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Senior Administrative Assistant

General: the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit international research organization, serving a global mandate to improve management of water and land for food, livelihoods and nature. IWMI headquarters is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka and one of its sub-regional office is located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. IWMI is one of the 15 research centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

The Position: The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) seeks a highly competent and motivated individual for the position of Senior Administrative Assistant. The successful candidate will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Main Duties:

Drafts routine correspondence and follows up day-to-day matters relating to project operations

Handles telephone calls and attends to them appropriately

Maintains filing and other office systems

Prepares and distributes messages by fax/e-mail

Creates and proofreads all work for accuracy and conformity before signature

Handles travel requests, authorization, and prepares travel expense reports

Assists in organizing workshops and meetings

Takes minutes of departmental meetings

Prepares and manages schedules for the supervisor and team members, taking appointments scheduling meetings with other programs, offices and visitors

Assists team members in preparing presentations, arranging bookings and liaising with different departments for seminars

Keeps attendance records for the project staff and submit records to the Human Resources Office

Assists the Program Management Officer in her daily duties as required

Minimum Requirement:

Education:

Degree in Business Administration or College Diploma in Secretarial Science and Office Management

2 years relevant work experience for degree holders or 5 years for diploma holders

Training:

Advanced secretarial/administrative and computer training

Skills:

Ability to rapidly assimilate the nature of the work environment and associated priorities sensitivities, etc.

Expert PC skills like word processing, Excel and manipulating e-mails etc….

Ability to organize systems and proactive approach to ensure that arrangements, systems and information flow are effective

Proficiency in a second language, where required

Duty Station: Addis Ababa

Grade: Level 2A.

Minimum Salary Birr 5,950

Terms of appointment: Initial appointment is (fixed term) for two years with the possibility of renewable appointment based on performance and the availability of funding.

IWMI offers a multicultural, collegial research environment with competitive salary and excellent benefits in line with ILRI salary applicable for its Nationally Recruited Staff.

IWMI is an international and equal opportunity organization and believes that diversity of its staff contributes to excellence.

The ILRI campus is set in a secure, attractive campus on the outskirts of Addis Ababa.

Dining and sports facilities are located on site.

Applications: Applicants should send a cover letter, resume, relevant documents and testimonials and the names and addresses (including telephone, fax and email) of three referees knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to the Human Resources Office, ILRI, P.O. Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Telephone: (251-11)-617-20-00; Fax: (251-11)-617-20-01; The name and reference number of the position for which the application is made should be clearly marked on the envelopes if mailed, or on the fax applications. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Closing date: 10 (Ten) days after the date of publication in the Ethiopian Herald.

To find more about IWMI, visit our Website at http://www.iwmi.orgIWMI is an equal opportunity employer and is keen to further diversify its staff in terms of both gender and nationality.Qualified women are particularly encouraged to apply.

Development and Gender Economist

ILRI offers a competitive international remuneration and benefits package which includes: – pension – medical insurance – life insurance – and allowances for:

children’s education; relocation and housing ; home leave travel – annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus 11 paid public holidays

ILRI is one of 15 centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

ILRI has campuses in Kenya (headquarters) and Ethiopia, with other offices located in other regions of Africa (Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria) as well as in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and East Asia (China).

ILRI seeks to recruit a scientist within its Poverty, Gender and Impact team and the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) program.

The scientist will work with the two programs to collect, analyse and report on sex- disaggregated data on agriculture and rural development, agricultural value chains and trade in Sub Saharan Africa and Asia.

Key Responsibilities

Design and manage the collection and analysis of gender disaggregated data on agriculture and rural development, agricultural value chains and trade.

Develop tools and frameworks for analysing agricultural value chains from a gender perspective.

Implement, supervise and monitor data collection efforts in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

Use empirical econometric and other quantitative methods to analyse the data integrating both household and intra household analysis.

Work with others in the team to combine quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand impacts of value chain development and agriculture trade especially on women’s empowerment

Work with partners including departments of statistics, agriculture and planning and universities to build their capacity to collect, analyse and report on sex-disaggregated agriculture and trade data.

Contribute to the development, testing and analysis of poverty, gender and equity indicators for monitoring and evaluating agriculture and livestock research and development projects.

Provide strategic guidance to other ILRI scientists and partners in the collection and analysis of sex disaggregated data.

Co-supervise students doing their research on gender, agriculture value chains and trade.

Synthesise studies and literature around gender issues affecting agriculture and rural development in the region to generate policy relevant messages.

Participate in the communication of the work of PGI and ReSAKSS, e.g. through preparation of PGI and ReSAKSS publications such as working papers, policy briefs, technical reports, journal publications, conference papers and presentations at policy fora.

Contribute to the organization of conferences, seminars, and workshops sponsored or co-organized by PGI and ReSAKSS.

Requirements

A Ph.D. in Development Economics, Agricultural Economics or Economics with emphasis on gender and agriculture development and poverty analysis.

At least three years post-Ph.D. working experience in research and policy analysis in developing countries, preferably working on gendered empirical analysis of agricultural development, value chains, and agricultural trade.

Knowledge of evaluation methods, value chain or sectoral assessments, applied micro-econometric methods, household and intra-household analysis.

A good understanding of gender issues in agriculture and rural development and how to design, collect and analyse sex disaggregated data.

Proven analytical and research skills through a track record of scientific publications.

Experience in making presentations to large audiences at national and regional levels.

Excellent interpersonal communication skills, writing ability, organizational and administrative skills.

Ability to work in diverse, multidisciplinary teams.

Demonstrated ability to draft high-quality analytical and policy documents and related correspondence.

Ability to work under pressure, often to tight deadlines without compromising the quality of deliverables.

Demonstrated good organizational skills and ability to work under minimum supervision.

Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain professional contacts, and to interact with national officials and experts, other researchers, international organizations, development partners, and other PGI and ReSAKSS stakeholders.

A willingness to travel frequently within and outside Africa and Asia.

Proven ability to mobilize resources.

Terms of appointment: This is an Internationally Recruited Staff (IRS) position with initial appointment of three years with the possibility of renewal, contingent upon individual performance and the availability of funding.

ILRI offers a competitive international remuneration package paid in US dollars.

Applicants should send a cover letter and CV explaining their interest in the position, what they can bring to the job and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to the Human Resources Director by registering at this link:

http://www.myjobsinkenya.com/?s=view_recr_profile&i=100018. Only applications that are received via this link will be considered and only short listed candidates will be contacted.

The position title and reference number DEV/ECON/12/11 should be clearly marked on the subject line of the online application.

Post Doctoral Fellow – Tanzania Dairy

ILRI offers a competitive international remuneration and benefits package which includes: – medical insurance – life insurance – and allowances for: children’s education; housing and baggage; home leave travel – annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus 11 paid public holidays

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. ILRI is one of 15 centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ILRI has campuses in Kenya (headquarters) and Ethiopia, with other offices located in other regions of Africa (Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria) as well as in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and East Asia (China).

ILRI seeks to recruit a Post-doctoral fellow to work in a project under the ILRI-led new CGIAR Research Programme on Livestock and Fish (CRP3.7) that aims to consolidate research and development (R&D) efforts for a pro-poor transformation of the smallholder dairy value chains in Tanzania among other value chains.

The R&D objectives of the Tanzania project over five years are to:

Inform policy on appropriate role for pro-poor smallholder-based informal sector value chains in dairy sector development;

Generate and communicate evidence on business and organizational options for increasing participation of resource-poor male and female households in dairy value chains; and,

Develop scalable value chains approaches with improved organization and institutions serving resource-poor male and female smallholder dairy households. The specific research objectives during the initial one-year inception funded by Irish Aid – Tanzania are to:

1. Assess the current status of the Tanzanian dairy sector and identify appropriate entry points;

2. Develop a strategy for strengthening the policy environment to better support pro-poor dairy development; and,

3. Identify sites appropriate for piloting pro-poor dairy development interventions that have been successful elsewhere in East Africa. The Fellow will:

Lead field activities, working closely with national research and development partners

Be responsible for evidence-based assessment of the feasibility and appropriateness of candidate organizational models to be piloted, including monitoring of gender dimensions, farmer business and organizational strategies and potential constraints to adoption

Apply existing and new conceptual value chain frameworks to identify pro-poor opportunities for improving the associated value chains

Contribute to preparing strategic communication products including journal publications and proposal development.

Specific qualifications:

PhD in agricultural economics, agribusiness or related field

Experience in livestock (preferably dairy) R&D in East Africa particularly in Tanzania

An understanding of innovation systems, input and service supply, and value chain analysis

Experience in research design, use of quantitative and qualitative analytic methods

Experience with supervising/coordinating collection, storage and analysis of gender-disaggregated data related to agricultural households and associated value chains

Excellent written and spoken English (knowledge of Kiswahili will be an added advantage)

Good interpersonal, facilitation and communication skills

Ability to work in multi cultural environment and foster teamwork

Post Location: In Tanzania at a Project Office that will be located at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), at the ILRI office being established, or in an independent location to optimize travel and communication with the study sites, once these have been selected.

Position level: Post doctoral level, job grade 4A.

Duration: 2 years with the possibility of renewal for another year

Only applications that are received via this link will be considered and only short listed candidates will be contacted.

The position title and reference number REF: PD/TZ/MK03/ 01/12 should be clearly marked on the subject line of the application by 15 February.

ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.

Suitably qualified women and developing country citizens are particularly encouraged to apply.

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