At least 5 years of post-doctoral experience in poultry genetics, livestock breeding and/or animal science/breeding.Participate in relevant institutional committees.Contributing to the organization of conferences, seminars, and workshops organized or co-organized by the research team and program.Contribute to the communication of related livestock genetics and breeding program work at ILRI work, e.g., through the preparation of ILRI publications such as working papers, policy briefs, technical reports, journal publications, conference papers and presentations at relevant fora.Design, develop and maintenance of databases for poultry performance recording, monitoring and farmer feedback for use in developing countries.Contribute to the coordination of field data collection and feedback activities, working closely with both national and international research and development partners.Develop and foster close relationships and linkages with key institutions to enhance regional livestock breeding research capacity.Provide support to the implementation of large-scale multi-country poultry innovation delivery programs in Africa and Asia.In line with this, the proposed program aims to contribute to enhanced productivity of village chicken production systems and thereby contribute to livelihoods improvement of rural and peri-urban farming communities in (Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar). Ensuring access by smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia to breeds with improved productivity while retaining much of their hardiness is a critical opportunity in helping to raise chicken productivity and increase the availability of affordable chicken products for sale and home consumption. The program will improve chicken genetics and the delivery of adapted chickens to support poverty reduction, productivity growth, increased household animal protein intake, and the empowerment of women farmers in rural communities. Part of the wider ‘LiveGene‘initiative, TPGS tests and makes available high-producing, farmer-preferred genotypes that increase smallholder chicken productivity in partnership with private sector poultry input providing (genetics, health and feed) companies. ILRI Tropical Poultry Genetic Solution program is multi-institutional public and private sector collaboration which provides better chickens to smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia. Co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, it has regional or country offices and projects in East, South and Southeast Asia as well as Central, East, Southern and West Africa.
It is the only one of 15 CGIAR research centres dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing world. ILRI works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock.
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Scientist to support the ongoing breed testing and develop chicken breed improvement programs in the tropics and build up the livestock genetics team in support of its on-farm and on-station activities in Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Nigeria) and Asia (Cambodia, Vietnam, and Myanmar).