Position: Officer - Agriculture Research & Development

Organization: IRRI

Location: Bhubaneswar 

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Responsibilities:

• Conduct and oversee implementation, monitoring field activities to support experiments, demonstrations, surveys and research studies related to the project in the assigned
• This position will have strong focus on interventions around seed systems managed by women collectives.
• Provide regular feedback on project activities and progress for program review and further planning
• Assisting field staff/workers in designing their work plan as per the need of the project
• Monitor pests and diseases in the fields and make timely requests for treatments
• Liaise with the district officials of DOWR/DoA, select appropriate partners in consultation with them and implement the project activities in the assigned district(s).
• Coordinate with research institutes, collaborators, enumerators and contractual
• Successful demonstration of all forms of demonstrations undertaken in the project areas
• Ensure the quality of field  data  that  are  collected  and  recorded  by  the  research
• A strong field level coordination with government offices is built and maintained
• Implementing partners and members of women collectives are well oriented on crop varietal demonstrations and other interventions
• Quality seed production training are organized as per plan and objectives

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in any field with 3 years of relevant/similar work experience or Master’s degree in any field with minimum of 1 year relevant/similar work experience