ICRISAT seeks applications for a dynamic and highly innovative Executive – Project Coordinator for the coordination of activities of network project at ISAH and collaborating NARES partners. The position is within the Rice Breeding Innovations Platform-South Asia Region.

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

 Duties and Responsibilities:

• Project coordination with the network partners for project report and finance compilation
• Monitoring the project funds and facilitating the supervisor in budget projections, expenditure tracking and financial reporting of the projects
• Lead and coordination national/ international workshops, meetings, conferences, trainings, and monitoring visits
• Focal point of contact for all budget, purchase and financial report related to the project
• Close oordination with the IRRI HQ team (RBI Platform), IRRI-SA Hub, project partners, other NAREs collaborators, to ensure smooth flow of research activities, effective genotyping and phenotyping of germplasm.
• Engage with ISAH to help build capacity in modernizing breeding programs and for the effective transfer of knowledge, technology and strategy.

Requirement:

• Master?s degree in Science/ Commerce/ Social Science from a recognized institute/university.
• Proven ability to implement GAB for crop improvement.

How to apply:

Applicants should apply on or before 31 January 2024, with their latest Resume, and the names and contact information of two 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