THE ORGANIZATION
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (Alliance) 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.
About the position
The Temporary Research Assistant will be responsible for supporting research on nutrition and youth, preparing literature reviews, assisting with data analysis using various datasets, developing reusable R code for assigned tasks, contributing to annotation work using large language models, and performing other duties as required to support the team.
Responsibilities
- Support the research on nutrition and youth
- Preparing literature review.
- Support data analysis using different datasets
- Prepare reusable R code for the tasks
- Support annotation work using large language model
- Perform other duties as required for the team.
Requirements
- At least a Bachelor on Agricultural Economics, Economics, development Economics, or related courses.
- Experience with analyzing different data
- Experience in integrating household data with other spatial datasets at different scales, frequency, and sources.
- Experience in R, stata, and QIGS are plus
- Proficiency in using the Microsoft Office package
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills.
- Well-developed skills in personal organisation, priority setting, problem-solving, and accuracy.
- Confidence in supervising the work of others and the ability to communicate clearly about the progress of work
Terms of employment
This position is a nationally recruited position based in Nairobi, Kenya. The contract will be for a period of 11 months.
The Alliance Bioversity-CIAT is committed to fair, safe, and inclusive workplaces. We believe that diversity powers our innovation, contributes to our excellence, and is critical for our mission.
Recruiting and mentoring staff to create an inclusive organization that reflects our global character is a priority. We encourage applicants from all cultures, races, colors, religions, sexes, national or regional origins, ages, disability statuses, sexual orientations, marital status, and gender identities. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Applications
Applicants are invited to visit https://alliancebioversityciat.org/careers to get full details of the position and to submit their applications. Applications MUST include reference number RFP300317- Temporary Research Assistant as the position applied for. Cover letter and CV should be saved as one document using the candidate’s last name, first name for ease of sorting. The Alliance collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
