The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock. It is the only one of 15 CGIAR research centers dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing world.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Contribute to site selection, baseline, and inventory of climate-smart technologies available in study area;
Identify key actors for climate-smart technology packages in study area;
Plan, organize and facilitate workshops for local partnership, and provide summary reports of the discussions;
Conduct and support data collection activities (household survey, semi-structure interviews, FGDs and workshops;
Contribute to development and testing of a citizen science data collection tool;
Facilitate citizen science data collection with adaptation pioneers;
Contribute to assessment of social implications of technologies, validation, and scaling readiness;
Support formation of adaptation pioneers’ knowledge groups and networks development;
Facilitate participatory field days and farmer demonstration days;
Support development of user-oriented research findings, manuals, training materials, videos (translation from English will be required);
Build capacities of pioneers/pioneer groups and knowledge networks;
Continuous reporting, maintenance of project data filing system, attendance of (online) meetings and high responsiveness to supervisor requests on data delivery;
Transcription and translation of interviews
Data preparation and analysis
Frequent travel to farm sites, with considerable distance from main road
Any other relevant duty assigned by the supervisor.
Academic and professional qualifications:
Education:
Bachelors degree or Diploma in social sciences, development studies, extension
Background in social research, participation, climate change and adaption, extension, interdisciplinary understanding of both social and basic bio-physical sciences
Solid training in qualitative and understanding of quantitative approaches
Experience:
Bachelor degree with a minimum of two years relevant research experience
Diploma with a minimum of four years relevant research experience
Strong experience with conducting participatory research and stakeholder engagement in rural context
Experience in data analysis and interpretation for both basic qualitative and quantitative analysis
Limited experience with quantitative survey design
Extensive experience with use of NVIVO, limited experience with R or STATA for quantitative data analysis
Strong aptitude at interpreting, synthesizing, and communicating the results of data analysis to various types of audience
General experience in social research, climate change and adaptation, farmer-led scaling
Skills:
Good communication and networking skills
Based in Debre Birhan with sound work experience in North Shewa Zone
