Agricultural Data Coordinator / Ethiopia

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, is seeking a dynamic, innovative, self-motivated, and service-orientated professional with excellent organizational, data management and people skills to coordinate data flow in a dynamic research team focused on increasing food security and reducing poverty at an international scale. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT®, is a not-for-profit research and training organization with partners in over 100 countries. Please refer to our website for more information www.cimmyt.org.

Successful candidate will act as an interface between individual researchers, project collaborators, software engineers, and clients of CIMMYT knowledge products. They will also assist CIMMYT scientists and partners in handling and processing large molecular and phenotypic streams for analysis. As members of CIMMYT, candidates will work with a dynamic group of knowledge managers, software engineers, crop modelers, crop scientists and economists.

Position will be based at CIMMYT’s office in Addis Ababa, but will interact with all CIMMYT´s experimental stations and regional offices (country and world-wide) on a regular basis.

The primary objective of this position consists of:

• Establishing data standards, documentation, data curation processes, time lines for data entry into institutional data bases/repositories, in agreement with project requirements and the CIMMYT knowledge management strategy
• Coordinating the receipt, storage, manipulation and quality control of agronomic, economic and survey data for CIMMYT staff enabling accurate data tracking and documentation throughout the analysis pipeline.
• Participating in the design, development and population of versatile institutional databases/repositories, interfaces and output tools.
• Introduce new informatics tools to scientist and research assistants and project collaborators provide on-the-job training, and report back user requirements to CIMMYT software engineers.
• Managing and documenting the dissemination of data (raw and analyzed) to co-operators within CIMMYT and with partner organizations.

The job will require that you:

• Liaise between researchers who want to make use of own and cross institutional databases, knowledge management specialists, biometricians and software engineers at CIMMYT.
• Interpret data summaries to determine accuracy and validity of data.
• Test user-friendly software tools for molecular and trial data capture, storage and analysis.
• Manage and provide feedback to software engineers to help to improve functionality.

We are seeking candidates with the following qualification, skills and attitudes:

• M.Sc. in geographical science, agronomy, agricultural statistics or related fields.
• Minimum of 2-3 years experience in developing and/or using bioinformatics tools for the management of large-volume data sets.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to details.
• Ability to investigate and analyze with minimum supervision research activities within CIMMYT’s research programs to make them more efficient by using IT resources.
• Ability to work and communicate with knowledge management specialists, biometricians and software engineers at CIMMYT.
• Good interpersonal skills and a strong desire to support the delivery of improved, products, tools and services to team members and collaborators.
• Excellent English skills.
• Ability to work well as part of multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.

CIMMYT offers an attractive remuneration package and support for continuous professional development.

CIMMYT is an equal opportunity employer. It fosters a multicultural work environment that values gender equality, teamwork, and respect for diversity. Women are encouraged to apply.

Apply online or email cover letter and CV no later than 21 September, 2012 to Human Resources, CIMMYT
(Email: nrsrecruitment@cgiar.org / Please insert Position Reference number: E12356 in the subject of your email)

Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
For further information on the selection process, please contact Guillermo Flores, Recruitment and Selection Coordinator atg.flores@cgiar.org