Jobs at IITA

Duties

Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

• Assist the Project Manager with day to day project administration.
• Monitor timely completion and reporting of the project’s product delivery and annual milestones.
• Follow up with IITA scientists, Project Administration Office, and project partners to ensure high quality reports are submitted in timely manner.
• Assist in implementation of evaluations/ impact assessments.
• Assist with monitoring the project burn rate.
• Reviewing and crosschecking of partner agreements and similar documents.
• Responsible for stock keeping of project assets.
• Such other duties, properly assigned, as may be occasioned by the exigencies of the service.

Educational, Experience and Other Requirements

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management or other related fields.
• Minimum of Four (4) years’ experience in Project Administration.

The ideal candidate must possess:

• Good understanding of budgeting and financial management procedures.
• Excellent computer skills with good grasp of spreadsheets, word processing and other MS office applications, and ability to learn new applications quickly.
• Excellent English reporting, writing and oral communication skills.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word and Power Point).
• Strong ability to co-ordinate, prioritise and organize workload; take initiative and work under pressure.
• Good team spirit and also participate as a team member in accomplishment of duties.

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Duties

Successful candidate will among other things perform the following:

• Assist in day to day project administration.
• Handling correspondence, photocopying, binding and other paperwork.
• Assist in the preparation of Travel Authorization and Cash Advance/ Expense Claims for traveling arrangement of project staff.
• Assist in the preparation of requests for internal purchases and Purchases Order of office stationery and machineries.
• Assist in the following up and handling purchases/ oracle requests.
• Taking minutes at project meetings.
• Such other duties, properly assigned, as may be occasioned by the exigencies of the service.

Educational, Experience and Other Requirements

• HND/BSc in Business Administration and other related fields.
• Minimum of 2 (two) years’ experience in Project Administration.

The ideal candidate must possess:

• Good understanding of budgeting and financial management procedures.
• Excellent computer skills with good grasp of spreadsheets, word processing and other MS office applications, and ability to learn new applications quickly.
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word and Power Point).
• Strong ability to co-ordinate, prioritise and organize workload; take initiative and work under pressure.
• Good team spirit and also participate as a team member in accomplishment of duties.

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Duties

• Establish and maintain field experiments.
• Supervise field and laboratory staff.
• Calibrate sprayers for herbicide application.
• Be conversant with herbicide calculation and application.
• Undertake data management and analysis; and contribute to reporting of research outputs.
• Support project staff to meet reporting and monitoring and evaluation requirements of the project activities.
• Facilitate all aspects of the project’s operations and management of logistics.
• Support the training of students and visiting trainees.
• Carry out any other task assigned by the Supervisor.

Educational, Experience and Other Requirements

M.Sc. in Plant Science/Agronomy/ Crop Science or a related discipline

The ideal candidate must

• Possess excellent interpersonal skills
• Have good communication skills
• Possess good computer skills and be able to use statistical analysis systems such as SAS, Genstat and Excel.
• Possess a valid Driver’s License
• Experience with and proven skills in the accurate implementation and conduct of field trials, collection and analysis of weed and agronomic data as well as socio-economic data in field trials.