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Date Posted: Tuesday, December 06, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job advertisements. IITA/UGA/2022/02
Position Title: Research Associate - ABBB.
Duty Station: Sendusu- Namulonge Station
Category – NRS
Status: Local position
Project: Accelerated Breeding of Better Bananas – ABBB (BBN)
Reports to/Supervisor: Molecular Breeder
Job description: Pre-Breeding Research Associate
• Coordinate banana pre-breeding activities
• Design and manage trials and experiments
• Work with the Pathology team to phenotype the pre-breeding populations for pests and diseases
• Supervise field and laboratory operations, data collection and analysis, synthesis, and writing of reports
• Work with the data technician to clean the data, format them and work with the Musabase curator to upload the data to Musabase
• Coordinate and supervise field and lab research assistants, research technicians, casuals, interns, and trainees
• Liaise with the lab/field technicians from other stations for the easy flow of communication
• Supervise the writing and validation of Pre-Breeding SOPs
• Contribute to internal monthly IITA Hub reporting, monthly/ quarterly/ annual donor technical and financial reports, and trip reporting from all field activities
• Other duties assigned by supervisor.

Required qualifications and skills Required:
• M.Sc. degree in Crop Science or related field, with a specialization in Plant/Molecular breeding.
• Field and laboratory research experience in plant breeding
• Knowledge of experimental designs and statistical methods
• Experience working with molecular markers in research and/or application
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Computer proficiency including MS Office (Word/ PowerPoint, excel) and at least one statistical software
• Ability to complete multiple tasks under pressure and work in a multi-cultural team environment
• Experience working with banana research is an advantage

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Applications which must include covering letter, photocopies of academic documents, curriculum vitae, names and addresses of three referees, and a letter from each referee, should be sent online, addressed to: The Country Representative, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) – Uganda. P.O Box 7878, Kampala, If you are interested candidate, please visit www.iita.org and click on jobs for details. Please indicate the job you are applying for on the subject line.
Closing Date: December 16th, 2022. Because of the high numbers of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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