Company Profile

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. Please visit www.iita.org for more information on IITA.

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Ghana, seeks a suitably qualified Ghanaian National to fill the position of an Administrative and Accounts Assistant in its Accra Liaison Office

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:

• Liaise between the project office and dissemination partners
• Offer support to dissemination partners in establishment of demonstrations and field agronomic trials
• Laying out, execution and monitoring of field experiments
• Collection of data from demonstrations, agronomic trials and socio-economic studies
• Collate Monitoring and Evaluation Data from Partners
• Editing, cleaning and Entry of Data
• Any other duties assigned by the country coordinator

Duty Station: Tamale with field work travels to project sites in Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regions.

Required Skills or Experience

• A good first degree in Agriculture or Environmental/Natural Resources Management
• Must be computer literate with working knowledge in Microsoft office suite
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and multicultural environment
• Capability of planning, laying out and execution of field experiment