Associate Manager – ICRISAT Development 

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ICRISAT seeks an application from Indian nationals, for the position of ‘Associate Manager – ICRISAT Development Centre’’ to support activities of Global Research Program on Resilient Farm and Food Systems (GRP-RF&FS) on natural resource management. There is a requirement of 1 position where the incumbents will be based at Patancheru.

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:

·        As an Associate Manager of the program being the focal point, provide finance management support for Global Research Program Director Resilient Farm and Food Systems

·        Support Program Director in liaising with project leaders and respective finance contact points for budget management and budgeting of projects (current and new) across RFFS program.

·        Support Program Director in keeping track of the line-item wise budgets of all projects of the program and periodically appraise about budget implementation and burn rates across RFFS program.

·        Support in mapping staff time in respective projects across the program, prepare monthly salary budget sheets for all RFFS staff in consultation with PIs/CLs and program Director and share with Finance and HR every month

·       Support processing partners agreement, tracking the financial reports of the projects/ sub-grants / collaborative work

·       Provide need based administrative support pertaining to RFF

·       Any additional need-based duties assigned by the Program Director

Requirements:

·       Minimum 5 to 8 years’ experience in project management

·       Good Finance management skills, planning and organization skills.

• Candidate must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. 
• The candidate should have good analytical, problem-solving skills and a desire to develop new skills 
• Ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language to end users and Senior management. 

General:

This is a contractual position for a period of 36 months.

 How to apply:

Applicants should apply on or before 24 August 2022, with their latest Resume, and the names and contact information of three references that are knowledgeable about their professional qualifications and work experience. All applications will be acknowledged; however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

ICRISAT is an equal opportunity employer