International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021 for African Scientists

CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) works in collaboration with hundreds of partners to help developing countries make farming more competitive, profitable, and resilient through smarter, more sustainable natural resource management. We help policy makers, scientists, and farmers respond to some of the most pressing challenges of our time, including food insecurity and malnutrition, climate change, and environmental degradation.

Application Deadline: 2nd April 2021

About the Award: The Alliance is seeking to employ an early-career researcher to strengthen our social science
capacity in the Africa region. His/her research is expected to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the potential for improved forages to be adopted by farmers with different production objectives and of different resource endowment, age and gender. We expect the researcher to establish the most promising scaling pathways in different geographies and policy contexts and identify the overarching elements of these pathways across the region.

Responsibilities

• Review and summarise data and literature on forage piloting, adoption and scaling.
• In a participatory way, formulate a comprehensive theory of change, with impact pathways targeting different actors along the forage value chain (seed producers and traders, different types of livestock keepers and feed producers, extension services, development practitioners, policy actors).
• Design and implement a robust research framework to test scaling hypotheses and assumptions along the different impact pathways.
• Monitor progress towards outcomes and impacts in different countries and (iteratively) refine the theory of change.
• Draw general and country-specific gender-disaggregated lessons for future scaling activities.
• Publish results for different audiences, e.g. as peer-reviewed articles, policy briefs, factsheets, info notes, blogs.

Type: Research

Eligibility:

• Advanced degree in Anthropology, Agricultural Economics, Rural Development or related field
• PhD or MSc with minimum 5 years post-MSc experience in related fields
• Thorough knowledge of quantitative and qualitative research methods in the area of impact assessment and scaling
• Thorough knowledge of experimental design and modern statistical analysis
• Good understanding of smallholder farming systems in the tropics
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and oral, for diverse audiences, knowledge of Swahili is an added advantage.
• Willingness to travel as needed

Eligible Countries: Individuals in the countries below

To be Taken at (Country): This is a nationally recruited position based in Nairobi, Kenya or Kawanda, Uganda.

Number of Awards: Not specified

Value & Duration of Award: The contract will be for a one-year period, subject to a probation period of three (3) months and is renewable depending on performance and availability of resources. The Alliance offers a multicultural,
collegial research environment with competitive salary and excellent benefits; we believe that the diversity of our staff contributes to excellence. The Alliance is an equal opportunity employer, and strives for staff diversity in gender and nationality.

How to Apply: Applicants are invited to visit http://ciat.cgiar.org/ciat-jobs to get full details of the position and to submit their applications. Applications MUST include reference number FR-2839-Postdoctoral Social Scientist as the position applied for. Applications should be saved as one document using the candidate’s lastname, firstname for ease of sorting.

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