Associate Manager- Soil and water conservation? ICRISAT Development Centre

ICRISAT seeks application from Indian nationals, for the position of ?Associate Manager-Soil and water conservation? 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 to be based at Central India and will report to Global Research Program Director, RF&FS, ICRISAT.

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

·         Liaising with Department of Agriculture and other line departments in state governments for smooth implementation of various initiatives particularly converging with various line department schemes/programs

·         Help PI, state coordinator and project team in organizing review and planning meeting, stakeholder consultation.

·         Help in documenting the project outcomes both in form of success stories, documentaries and videography

·         To organize capacity building/exposure visits to farmers

·         All other project related activities as per the need

Key Qualifications:

·       Master?s degree in agricultural engineering/soil and water conservation/soil science/agroforestry/agriculture extension/agronomy and related NRM disciplines with 25 years of work experience.

·       Demonstrate capacity to work collaboratively as part of multi-disciplinary team.

·       Willingness to work in extremely challenging condition

·       Candidate should will to stay near to project location to oversee project related activities

General:

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

How to apply:

Applicants should apply on or before 28 April 2023, 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