Employer: International Potato Center (CIP)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Application Deadline: 6th June 2014
Job Description:
The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking to recruit a dynamic and
experienced Agricultural Economist to support its project/research activities
in potato and sweetpotato in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) region
Duties and responsibilities:
• The Research Associate will support the implementation and impact assessment
of CIP project activities in the SSA in, among others:
• Carrying out monitoring and evaluation;
• Designing and implementing household and market surveys;
• Entry, cleaning and analysis of large socioeconomic datasets;
• Reviewing literature; and drafting scientific reports, conference papers,
journal articles and policy briefs.
Requirements:
• M.Sc. degree in economics, agricultural economics or applied economics with
strong quantitative skills (i.e., mathematics, econometrics, and statistics),
research methods fluency in CS Pro, SPSS, and STATA;
• Excellent teamwork, supervision, oral and writing skills;
• Ability to work in multicultural/multidisciplinary environments.
Experience:
• At least two years of demonstrated work experience in similar positions and
Experience in: value chain analysis;
• Conducting monitoring and evaluation;
• Designing household and market surveys;
• Coordinating and supervising data collection under different socio-cultural
environments;
• Analysis of complex single and panel datasets in SPSS and/ or STATA);
• Preparation of scientific reports and papers (as evidenced by publications).
Conditions: The employment will be for a two-year term (with 3-month probation),
renewable contingent upon individual performance and funding.
How to Apply:
Apply by email, sending a letter of motivation, detailed C.V., copies of
relevant certificates, and contacts of three referees to cip-nbo@cgiar.org
copied to: m.ameru@cgiar.org on or before June 06, 2014.
The position title “Research Associate – Agricultural Economist” should be
clearly marked on the subject line of the email message. Interviews will begin
in mid June 2014.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
You can learn more about CIP by accessing our web site at
http://www.cipotato.org. CIP is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified women
are particularly encouraged to apply.