Apply by: 20 February 2012
Reporting to an Internationally Recruited staff, the Assistant Scientist requires knowledge and skills in agricultural economic theory with particular emphasis on impact assessment, participatory approaches to technology development and evaluation, and socio-economics data management and analysis. The successful candidate will be tasked to support the conduct of socio-economic baseline surveys and surveys of adoption and estimation of benefits derived from prior innovations, as well as contribute to reports, news/feature articles, and research papers.
Major accountabilities/Responsibilities
• Provide assistance in the implementation of the project by conducting library research, reviewing project proposals, and reports, project materials, interviewing project participants and conducting field visits and survey sites.
• Contribute to planning, designing, and implementing research to (a) assess and identify rice farmers’ technology needs and preferences, and knowledge gap; and (b) ensure that primary and secondary data collected are organized, validated, processed, and interpreted correctly for impact assessment and other strategic, socioeconomic studies.
• Support research in technology dissemination including collection of secondary information, collection of primary information through participatory approaches, site characterization, rapid rural appraisal, farmer interviews, household surveys, focus group discussion, and other qualitative and quantitative research methods, and provide training and supervision to enumerators.
• Contribute to collection of information and clear understanding of, the ‘research-to-impact pathway’ for project(s), by clearly identifying the key users of research results and the likely beneficiaries, by interacting with scientific community actors involved in the project and by providing assistance to scientists in the description of impacts pathways and the quantification of expected impacts for planned and ongoing research activities.
• Assist in the design, coordination, and conduct of training activities to enhance NARES capacity in technology development and evaluation, participatory action research methods, gender analysis, and other qualitative and quantitative research methods, as well as data management and analysis.
• Identify constraints to adoption of technologies and systematically assess the rate and level of uptake of new technologies or research results by the key users.
• Write and present research papers at local and international seminars and conferences, workshops and meetings and for publication in journals, particularly on results of baseline surveys, impact assessment and socioeconomic studies using data collected and analyzed.
• Contribute to the content build-up of the project database and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms
• Perform other job-related duties from time-to-time as instructed by the IRS and the Division Head
Qualification requirements
• Advanced degree in statistics/agricultural economics/rural sociology with graduate core courses or adequate knowledge in statistics, economics, environmental science, or related fields
• Proficiency in the use of econometric analysis
• Three (3) years of relevant research work, preferably interdisciplinary in nature
• Computer proficiency in the use of software packages for statistical analysis; Skills in research management, training and organization, interpersonal and coordinating skills; oral and written communication skills
Screening will start on 20 February 2012 and will continue until a suitable candidate has been found.
Please indicate the position reference number in the e-mail subject line. IRRI regrets that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
IRRI provides a multicultural work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, teamwork, and respect for diversity, with a competitive compensation and benefit package. Women are encouraged to apply.
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