Early Career Wheat Breeder at International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Specific Duties:

• Execute CIMMYT’s breeding pipeline, ensuring efficient development, advancement, and dissemination of germplasm and products.
• Foster collaborations across areas of germplasm development, molecular breeding, rust phenotyping, and seed systems to co-implement impactful regional improvement network(s).
• Contribute to experimental design, trial, and nursery data interpretation and analyses.
• Contribute to increasing genetic gains in CIMMYT's and improvement network’s breeding pipelines, including the formulation, testing, and identification of impactful seed varieties.
• Contribute to capacity-building efforts of CIMMYT, CGIAR, and the seed's improvement network(s).
• Manage the program’s regional data, implementing the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) for streamlined data management.
• Facilitate with the senior breeder the convening of seeds product advancement meetings, with active engagement of internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with regional improvement teams to optimize trial locations and align them with product pipeline testing requirements.
• Lead a team of research technicians, fostering a culture of ownership and accountability.
• Assist the technical stations staff in implementing best practices.
• Enhance the visibility of CIMMYT's research, partnerships, and impacts through the publication of high-quality journal articles.
• Perform additional duties assigned by the supervisor and Program Director to support program objectives.

Requirements

• PhD in breeding or a closely related field with demonstrated expertise in seed breeding.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.
• Expertise in one, with familiarity in the other areas of biometrics and statistics, quantitative genetics, and applied molecular breeding.
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Desire and ability to work respectfully and inclusively in a diverse, multicultural, multidisciplinary work environment.
• The selected candidate must exhibit the following competencies: Problem-Solving, Decision making, Achievement Orientation, Communication, and Teamwork