Executive – Agribusiness Innovation Platform

ICRISAT seeks applications from dynamic Indian Nationals for the position of Executive for its Agribusiness and Innovation Platform (AIP) This position is responsible for managing the operations of the food lab, office and pilot plant of AIP within the ? Global Research Program ? Enabling Systems Transformation (EST). This position is based at ICRISAT Headquarters, near Greater Hyderabad, Telangana State, India.

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

Job description:

Engaging in all AIP office operations, activities of NutriPlus Knowledge (NPK) program lab and pilot plant facility to ensure they produce the desired results and are consistent with the overall strategy and mission of the institute.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Day to day office operations handling that include coordination with finance, HR and other institutional support services
• Liaising with other research programs and research clusters of the institute
• Lab and office equipment maintenance & servicing
• AIP assets maintenance & management
• Training programs and events arrangements for AIP
• To run and maintain the sorghum and millet processing pilot facility at AIP-ICRISAT
• Providing support to all the three internal programs of AIP in terms of project on-field activities, lab works, admin works, maintenance of AIP premises (pilot plant & food lab)
• Participate and assist the staff in on field activities of AIP in outstation project locations
• Carry out any additional work as assignment by the management

Requirements:

• Post graduate in life sciences / Natural Sciences
• Minimum 8 years of work experience in industry / academia
• Similar experience in earlier organization is necessary
• Candidate should essentially be a good communicator and a team player
• Working knowledge on computers especially MS office, email management and data entry

How to apply:

Applicants should apply on or before 04 April 2024, 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.

General:

This is a contractual role for a period of 36 months (3 years?).

ICRISAT is an equal opportunity employer