Researcher - Wefe Nexus Management

2 days ago


مصر, Egypt ICARDA Full time

**Reports to**: Research Team Leader - Soil, Water, and Agronomy (SWA)

**Location**: Cairo, Egypt

Main purpose of the position

About ICARDA
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is a treaty-based international non-profit research organization supported by CGIAR.
All CGIAR Centers are currently engaged into a reform process (“One CGIAR’”) that will help ICARDA and CGIAR achieve better impact through more strategically integrated research, unified governance, an integrated structure and new research modalities across participating Research Centers. This transformation is supported by CGIAR donors who have committed to increased funding as a result of these reforms.

**Main responsibilities**:

- Design, conduct, and supervise innovative research for development of agricultural energy and climate smart approaches, tools, and technologies for smallholder farmers.
- Evaluate, improve, and contribute to implementing new approaches/tools in farmers’ fields that improve energy efficiency and alternative energy production and advance climate mitigation and adaptation.
- Support the co-design process for scaling water, energy, food, and carbon footprint nexus index for quantitative assessment of farm performance.
- Advance the farm machinery to increase energy efficiency, increase yields, prolong machinery life, reduce labor, reduce expenses, and increase revenue.
- Conduct needs analysis for target regions via field visits and assessing in developing and conducting surveys and focus group discussions.
- Use spatial and quantitative modelling approaches to quantify the effectiveness of on-farm scale solutions on the landscape scale.
- Initiate and support the collaboration with governmental, research, academic, and private partners in the irrigation sector in Egypt.
- Prepare technical/research reports, scientific publications, policy briefs, and extension materials.
- Contribute to capacity development of national partners through training, supervision, and technical backstopping.
- Contribute to resource mobilization activities.
- Represent ICARDA in regional and international fora.
- Perform other professional duties assigned by the SWA Team Leader.

**Requirements**:
**Education, qualifications, and experience**:
Essential qualifications and competencies
- Earned PhD in energy, agriculture, water management, irrigation management, environmental management, or a related discipline.
- At least 3 to 5 years of professional experience in the field of agricultural energy, climate smart innovations, agronomy, and irrigation at national and regional levels.
- Master’s degree holder will be considered if it’s accompanied by at least 7 years of professional work experience.
- Strong spatial and quantitative modelling skills and a broad understanding of the water, energy, food, and ecology interactions on the farm level.
- Familiarity with agricultural related mechanical and electrical energy systems and farm machinery.
- Trained in crop modeling, GIS, remote sensing, and climate-smart agriculture.
- Ability to be a great team player with good communication and organizational skills.
- A good track record of relevant scientific publications, extension materials, and technical reports.
- Excellent verbal and written English, Arabic, and/or French language skills.
- Able and willing to travel extensively within Egypt and in the region.

Essential qualifications and competencies
- Previous work experience in an international and multi-cultural environment.
- Previous experience in working in CGIAR or other international agricultural research institutions.
- Strong innovativeness and experience in the developing world.
- A track record in donor relations, fund raising and project development.

**Benefits**:
Terms of appointment, salary, and benefits


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