Info For You Lot Post-Doctoral Scientist – Economic Science Of Climate Services At International Livestock Question Institute

Post-doctoral Scientist – Economics of Climate Services

Program(s) Offered: Econs, Agric Econs, Related
Program Level: Graduate (Post-doctoral)
Provider: ILRI
Country to Work in: Ethiopia

Program Description
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Post-doctoral Scientist (Economics of Climate Services), to back upwards a USAID funded projection on Climate Services for Africa.

The projection is implemented past times the Climate Change, Agriculture as well as Food Security (CCAFS) which is a Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) question program.

The seat seeks to amend methodology as well as strengthen quantitative bear witness to guide investments inwards climate services across Africa. Climate variability as well as modify house pregnant stress on nutrient production as well as availability inwards Africa as well as threaten its economical development.

Eligibility
REQUIREMENTS:

• PhD inwards economics, agricultural economics, or closely related dependent area obtained non to a greater extent than than 3 years ago;
• Experience inwards economical valuation of climate services or closely related aspects of data or endangerment management;
• Demonstrated expertise inwards economical valuation methods applied to information;
• Publication tape demonstrating innovative as well as practical contributions to academic and/or applied literature on economical valuation of climate or closely related information;
• Familiarity alongside agricultural systems, climate institutions as well as initiatives, as well as climate-related agricultural risks inwards Africa;
• Strong organisational skills as well as demonstrated mightiness to deliver successful projection outcomes (both independently as well as every bit component division of a team), prioritizing as well as organizing ain function every bit required;
• Strong interpersonal skills alongside the mightiness to develop goodness working relationships alongside colleagues as well as institutional stakeholders;
• Willingness to locomote as well as collaborate alongside partner institutions;
• Excellent communication skills inwards english (written as well as oral), alongside demonstrated mightiness to communicate complex data to a arrive at of audiences inwards a clear as well as inspiring manner.

Eligible groups
Citizens of ANY country

Participating Institutions
The seat volition go based inwards Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Fields of work
RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop tools as well as methods for ex-ante evaluation of the expected economical benefits from alternate investments inwards Climate Information Services (CIS) inwards Africa at local, national as well as multi-country levels, alongside emphasis on agriculture as well as nutrient security;
• Lead economical studies as well as policy analysis of electrical flow as well as potential climate services investment for agriculture as well as nutrient safety inwards countries of shared priority for CCAFS as well as African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC);
• Provide strategic guidance for investments inwards CIS for agriculture as well as nutrient security, including those through ClimDev-Africa;
• Support collaboration as well as coordination amidst ACPC, CCAFS as well as their partners;
• Participate inwards international, regional, as well as national meetings to collect data as well as to grip discussions alongside colleagues inwards other institutions;
• Provide inputs for technical papers as well as analytical studies on investing inwards climate services for agriculture as well as nutrient security, as well as inwards back upwards of science-policy links inwards Africa;
• Assist inwards the organisation as well as servicing of practiced grouping meetings, seminars on the economical value of climate services for agriculture as well as nutrient safety inwards Africa;
• Contributes to the preparation of materials as well as technical documentation for collaboration programmes as well as projects; and
• Performs other related duties as well as administrative tasks, every bit agreed past times the CCAFS Flagship Leader on Climate Information Services as well as Climate-Informed Safety Nets as well as the ACPC Coordinator, necessary for the concluding delivery of relevant ACPC services.

Sponsorship duration
The seat is on a ii years fixed term contract

Program benefits
ILRI offers a competitive salary as well as benefits bundle which includes medical insurance, life insurance as well as allowances for: education, housing, domicile leave, as well as annual vacation entitlement of thirty days + world holidays.

Method of Application
Applicants should transportation a embrace alphabetic quality as well as CV explaining their involvement inwards the position, what they tin convey to the purpose as well as the names as well as addresses (including outcry as well as email) of iii referees who are knowledgeable nearly the candidate’s professional person qualifications as well as function sense to the Director, People as well as Organizational Development. The seat championship as well as reference number: ECS/CCAFS/02/2016 should go clearly marked on the dependent draw of the online application.

All applications to go submitted online on the ILRI recruitment portal: http://ilri.simplicant.com

DEADLINES:
All applications must go submitted online past times 16 March 2016

PLEASE NOTE:
ILRI thank y'all all applicants for their involvement inwards working for ILRI. Due to the book of applications, entirely shortlisted candidates volition go contacted.

ILRI does non accuse a fee at whatever phase of the recruitment procedure (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does non draw of piece of work organisation itself alongside data on applicants’ depository fiscal establishment accounts.

ILRI plant alongside partners worldwide to heighten the roles that livestock play inwards nutrient safety as well as poverty alleviation, principally inwards Africa as well as Asia. The outcomes of these question partnerships assistance people inwards developing countries go along their farm animals’ go as well as productive, growth as well as sustain their livestock as well as farm productivity, honour profitable markets for their brute products, as well as cut back the endangerment of livestock-related diseases. Visit www.ilri.org.

ILRI is a not-for-profit establishment alongside a staff of nearly 700 as well as inwards 2016, an operating budget of nearly USD 83 million. H5N1 fellow member of the CGIAR Consortium working for a food-secure future, ILRI has its headquarters inwards Nairobi, Kenya, a chief campus inwards Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as well as offices inwards other countries inwards East, West as well as Southern Africa as well as inwards South, Southeast as well as East Asia. Visit www.cgiar.org.

CCAFS is a strategic collaboration betwixt the CGIAR as well as Future world that seeks to promote a food-secure world through the provision of science-based efforts that back upwards sustainable agriculture as well as heighten livelihoods spell adapting to climate modify as well as conserving natural resources. East as well as West Africa are amidst the v CCAFS implementing regions as well as the CCAFS East Africa Program is based at ILRI inwards Nairobi. Visit https://ccafs.cgiar.org/.

To honour out to a greater extent than nearly working at ILRI see the website at: http://www.ilri.org/ilricrowd/.

Application Deadline: xvi March 2016
Open to International Applicants: Yes

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