Recrutement d’un(e) Technicien(ne) de recherche (Établissement des cultures de plein champ, suivi des expériences, collecte des données) par l’Institut International de Recherche sur le Riz (IRRI) au Philippines.

 

 

 

 

 

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Focus on the optimization and standardization of machine transplanter and vacuum seeder in seedling nursery establishment of seed multiplication and characterization;
  • Monitor and ensure that all operations from seed handling, seeding, seedling handling, transplanting, flowering, harvesting and post-harvest processing, harvest seed handling activities are based on SOPs and meet all the standards of quality assurance;
  • Provide support in the data collection for morpho-agronomic characterization of cultivated rice sp and other experiments;
  • Close coordination with other research technicians within (data management and seed processing teams) and outside the FFGR cluster to ensure the smooth, efficient and well organized field operations and other activities;
  • Support scholars, students, OJTs and other researchers in field and screenhouse experiments to ensure excellent and quality outcome and effective transfer of knowledge are attained;
  • Coordinate with Zeigler Experiment Station or IRS staff regarding machinery requirements, pesticide application, man-power services, etc.;
  • Deliver and provide healthy and well established crop every season and excellent quality seed materials
  • Cost –effective and timely implementation of processes and key measures related to seed multiplication and seed characterization activities;
  • Complete and error-free data sets from seed multiplication and seed characterization.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 2 years college education with 5 years experience in rice/agricultural research.

Skills Required

Mandatory :

  • Has experience on rice culture in the field;
  • Has basic knowledge in MS Office programs such as Word and Excel or related software;
  • Experience with biological data collection using gadgets or tablets and portable printers.

Preferred :

  • Has experience in rice field experimentations, field data collection of rice characterization, yield evaluation, seed processing and seed preparation;
  • Basic skill of plant part sample collection for genotyping and characterization;
  • Professional driving license.

Deadline to apply: 17th January 2023

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