International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Experience: 3 to 5 Years
Skill Required: Project and Program Management
Apply By: 22-07-2022
The One CGIAR Breeding Resources (BR) Initiative is recruiting a Program Manager. The objective of BR is to improve the genetic, economic, social, and environmental performance of breeding programs across the CGIAR-NARS breeding network. Excellence in Breeding (EiB) with Crops to End Hunger (CtEH) funders have established a baseline for breeding modernization across the CGIAR-National Agricultural Research System (NARS) network. It is now time to build on the proven methods of EiB and CtEH by extending efforts to include more NARS and expand assessments into a more holistic performance system aligned with CGIAR Impact Areas.
The Breeding Resources Initiative will use institutional innovation to form a collaborative, performance-oriented network that strategically uses modernized breeding to deliver great impacts more efficiently. BR will also establish shared services with a procurement team negotiating cheaper access to external vendors and service providers. The Breeding Resources Initiative proposal sets out an ambitious and exciting plan for the modernization and evolution of CGIAR breeding and partnerships with NARES toward greater impact.
The mission of this new Program Manager will be to build Program Management strategy and structures to enable BR’s transformational change goals of increasing the rate of genetic gains for key traits and driving down the age of varieties in farmers’ fields. This will involve working closely with other initiative leads, work package leads, crop leads and breeding teams and support networks to put processes and systems in place to ensure successful execution of work plans and risks mitigation. This position will be supported by project managers in addition to personnel providing administrative, finance and change management support.
By providing important outcomes to under-resourced peoples, the CGIAR centers help realize the founding mission of the CGIAR system they target low-and-middle-income countries for greater impact on food and nutrition security, climate change adaptation and development. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT®, is one of the CGIAR not-for-profit agricultural research for development organization with partners in over 100 countries.
The positions will be based at CIMMYT headquarter in Texcoco, near Mexico City.
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Source: https://www.cimmyt.org/careers/jobs/program-manager-breeding-resources-initiative/