Careers at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Overview

About our organization: CIMMYT is a cutting edge, non-profit, international organization dedicated to solving tomorrow’s problems today. It is entrusted with fostering improved quantity, quality, and dependability of production systems and basic cereals such as maize, wheat, triticale, sorghum, millets, and associated crops through applied agricultural science, particularly in the Global South, through building strong partnerships. This combination enhances the livelihood trajectories and resilience of millions of resource-poor farmers, while working towards a more productive, inclusive, and resilient agrifood system within planetary boundaries. For more information, visit: cimmyt.org CIMMYT is hosted by World Agroforestry (ICRAF), a member of the CGIAR that is headquartered on United Nations Avenue, Nairobi, Kenya. We invite you to learn more about CIMMYT and World Agroforestry by accessing our web sites: www.cimmyt.org and www.worldagroforestry.org CIMMYT is looking for a: Regional Legal Counsel The Regional Legal Counsel is an in-house lawyer who provides comprehensive legal support for all CIMMYT operations in the region. This position advises on contracts, legal transactions, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, and all other legal matters relevant to the department. The role ensures effective legal coverage across the region and contributes to the delivery of legal services throughout CIMMYT’s regional operations.

Duties and responsibilities

• Lead contract drafting, review, negotiation, and administration for grants, research agreements, procurement, leases, NDAs, Host Country Agreements, and related legal instruments to ensure legal soundness and timely operational support.
• Provide practical legal advice across multiple jurisdictions on corporate, regulatory, employment, tax, administrative, dispute, and other legal matters to support sound and compliant decision-making.
• Lead regional compliance support, including investigations, case management, reporting, and training, to strengthen adherence to internal policies and external legal requirements.
• Support regional departments and country operations with day-to-day legal guidance to enable compliant, risk-aware, and efficient implementation of institutional activities.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate legal and regulatory risks, including data privacy, research ethics, health and safety, environmental, and other emerging compliance requirements, to protect CIMMYT’s interests.
• Coordinate with Headquarters and regional stakeholders on governance, policy interpretation, and institutional legal matters to ensure consistency and alignment across the region.
• Conduct legal research, prepare legal opinions and related documents, and improve legal tools and workflows to strengthen service delivery across the region.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Law (LL.M.) or related advanced legal qualification.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience as in-house legal counsel or in a comparable legal role, preferably supporting regional or multi-jurisdictional operations.
• Strong experience in contracts, legal advisory, regulatory compliance, and risk management; experience in international non-profit, development, research, or agricultural research organizations is an advantage.

The application deadline is 16 Jul 2026.

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Overview

About our organization: ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems. ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. We invite you to learn more about ICRISAT and World Agroforestry by accessing our web sites www.icrisat.org and http://worldagroforestry.org ICRISAT is looking for a: Associate Scientist – Data Analyst – ESA Overview This role assists scientists in designing field trials, generating experimental layouts, and conducting data curation, analysis, and interpretation across disciplines using digital tools.

Duties and responsibilities

• Assist ICRISAT’s scientists in planning agricultural field trials.
• Generate randomizations and trial layouts for field experiments.
• Provide support to the scientists for data curation, simple and complex analysis, and interpretation of the results from varying disciplines.
• Develop R codes and/or refine existing R codes for data curation, visualization and analysis.
• Actively contribute to scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Contribute to conducting training programmes for both ICRISAT’s scientists and National Agricultural Research Scientists (NARS) in data management and data analysis.
• Perform any other task assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

• A Ph.D. in Statistics or a closely related field with at least 3 years of relevant experience in agricultural research, which is highly desirable.
• Proven experience working as a Biostatistician in a research environment or applied setting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated expertise in applied statistical analysis.
• Solid knowledge and practical experience in experimental design.
• Experience in data generation, management, and curation.
• Proven capability in predictive modelling and advanced statistical techniques.
• Proficiency in statistical and data analysis software, including R, Python, and SAS.
• Sound interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as in a team setting.
• Preferably having experience of working in multi-cultural and interdisciplinary teams.
• Experience in an international organization environment will be an added advantage
• Ability to prioritize and organize work efficiently and independently.

The application deadline is 27 Jul 2026.