Research Associate

The Research Associate will work on the GALILEO Project with teams of research and development partners, community-based organizations and farmers towards the achievement of project goals and objectives

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide support and technical backstopping for IITA and its partners in the identification, validation and establishment of living labs.
• Support design of data collection tools, review data sources, data collection, etc.
• Assist in the translation of results from the Living Labs on cocoa agroforestry and adapted technologies that can be used by the cocoa sector.
• Support the design, organize and undertake survey activities gaps identified in cocoa agroforestry.
• Undertake surveys, data analysis and reporting.
• Provide technical support for on-farm cocoa agroforestry research activities.
• Identify, define roles and build multistakeholder partnership (MSP) of key stakeholders and partners on agroforestry.
• Participate in key stakeholder meetings, and field-based missions as and when needed.
• Support IITA and its partners on training on adaptation practices for cocoa agroforestry
• Produce reports on workshops and meetings conducted under the current cocoa project portfolios.
• Contribute to stakeholder mobilization and coordinate communication between consortium partners.
• Work closely with the project partners to identify results and field stories that should be highlighted in communication materials.
• Undertake regular visits to the field to support implementation of ME&L and to identify where adaptation might be needed.
• Contribute to project annual reporting by providing required ME&L data.
• Any other tasks that may be assigned by the supervisors.

Requirements

The candidate is expected to meet the following qualifications and experience level :

CLOSING DATE : July 4, 2025.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.