Lead Sustainable Innovation & Transformation at Alliance Bioversity & CIAT Tanzania

LEAD SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION
Lead Sustainable Innovation & Transformation at Alliance Bioversity & CIAT June 2024
Full time | Alliance Bioversity & CIAT | Tanzania
Job Description
HEAD OF PRODUCT
The Organization
The
Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for
Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) delivers research-based solutions that
harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems
to improve people’s lives. Alliance solutions address the global crises
of malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental
degradation.

The Alliance works with local, national, and
multinational partners across Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and
Africa, and with the public and private sectors. The Alliance is part of
CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future,
dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security,
and improving natural resources and ecosystem services.

Background of the position
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT have initiated a project, titled Artemis.
Artemis is developing AI technology to enable on-farm breeding. Given
the pace of climate change new approaches are needed to speed up the
breeding cycle and enable a greater synchrony between plant breeding and
on-farm conditions, shifting breeding from a majority on-station to
majority on-farm process. Artemis is
addressing this issue with a new generation of AI-powered and
smartphone-deployable tools. The principal technology is computer vision
phenotyping, with explorations into multimodal data that integrates
speech and text to actively integrate farmers into the plant improvement
process. Artemis is currently entering into the third year of
development, having been featured recently in Reuters.

About the position
The Lead Sustainable Innovation &
Transformation will be responsible for setting strategic vision and
leading execution to transition Artemis from a research project and into
a mature service, potentially expanding the use case beyond breeding
and into other related applications. In the short-term they will expand
the operational regions within East Africa and over the longer-term
develop partner networks to expand into other regions across Africa and
the Global South. They will also be responsible for crafting systems
transformation strategy to integrate Artemis as a core breeding system
for public breeding programs in the Global South, guiding future
investment opportunities

We are seeking for a candidate with a formal background in one or more of the following areas:

• Development, adoption, and scaling of agricultural innovations.
• Agricultural for development project conceptualization, acquisition, and implementation.
• Agricultural
  or related sciences; business development. The prospective candidate
  must have demonstrated experience in strategy and implementation of
  agricultural development projects

Key Responsibilities

• Leads and implements Artemis as a breeding service projects from
  inception to execution, aligning plans, capacity, and outcomes in
  response to organizational and donor priorities.
• Design the strategy to leverage Artemis technologies to expand the use-cases beyond breeding
• Design
  and implement strategic vision on future phases of Artemis investment
  to drive new market penetration and existing market saturation.
• Lead
  in the collaboration with the product development and user research
  teams to leverage UI/UX as a means to achieve sustainable and
  responsible scale.
• Lead the development and implementation of crafting marketing and branding strategy
• Develop and leverage critical network connections to integrate Artemis into pubic breeding programs targeting the Global South.
• Position Artemis as a transformative project in international fora and communities of practice.
• Contribute to learning of the Alliance on scaling and transformation.
• Lead and implement the translation of research findings into peer-reviewed publications.
• Advises
  leadership and teams and external stakeholders of research projects
  progress and any emerging issues that can impact the delivery of the
  projects.
• Supervise and mentors other research staff to build scientific capacity within the organization.

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Requirements
Required qualifications and experience

• PhD in agriculture and related fields
• Demonstrated experience in the planning and execution of international development projects related to agriculture.
• Demonstrated experience developing and working with digital technologies for agriculture.
• Demonstrated experience working with multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated
  experience with design and execution of agricultural research trials,
  including on-station and on-farm applications.
• Demonstrated experience working with the private sector and non-profit communities.
• Excellent
  professional English communication skills. Knowledge of other languages
  (e.g., Spanish, French, Swahili) is desirable, but not required.
• Proven scientific English writing skills.
• Previous working experience in Africa and the global south is preferred, but not a strict requirement.

Terms of employment
This
is an internationally recruited position to be based in either Arusha,
Tanzania. The initial contract will be for two years
subject to a probation period of six months and is renewable depending
on performance and availability of resources.

This position is
graded at BG09 level, in a scale of BG01 to BG14 (BG14 being the highest
level according to the Alliance job classification framework policy).
We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits including but not
limited to insurance, retirement plan, staff training and development,
paid time off and flexible working arrangements.

The Alliance
Bioversity-CIAT is committed to fair, safe, and inclusive workplaces. We
believe that diversity powers our innovation, contributes to our
excellence, and is critical for our mission.
Recruiting and mentoring
staff to create an inclusive organization that reflects our global
character is a priority. We encourage applicants from all cultures,
races, colors, religions, sexes,

national or regional origins,
ages, disability statuses, sexual orientations, marital status, and
gender identities. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Applications
Applicants are invited to visit https://alliancebioversityciat.org/careers
to get full details of the position and to submit their applications.
Applications MUST include reference number Head of Product (Research
Team Leader) as the position applied for. Application and CV should be
saved as one document using the candidate’s last name and first name for
ease of sorting.

Applications closing date: Thursday, 27th June 2024.
Please note that email applications will not be considered.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
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http://alliancebioversityciat.org