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

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

• Coordinate all field operations, including seed preparation, planting, thinning, shoot covering, and pollination in cross blocks and multiplication fields of openpollinated varieties, inbred lines and hybrids at Ibadan under rain-fed and irrigated conditions;
• Extract SI lines from broad-based populations and composites for progeny testing in different locations and recombine the selected materials;
• Make requests for required field tags as well as pollination and glassine bags for various crossing blocks at Ibadan;
• Coordinate labour allocation for thinning, shoot covering, pollination, harvesting, threshing, and seed preparation throughout the year;
• Supervise the preparation of all trials and nurseries targeted for testing at Saminaka, Vom, Zaria, Bagauda, Ikenne and Mokwa;
• Supervise the preparation of regional trials of open-pollinated varieties and inbred lines and hybrids for distribution to collaborators in and outside of West and Central Africa;
• Prepare seeds for storage in the cold rooms and take inventory of the quantity of seeds of inbred lines and hybrids available in the cold store;
• Prepare seeds of inbred lines and hybrids as well as open-pollinated varieties requested by collaborators for shipment and provide practical training of new staff;
• Supervise field workers;
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• B.Sc / HND in Agriculture or related field with minimum of three (3) years’ experience performing similar or related roles.  

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Be computer literate and ability to drive.
• Have good communication skill.

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

• Maintain and upgrade existing inventories system and accessions application;
• Develop and deploy web services to consume/expose data from GRC databases
• Assist the database manager in implementing GRIN-Global system;
• Assist in developing web and mobile applications for data capturing in the lab, screen-house and on the field;
• Conduct trial runs of programs and software applications to be sure they will produce the desired information and that the instructions are correct
• Maintain IITA Genetic Resources Center website;  
• Assist the database manager in training IT students and NYSC in software programming;
• Assist the database manager in source code maintenance using Git, writing databases and application user’s manuals;
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• B.Sc / HND in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Programming or related field with minimum of five (5) years’ work experience performing similar role.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:  

• Have strong experience in mobile and web applications programming using. Net Core and JAVA EE.
• Have ability to work under Linux/Windows operating system.
• Be familiar with android and windows mobile development, Eclipse, Tomcat and MS Visual Studio environment
• Have good communication skill and work off time.