Senior Research Associate (Statistical modeller)

Action Contre La Faim (ACF)

JOB DESCRIPTION

 

The group
The Alliance of Bioversity Worldwide and CIAT (The Alliance) delivers research-based options that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably remodel meals methods to enhance individuals’s lives. The Alliance options deal with the worldwide crises of malnutrition, local weather change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation.
The Alliance works with native, nationwide, and multinational companions throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, and with the private and non-private sectors. The Alliance is a part of CGIAR, a worldwide analysis partnership for a food-secure future, devoted to decreasing poverty, enhancing meals and vitamin safety, and enhancing pure sources and ecosystem companies.
Concerning the place
The Alliance is on the lookout for a extremely expert knowledge Senior Analysis Affiliate to assist the agroclimatology group in crop-climate modelling. This work will feed right into a user-friendly platform which allows personal sector sourcing corporations, agronomic groups, farmers, and researchers to discover local weather layers, threat and alternative areas for crop manufacturing in addition to environmental tendencies over time.
Key duties and duties:
Analysis and Evaluation:
Conduct in-depth evaluation on crop physiology, productiveness and pattern evaluation;
Develop machine studying and statistical fashions (e.g. GAMs) to know crop-climate interactions and future local weather impression on crop manufacturing;
Be comfy in utilizing and analyzing local weather knowledge from numerous sources and fashions (ie Copernicus, WorldClim, TerraClimate);
Combine numerous datasets, together with local weather fashions, satellite tv for pc imagery, and agronomic knowledge, to boost the accuracy of predictions;
Apply methods considering methodologies to investigate interactions, suggestions loops, and emergent behaviors inside the focused methods.
Communication and Outreach:
Talk analysis findings by means of publications in peer-reviewed journals, displays at conferences, and different related channels;
Have interaction with different analysis groups (enterprise impression modelling) to speak findings and outputs.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration:
Collaborate with consultants from varied disciplines, together with ecology, sociology, economics, and coverage, to foster a holistic understanding of advanced methods.
Steady Studying:
Keep abreast of the most recent developments in agroclimatology, complexity concept, and plant physiology analysis.
Actively search alternatives for skilled improvement and contribute to constructing the data base inside the group.

 

Necessities

Required {qualifications} and expertise:
Bachelor’s diploma in a related discipline (e.g., Agricultural meteorology, local weather science, ecology, environmental science) with work expertise;
Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative analysis strategies;
Sturdy programming expertise for mannequin improvement (e.g., Python, R);
Sturdy working data of GIS;
Familiarity with local weather modeling instruments, distant sensing strategies, and related software program;
Glorious communication expertise and the power to collaborate throughout disciplines;
Demonstrated expertise in making use of methods considering to real-world socio-ecological issues;
Means to work collaboratively in a group surroundings;
Means to speak advanced concepts successfully, verbally and in writing, in English.

 

Advantages

Phrases of employment
This place is a nationwide recruited place primarily based in Hanoi, Vietnam. The preliminary contract can be for 1 12 months, topic to a probation interval of two months, and is renewable relying on efficiency and availability of sources.
This place is graded at BG07 stage, with a minimal primary wage of VND 29,629,345 in a scale of BG01 to BG14 (BG14 being the best stage in keeping with the Alliance job classification framework coverage). We provide a aggressive wage and glorious advantages together with however not restricted to month-to-month allowances, insurance coverage, retirement plan, workers coaching and improvement, paid break day and versatile working preparations.
The Alliance Bioversity-CIAT is dedicated to truthful, secure, and inclusive workplaces. We consider that variety powers our innovation, contributes to our excellence, and is important for our mission. Recruiting and mentoring workers to create an inclusive group that displays our international character is a precedence. We encourage candidates from all cultures, races, colours, religions, sexes, nationwide or regional origins, ages, incapacity statuses, sexual orientations, marital standing, and gender identities. Feminine candidates are strongly inspired to use.
Purposes
Candidates are invited to go to https://alliancebioversityciat.org/careers to get full particulars of the place and to submit their purposes. Purposes MUST embrace reference quantity 103489-Senior Analysis Affiliate (Statistical Modeller) because the place utilized for. Cowl letter and CV needs to be saved as one doc utilizing the candidate’s final title, first title for ease of sorting (Cowl letter ought to illustrate your motivation to use and suitability for the above place in opposition to the listed {qualifications} and work duties. Detailed curriculum vitae ought to embrace the names and electronic mail addresses of three skilled referees who’re educated about your expertise {and professional} talents). The Alliance collects and processes private knowledge in accordance with relevant knowledge safety legal guidelines.
Purposes time limit: April 08, 2024
Please notice that electronic mail purposes won’t be thought-about.
Solely short-listed candidates can be contacted.
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