JOB DETAILS:
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food the global crises of malnutrition, climate change, biodiversity loss, and en people's lives. The Alliance solutions address
(https://alliancebioversityciat.org/)
degradation.

With novel partnerships, the Alliance generates evidence and mainstreams innovations to transform food systems and landscapes so that they sustain the planet, drive prosperity, and nourish people.
The Alliance is part of CGIAR (www.cglar.org) a global research partnership for a food-secure future.
We are recruiting internship students for various positions as per below details:

Interns-Field Beans Breeding Assistants (two (2) positions)

About the position
Field Breeding Assistants will be supporting improvement of existing plant varieties or support to create new ones to improve appear- ance, resistance to disease, yield, and other characteristics. The internship students may work in an academic or research setting.

Key Responsibilities:
• Support setting research aims and objectives.
• Support production o
• Support researchings and breeding.
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• Support laboratory, screen house, and field trials activities.
• Support analyzing and interpreting data.
• Support in identifying the best varieties/species.
• Support in electing parent plants for crossbreeding.
• Support keeping records of research and findings.
• Support in presenting scientific findings and other work.
• Participate in making presentations.
• Support writing technical publications and reports.
• Coordinating and liaising with other plant breeders.

Please send your application letter & CV as one PDF document to t.lija@cgiar.org copy to Teshale.Mamo@cgiar.org  and L.Tango@cglar.org 

Alliance-Bioversity & CIAT is an equal opportunity employer.

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.