Agribusiness Intern

AGRI-BUSINESS INTERN

The Organization

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people's lives. The Alliance solutions address the global crises of malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation (https://alliancebioversityciat.org/)

With novel partnerships, the Alliance generates evidence and mainstreams innovations to transform food systems and landscapes so that they sustain the planet, drive prosperity, and nourish people.

The Alliance is a member of the CGIAR Consortium (www.cgiar.org) a global research partnership for a food-secure future.

The Position Summary

The Alliance through Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA)  has an opening for a position of an Agri-business Internship Position and is looking for a self-motivated recent graduate to provide timely and efficient support to on-going Alliance - PABRA Projects in a number of countries.

The intern will support PABRA in data collection, organization, analysis and report writing. The intern will support different project operations and therefore will have opportunity to learn from the researchers aspects of seed systems, agronomy, monitoring - evaluation - learning (MEL) and impact investment analysis and options for bean value chain actors, geographical information systems (GIS), post-harvest management and agribusiness among others.

Support seed systems, agronomy, MEL teams in data collection, organisation and analysis from various PABRA member countries

Duties and responsibilities

• Support in report writing for various projects as guided by respective project leaders and researchers.
  
• Conduct cost and benefit analysis as per guidance of respective project leaders and researchers.
  
• Support the active communication and visibility of the programme including through social media activation, website presence and blogs for seed systems, agronomy and MEL.
  
• Support in building and sustaining strong partnerships of various actors and institutional linkages for enhanced technology adoption.
  
• Support in capacity building of seed and grain producers on good agricultural practices (GAPs) for improved productivity.
  
• Support the logistical and organisational output of the programme through generation of agenda, invitations, talking points and power point preparations.
  
• Regularly communicate status and progress made on activities assigned to  respective project leaders and scientists.
  
• Support value chain actors' investments analysis and options.
  
• Any other duties that will be assigned.
  
  

  Requirements

  • Completed a Masters' degree in Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, or related areas. Knowledge of Geographical Information System (GIS) will be an added advantage.
    
  • Knowledge on the use of data analysis tool such as R statical software, SPSS, GenStat, and other GIS packages.
    
  • Experience of the use of digital data collection tools such as ODK, Survey CTO will be added advantage.
    
  • Excellent report writing skills, capable of producing high-quality analytical documents and organising and summarizing materials clearly for a variety of audiences.
    
  • High analytical computing skills with good knowledge of MS Office applications.
    
  • Knowledge on data management ethics.
    
  • Good communication, written and interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in a multicultural team with minimal supervsion.
    
  • Good knowledge of English language and Swahili
    
  • Good knowledge of value chain development 
    
    

    Terms of employment:
    

    This is an internship position based in based in Nairobi with possibility of travel in Eastern Africa countries. The initial contract will be for period of three (3) months and is renewable depending on performance and availability of resources.
    

    The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT offers a multicultural, collegial research environment with competitive salary and excellent benefits. We believe that the diversity of our staff contributes to excellence. The Alliance is an equal-opportunity employer and strives for staff diversity in gender and nationality.
    

     
    

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