Jobs at IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

DUTIES: 

• Support the children in their learning: Listen to children read, read to them, or tell them stories, supervise group activities, help children who need extra support to complete tasks and look after children who are upset or have had accidents.
• Support the teachers in their preparation: get the classroom ready for lessons, help teachers to plan learning activities and complete records, laminating teaching materials to increase their durability under repeated use.
• Support the teachers with display work: assist with the display work in the classroom or updating the classroom boards, assist in organizing and labelling materials and displaying students' work in a manner appropriate for their eye levels and perceptual skills.
• Support the teachers in managing class behaviour: help the teacher to maintain order in the classroom, ensure that the students are obeying the rules and discipline unruly pupils when necessary.
• Support the teachers through supervision: supervise students in the playground during recess or before and after school, help to keep an eye on the children during lunch, accompany and supervise students on field trips or at extracurricular events.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and attractive environment: Ensure the cleanliness and tidiness of the classroom and outside environment, clear away materials, and equipment after lessons.
• Perform any other job-related duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

QUALIFICATION:

• NCE in related field with a minimum of five (5) years’ experience performing a similar role in a well-structured environment.

COMPETENCIES:

The ideal candidate must:

• Have good relationship with children, parent and internal staff                  
• Have effective Communication: ability to communicate, express ideas in different ways of communication.
• Be a team player.
• Be effectively interactive with learning community
• Be passionate on children’s welfare.

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DUTIES: 

• Liaise with different national partners for the effective implementation and collection of quality data of the tricot/1000farms on farm trials and sparse testing for genomic prediction.
• Provide support for proper designing, management and data collection of multi-location trials on IITA stations.
• Provide support to the national partners and supervise the effective implementation of multi-location trials management and data collection.
• Assist in the effective implementation of Rapid Generation Advance (speed breeding).
• Assist the soybean breeding program in transitioning from Breeding Management System (BMS) to Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) software for soybean germplasm database management, designing trials, data management and statistical analysis.
• Work closely with the breeder in the field evaluation and selection of superior genotypes and breeding lines for advancement.
• Support in data curation, data analysis and preparing summary tables.
• Assist the centralization of the breeding operations.
• Support post graduate students in designing their thesis research experiments, trial management and data collection.
• Assist in preparing regular (monthly or quarterly) or annual reports.
• Assist in the preparation and shipment of seeds of trials to the different partners.
• Assist in sample collection, sample shipment for genotyping services.
• Prepare seasonal experimental land requirement plan and submit the request to Farm Unit and follow-up the proper allocation.
• Perform any other job-related duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.·     

QUALIFICATION:

• Master’s in plant breeding or related field with a minimum of four (4) years’ experience in plant breeding program or a similar role in a well-structured environment.

COMPETENCIES:

The ideal candidate must have:

• Previous experience in managing plant breeding trials.
• Experience in statistical analyses, and database softwares.
• Experience in data analysis and interpretation.
• Experience in managing or coordinating on farm trials.
• Knowledge of speed breeding and tricot 1000farms on farm trailing.
• Knowledge of molecular breeding techniques.
• Experience working with different national partners.