Job Openings at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Duties and responsibilities

Strategic Support and Alignment

• Conduct regular assessments of country office operations to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and regional priorities.
• Review and provide insights on the impact of country office activities and initiatives.
• Coordinate strategic planning and execution between country offices and HQ.

Governance and Compliance

• Ensure adherence to organizational policies, DOA, and compliance standards.
• Conduct reviews and spot checks to ensure compliance, recommending corrective actions for HR processes and activities.
• Collaborate with Legal and other departments to review compliance and address irregularities.
• Monitor ongoing compliance through regular reporting and data analysis.

Operational Effectiveness

• Monitor operational performance, identifying inefficiencies in key HR processes at the regional level. Implement process improvements and training initiatives.
• Ensure effective resource utilization and alignment with cost management strategies (structure, staffing, and work allocation).
• Work with the regional Director and Country Offices, to include HR management, training, support, well-being, and other relevant aspects in operational plans and budgets.
• Contribute for HR to the opening or closing of country Offices in the Region.

Workforce and Talent Development

• Evaluate and promote/ support leadership and management practices to enhance team engagement and morale.
• Support talent development initiatives, focusing on building local/ regional capacity.
• Work with relevant areas to address workforce gaps and strengthen team cohesion.
• Develop and implement annual training plans with program leads/managers and HQ.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• At least 8-10 years of progressive HR experience, including regional or multi-country management.
• Experience in human resources governance, compliance, and strategy alignment.

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Duties and responsibilities

Data science & remote sensing

• Train and deploy complex GNN models for continental weather forecasting.
• Perform scientifically robust validation of ML predictions.
• Develop pipelines to populate and update the STAC.
• Spatial data analysis tasks, including spatial queries, vector data extraction, processing, and cleaning.
• General data analysis and report writing.

Dashboard development

• Develop interactive dashboards to display analyses using R, Python and/or Julia
• Develop interactive tools to share and communicate spatial data sets through, for instance, earth engine app

Various other tasks

• Contribute to scientific papers.
• Contribute to proposal development and writing.

Requirements

• BSc degree in remote sensing and spatial data science is required with proven ability to perform complex data science and remote sensing tasks and combine various (remotely sensed) datasets.
• Develop dashboards showing (remotely sensed) data.
• Advanced computer programming skills in R, Python, Javascript, database technologies, and data management.