use.
Responsibilities
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Give strategic leadership to
communications and knowledge sharing across the Program
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Design and facilitate innovative
communications support to help achieve the Program’s scaling and dissemination
objectives
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Produce synthetic knowledge and communications
products for the Program as a whole
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Link up with strategic partners and
supporting effective engagement
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Lead program-level external
communications and awareness , media relations, etc
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Act as a communications point of
contact for USAID; ensuring that Program and project outputs reach vital USAID
audiences
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Convene and support Program-level
learning and science events
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Support and guide Program-level
communities of practice
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Work with the various communications
people in the projects to ensure consistent and complementary approaches and
products
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Support other program-level
activities and engagements as needed.
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Maintain close links with the wider
Communications and Knowledge Management groups of the partners, and the donor,
to ensure that all communications activities align with Feed the Future, USAID,
CGIAR goals and requirements.
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Participate in a Community of
Practice of all Communication Specialists in ILRI
Requirements
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Master’s degree in a relevant
discipline e.g. communications, agriculture, development, journalism,
development communications, innovation systems, ICT or development
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7 years’ experience in research or
development communications or related areas
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Strong outcome focus on ways that
knowledge and communications contribute to the Program’s goals to get research
into use
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Good knowledge and practical
experience of different approaches and ways to take research to end users, with
partners
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Expertise with ICT and media
applications and tools in rural innovation and knowledge systems
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Self-motivated, able to work
independently in a small team and across different locations
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Strong record of innovation,
creativity and problem solving
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Excellent interpersonal and team
interaction skills and capacities, ideally in multicultural environments
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High digital literacy: standard
office applications, virtual sharing and collaboration platforms, social media
and publishing.
Post location: The
position is based at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Position level: The position level is 4C
Duration: 3
years with the possibility of renewal, contingent upon individual performance
and continued funding.
Benefits: ILRI
offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes 15% Pension,
Medical insurance, Life insurance and allowances for: Education, Housing,
Relocation, Home leave, Annual holiday entitlement of 30 days + public
holidays.
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 by clicking
on the “Apply Now” tab above before 12 February 2016. The position title and
reference number: CKSS/01/2017 should be clearly marked on the subject
line of the cover letter.
The Position: The
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit an ICT Endpoint Officer who will be a member of Information and Communication
Technology team in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
General: ILRI works with partners
worldwide to enhance the roles that livestock play in food security and poverty
alleviation, principally in Africa and Asia.
The outcomes of these research
partnerships help people in developing countries keep their farm animal alive
and productive, increase and sustain their livestock and farm productivity,
find profitable markets for their animal products, and reduce the risk of
livestock-related diseases.
A member of the CGIAR Consortium
working for a food-secure future, ILRI has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya,
a principal campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and offices in other countries in
East, West and Southern Africa (Mali, Mozambique and Nigeria) and in South Asia
(India and Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand and Vietnam) and East
Asia (China).
Job Purpose: The
ICT Endpoint Officer maintains, monitors and supports systems in a global
environment.
The incumbent in this role works on
multiple projects as a project team member or a team lead and performs
troubleshooting for moderately complex hardware, operating system software and
network problems.
Administration:
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Manages user access to, systems,
servers, and files;
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Administers the set-up of new
profiles, creates and updates access permissions and maintains user accounts;
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Installs, configures and maintains
system hardware and software components;
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Maintains tracking and configuration
documentation and plans;
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Determines if inactive accounts
should be deleted;
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Administers Storage Area Network
(SAN).
Performance Monitoring:
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Prepares performance and control
reports;
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Performs capacity workload modeling
and availability analysis for a variety of platforms and environment;
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Monitors system-operating capacity in
terms of disk space, tape storage, memory and CPU utilization;
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Determines the required course of
action to improve performance and escalates when appropriate;
·
Develops, maintains, recommends,
documents and supports tools and backend utilities to provide capacity planning
management.
Computer Operations:
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Operates computer hardware systems
and related peripheral equipment;
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Monitors systems on a 24×7 schedule;
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Analyzes job processes and recommends
improvements;
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Performs maintenance procedures;
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Validates input and output data for
completeness and accuracy;
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Analyzes job processes and recommends
improvements;
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Reviews historical data for trend
analysis.
Production Support:
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Provides Level 2 production support;
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Troubleshoots escalated problems by
analyzing root causes and evaluating multiple options;
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Researches, analyzes and implements
software or hardware changes to rectify any problems;
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Seeks technical assistance or
escalates problem, when necessary.
Maintenance:
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Performs routine maintenance tasks
for infrastructure systems such as backups, patch management and hot fixes;
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Monitors health of systems and
provides appropriate recommendations, when required.
Continuous Improvements:
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Analyzes and reports on operational
metrics to understand performance and to ensure success in process
improvements.
Security:
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Works with IT Security, where needed,
in investigations and/or audits of systems;
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Analyzes audit trails to detect
systematic security violations;
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Reports security issues when
appropriate;
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Adheres to security requirements.
Service Level Agreements (SLAs):
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Monitors production, outputs, and
services to ensure that SLA’s, and other quality metrics, are being met.
Business Continuity:
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Administers archival activities such
as installing, upgrading, configuring, and scheduling and monitoring, jobs;
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Performs data image archiving;
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Performs off-site storage procedures;
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Verifies that system backups run
successfully.
Policies, Procedures and Standards:
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Adheres to policies, procedures and
standards.
Project Planning:
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Leads short-term project planning
efforts with team members.
Technical Requirements:
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Works with systems engineers to
understand technical requirements.
Research and Evaluation:
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Assists in the evaluation of future
technologies and makes recommendations.
Documentation/User Guides:
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Documents new or modified functions,
modules and test activities/results according to specified guidelines and on
selected media.
Communications/Consultation:
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Supports and participates in the
formal reporting of project status.
Testing:
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Develops test cases and files;
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Conducts testing to ensure
requirements are met;
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Validates test results;
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Provides feedback on test results.
Academic and professional qualifications:
Education:
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Bachelor of Science degree in
Computer Science or related field
·
Certifications appropriate to the
platforms being administered
Experience:
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At least five years of relevant work
experience.
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Requires strong knowledge and
experience with multiple system environments, servers, and storage devices.
Skills:
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Good communication and interpersonal
skills.
Duty Station: Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia
Grade: 2C
Minimum Base Salary: Birr 16,619 (Negotiable depending on experience, skill and
salary history of the candidate).
Terms of appointment: This is a
Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position, initial appointment is for three
years with the possibility of renewal, contingent upon individual performance
and the availability of funding. The ILRI remuneration package for nationally
recruited staff in Ethiopia includes very competitive salary and benefits such
as life and medical insurance, offshore pension plan, etc.
Applications: Applicants
should CLICK HERE to
provide a cover letter and curriculum vitae; names and addresses (including
telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the
candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to be included in
the curriculum vitae. The position and reference number: REF: IEO/01/2017
should be clearly indicated in the subject line of the cover letter. All
applications to be submitted online on our recruitment portal: http://ilri.simplicant.com/
on or before 24 January 2017.
The
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Post-Doctoral Fellow – Molecular Biology / Virology to assist in generating new vaccine candidates for African
swine fever using gene editing and reverse genetics.
Nairobi, Kenya
Full-time
Animal Bioscience
ILRI works with partners worldwide to
enhance the roles that livestock play in food security and poverty alleviation,
principally in Africa and Asia.
The outcomes of these research
partnerships help people in developing countries keep their farm animals’ alive
and productive, increase and sustain their livestock and farm productivity,
find profitable markets for their animal products, and reduce the risk of
livestock-related diseases
ILRI is a not-for-profit institution
with a staff of about 700 and in 2017, an operating budget of about USD83
million. ILRI is a CGIAR research centre working for a food-secure future.
ILRI has its headquarters in Nairobi,
Kenya, a principal campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and offices in other
countries in East, West and Southern Africa and in South, Southeast and East
Asia
The Position: The
Animal and Human Health research program in the Bioscience directorate at ILRI
has an exciting position for a post-doctoral scientist in molecular biology /
virology who will be a key member of a team working on the swine disease
African swine fever (ASF), which is caused by the DNA virus ASFV.
The goal of the team is to develop an
attenuated vaccine for the control of ASF. We seek a scientist with a solid
experience in molecular biology and virology, and preferably also in
vaccinology, to join a new project with partners and collaborators from the USA
and Germany.
The successful candidate will be
involved in developing new attenuated vaccine candidates using the CRISPR-Cas
technology and synthetic biology approaches for the same. In a second funding
phase (after the first 2 years), vaccine candidates will be tested for immune
responses, safety and protection in animals.
Responsibilities:
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To establish the CRISPR-Cas
technology for gene editing of African swine fever virus and host cells
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Participate in the development of a
reverse genetics system for synthetic ASF viral genomes
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Make stable transfected cell lines
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Test vaccine candidates in vitro for
growth kinetics and other traits
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Design/perform animal experiments for
assessing immunogenicity/safety of modified viral vaccine candidates (only
phase II, dependent on further funding)
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Supervision of a 6 months fellow /
technician
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Writing of publications
Requirements:
·
PhD in Biological Sciences
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Track record of publications as first
author (new PhD’s may not have published their work yet).
·
At least 3 years of relevant work
experience prior attaining the PhD.
Post location: The
position will be based in Nairobi, Kenya
Position level: Post-doctoral level
Duration: The
position is on a 2 year fixed term contract with the possibility of 2 more
years subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funding.
Benefits: ILRI
offers a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes medical
insurance, life insurance and allowances for: education, housing, home leave,
and annual holiday entitlement of 30 days + public holidays.
Applications:
Applicants
should CLICK HERE to send a cover letter and CV
expressing their interest in the position, what they can bring to the role 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 through our
recruitment portal by clicking on the “Apply Now” tab, above before 17 February
2017. The position title and reference number: PD/MBV/01/2017 should be clearly
marked on the subject line of the online application.
We thank all applicants for their
interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only
shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Those who had applied for the
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
website 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.
