Apply for IITA Recruitment 2023 as portal opens for interested and eligible candidates.
IITA, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, develops agricultural innovations to address some of Africa’s most pressing issues, such as hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and resource depletion.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, we work with many partners to increase employment, strengthen food and nutrition security, improve livelihoods, and preserve the integrity of natural resources.
IITA is a partner in CGIAR, an organisation that conducts global agricultural research to guarantee future food security.
Latest IITA Recruitment 2023 Positions:
1.) State Administrator
Location: Kano
Deadline: 17th January, 2023.
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2.) Project Administrator
Location: Abuja
Deadline: 17th January, 2023.
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3.) Head of Breeding
Location: Oyo
Deadline: On-going
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4.) Family Physician
Location: Oyo
Deadline: 24th January, 2023.
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OLDER IITA JOB RECRUITMENT POSITIONS:
1.) Business Development Manager (Innovative Finance)
Location: Kano
Duties
– Be responsible for developing and managing commercial and public sector partnerships for scaling the distribution of climate tolerant biofortified seed and other inputs and enabling forward linkages with leading firms in the food and agribusiness sector.
– Develop a sustainable market system approach to HarvestPlus development activities under the Propcom+ initiative.
Facilitate value chain arrangements like contract farming, bundling and retail farmer and SME financing (including credit, savings and insurance products).
– Support HarvestPlus in developing high quality technical assistance packages, embedding these with relevant local TA suppliers and work in close collaboration with relevant sectoral stakeholders and ensure change efforts are sustainable past the end of the project.
2.) Business Development Manager (Agronomy)
Location: Kano
Duties
– Increase private sector investment into the vitamin A maize, iron pearl millet and cowpea subsectors through building competitive commodity value chains that increase Return on Investment (ROI).
– Support the Scaling Climate Adapted Nutritious Crops Through Market Systems (Nigeria) program in the establishment of strong agro input supply chains by provision of business development support to all actors, namely:
seed companies and agro-dealers.
– Facilitate the creation of robust supply chains for aggregators and processors through the provision of technical assistance and capacity building to producers, aggregators, retailers, service providers, and other actors.
– Work with the state coordinators to put in place sustainable contract farming and out-grower business models that will guarantee continuous raw material sourcing for processors.
