ILRI Laboratory Management Research Assistants Jobs in Kenya

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Research Assistant to manage to the overall running of the CTLGH laboratory and associated facilities located at ILRI, Nairobi.

The Jobholder will be employed to work within the Nairobi Node of the Centre of Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health program.

The Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health is an alliance between the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).

It was established to improve the productivity and health of livestock in sub-Saharan Africa using the latest genetic and genomics technologies and related innovations.

ILRI works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock. It is the only one of 15 CGIAR research centres dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing world.

Co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, it has regional or country offices and projects in East, South and Southeast Asia as well as Central, East, Southern and West Africa.


Responsibilities


Research support