IITA recruiting Program Assistant in Abuhs

Ref:IITA-HR-NRS2018-0015 Position:
 Program Assistant
Location: Abuja Recruitment Type: National (1-year renewable contract)
Date Posted: 8th May 2018 Closing Date: 22nd May 2018
The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking to recruit an agronomist/seed system
specialist Project Associate (PA) to implement ‘Nutrition Sensitive Kitchen Garden
Interventions with Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) and Other Vegetables under
‘Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) Program’. This PA will be based
in Jigawa State, with occasional training and supervision duties in Yobe State. She/he will
work under the supervision of the CIP Country Manager (WINNN-Kitchen Garden
Coordinator) and co-report to the WINNN Deputy Chief of Party.
International Potato Center (CIP): CIP is a not-for-profit international agricultural
research-for-development organization with a focus on potato, sweetpotato, and Andean
roots and tubers. Its vision is roots and tubers improving the lives of the poor. CIP is
dedicated to achieving food security, improved well-being, and gender equity for poor people
in root and tuber farming and food systems of the developing world. CIP works with partners
to contribute high quality science, technology, and capacity strengthening for sustainable
science-based solutions. CIP is headquartered in Lima, Peru, with staff and activities in over
30 locations across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. CIP is a member of the CGIAR
Consortium, a network of 15 Research Centers and 16 Research Programs mostly located
in the developing world and supported by more than 50 donor members.
The WINNN program: WINNN is an eight-year (September 2011—March 2019) program
funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) to improve maternal
and child nutrition in five states of northern Nigeria namely Jigawa, Zamfara, Kebbi,
Katsina, and Yobe. WINNN is designed to support the piloting of a set of evidence-based
nutrition-specific interventions; micro-nutrient supplementation, community management
of acute malnutrition (CMAM), infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counselling, and to
support institutionalization of the interventions within routine healthcare.
The Project: The overall goal of this orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) led garden product
project is to improve food and nutrition security and livelihoods for women and children,
especially improved diet diversity in two of the five WINNN states implementing during the
cost extension period. The project seeks to catalyze broad support for OFSP and its use in
strategic initiatives including Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) program (first cohort),
mothers/care givers of recovered Severe and Acute Malnourished (SAM) clients in small
scale food processing, school feeding, and wheat import substitution in commercial food
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