Jobs At IITA

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement an operational plan for tracking IITA’s contribution to poverty reduction and other development outcomes with a detailed description of target technologies and institutional and policy innovations, geographic coverage, data requirements, methods and timing of data collection and analysis, and budgets;
• Build on existing qualitative and quantitative impact evaluation methods and develop extended approaches for aggregating producer and consumer benefits and quantifying the aggregate poverty impacts (i.e. number of poor moved out of poverty) of technological, institutional and policy innovations in a manner that goes beyond establishing causality and estimating average effects including methods for combining household data with general equilibrium models;
• Undertake and coordinate adoption and impact evaluation studies aimed at quantifying the aggregate effects of IITA interventions on poverty reduction and sustainable natural resources management;
• Develop and operationalize a mechanism for gathering and archiving critical feedback information and on-farm experimental data and participatory evaluation of institutional and policy interventions from IITA staff and partners involved in agricultural innovations development, dissemination and scaling out and scaling up;
• Establish a mechanism for providing feedback to M&E and IITA management;
• Publish research findings and contribute to dissemination of research results and development outcomes to stakeholders;
• Contribute to capacity strengthening of national partners; and
• Participate actively in annual review and planning meetings, resource mobilization, and contribute to strategic research planning.

Educational Qualifications:

• PhD in agricultural economics, economics, or development economics from a highly recognized university.

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrated postdoctoral experience with impact evaluation of agricultural technologies, institutions and policies on food and nutrition security and poverty reduction;
• Extensive knowledge of econometric modeling methods and software (e.g. STATA, GAMS, etc.) as well as geospatial analysis tools (e.g. GIS) for impact studies at micro and macro levels;
• Extensive knowledge of data collection tools and analytical methods for poverty measurement in an African setting and the ability to handle large panel datasets;
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale technology adoption as well as living standard measurement surveys;
• Demonstrated ability to write and publish journal articles;
• Excellent spoken and written English (knowledge of French is an added advantage); and
• Ability to work independently in a multidisciplinary and multi-cultural environment.
• General information: The contract will be for an initial period of two years with possibility of renewal based on performance and availability of funding. IITA offers a competitive remuneration package paid in US dollars.