Intern CLEANED at Bioversity International

About the position

• The Tropical Forages Program is looking for an MSc student intern to work in Nairobi, Kenya. The intern will support the Tropical Forages team in applying the I-CLEANED methodology to assist with ongoing livestock and environmental research work in Africa and Asia.

Key duties & responsibilities

The intern will support the following activities:

• Review crop and livestock management practices, and forage agronomy from existing datasets to identify livestock breeds, feeding practices, and crop/forage data in different production systems.
• Populate a database with crop, livestock and forage data gathered from the literature reviews and household surveys
• Perform ex-ante environmental analyses and generate reports using the gathered data
• Test I-CLEANED releases and suggest improvements
• Support other project-related activities as required from time to time

Requirements

• MSc in Agriculture, Climate Change, Environmental Sciences or a related field
• An interest in livestock, the environment, and tropical forages
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
• Ability to uphold team ethics and work in a multicultural environment
• Good command of English and Kiswahili
• Experience in statistical analysis software, especially R, will be an added advantage