Landscape Management-Manager

Key skills

NRM

Agroforestry

Crop demos

Additional/Preferred Skills

preparing MB

Preferred Qualifications

MSc Agriculture

                                    Manager-landscape management

ICRISAT seeks application from Indian nationals, for the position of ‘ Manager-landscape management – ICRISAT Development Centre’’to support activities of Global Research Program on Resilient Farm and Food Systems (GRP-RF&FS) on Natural Resource Management. There is a requirement of a position where the incumbents will be based at Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh and will report to Global Research Program Director, RF&FS, ICRISAT. As Resilient Farm and Food Systems involved in number of research and development projects towards Natural Resource Management, support implementation of large-scale rainwater harvesting and number of NRM interventions components using science-based approach in different projects across diverse agro ecological regions of Indian states.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.

ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid. Please visit – www.icrisat.org

Responsibilities:

• Develop net planning of various landscape resource conservation interventions and preparing detailed project report.
• Monitoring the execution of a range of rainwater harvesting structures (e.g., renovation of existing water bodies, check dam, community farm pond, field bunding, field drainage structure, diversion drains, etc.) and maintain the Measurement Book
• Estimation of earth and masonry works undertaken during and after the interventions implemented and its costing.
• Willingness to work closely with farming community and travel extensively to various project locations.

Requirements:

• MSc in agricultural sciences/basic science or related disciplines with working experience of minimum 20 years
• Demonstrated skills on constructing masonry and earthen rainwater harvesting and earthen structures.

General:

This is a contractual position for a period of 36 months.

How to apply:

Applicants should apply on or before 24 March 2023, with their latest Resume, and the names and contact information of three references that are knowledgeable about their professional qualifications and work experience. All applications will be acknowledged; however only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

ICRISAT is an equal opportunity employer.