Associate Scientist – Gender and Social Inclusion

Webelieve in the power of science and innovation to drive positive social change.New insights from critical social research are needed to find solutions toglobal challenges like hunger, poverty and environmental decline. Paired with biophysicaland technology research, social sciences research is a powerful weapon forimproving global food security, agricultural livelihoods, and sustainable foodsystems.

TheInternational Potato Center (CIP) works at this frontier. Together with otherresearch centers of the CGIAR and hundreds of science and innovation partnersaround the world, we develop new knowledge, technologies, research capacitiesand partnerships to address agriculture and food system priorities of countriesin the Global South. With an emphasis on potato, sweet-potato and other root and tubercrops, we have helped improve the livesof millions of farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Qualitative social science has been acornerstone of our success, and we are looking for a dynamic andresults-oriented new associate scientist to work on gender and social inclusionchallenges in agricultural research for development contexts.

Theposition: The new Associate Scientist (Gender and Social Inclusion) will workclosely with our teams of social and biological scientists to support thedesign, delivery and scaling of innovations that better respond to the needs,challenges and opportunities faced by women, young people and otherintersectional groups. Through engagement in newly started research projectsand programs, they will collaborate with like-minded scientists across theCGIAR. Gender equity and social inclusion are amongst our key concerns as wework with our partners from national agricultural research institutes,universities, private sector and civil society to help make agrifood systemsmore sustainable and just.

The new Associate Scientist will engage closely withpartners in the co-design and co-implementation of research goal of this position is to facilitatedialogue and conduct high quality research in collaboration with a diversity ofactors including internal and external stakeholders.

Theposition offers exciting mid-career opportunities in a dynamic and highlyvisible international work environment. It will report to the leader of CIP’sSocial and Nutritional Sciences Division. The position will be based in one ofCIP’s main offices as will be agreed with the selected candidate.

Dutiesand Responsibilities:

●Contribute to the design and implementation of a globalresearch partnership that integrates qualitative and quantitative socialsciences into biological and agricultural research at CIP, working closely withresearchers from CIP and CGIAR.
●Co-design and co-implement high-quality and relevantsocial science research on major development challenges within the frameworkof evolving CIP and CGIAR Science and Innovation Strategies and research projectsand programs, emphasizing impacts on gender equity and social inclusion.
●Publish results from this researchin high-impact peer reviewed journalsand present findings atinternational conferences.
●Contribute to the design and implementation of CIP’s globalresearch portfolio to foster gender equality and social inclusion.
●Work collaboratively with the team of social andbiophysical scientists at CIP to Identify and pursue funding opportunities tosupport new social science and integrated research at CIP.