Analytical Support Officer-Senior Scientific Officer

Key skills

experimental design

mixed models

G x E

heritabilities

statistical software

Good English

Additional/Preferred Skills

R

SAS

Genstat

ASReml-R

interpersonal skills

teamwork

Preferred Qualifications

MSc/PhD Statistics/Biometrics

Senior Scientific Officer - Analytical Support

ICRISAT seeks applications from highly motivated and qualified professionals for the position of Senior Scientific Officer-Analytical Support to support the Program Office under Accelerated Crop Improvement. There are two vacancies for this position.  The Position will be based in the headquarter, Patancheru, Telangana, India.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 millions of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.

ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandated crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on drylands and on protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. Please visit – www.icrisat.org

Responsibilities:

• Assist ICRISAT’s scientists in the planning of agricultural field trials.

• Generate randomizations and trial layouts for field trials.

• Provide support to ICRISAT’s scientists for data curation, simple and complex analysis and interpretation of the results from field and field-related trials.

• Develop and/or refine existing SAS /R /ASReml-R codes for data curation, analysis and visualization.

• Actively contribute to scientific publications in peer reviewed journals.

• Contribute to conducting training programmes for both ICRISAT’s scientists and National

• Agricultural Research Scientists (NARS) in experimental design, efficient data collection, and data analysis.

• Perform any other task assigned by the supervisor.

• Qualifications:

• Masters/Ph.D in Statistics/Agricultural Statistics.

• A Min 3 year’s experience in agricultural research.

Technical Competencies/Skills:

• Generating modern experimental designs in field trials.

• Knowledge of multi-environment trial analyses using mixed-models, spatial and stability analyses, heritability and genetic gain estimations of field trials.

• Use of statistical software such as SAS, GENSTAT, R and ASREML–R and Python.

• Fluency in spoken and written English.

• Good Interpersonal skills, communication, and teamwork.

General:

This is a contractual position for a period of 36 months.

How to apply:

Applicants should apply on or before 2 December 2024 with their latest Resume, and the names and contact information of three references that are knowledgeable about their professional qualifications and work experience. All applications will be acknowledged; however, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

ICRISAT is an equal opportunity employer