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Job Ref: PCD/MSST/02/26

Background

• The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) invites applications for the internationally recruited position of Middle School English Teacher.
• The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across Sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of the One CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food-secure future. Please visit for more information on IITA.
• The International School of IITA is an integral part of the Institute and educates not only research scientist's children, but also IITA managers children and locals. The International School of IITA educates children from 2 to 16 years of age through the IB framework. More information can be found at:
• We are seeking a Middle School (MYP) English Teacher with international experience, a lover of learning and inquiry-based education. This is a tentative talent pool position, created to identify and prequalify strong candidates for upcoming opportunities as the school is going through an expansion.
• As a Middle School English Teacher within lITA, you will contribute to the continued education of secondary school aged students. Our students are from a variety of nations, both African and further afield.

Position Responsibilities
Commitment to creating a positive and balanced learning environment:

• Ensure a positive and disciplined approach to mutual respect is consistently fostered.
• Ensure planning is completed punctually in accordance with the IBO framework and course guidelines.
• Foster teaching that demonstrates a strong understanding and effective use of the IITA School's written curriculum and policies.
• Provide concrete evidence of lesson preparation and effective use of resources.
• Ensure lessons are suitably differentiated to address diverse abilities and learning styles.
• Communicate lesson objectives clearly to students and provide opportunities for them to reflect on and evaluate their learning.
• Create opportunities for students to develop teamwork and collaborative learning skills.
• Make deliberate efforts to ensure lessons are enjoyable and relevant to the pupils.
• Demonstrate the ability to follow a prescriptive course and syllabus while enhancing instruction with additional teaching resources and activities.
• Create opportunities that promote intercultural understanding.
• Ensure the teaching space is organized, stimulating, and attractive, with student work well displayed and updated regularly.
• Encourage students to continue learning independently.
• Include additional staff in lesson planning and utilize them efficiently.
• Ensure cover work is planned and prepared in case of absence.
• Maintain close collaboration and effective communication between students and teachers.
• Maintain cooperative and supportive professional relationships with teachers, parents, and students.
• Teaching load: Maximum of 25 to 30 lessons per week.

Assessment of students' academic development and well-being:

• Assess new students where appropriate and advise on the level of support needed.
• Ensure student progress is continuously assessed using a variety of methods.
• Maintain regular records of progress to clearly show steps taken in preparation for final assessment.
• Follow established procedures when communicating with parents about concerns that may hinder academic success.
• Complete all school requirements for record‑keeping and assessment punctually.
• Monitor the well‑being of each student and record any significant information.

Commitment to reflection and improvement of personal practice:

• Participate actively in the teacher evaluation programme.
• Participate in the peer observation programme.
• Independently seek opportunities to extend professional expertise and stay informed about current educational practices.
• Participate in in‑house professional development trainings, as well as relevant external courses and conferences.

Be an active participant in school life:

• Take an active role in school improvement initiatives.
• Share professional expertise with colleagues.
• Attend and contribute meaningfully to all required meetings.
• Perform break‑time supervision as directed.
• Contribute to the extra‑curricular programme.
• Encourage parental interest, involvement, and support for Parent–Teacher events.
• Be familiar with school policies and able to answer parents’ everyday queries.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements
Educational Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in English Language or related field with a minimum of three (3) years’ experience in an International teaching school approved by an international schools association or body (e.g IBO, CIA, AISAN, COBIS, CIS, AISA).

Core Competencies:

• Excellent level of English language and teaching skills.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel).
• Experience in an MYP School.
• Experience in a small school setting with International experience.

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Job Ref: PCD/MSST/02/26

Background

• The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) invites applications for the internationally recruited position of Middle School Science Teacher.
• The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across Sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of the One CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food-secure future. Please visit for more information on IITA.
• The International School of IITA is an integral part of the Institute and educates not only research scientist's children, but also IITA managers children and locals. The International School of IITA educates children from 2 to 16 years of age through the IB framework. More information can be found at:
• We are seeking a Middle School (MYP) Science specialist with international experience, a lover of learning and inquiry-based education. This is a tentative talent pool position, created to identify and prequalify strong candidates for upcoming opportunities as the school is going through an expansion.
• As a Middle School Science Teacher within lITA, you will contribute to the continued education of secondary school aged students. Our students are from a variety of nations, both African and further afield.

Position Responsibilities
Commitment to creating a positive and balanced learning environment:

• Ensure a positive and disciplined approach to mutual respect is consistently fostered.
• Ensure planning is completed punctually in accordance with the IBO framework and course guidelines.
• Foster teaching that demonstrates a strong understanding and effective use of the IITA School's written curriculum and policies.
• Provide concrete evidence of lesson preparation and effective use of resources.
• Ensure lessons are suitably differentiated to address diverse abilities and learning styles.
• Communicate lesson objectives clearly to students and provide opportunities for them to reflect on and evaluate their learning.
• Create opportunities for students to develop teamwork and collaborative learning skills.
• Make deliberate efforts to ensure lessons are enjoyable and relevant to the pupils.
• Demonstrate the ability to follow a prescriptive course and syllabus while enhancing instruction with additional teaching resources and activities.
• Create opportunities that promote intercultural understanding.
• Ensure the teaching space is organized, stimulating, and attractive, with student work well displayed and updated regularly.
• Encourage students to continue learning independently.
• Include additional staff in lesson planning and utilize them efficiently.
• Ensure cover work is planned and prepared in case of absence.
• Maintain close collaboration and effective communication between students and teachers.
• Maintain cooperative and supportive professional relationships with teachers, parents, and students.
• Teaching load: Maximum of 25 to 30 lessons per week.

Assessment of students' academic development and well-being:

• Assess new students where appropriate and advise on the level of support needed.
• Ensure student progress is continuously assessed using a variety of methods.
• Maintain regular records of progress to clearly show steps taken in preparation for final assessment.
• Follow established procedures when communicating with parents about concerns that may hinder academic success.
• Complete all school requirements for record‑keeping and assessment punctually.
• Monitor the well‑being of each student and record any significant information.

Commitment to reflection and improvement of personal practice:

• Participate actively in the teacher evaluation programme.
• Participate in the peer observation programme.
• Independently seek opportunities to extend professional expertise and stay informed about current educational practices.
• Participate in in‑house professional development trainings, as well as relevant external courses and conferences.

Be an active participant in school life:

• Take an active role in school improvement initiatives.
• Share professional expertise with colleagues.
• Attend and contribute meaningfully to all required meetings.
• Perform break‑time supervision as directed.
• Contribute to the extra‑curricular programme.
• Encourage parental interest, involvement, and support for Parent–Teacher events.
• Be familiar with school policies and be able to answer parents’ everyday queries.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements
Educational Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Educational Science or any related field with a minimum of three (3) years’ experience in an International teaching school approved by an international schools association or body (e.g IBO, CIA, AISAN, COBIS, CIS, AISA).

Core Competencies:

• Excellent level of English language and teaching skills.
• Ability to use Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel).
• Experience in an MYP School.
• Experience in a small school setting with international experience.

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Ref No: DDG-R4D/LSS/HMELIA/02/26

Description

• The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) invites applications for the internationally recruited position of Lead Science of Scaling & Head of Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Impact Assessment (MELIA)
• The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation.
• Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food-secure future. Please visit for more information on IITA.
• The successful candidate will provide leadership in institutionalizing the Science of Scaling at IITA, focusing on addressing key research questions related to the scaling of the Institute's innovations. This includes documenting and sharing data and lessons learned on scaling & delivery activities.
• The candidate will also provide strong leadership for establishing and nurturing a strong, integrated, and effective institutional Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (ME&L) framework for IITA.

Position Responsibilities
Science of Scaling (50%):

• Lead the design and development of a Science of Scaling framework (e.g., research questions regarding the effectiveness of different scaling pathways being used) to implement the Science of Scaling across IITA projects and programs in collaboration with the R4D and P4D Directorates.
• Provide strategic leadership in advancing the Science of Scaling aimed at generating evidence and lessons from IITA’s scaling and delivery efforts to inform the co-design and implementation of effective scaling interventions tailored to African agriculture.
• Provide guidance in identifying and assembling key components of the Science of Scaling in collaboration with the R4D and P4D Directorates.
• Identify potential scalable innovations, evaluate their readiness for scaling, and develop strategies for scaling following the Innovation Packages and Scaling Readiness (IPSR) framework of the CGIAR.
• Mainstream the Science of Scaling framework in the overall ME&L activities of projects, programs, and the overall institutional ME&L framework, including processes and tools for verifiable data generation in order to document scaling pathways and resulting outputs and outcomes
• Synthesize the data and lessons learned from implementing the Science of Scaling framework to support the overall IITA KPIs and as input into the P4D strategic plan.
• Develop staff capacity to conduct ME&L to support the science of scaling across hubs, country offices, and programs/projects.
• Lead or contribute to publication of research results in international, peer-reviewed journals (Thompson-indexed journals with impact factor).
• Lead or contribute to the development of research proposals and other fundraising activities.
• Lead a team of scientists conducting both strategic and action research on innovation scaling.

Institutional MELIA (50%):

• Develop an institutional ME&L framework and related infrastructure that supports data collection and analysis across IITA’s programs and projects, with a focus on data related to the Institute’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Lead the alignment of IITA's Institutional KPIs and the CGIAR System Level Strategic Outcomes for overall performance and contributions of IITA to the CGIAR.
• Collaborate with the impact assessment team to streamline methodologies for measuring results and collate/aggregate impact assessment results to provide a broad picture of IITA’s progress toward its KPIs.
• Review progress on achieving institutional objectives and provide IITA Management with information about important lessons learned.
• Coordinate the institute-wide ME&L Community of Practice (ME&L COP) that includes ME&L professionals and focal persons of projects both at HQ and in hubs.
• Represent IITA on the CGIAR ME&L groups, and regional ME&L communities of practice and maintain/develop ME&L-related collaborative relationships with strategic partners on behalf of IITA.
• Prepare, publish, and share communication materials documenting research outcomes and impacts and lessons learned across IITA, CGIAR Programs, and projects.
• Support Program/project teams in the development and implementation of ME&L systems that satisfy institutional and donor standards, which include:
• MEL plans with a clearly-defined results framework (addressing institutional and donor needs) and reflecting causal models.
• Procedures for data collection, collation, analysis, reporting, & use for decision-making.
• Monitoring, documentation, and learning approaches that are integrated, aligned, and mainstreamed into project activities and coordinated with stakeholders.
• Plans for evaluation studies on outcome and impact-level achievements

Requirements
Educational Qualifications:

• The candidate should hold a Ph.D. degree from a reputable university in agricultural innovation systems, agricultural extension, agricultural economics, development economics, or related fields.

Core Competencies:

• At least 10 years of relevant work experience in scaling science, adoption and impact assessment, innovation systems analysis, or broader socioeconomics research.
• Excellent track record of scaling research as demonstrated in scientific publications relevant to the work.
• Experience in developing and implementing institutional and project-level ME&L frameworks.
• Experience in grant proposal writing and resource mobilisation.
• Proven leadership skills and providing guidance to a team of staff across Science Areas.
• Excellent communication skills as evidenced by the capacity to prepare and deliver clear and concise presentations.
• Work experience within multicultural teams and international organizations or companies, and highly knowledgeable of Africa’s social, agricultural, and rural development and economic development issues, questions, and challenges.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, and French will be an advantage.