Consultant, BOLDER Project, Digital Inclusion
Rome, Italy
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The Organization
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives. Alliance solutions address the global crises of malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. The Alliance works with local, national and multinational partners across Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, and with the public and private sectors. The Alliance is part of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future, dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources and ecosystem services.
With novel partnerships, the Alliance generates evidence and mainstreams innovations to transform food systems and landscapes so that they sustain the planet, drive prosperity, and nourish people in a climate crisis.
The Alliance is part of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future.
About the position
Evaluating Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS) requires understanding the socio-economic diversity of farmers and consumers and the agro-climatic variety of growing environments. Current approaches often struggle with scaling participation and generating robust, externally valid data. To address this, the BOLDER project will implement a multi-stakeholder network using the tricot approach, a data-driven method validated in the Global South. Tricot, powered by the ClimMob platform (https://climmob.net ), scales the evaluation of NUS crops by engaging farmers and consumers in decentralized trials, generating actionable data on technology performance and preferences. This project aims to expand the use of tricot in Africa, integrating NUS with existing staple crop efforts.
Reporting to Scientist I, Digital Inclusion, the consultant will develop and deliver Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for on-farm and consumer evaluation of NUS, ensuring robust and scalable methodologies are documented and accessible.
Responsibilities
- Develop at least one SOP per crop for on-farm and/or consumer evaluation, including:
- Recommendations for trial implementation (plot size, number of seeds, tool to select optimum number of participants).
- Evaluation of guidelines for different crop stages and traits to evaluate at each stage.
- Data linkage recommendations to Crop Ontologies.
- Make SOPs available at least in two languages (English, French and preferably Portuguese and Swahili).
- Ensure SOPs are available online with a DOI link.
- Incorporate SOPs as a chapter in the tricot user manual.
- Create a trial template for ClimMob.
- Analyze tricot data collected with ClimMob, in collaboration with our partners at WorldVeg.
- Contribute to scientific publications.
Requirements
Essential Requirements
- PhD in Agriculture, Plant Science, Agronomy, or related field.
- Proven experience in developing SOPs and conducting agricultural trials.
- Strong analytical and data management skills.
- Proficiency in using R for data analysis.
- Fluency in both written and oral English is essential.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Benefits
Terms of employment
This is a remote, international consultancy opportunity until December 2024, renewable based on extended needs and requirements. The total amount of the consultancy will be approximately USD 25,000. All consultancy fees and conditions will be administered in line with the Alliance approved policy for consultants.
Applications
Please apply online through the website (https://alliancebioversityciat.org/careers ) no later than 1 September 2024, attaching a curriculum vitae, motivation letter (outlining your interest and suitability for the consultancy, as well as your proposed consultancy fees for the period in USD), both in English, and contact information of at least three references, we can contact (name, organization and position, relationship to you, telephone number, and email).
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Closing date for applications: 1 September 2024
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