Laboratory Research Technicians at IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

DUTIES: 

• Assist in tissue culture laboratory, screen house and field research activities related to plantain breeding.
• Assist with performing tissue culture and microscopy operations, data collection and processing.
• Ensure sterile environment practices, orderliness of lab, screen house and work environment.
• Assist in maintaining of stock and inventory for germplasm and laboratory items.
• Participate in research data collection, entry and processing.
• Assist in supervising casuals in daily assigned tasks.
• Perform any other job-related duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

QUALIFICATION:

• National Diploma in Agriculture or any other related field with a minimum of three (3) years’ experience performing a similar role in a well-structured environment.

COMPETENCIES:

The ideal candidate must:

• Have excellent interpersonal and multi-tasking skills.
• Attention to detail combined with good self-motivation and self-organizational skills.
• Have a positive attitude and strong team spirit.
• Have experience working with banana tissue culture techniques.
• Have ability to work with digital devices for data collection and reporting.

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DUTIES: 

•  Assist with set up and maintenance of pathology phenotyping trials in the laboratory, screen house and field.
• Carry out nematode cultures using carrot discs.
• Assist with Pseudocercospora sp. mass production and detached leaf assays.
• Populate and maintain the populations of the banana weevil cosmopolites sordidus.
• Supervise casual workers for implementation of assigned tasks.
• Perform any other job-related duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

QUALIFICATION:

• O’level with a minimum of three (3) years’ experience performing a similar role in a well-structured environment.

COMPETENCIES:

The ideal candidate must:

• Have excellent interpersonal and multi-tasking skills.
• Have the ability to use basic Microsoft software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Have a positive attitude and strong team spirit.
• Have experience in nematode cultures, nematode identification, Pseudocercospora isolation and multiplication, weevil sorting on the sexual dimorphism.
• Have experience with field/lab data collection.