Job Vacancies at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Ref: IITA-HR-NRS2019-039
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Recruitment Type: National (3-year renewable contract)

Duties
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

• Oversee all Snack Bar & Cappa Bar operations
• Ensure customer satisfaction through promoting excellent service, respond to customer complaints tactfully and professionally
• Assist management in revenue generation
• Liaise with the Head Chef to maintain quality control for all food served
• Conduct daily, weekly, monthly stock take of beverages and report accordingly
• Analyze staff evaluations and feedback to improve the customer’s experience
• Project future needs for goods, kitchen supplies, cleaning products and order accordingly with the Stores
• Supervise and be accountable for beverage service during events
• Oversee health code compliance and sanitation standards
• Seek ways to cut waste and decrease operational costs
• Generate weekly, monthly, and annual reports for the Resident Manager
• Train new employees and provide ongoing training for all staff
• Assign duties to staff and coordinate the weekly roster
• Perform additional related duties as requested by the HOSTRAS management.

Qualification

• B.Sc/HND in Hospitality and Management, Hotel and Catering or related fields with minimum of three (3) years’ experience performing related roles in a well-structured hospitality management environment.

Competencies
The ideal candidate must:

• Have ability to use restaurant management software,
• Have good working knowledge of food and beverage services.
• Have very pleasant personality and strong leadership skills
• Be a good team player and honest
• Have good communication skills.

Remuneration

• We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

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Ref: IITA-HR-NRS2019-042
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Recruitment Type: National (3-year renewable contract)
Contract: 3-year renewable contract

Duties
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

• Prepare and review of financial statements;
• Check, process and report on returns and justification of funds granted to IITA;
• Raise journal for adjustments where necessary on various accounts and loading same on oracle;
• Attend to queries raised by Budget Officers on projects; Assist in checking of Cashiers’ cash balance as scheduled; Update, review and reconcile bills receivables from donors with the total grant income of projects;
• Prepare station imprest on regular basis;
• Develop, maintain and analyze budget;
• Prepare periodic accounting report;
• Contribute to team efforts by accomplishing related result as needed;
• Perform all other related duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• B.Sc/HND in Accounting or Business Management, ICAN skill levelwould be an added advantage
• The ideal candidate must have a minimum of three (3) years related experience in a related role of a large organization.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Be honest, trustworthy and hard working
• Be friendly and be a team player.
• Be able to read and interpret MOUs from donor.
• Be willing to work for long hours as the need arises, articulate and able to work with less supervision.

Remuneration

• We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

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Ref: IITA-HR-NRS2019-041
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Recruitment Type: National (3-year renewable contract)
Contract: 3-year renewable contract

Duties
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

• Coordinate all project technical reporting to donors;
• Liaise with scientist to ensure that project technical reports are promptly received by sending email reminders to them periodically;
• Submit technical reports to donors in a timely manner;
• Communicate technical reporting feedback from donors back to scientists and ensure they are incorporated into report as necessary;
• Develop a tracking system to track the submission of technical reports to donors;
• Ensure that all technical reports follow the correct format specified by the donor and follow up with donors on new templates as necessary;
• Maintain an updated donor technical reporting template repository;
• Facilitate, review and edit project technical reports;
• Follow up with scientists to address specific issues raised by donors.
• Upload submitted technical reports to donors and both technical/financial reports from partners on ProMIS and ensure that the database is up to date;
• Upload and update partners agreement;
• Support in data generation of project administration related information.
• Retrieve information from both paper files and database to resolve queries;
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• B.Sc/HND in Business Administration, Project Management or related field with minimum of four (4) years experience performing similar roles with experience working in a research environment.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Have good grasp of project management processes;
• Be able to communicate excellently in English both oral and written;
• Have good analytical skills;
• Have excellent computer skills;
• Have good sense of judgment;
• Have ability to work under pressure and with minimal Supervision.

Remuneration

• We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

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Ref: IITA-HR-NRS2019-041
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Recruitment Type: National (3-year renewable contract)
Contract: 3-year renewable contract

Duties
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

• Carry out quality control and comprehensive physical, chemical and microbiological analysis of raw water, potable water, swimming pool water and Sewage water at Water treatment plant;
• Carry out jar test to assist the operators to determine appropriate chemical dosage of raw water;
• Assist in determining quality of chemicals before purchase;
• Initiate purchase of laboratory equipment and reagents;
• Team up with the operators to carry out operation of the plants;
• Assist in generating laboratory reports on daily weekly and monthly basis;
• Perform any their duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• B.Sc/HND in Science Laboratory Technology or related field with minimum of three (3) years working experience performing related roles.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Have good knowledge of laboratory analysis of water.
• Have good knowledge of water treatment plant, swimming and sewage system.
• Be honest and hardworking with good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Possess a valid driver’s license and be a good team player.

Remuneration

• We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

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Ref: IITA-HR-NRS2019-041
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Recruitment Type: National (3-year renewable contract)
Contract: 3-year renewable contract

Duties
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

• Provide technical and administrative leadership to the Automotive and Transport units of IITA-FMS;
• Possess in-depth technical knowledge of mechanical and electrical concepts used in modern passenger and light utility vehicles, e.g. Toyota, Ford, Mitsubishi and others totaling about 300 vehicles;
• Ensure the workshop is equipped with proper maintenance tools and upgrade where necessary;
• Review existing workshop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and update as necessary;
• Certify road worthiness checklist of all vehicles before they leave workshop after repair;
• Oversee workshop staff/supervisors’ activities to make sure correct repair procedures are followed;
• Periodically review and update inventory stock of essential spare parts needed.
• Prepare and review service history of all IITA vehicles and make sure the preventive maintenance schedules is followed on all vehicles.
• Prepare and update the Master List and particulars of all IITA vehicles used in Nigeria;
• Exercise proper budget control in the operation of automotive and transport unitto make sure expenditure and income are balanced;
• Review and advise renewal of driving licenses held by official drivers and private users at the Headquarters;
• Perform any otherduties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering or related field with minimum of ten (10) years experience performing similar role in a structured environment
• Possession of relevant higher qualificationsand membership of Council of Registered Engineering (COREN) is an added advantage.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Be familiar with source of genuine parts and be able to identify them.
• Be familiar with correct diagnostics repair procedure for different model/makes of vehicles.
• Have excellent managerial and supervisory skills to handle the entire auto service staff.
• Have good time management and communication skills.
• Must be well versed in the use of diagnostics tools and modules used to identify faults quickly in order to keep down time to a minimum.

Remuneration

• We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.