ILRI research technician Vacancy – agriculture economist in Nairobi Kenya

Vacancy Number: RT/AE/PGI/09/11
Department: Poverty Gender and Impact
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Duration: 2-year term with possibility of renewal

The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works at the crossroads of livestock and poverty, bringing high-quality livestock science, communications and capacity building to bear on poverty reduction and sustainable development. ILRI is one of 15 centres supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). ILRI has campuses in Kenya (headquarters) and Ethiopia, with other offices located in other regions of Africa (Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria) as well as in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and East Asia (China).

The position: ILRI requires a research technician specialised in economic analysis to work as a member of the Poverty Gender and Impact Team. The Poverty, Gender and Impact team is an institute wide program of ILRI specialising in poverty analysis, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment and gender analysis.

Responsibilities

• Work on multiple projects to evaluate the impacts of livestock interventions on poverty, gender and equity;

• Contribute to the design of evaluation frameworks,  survey instruments and sampling strategies;

• Use empirical micro-econometric and other methods to analyse the impacts of interventions,  integrating both household and intra household analysis;

• Implement, supervise and monitor field data collection and data management;