🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) – 7 Positions

Job Title: Architect

Job Ref.: STS2025-10
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Job type: Contract
Duration: 6 months’ renewable

Duties

• Discuss the objectives, requirements, and budget of a project.
• Consult with other professionals about the design and building.
• Prepare and present feasibility reports and design proposals to the client.
• Advise clients on the practicality of their project.
• Produce detailed working drawings and specification for IITA projects.
• Specify the nature and quality of materials required for a project.
• Prepare tender documents and presentation.
• Prepare documents for planning and building with control.
• Project management and supervision of contractors.
• Resolve construction related problems.
• Managing project, work in progress, and ensuring that the project is running on time and no budget.
• Perform any other duty as may be directed by the Supervisor.

Requirements
Qualification:

• HND / BSc Degree in Architecture or related field with a minimum of four (4) years’ experience performing a similar role in a well-structured environment.

Competencies
The ideal candidate must:

• Have experience in structural design work.
• Have the ability to read blue prints.
• Be able to help in planning and control specification of various buildings.

Benefits
We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Closing Date
23rd May, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Research Assistant (Agricultural Economist)

Job Ref.: IITA/P&C/NRS2025-015
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Job type: Contract (On-site)
Duration: 6-months renewable contract

Duties

• Conduct a comprehensive review of existing literature on gender roles and dynamics in yam production in Nigeria.
• Analyze and synthesize findings from research papers, reports, and other relevant sources regarding the socio-cultural factors around staking and non-staking practices.
• Identify specific relevant areas of focus.
• Prepare literature reviews with colleagues, STS, and the supervising IITA gender expert and economist.
• Engage selected stakeholders, farmers, and participants, ensuring representation of diverse perspectives, including men and women yam farmers from different production systems.
• Organize and conduct FGDs, KIIs, and IIs in selected rural communities using appropriate methodologies and tools, collaborating with community mobilizers.
• Collect data covering key topics related to yam production, including socio-cultural challenges, opportunities, and gender-specific issues.
• Conduct workshop-FGDs using the citizen science approach.
• Perform data entry and analysis of qualitative data through coding to identify key themes and insights, and carry out economic calculations based on survey and field trial results.
• Prepare and present detailed reports on the findings from FGDs, KIIs, and experimental trials.
• Establish, monitor, and coordinate farmer-managed experimental trials from a socio-cultural perspective, comparing staked yam and non-staked yam cultivation.
• Collaborate with community members and stakeholders throughout the research process.
• Document the research process, including methodologies, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Requirements
Qualification and Experience:

• HND / B.Sc in Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Rural development or any other related course of study.
• The ideal candidate must have a minimum of two (2) years’ experience in conducting quantitative research, including FGDs and KIIs performing a similar role in a well-structured environment.
• Fluency in English language and in one or more Nigerian languages as spoken in yam-growing areas is an added advantage.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Have a transdisciplinary focus ready to learn and work outside and with people outside the candidate main discipline.
• Have strong understanding of gender issues in agriculture and basic knowledge of yam production.
• Have experience in agricultural research or related fieldwork.
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Have ability to work independently and as a part of a team.
• Have successful engagement and participation of diverse stakeholders in FGDs, KIIs and IIs.
• Be well-organized and execute FGDs and KIIs, providing valuable insights into yam production and gender dynamics.
• Ensure Timely submission of research updates and final high-quality reports, documenting the research process and findings.

Remuneration
We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Closing Date
28th May, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Research Assistant (Rural Extension/ Social Anthropologist)

Job Ref.: IITA/P&C/NRS2025-015
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Job type: Contract (On-site)
Duration: 6-months renewable contract

Duties

• Conduct a comprehensive review of existing literature on gender roles and dynamics in yam production in Nigeria.
• Analyze and synthesize findings from research papers, reports, and other relevant sources regarding the socio-cultural factors around staking and non-staking practices.
• Identify specific relevant areas of focus.
• Prepare literature reviews with colleagues, STS, and the supervising IITA gender expert and economist.
• Engage selected stakeholders, farmers, and participants, ensuring representation of diverse perspectives, including men and women yam farmers from different production systems.
• Organize and conduct FGDs, KIIs, and IIs in selected rural communities using appropriate methodologies and tools, collaborating with community mobilizers.
• Collect data covering key topics related to yam production, including socio-cultural challenges, opportunities, and gender-specific issues.
• Conduct workshop-FGDs using the citizen science approach.
• Perform data entry and analysis of qualitative data through coding to identify key themes and insights, and carry out economic calculations based on survey and field trial results.
• Prepare and present detailed reports on the findings from FGDs, KIIs, and experimental trials.
• Establish, monitor, and coordinate farmer-managed experimental trials from a socio-cultural perspective, comparing staked yam and non-staked yam cultivation.
• Collaborate with community members and stakeholders throughout the research process.
• Document the research process, including methodologies, challenges, and lessons learned.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Requirements
Qualifications:

• Candidates should possess an HND / B.Sc in Anthropology, Agricultural Extension, Social Gender Sciences, or any other related course of study.
• The ideal candidate must have a minimum of two (2) years’ experience in conducting quantitative research, including FGDs and KIIs performing a similar role in a well-structured environment.
• Fluency in English language and in one or more Nigerian languages as spoken in yam-growing areas is an added advantage.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Have a transdisciplinary focus ready to learn and work outside and with people outside the candidate main discipline.
• Have strong understanding of gender issues in agriculture and basic knowledge of yam production.
• Have experience in agricultural research or related fieldwork.
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Have ability to work independently and as a part of a team.
• Have successful engagement and participation of diverse stakeholders in FGDs, KIIs and IIs.
• Be well-organized and execute FGDs and KIIs, providing valuable insights into yam production and gender dynamics.
• Ensure Timely submission of research updates and final high-quality reports, documenting the research process and findings.

Remuneration
We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Closing Date
28th May, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Agronomist - Regional Hub for Fertilizer and Soil Health

Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Employment Type: Full-time (On-site)

Description

• The Senior Agronomist will be responsible for strategy development, technical oversight, scientific coordination, and reporting for all agronomy aspects of the Regional Hub’s core activities with a leading role for six of the Hub’s 20 Functions and contributions to others.
• Rapid and efficient monitoring of delivery of agronomic gain.
• Appropriate deployment of bio-fertilizers.
• Bundling necessary services.
• Farmer-led experimentation.
• Certification scheme for agronomy recommendations.
• Policy development and implementation and decision-making processes.
• The Senior Agronomist will be an internationally recruited professional with diverse experience in managing large, multidisciplinary projects across diverse cropping systems and countries in Africa.
• As a contributor to the Hub’s scientific strategy and coordinator of agronomic activities, the role requires a good understanding of technical and scientific aspects to ensure scientific and technical best practices are maintained.
• These technical skills need to be balanced with a strong appreciation of the requirements for the successful scaling of agronomic solutions to millions of farmers through both public and private delivery channels.
• As a project manager, it is essential for the individual to possess strong administrative skills, collaborative teamwork abilities, and the capacity to develop and enhance the skills of team members across the Consortium.
• The successful candidate will report to the Director of the Regional Hub and work closely with other technical and delivery specialists across the Consortium.

Position Responsibilities  

• Lead development of technical capability across the Hub including inventory of agronomic solutions, guidelines and tools to enable rapid and deep response to priority demands from target countries for implementation of agronomic solutions at scale.
• Work with the senior data scientist to develop and update digital soil nutrient and soil health resources, and maximize their adoption and effective use at scale by target countries.
• Lead the scientific engagement with national and regional partners across West Africa and the Sahel with a particular focus on ISFM (Integrated Soil Fertility Management) framework and 4R Nutrient Stewardship (right source, right rate, right time, right place) including new soil survey programs.
• Work with the Senior Data Scientist to coordinate the expansion and improvement of site-specific nutrient management recommendation models to cover all priority cropping systems and countries across West Africa and the Sahel.
• Contribute to the development of agronomy/soil science capacity building programs with national partners.
• Lead the technical engagement of the Regional Hub with the demand-driven delivery programs in target countries. Contribute to the development or adoption of country-specific solutions tailoring to the local context and needs.
• Lead the continuous integration of new agronomic and/ or soil health solutions into the inventory of the regional hub.
• Work with the Hub team, IITA MELIA team and relevant project partners on KPI’s and quality assurance of priority processes and solutions.
• Coordinate with the MELIA lead on monitoring agronomic gain across all projects and reporting aggregate impact from Hub-associated activities.
• Provide technical input as required by scaling experts working on bundling of solutions, and training experts working on a certification scheme for agronomy advisors.

Requirements

• Demonstrated capacity to promote farmer centric design to ensure solutions to soil health issues and efficient use of fertilizers are context specific, easy to implement and cost effective.

Educational Qualifications:

• The candidate should have a PhD in soil science, agronomy, or a related field with a strategic understanding of recent advances in agronomically relevant data science including geospatial data that enable deploying site-specific solutions and experience of delivering advisory to tens of thousands of farmers in public, non-profit or private sectors.
• At least 10 years of experience in soil science or agronomy with a minimum of 5 years in team management roles including coordination of complex partnerships and management of successful field campaign teams.

Key Skills:

•  An agile and strategic thinker with a mission-driven approach and an entrepreneurial spirit.
•  Ability to engage diverse partners and stakeholders across disciplines, sectors and geographies.
•  Demonstrated ability to thrive under complexity and uncertainty and take calculated risk.
•  Understanding of the regional agribusiness context and experience working with small-scale farmers at scale in West Africa and the Sahel.
•  Active listening to allow the presentation of complex subjects into simple terms tailored to different audiences.
•  Ability to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and interdisciplinary dialogue between technical experts (chemists, engineers, economists, etc) and farmers and policymakers.
•  Demonstrated capacity to promote farmer centric design to ensure solutions to soil health issues and efficient use of fertilizers are context specific, easy to implement and cost effective.

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrated experience in practical and theoretical agronomy of major field crops in Africa.
• Experience working with partners from academia, NGOs, CGIAR centers, national agricultural research centers and private sector in the context of smallholder farming systems in Africa.
• Demonstrated ability to work in multicultural and diverse environments.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical and organizational skills with evidence of good relationships with diverse stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multidisciplinary and multisector of teams of experts.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and French.
• Strong computation skills including geospatial analyses and modelling will be an added advantage.

Application Closing Date
28th May, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Applications must include a cover letter which should address how the candidate’s background / experience relates to the specific duties of the position applied for, curriculum vitae, and names and addresses of three professional referees (which must include either the Head of the applicant’s current or previous organization or applicant’s direct Supervisor/Superior at his/her present or former place of work).
• The application should be addressed to the Director, People and Culture.
• IITA is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse workforce, particularly welcoming applications from women.

Job Title: Head - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) and Science of Scaling

Ref No: DDG-R4D/HMEL/SS/05/25
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 3 Years

Description

• IITA has a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) unit reporting to the Deputy Director General that is also in charge of gathering and sharing evidences  of impacts.
• The Head - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning and Science of Scaling shall provide leadership for institutionalizing MEL and will be a member of the IITA Foresight, Impact Assessment and Scaling Program, focusing on addressing key research questions related to the monitoring, learning and scaling of the institute's innovations.
• This will include documenting and sharing data and learnings on research and scaling & delivery activities in the institute. The Head will also provide strong leadership for establishing and nurturing a strong, integrated, and effective institutional M&E framework for IITA.
• This will be with the objective to create the conditions for an effective science of scaling program based on project monitoring data at IITA and partners levels.
• Leadership tasks include but are not limited to, guiding the institution into building a strong MEL culture and practice; obtaining, institutionalizing, and managing software platforms to automate the aggregation and presentation of necessary MEL data; providing oversight to ensure quality data collection, analysis, and reporting to IITA management, donors, and other stakeholders promptly; building and overseeing the implementation of a strategy for capacity development of MEL personnel, focal persons as well as key partners to ensure best practices.
• The Head of MEL and Science of Scaling shall provide support to hubs/projects/programs on proposal/strategy development, baseline and special studies, annual reporting, mid-term, and final evaluation methodologies; and facilitate critical reflection, and learning across the institution based on information generated from the MEL system.
• This will include the production and dissemination of reports for tracking progress toward IITA KPIs. She/He will contribute to reporting to the board of trustees on these KPIs.
• The Head of MEL and Science of Scaling shall lead the development and implementation of processes for monitoring and data collection from IITA key scaling projects. She/He will ensure buy-ins through the capacity building of project managers to produce evidence-based information that can be used to learn and communicate about successes and failures in scaling activities at IITA.

Position Responsibilities
Institutional MEL Leadership (40%):

• Develop Institutional MEL framework and related infrastructure that supports data collection and analysis across the institute (programs, projects, etc), with a higher focus on data related to the institute’s KPIs.
• Work with the impact assessment team to streamline methodologies for measuring results. Collate/aggregate impact assessment results to provide a broad picture of IITA’s progress toward its KPIs.
• Review progress on achieving institutional objectives and provide IITA Management with information about important lessons learned and replicable practices.
• Lead the alignment of IITA's Institutional Performance Indicators and the CGIAR System Level Strategic Outcomes for overall performance and contributions of IITA to the CGIAR.
• Lead the integration of results-based management into all programs and projects interventions, ensuring appropriate results frameworks are developed to support monitoring activities.
• Lead the generation of verifiable information for strategic decision-making by aggregating data from all reporting levels.
• Introduce processes for simple quality and verifiable data generation in order to document scaling pathways and resulting outputs and outcomes.
• Represent IITA on the CGIAR MEL groups, and regional MEL communities of practice and maintain/develop MEL-related collaborative relationships with strategic partners on behalf of IITA.
• Coordinate the institute-wide MEL Community of Practice (MEL COP) that includes MEL professionals and focal persons of projects both at HQ and in hubs.
• Collaborate with other research support units to implement knowledge management systems that provide up-to-date information on institutional performance and operational effectiveness. Also, identify and minimize existing M&E procedures leading to duplicated efforts to save IITA's resources.
• Provide leadership for increasing appreciation of the need for quality MEL across the Institute, as well as increase confidence within the Unit by mentoring and appreciation of its personnel.
• Develop staff capacity in maintaining data quality standards and conduct data quality audits of all sources of M&E data that are reported and support the use of appropriate software systems within the hubs, country offices, and programs/projects as well as linkage to the institution-wide software system.
• Prepare, publish, and share communication materials documenting research outcomes and impacts and lessons learned across IITA, One CGIAR Initiatives and projects.
• Perform any other job-related tasks as may be assigned by the supervisors.

Hub/Program/Project Level M&E (30%):

• Lead the mapping of programs and projects to IITA KPIs across the hubs for appropriate alignment and reporting.
• Provide strategic guidance for the implementation of MEL including institutionalization and automation of M&E processes across all IITA hubs, projects, programs
• Provide support to Hub MEL teams to generate verifiable information to support the hub strategic plans and to make strategic decision-making.
• Support program/project teams in the development and implementation of MEL systems that satisfy institutional and donor standards, which include:
• MEL plans with clearly defined results framework (addressing institutional and donor needs) and reflecting causal models.
• Procedures for collection, collation, analysis, reporting, and use of data for decision-making.
• Monitoring, documentation, and learning approaches that are integrated, aligned, and mainstreamed into project activities and coordinated with stakeholders.
• Plans for evaluation studies on outcome and impact-level achievements.
• Guide the hub MEL teams to review progress on achieving the hub objectives (per the hub strategies) and provide hub teams with information about important lessons learned and replicable practices.
• Lead the implementation of knowledge management systems across the hubs that provide up-to-date information on hub and institutional performance, and operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate with the impact assessment team to provide support for the assessment of project and programs impacts.

Science of scaling (30%):

• Provide guidance in identifying and assembling key components of the science of scaling in collaboration with the R4D and P4D Directorate. Such will include a compendium of innovations being scaled, the different scaling pathways, the stakeholder engagement process, etc.
• Align the Science of scaling framework to programs, projects and overall IITA scaling strategy.
• Guide the design and development of a framework (e.g., research questions regarding the effectiveness of different scaling pathways being used) to implement the Science of Scaling across IITA projects and programs in collaboration with the P4D Directorate.
• Mainstream the Science of scaling framework in the overall MEL activities of projects, programs and overall institutional MEL framework.
• Lead the design, development and use of appropriate data collection tools and processes to implement the Science of scaling across IITA.
• Synthesize the data and learnings from implementing the Science of scaling framework to support the overall IITA KPIs and as inputs into the P4D strategic plan.
• Develop staff capacity to conduct MEL to support the science of scaling across hubs, country offices, and programs/projects.

Requirements
Educational Qualifications

• The candidate should hold at least an Advanced Degree (MSc / PhD) from a reputable university in agricultural sciences, monitoring and evaluation or any other social sciences.

Core Competencies:

• At least 15 years of relevant work experience.
• Excellent track record in developing M&E frameworks at Institution and project levels.
• Proven leadership skills and providing guidance to a team of staff across projects.
• Demonstrated record on documenting and sharing technology uptake and lessons learned in the process.
• Excellent communication skills evidence by capacity to prepare and deliver clear and concise presentations.
• Work experience within multicultural teams and international organizations or companies and highly knowledgeable of Africa’s social, agricultural, and rural development and economic development issues, questions, and challenges.
• Fluency in English or French language with a working knowledge of the other.

Benefits

• Duty Station: Ibadan, Nigeria

Application Closing Date
4th June, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note
General information:

• The contract will be for an initial period of three years.
• IITA offers an internationally competitive remuneration package paid in US Dollars.

Job Title: Manager - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) and Science of Scaling

Ref No: DDG-R4D/MMEL/SS/05/25
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 3 Years

Description

• The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) invites applications for the internationally recruited position of Manager - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) and Science of Scaling.
• The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation.
• Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity.
• IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food-secure future.
• The Manager of MEL and Science of Scaling shall provide leadership for institutionalizing the science of Scaling in IITA, focusing on addressing key research questions related to the scaling of the institute's innovations.
• This will include documenting and sharing data and learnings on scaling & delivery activities in the institute.
• The manager will also provide strong leadership for establishing and nurturing a strong, integrated, and effective institutional M&E framework for IITA.
• This will be with the objective to create the conditions for an effective science of scaling program based on project monitoring data at IITA and partners levels.
• Leadership tasks include but are not limited to, guiding the institution into building a strong MEL culture and practice; obtaining, institutionalizing, and managing software platforms to automate the aggregation and presentation of necessary MEL data; providing oversight to ensure quality data collection, analysis, and reporting to IITA management, donors, and other stakeholders promptly; building and overseeing the implementation of a strategy for capacity development of MEL personnel, focal persons as well as key partners to ensure best practices.
• The manager of MEL and science of Scaling shall provide support to hubs/projects/programs on proposal/strategy development, baseline and special studies, annual reporting, mid-term, and final evaluation methodologies; and facilitate critical reflection, and learning across the institution based on information generated from the MEL system.
• This will include the production and dissemination of reports for tracking progress toward IITA KPIs.
• She/He will contribute to reporting to the board of trustees on these KPIs.
• The manager of MEL and the science of Scaling shall lead the development and implementation of processes for monitoring and data collection from IITA key scaling projects.
• She/He will ensure buy-ins through the capacity building of project managers to produce evidence-based information that can be used to learn and communicate about successes and failures in scaling activities at IITA.

Position Responsibilities
Institutional MEL Leadership (40%)

• Develop Institutional MEL framework and related infrastructure that supports data collection and analysis across the institute (programs, projects, etc), with a higher focus on data related to the institute’s KPIs.
• Collaborate with the impact assessment team to streamline methodologies for measuring results. Collate/aggregate impact assessment results to provide a broad picture of IITA’s progress toward its KPIs.
• Review progress on achieving institutional objectives and provide IITA Management with information about important lessons learned and replicable practices.
• Lead the alignment of IITA's Institutional Performance Indicators and the CGIAR System Level Strategic Outcomes for overall performance and contributions of IITA to the CGIAR.
• Lead the integration of results-based management into all programs and projects interventions, ensuring appropriate results frameworks are developed to support monitoring activities.
• Lead the generation of verifiable information for strategic decision-making by aggregating data from all reporting levels.
• Introduce processes for simple quality and verifiable data generation in order to document scaling pathways and resulting outputs and outcomes.
• Represent IITA on the CGIAR MEL groups, and regional MEL communities of practice and maintain/develop MEL-related collaborative relationships with strategic partners on behalf of IITA.
• Coordinate the institute-wide MEL Community of Practice (MEL COP) that includes MEL professionals and focal persons of projects both at HQ and in hubs.
• Collaborate with other research support units to implement knowledge management systems that provide up-to-date information on institutional performance and operational effectiveness. Also, identify and minimize existing M&E procedures leading to duplicated efforts to save IITA's resources.
• Provide leadership for increasing appreciation of the need for quality MEL across the Institute, as well as increase confidence within the Unit by mentoring and appreciation of its personnel.
• Develop staff capacity in maintaining data quality standards and conduct data quality audits of all sources of M&E data that are reported and support the use of appropriate software systems within the hubs, country offices, and programs/projects as well as linkage to the institution-wide software system.
• Prepare, publish, and share communication materials documenting research outcomes and impacts and lessons learned across IITA, One CGIAR Initiatives and projects.
• Perform any other job-related tasks as may be assigned by the supervisors.

Hub/Program/Project Level M&E (30%)

• Lead the mapping of programs and projects to IITA KPIs across the hubs for appropriate alignment and reporting.
• Provide strategic guidance for the implementation of MEL including institutionalization and automation of M&E processes across all IITA hubs, projects, programs.
• Provide support to Hub MEL teams to generate verifiable information to support the hub strategic plans and to make strategic decision-making.
• Support program/project teams in the development and implementation of MEL systems that satisfy institutional and donor standards, which include:
• MEL plans with clearly defined results framework (addressing institutional and donor needs) and reflecting causal models.
• Procedures for collection, collation, analysis, reporting, and use of data for decision-making.
• Monitoring, documentation, and learning approaches that are integrated, aligned, and mainstreamed into project activities and coordinated with stakeholders.
• Plans for evaluation studies on outcome and impact-level achievements.
• Guide the hub MEL teams to review progress on achieving the hub objectives (per the hub strategies) and provide hub teams with information about important lessons learned and replicable practices.
• Lead the implementation of knowledge management systems across the hubs that provide up-to-date information on hub and institutional performance, and operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate with the impact assessment team to provide support for the assessment of project and programs impacts.

Science of scaling Leadership (30%)

• Provide guidance in identifying and assembling key components of the science of scaling in collaboration with the R4D and P4D Directorate. Such will include a compendium of innovations being scaled, the different scaling pathways, the stakeholder engagement process, etc.
• Align the Science of scaling framework to programs, projects and overall IITA scaling strategy.
• Guide the design and development of a framework (e.g., research questions regarding the effectiveness of different scaling pathways being used) to implement the Science of Scaling across IITA projects and programs in collaboration with the P4D Directorate.
• Mainstream the Science of scaling framework in the overall MEL activities of projects, programs and overall institutional MEL framework.
• Lead the design, development and use of appropriate data collection tools and processes to implement the Science of scaling across IITA.
• Synthesize the data and learnings from implementing the Science of scaling framework to support the overall IITA KPIs and as inputs into the P4D strategic plan.
• Develop staff capacity to conduct MEL to support the science of scaling across hubs, country offices, and programs/projects.

Requirements
Educational Qualifications:

• The candidate should hold at least an advanced degree (MSc/PhD) from a reputable university in agricultural sciences, monitoring and evaluation or any other social sciences.

Core Competencies:

• At least 15 years of relevant work experience.
• Excellent track record in developing M&E frameworks at Institution and project levels.
• Proven leadership skills and providing guidance to a team of staff across projects.
• Demonstrated record on documenting and sharing technology uptake and lessons learned in the process.
• Excellent communication skills evidence by capacity to prepare and deliver clear and concise presentations.
• Work experience within multicultural teams and international organizations or companies and highly knowledgeable of Africa’s social, agricultural, and rural development and economic development issues, questions, and challenges.
• Fluency in English or French language with a working knowledge of the other.

Application Closing Date
3rd June 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: 

• Applications must include a cover letter which should address how the candidate’s background / experience relates to the specific duties of the position applied for, curriculum vitae, and names and addresses of three professional referees (which must include either the Head of the applicant’s current or previous organization or applicant’s direct Supervisor/Superior at his/her present or former place of work).
• The application should be addressed to the Director, People and Culture.

Job Title: Mechanic

Ref No: IITA/P&C/NRS2025-013
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Duration: 6 months’ renewable

Duties

• Carry out vehicle(s) diagnostics/troubleshooting and prognostics.
• Conduct vehicle maintenance and repairs based on diagnostic results.
• Recover vehicles from designated locations as required.
• Clean and maintain the workshop and equipment regularly.
• Carry out assignments in line with the workshop management.
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Requirements
Qualification:

• OND in Mechanical engineering and other related courses.
• The ideal candidate must have a minimum of 5 years experience performing a similar role in a well-structured environment.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Be proficient in Automotive Technology Repairs.
• Be skilled in auto diagnostics and troubleshooting.
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Have ability to work under minimal supervision.
• Be open to continuous learning, including the ability to learn and unlearn.

Benefits

• We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online