2 Job Positions at The International Potato Center (CIP): (Deadline 31 March 2023)
Finance and Administration Assistant at The International Potato Center (CIP): ( Deadline 5 April 2023)
The International Potato Center (CIP) is looking for a dynamic and experienced Finance and Administration Assistant.
About CIP
CIP, a member of the One CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future. One CGIAR science is dedicated to transforming food, land and water systems in a climate crisis, and it is carried out by 13 CGIAR Centers/Alliances in close collaboration with hundreds of partners, including national and regional research institutes, civil society organizations, academia, development organizations and the private sector.
About the role
The Finance and Administration Assistant will facilitate and provide services, which will contribute to
the financial and administrative management of the CIP Office in Rwanda.
Key Responsibilities:
The Finance and Admin Assistant will be supervised by the Finance and Admin Coordinator. His/her role will be to support the management of administration and financial issues of the CIP Office in Rwanda. Specific responsibilities will include:
1. Administration
- Procurement and Asset Management
- Support the procurement process, import/export, shipping, and document filing.
- Prepare and manage contracts and communications with vendors for goods and services required by the office.
- Receive all procurement requests and advise requestors on compliance matters accordingly.
- Review bid analysis and purchase orders and liaise to obtain all necessary approvals.
- Maintaining up-to-date office assets register, ensuring tagging and insurance of the same.
- Office Administration, Management, and Security
- Provide fleet management by reviewing and approving vehicle requests, coordinating drivers, periodically reviewing vehicle tracking reports against logbook reports, and keeping custody of vehicle spare keys.
- Comply with applicable health and safety CIP policies and procedures.
- Staff Travel
- Coordinate international and local travel arrangements for staff, collaborators, and visitors (Travel requests, tickets, airport transfers, visas, hotels, etc.).
- Coordinate project field activities.
- Conferences/ Workshops/ Meetings
- Coordinating both international and local conferences and workshops, including providing logistical, and other administrative support preceding, during, and after the activity.
2. Finance
- Ensure proper filing of financial and accounting records for easy retrieval.
- Revise, verify and prepare the confirmation of bank movements and balances.
- Control petty cash to ensure a proper reimbursement.
- Checks appropriateness of payment supporting documents; checks the availability of funds before effective payment.
- Ensures the full recording, and completeness of transactions in USD and Local Currency.
- Facilitates annual internal audit requirements.
- Support with the administration the process accounts payable and accounts receivable to ensure a correct accounting.
- Realize accounting and financial tasks to contribute with the production of finance and account reports.
3. Human Resource Coordination
- Maintain and filling Rwanda staff databases.
- Coordinate the process of application for re-entry passes/work permits and other documents for internationally recruited staff.
Selection Criteria
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Management or another relevant subject
- At least 1 year of experience with business administration and finance management.
- High level of computer skills and ability to learn new applications quickly.
- Good knowledge of rules, regulations and procedures of government and related agencies.
- Highly effective planning, organizational, and multi‐tasking skills with a positive attitude and strong administrative service orientation.
- Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision, but also participate as a team member in accomplishment of duties.
- Strong ability to coordinate, prioritize, and organize workload and able to work under pressure.
- Ability to work in a multi‐cultural environment.
- Proficiency in accounting skills.
- Advanced skills in utilizing Excel.
- Strong communication and English writing skills
Why should you consider this opportunity?
- CIP is a global and reputable international organization that has a strong, state-of-the-art R&D background.
- CIP is dedicated to achieving food security, improved nutrition and well-being, and gender equality for poor people in root and tuber farming and food systems of the developing world.
- CIP is a member of the CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food secure future dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources.
What are we offering?
- Compensation package commensurate with experience.
- This is a Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position limited to Rwanda nationals and permanent residents only. The contract will be for an initial period of (01) one year (with a 3-month probation period). Renewal is dependent on performance and availability of funds.
- Work in diverse workplace committed to gender equality.
How to Apply
Visit the following link: https://cipotato.org/open-vacancies/ and submit your cover letter and a full C.V. with your references. Screening of applications will begin on April,05, 2023 and will continue until the post is filled. All applications will be acknowledged; however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
This position will not have contact with children or vulnerable adults.
Learn more about CIP by accessing our web site at http://www.cipotato.org.
CIP is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified women are particularly encouraged to apply.
Data Science Agronomist at The International Potato Center (CIP): (Deadline 31 March 2023)
Job Description
The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking to recruit an energetic and results-oriented Data Science Agronomist to support the co-creation of agronomic advisory services with demand and scaling partners in the context of the Excellence in Agronomy (EiA) Initiative.
About the Initiative
The Excellence in Agronomy (EiA) Initiative aims to deliver agronomic gain for millions of smallholder farming households in prioritized farming systems, with emphasis on women and young farmers for measurable impact on food and nutrition security, income, water use, soil health and climate resilience.
The work in the EiA Initiative is organized around Use Cases that take place in contrasting contexts in the Global South. Use Cases respond to partner demands for agronomic solutions and focus on the development of Minimum Viable Products with a demand partner (public or private) that has an active extension network in a specific target area.
For the co-creation of agronomy solutions, EiA is building on recent advances in ‘Agronomy-at-scale’ approaches to develop insights into how spatial variability in biophysical and socio-economic conditions affects the performance of agronomic products. Key elements of ‘agronomy-at-scale’ include: a clear definition of the target area to influence, GIS-assisted sampling frames, multilocation field trials with effective experimental designs, spatially-explicit statistical analyses of biophysical and socio-economic information, crop modelling, machine learning and efficient data management systems.
About CIP
CIP, a member of the One CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future. One CGIAR science is dedicated to transforming food, land and water systems in a climate crisis, and it is carried out by 13 CGIAR Centers/Alliances in close collaboration with hundreds of partners, including national and regional research institutes, civil society organizations, academia, development organizations and the private sector.
CIP works with partners in over 20 countries to improve diets and incomes of poor people in Africa, Asia and Latin America through scientific research, innovation, and capacity strengthening. Focusing on potato and sweetpotato as food systems entry point, CIP’s programs seek to strengthen broader agri-food systems to generate economic, social and nutritional benefits for farmers, enterprises and consumers emphasizing the priorities of women and youth in particular. CIP emphasizes the synergies between social and bio-physical sciences as a core strategy for making breakthroughs in our understanding of complex development challenges in food and agriculture and for our ability to overcome these. Within this pluralistic strategy, qualitative social science has a central, and increasing place for explaining human and institutional behavior and assessing benefits and risks for human development.
About the position
EiA is modernizing agronomy research, building on technological advances in the use of big data, geospatial analyses and crop modeling. The integration of these technological advances provides opportunities to develop increasingly well-performing decision support tools capable of providing site-specific agronomic advice to farmers and other actors at scale, often delivered through digital platforms. The Data Science Agronomist will support the co-creation of agronomic advisory services with demand and scaling partners in the context of EiA Use Cases.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implement agronomy-at-scale approaches to generate scalable insights in site-specific responses to agronomic innovations in close collaboration with EiA Use Case partners;
- Develop, maintain, and continuously update decision analytics for site-specific agronomic advisory in collaboration with EiA Use Case partners;
- Build capacity of national partners in digital data collection and management, analytics to generate decision-support tools, and other agronomy-at-scale approaches;
- Liaise with potentially new EiA partners in East and West Africa to assess demand for agronomic advisory services;
- Design EiA Use Cases to respond to demand for agronomic advisory services from new partners.
Requirements
Education and Experience
- PhD in Agronomy, Agricultural Sciences or related
- Excellent skills and minimum 3 years of experience in geospatial analysis, crop modeling and machine learning.
Excellent skills in R programming. - Advanced knowledge of design and statistical analysis of field experiments.
- Experience in working with local partners in the agricultural sector in East and/or West Africa.
- Good understanding of crop management in the context of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Experience with the implementation of field experimental work is an advantage.
Key competences
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and deliver quality products
Languages
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English are required.
Benefits
- Exciting career growth opportunity in an international organization.
- Internationally competitive salary, paid in US dollars, and commensurate with experience.
- Comprehensive international insurance coverage.
- Attractive retirement plan.
- Three-year term contract with the possibility of renewal.
How to apply
Visit the following link: https://cipotato.org/open-vacancies/ and submit your cover letter and a full C.V. with your references.
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