Germplasm Data Coordinator
The Organization
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT® (www.cimmyt.org), is a not-for-profit research and training organization with partners in over 100 countries, and through offices in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
We participate in an
extensive global network of people and organizations who share similar research
and development goals, including the public and private sector, nongovernmental
and civil society organizations, farmers, and the development assistance
community.
The incumbent will work under the supervision of the Director of the Global Maize Program (GMP) of CIMMYT, and will act as an interface between individual researchers, project collaborators, software engineers, and clients of CIMMYT-derived knowledge/products.
She/he will also assist
CIMMYT scientists and partners in handling and processing large molecular and
phenotypic streams for analysis.
As members of CIMMYT, the
incumbent will work with a dynamic group of knowledge managers, biometricians,
software engineers, molecular geneticists and crop scientists.
Job Responsibilities
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Establishing data standards, documentation, data curation processes, time
lines for data entry into institutional data bases/repositories, in
agreement with the CIMMYT knowledge management strategy
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Coordinating the receipt, storage, manipulation and quality control of
field and molecular data for CIMMYT staff enabling accurate data tracking
and documentation throughout the analysis pipeline.
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Participating in the design, development and population of versatile
institutional databases/repositories, interfaces and output tools.
- • Introduce
new informatics tools to scientist and research assistants and project
collaborators provide on-the-job training, and report back user
requirements to CIMMYT software engineers.
- • Managing
and documenting the dissemination of data (raw and analyzed) to
co-operators within CIMMYT and with partner organizations.
- • Liaising
between researchers who want to make use of own and cross institutional
databases, knowledge management specialists, biometricians and software
engineers at CIMMYT.
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Interpreting data summaries to determine accuracy and validity of data.
- • Testing
user-friendly software tools for molecular and trial data capture, storage
and analysis.
- • Managing
and providing feedback to software engineers to help to improve
functionality.
Job Qualifications
- • M.Sc. in
biological science, molecular biology, plant breeding, genetics,
agricultural statistics or related fields.
- • Minimum of
2-3 years’ experience in developing and/or using bioinformatics tools for
the management of large volume data sets.
- • Strong
analytical skills with attention to details.
- • Ability to
investigate and analyze with minimum supervision research activities
within CIMMYT’s research programs to make them more efficient by using IT
resources.
- • Ability to
work and communicate with knowledge management specialists, biometricians
and software engineers at CIMMYT.
Personal attributes
- Good
interpersonal skills and a strong desire to support the delivery of
improved, products, tools and services to team members and collaborators.
- Excellent
English skills.
- Ability to
work well as part of multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
Terms of Offer
The position will be on local terms. Salary and perquisites paid in local currency are highly competitive. Appointment is on a three (3) years’ contract subject to a six-month probation period, satisfactory performance and adequate funding.
Position will be based at
CIMMYT’s office in Nairobi, but will interact with all CIMMYT´s experimental
stations and regional offices (country and world-wide) on a regular basis.
ICRAF and CIMMYT offer a collegial and gender-sensitive environment. Applicants are invited to send a cover letter illustrating their suitability for the above position against the listed qualifications/competencies/skills and a detailed curriculum vitae, with names and addresses of three referees (including telephone, fax numbers and email address).
All correspondence should be addressed to the Human Resources Unit, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), P.O. Box 30677, Nairobi, Kenya; OR via email: icrafhru@cgiar.org. Applications will be considered until October 19, 2012.
Qualified women are
particularly encouraged to apply. Please indicate your advertisement source in
your application.
Only shortlisted applicants meeting the above requirements will be contacted.
We invite you to learn more about ICRAF and CIMMYT by accessing our web sites www.cimmyt.org and www.worldagroforestry.org
