Bioversity International Climate Security Specialist Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.
Bioversity International Ethiopia looking for “Climate Security Specialist”.
Applicants with a Master’s Degree may apply on or before 29th March, 2024.
The organization’s focus has changed over time. Early work focused on the emergency conservation of crop genetic resources in genebanks. Successively, our work was devoted to deliver scientific evidence, management practices and policy options to use and safeguard agricultural biodiversity to attain sustainable global food and nutrition security. Today, we have joined forces with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) to create an Alliance which delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives in a climate crisis.
The Bioversity International has published a job vacancy announcement on 13th March, 2024 for qualified Ethiopians to fill in the vacant post of Systems Scientist to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Bioversity International Job Vacancy 2024
About This Position:
CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security is searching for six (6) highly talented professionals to serve as Climate Security Specialists with a strong background in peace, migration, displacement and conflict studies, policy, climate smart agriculture, and related fields to support the following research areas:
- Evidence 4 Peace: Understanding the complexity of climate and security for informed decision-making that is gender sensitive and socially equitable. This research area will help unpack the main impact pathways that link climate, agriculture, migration, displacement, and security in different geographies to enrich our knowledge of the complex, context-specific, socially variable, and dynamic pathways through which climate affects the risk of conflict and fragility.
- Programming 4 Peace: Developing climate security sensitive operations in agricultural settings. The main goal of this component is to develop tools and guidelines to inform the design and implementation of integrated programming at regional, national, and sub-national level improving interventions, research, policies, and investments to mitigate and prevent conflicts and displacement, reduce people’s inequalities and vulnerabilities, and increase resilience.
- Policy 4 Peace: Articulating the role of food systems in a climate crisis for policies and frameworks. This research area aims to engage with communities, civil society, and governing actors across multiple scales of governance to assess and improve the coherence, integration, and performance of policies within climate-related and security domains.
- Finance 4 Peace: Increasing conflict sensitivity of climate funds but de-risking investments of international, regional, national, and local investors, including governments to increase the reach of climate investments in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
Position in Organization:
- Climate Security Specialist
- Target Date: 29/03/2024
- Industry: Research
- Duty Post: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Salary: 50,000 t0 55,000
- City: Nairobi
- State/Province: North East
- Zip/Postal Code: 758882
- Deadline: 29th March, 2024
Minimum Requirement:
Educationa and Experience:
- Master’s or PhD degree in international relations, peace, migration and conflict studies, development studies, social policy, or other related social sciences.
- Excellent knowledge of the climate, peace, migration, displacement and security literature and discourses
- Excellent qualitative analytical skills (QCA, discourse/content analysis, field work and primary data collection) (especially for IRSs in LAC, Ethiopia, and Dakar).
- Excellent knowledge of quantitative analyses and approaches, such as econometric analysis of large household datasets and climate data and with software such as STATA, R and Python (especially for the IRSs in Nairobi and Cairo).
- Experience in international organizations for applied research and development programs or development-focused organizations, working on climate issues in the context of peace and security.
- Experience in international, multicultural settings and in interaction with researchers, policymakers, donors, and civil society across a wide range of contexts.
Language Requirement:
- Fluency in Spanish language for the IRSs located in LAC Hub; in French language for the IRS located in the West and Central Africa, Dakar Senegal; and Arabic for the IRS located in Cairo Egypt is essential; Arabic is desirable for the IRS located in Ethiopia.
How to Apply Bioversity International Systems Scientist Jobs 2024
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
The Closing Date: 29th March, 2024
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
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