The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.
IITA’s research-for-development work comprises the following five domains: biotechnology and genetic improvement, plant production and plant health management, natural resources management, social science and agribusiness, and food and nutrition sciences. Several scientists in these domains contribute in various ways to the development and deployment of new varieties of banana, cassava, cowpea, maize, soybean, and yam to meet the requirements of key value chains.IITA seeks a highly motivated biometrician with about eight years of post-PhD experience in working with crop improvement and other agricultural programs to join this team.


Position/ Responsibilities


The tasks of the Biometrician will include:


•Investigate, analyse, and evaluate complex statistical and computational problems in plant breeding,genetics, and agricultural sciences.


•Work with IITA plant breeders in the modernization of breeding programs for enhanced genetic gain particularly with respect to the development and deployment of state of the art biometrical, quantitative genetics,genomic prediction,and statistical tools for experimental design and analysis.


•Develop the provision of biometrics support within IITA and enhance the capacity of IITA staff and students to utilize advanced biometrical tools in plant breeding, genetics,and agricultural sciences.


•Work with plant breeders and scientists in allied disciplines to mobilize resources for modernization of plant breeding programs with statistical, computational and scientific expertise.


•Contribute to genetic improvement plans for individual crops(priority setting, design of research studies, spatial analysis, exploitation of large data sets to predict future performance, statistical analysis,interpretation and communication of results)and to institutional arrangements in support of plant breeding and allied sciences.

view details and other positions at
https://myhotjbz.com/job/fresh-job-opening-at-iita-ibadan-position-of-a-biometrician