Senior Gender Specialist Wanted

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is one of the world’s leading research partners in finding solutions for hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. IITA works with partners to enhance crop quality and productivity, reduce producer and consumer risks, and generate wealth from agriculture.

IITA seeks to recruit a Senior Gender Specialist to provide strategic leadership, develop capacities, and
undertake gender mainstreaming and research in various programs at IITA. The successful candidate
will work in collaboration with other scientists, agronomists, crop breeders, and more.

Some responsibilities of this position will be, among others:

• Provide strategic leadership to the gender mainstreaming, adoptive and strategic gender research
  activities at IITA;
• Play an essential role in ensuring gender and social inclusiveness such as youth and other
  marginalized minority groups in research activities;
• Strengthen collaboration and synergy with the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research and represent IITA in this forum.