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Date Posted: Tuesday, December 01, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job advert/NRS/UGA/2020/4
Title: Research Technicians (3 positions).
Duty Station: Sendusu.
Reports to: Banana Breeder. Duration: 21 months
Date Job Begins: 1 January 2021
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is one of the 15 Institutes of the CGIAR global research partnerships with headquarters in Ibadan Nigeria. IITA is a nonprofit organization governed by a Board of Trustees and has a permanent office in Uganda. IITA focused primarily on improving cassava and banana-based systems in the nineties. The research focus over the past 5-10 years has expanded to include research on: climate change, trade-off analysis for smallholder livelihoods, Innovation systems and impact pathways, and Institutional and policy dimensions from local to national level.
IITA Uganda is seeking to recruit qualified Ugandans, for 3 positions of Research Technician, for Accelerated Breeding of Better Bananas project based at Sendusu – Namulonge station. The successful candidates will be part of the Banana breeding team working on Pathology activities within the breeding program. .

The primary duties of the Research Technicians will include the following;
• Development, implementation and supervision of experiments on pests and diseases
• Collection, entry, analysis and synthesis of data from laboratory, screen houses and field
• Identification, rearing and maintenance of weevils to be used in experiments.
• Identification, rearing/culturing and maintenance of nematodes to be used in experiments.
• Identification, culturing and maintenance of Fusarium wilt cultures to be used in experiments.
• Identification, culturing and maintenance of Black sigatoka cultures to be used in experiments.
• Ensure cleanliness and safety of the pathology Laboratory
• Routine maintenance of screen-house and on station experiments
• Work closely with students
• Supervision and coordination of screen house and field labour
• Assist in data management in Musabase
• Assist in data tracking using Btract
• Assist the banana curator in germplasm management.
• Writing reports
• Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor

Job Skills: Not Specified

Required qualifications and skills Required:
• Bachelor’s degree with specialization in Microbiology or Plant Pathology and 4 years relevant working experience, in similar responsibility.
• Experience in working with not for profit Organizations
• Knowledge and experience working on Field and laboratory Research
• Experience in handling Lab consumables and supplies
• Ability to record Lab stocks of inventory both on shelf and cold chain
• Basic knowledge or working with Lab equipment
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and oral
• Computer proficiency including MS Office (Word/ PowerPoint, excel)
• Ability to complete multiple tasks under pressure and work in a multi-cultural team environment

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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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 11th, 2020. Because of the high numbers of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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