INTERNAL CALL (RFP300671) Senior Research Associate - Markets and Seed Systems- Arusha, Tanzania

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  • Added Date: Monday, 07 July 2025
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THE ORGANIZATION

The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT deliver research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people's lives. Alliance solutions address the global crisis of malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation.

The Alliance works with local, national and multinational partners across Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, and with the public and private sectors. The Alliance is part of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future, dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources and ecosystem services.

 

About the position

The Senior Research Associate - Markets and Seed Systems will contribute towards facilitating the scaling out of quality seed of improved varieties, enterprise development and creating linkages in output markets in the commodity corridor. In addition, the position holder will support the development of tools and methodologies for value chain analyses, supporting scaling of multi-stakeholder platforms (MSP) and other related market research work necessary to develop the value chains.

 

Key duties & responsibilities

  • Collaborate with relevant public and private sector institutions, contribute to deploying and scaling up climate-resilient legumes in Sub-Sahara Africa (focusing on PABRA countries).
  • Provide support in research designs, field work, data collection and analyses, research syntheses, policy engagements, publications, as well as in monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning.
  • Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of the bean market value chain data and document the impact of market interventions on the smallholder farmers.
  • Provide advice related to business development services to bean seed producers, grain traders and processors to enhance delivery of business services in a sound manner.
  • Strengthen the capacity of the national research partners, private sector and non-private sector in value chain research, market linkages and other facilitation skills
  • Design and support the implementation of market value chain research in Africa including beans and associated value chains
  • Prepare investment plans for private and public sector investments in bean value chains including seed supply
  • Facilitate the establishment, support, monitor and strengthen the multi-stakeholder platforms (MSP) in different countries
  • Participate in the development and testing of sustainable market linkages and business models that enhance market access for smallholder farmers in collaboration with market value chain actors and other stakeholders
  • Design and develop marketing and promotional strategies including working with health and nutrition teams to promote bio-fortified beans and materials for products promoted in different countries in collaboration with national partners
  • Perform other tasks as assigned as a member of Pan African Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) team

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