Openings at Bioversity International

Job Description

•  Undertake and support soil carbon, and greenhouse gases modeling at local and landscape scales.
•  Apply modelling tools such as DSSAT model to assess the soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration potential of selected perennial forages within East Africa and Latin America,
•  Apply modelling and other approaches to assess potential impacts of land management options including agro-ecology interventions to livelihoods and climate change.
•  Assess the long-term impacts of deep rooting forage grasses on soil organic carbon in selected sites in East Africa
•  Identify and support opportunities for cross-lever linkages and collaborations within bilateral projects and one CGIAR initiatives, especially across the multifunctional landscapes research lever and tropical forages program.
•  Contribute to proposal pipelines by developing proposals and concept notes along the areas of science work identified above.
•  Manage and co-ordinate project activities in key projects.
•  Publish quality research results in peer-reviewed journals as well as briefs, reports etc.
•  Supervise research associates and short-term consultants involved in key projects and initiatives.
•  Represent and give visibility to the Alliance in relevant forums and arenas
•  Perform other duties as required by their supervisor

Requirements

•  PhD Degree in Agronomy, Soil Science, or any other relevant field with good scientific knowledge on tropical soil, soil organic carbon and soil biology.
•  At least seven (7) years of relevant work experience in a closely related field gained in an international organization with key strengths in soil organic carbon and modeling topics
•  Proven experience in applying biophysical models for simulating soil organic carbon (DayCent, CropSyst, RotC, etc.)
•  Ability to integrate knowledge across different disciplines.
•  Capable of managing professional relationships, and working in a complex, intercultural and highly dynamic working environment.
•  Values the sharing of information and continuous improvements in a cooperative atmosphere of constructive evaluation and learning and be committed to staff development.

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Main duties and responsibilities:

•  Lead the implementation of the internal and external strategy, the communication and knowledge management plans and activities to position OneSF’s narrative and impact pathways.
•  Oversee, produce, and manage the development of OneSF’s communications and knowledge products (stories, releases, blogs, videos, podcasts, digital content, publications, and etcetera.)
•  Ensure participation in major events (CBD, UNFCCC, etc.), with an emphasis on positioning OneSF’s mission and sharing knowledge with stakeholders and priority audiences.
•  Coordinate global and regional actions with the Alliance Global and Regional communications officers(Africa, Asia, Latin America) and with CGIAR Outreach & Communications, and Partnerships and Advocacy units and team members.
•  Contribute to the design and organization of high-level strategic meetings, knowledge management, and capacity building workshops, seminars, and events.
•  Provide advice on external communications opportunities and issues related to OneSF’s mission.
•  Contribute to the production of Alliance’s multimedia content, such as stories, videos, podcasts, awareness-raising materials, research briefs and reports, digital products, and capacity building tools.

Requirements

Requirements and Experience:

•  Bachelor’s degree in communications, external affairs or marketing with experience working in interdisciplinary programs related to agriculture, environment and development studies preferred.
•  Professional specialization or equivalent, Master’s Degree desirable
•  Minimum 3 years of work experience of relevant professional experience in similar roles with proven capacity for program communications coordination and knowledge management.
•  Experience in the design and deployment of communications strategies and plans using different media to target a wide range of audiences.
•  Broad understanding of sustainable finance.
•  Knowledge of international development field is highly preferred.
•  Excellent knowledge of MS office applications, especially Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel, and ability to learn new applications quickly.
•  Ability to create engaging digital content for use on social media platforms to a high standard, using platforms like Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, Headliner etc.
•  Strong knowledge of and experience with different CMS, including Drupal and WordPress.
•  Experience with photography and/or videography desirable.
•  Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communications skills.
•  Demonstrate initiative and creativity in reaching and enthusing new and existing stakeholders and working in a multi-stakeholder environment.
•  Must be able to work independently with little supervision, but also participate as a team member in the accomplishment of duties.
•  Well-developed organization skills with the ability to deliver on-time and manage numerous tasks simultaneously.
•  Ability to relate positively and to engage with a wide range of people.
•  Ability to multi-task and prioritize between tasks with excellent record keeping and data management skills.
•  Ability to work in a multicultural environment and communicate effectively with scientists and interdisciplinary teams.

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Job Description

•  Maintain in-depth knowledge of company’s strategic business plans.
•  Provide architectural consulting expertise, direction, and assistance to systems analysts, IT cloud engineers, and other systems architects.
•  Document and develop in-depth knowledge of company’s existing IT cloud architecture/infrastructure, and technology portfolio.
•  Develop and manage an IT cloud infrastructure capacity plan.
•  Develop, document, communicate, and enforce a cloud technology standards policy.
•  Conduct research on emerging cloud technologies in support of infrastructure development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility.
•  Develop, document, make recommendations, and communicate plans for investing in IT cloud infrastructure, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities.
•  Design, develop, and oversee implementation of end-to-end IT cloud integrated systems.
•  Develop and execute test plans to check IT cloud infrastructure and systems technical performance. Report on findings and make recommendations for improvement.
•  Provides expert day-to-day technical support of a range of Cloud-based applications and services, performing an extensive range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work activities, and undertaking work which requires the application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts.
•  Acts as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for AWS cloud infrastructure within the Cloud Team.
•  Works with the Cloud Product Owner to ensure long-term strategy remains up to date with new developments or offerings from AWS.
•  Designing and configuring virtual machines as per business needs, including setting up networking resources such as load balancers for scalability purposes.
•  Work with DevOps professionals to debug code/programs if issues are encountered during deployment phases.
•  Proactively ensures security is appropriately addressed within their area by self and others.
•  Engages or works with security specialists as necessary. Contributes to the security culture of the organization.
•  Provide services costing expertise, direction, and assistance to systems analysts, IT/cloud engineers, and other systems architects.

Requirements

•  University degree or technical diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronic Engineer, or related fields.
•  At least three years of relevant work experience, preferably in an international organization.
•  One or more of the following certifications:
•  Excellent understanding of typical multi-tier architectures: web servers, caching, application servers, load balancers, and storage.
•  Understanding of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) and NoSQL.
•  Knowledge of message queuing and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
•  Familiarity with loose coupling and stateless systems.
•  Understanding of different consistency models in distributed systems.
•  Knowledge of Content Delivery Networks (CDN).
•  Hands-on experience with core LAN/WAN network technologies.
•  Experience with route tables, access control lists, firewalls, NAT, HTTP, DNS, IP and OSI Network.
•  Knowledge of RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON.
•  Familiarity with the software development lifecycle.
•  Work experience with information and application security concepts, mechanisms, and tools.
•  Awareness of end-user computing and collaborative technologies.
•  Large-scale distributed systems architecture.
•  System performance tuning.
•  Information and application security concepts including public key encryption, remote access, access credentials, and certificate-based authentication.
•  Familiarity with configuration management system (Example kaseya, puppet).
•  Experience with cloud environments.
•  Public Cloud billing experience
•  Fluent English language skills, both written and spoken.