Jobs at Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Provides administrative and operational support to a research program by processing travel requests, arranging meetings and events, supporting procurement and payment follow-up, tracking tasks, coordinating with internal teams, and communicating request status. The role is a four-month nationally recruited internship in Nairobi, requiring a recent graduate or diploma holder with Microsoft Office and Excel proficiency and fluency in English.

Develop and optimize computer vision and machine learning systems for agricultural phenotyping. Responsibilities include building MLOps pipelines, data ingestion and annotation workflows, model training and evaluation, disease detection, cloud and edge deployment, CI/CD, experiment tracking, model monitoring, and integration with the ONA platform. The consultant will collaborate with research, engineering, product, breeding, and field teams across an 11-month assignment.

The consultant will build and operationalize end-to-end MLOps workflows for speech, NLP, multimodal AI, and disease-detection systems. Responsibilities include data ingestion and versioning, model training and evaluation, CI/CD, deployment across cloud and edge environments, monitoring, drift detection, experiment tracking, and model governance. The role also integrates AI services with SIKIA mobile, backend, API, GCP, FAIRGrounds, and ONA systems while supporting low-connectivity field deployments and collaborating with research, engineering, product, and field teams.

Supports innovation challenges, venture-building, technology transfer, and commercialization initiatives across East and Southern Africa. The role coordinates research-based innovation lifecycles, stakeholder engagement, strategic partnerships, startup and investor collaboration, resource mobilization, market access, programme monitoring, and development of knowledge products. It also helps strengthen the regional agri-tech and climate-tech ecosystem and represents the organization in innovation and investment forums.

Coordinates ENSURE project implementation in Kenya and South Sudan, including work planning, stakeholder engagement, partner coordination, field supervision, digital advisory deployment, capacity building, monitoring, reporting, risk tracking, and knowledge management. The role serves as IITA’s country coordination focal point, working with government agencies, research and extension systems, farmer organizations, private-sector partners, and development institutions. Based in Nairobi, it requires frequent travel to project locations.

Supports proposal administration, pipeline data entry and quality control, funding opportunity research, reporting, dashboard preparation, and internal coordination. The intern will update databases and trackers, assist with proposal submissions, research relevant funding calls, prepare summaries, maintain coordination tools, and support data-cleaning and reporting activities. The role requires strong organization, attention to detail, English communication skills, adaptability, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively under deadlines.

Leads data management and analytics for agricultural research projects, including data governance, processing pipelines, quality control, annotation oversight, exploratory analysis, and preparation of multimodal datasets for AI/ML development. Oversees cloud storage, databases, ETL workflows, documentation, reproducibility, and collaboration across research and engineering teams. Supervises junior staff, delivers training, and supports reporting and donor communications.

Provides administrative, logistical, travel, procurement, payment follow-up, event coordination, and task-tracking support to the Tropical Forages Program. Responsibilities include arranging travel and meetings, processing procurement requests, liaising with accounting, maintaining records and spreadsheets, coordinating with internal teams, and communicating request status. The position is based in Nairobi and requires strong organization, communication, teamwork, attention to detail, and proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Review and strengthen Kenyan TVET curricula in agriculture and related fields. The consultant will conduct curriculum gap analysis, map government review and approval processes, align content with CBET requirements, assess examination and competency-based assessment linkages, recommend trainer upskilling approaches, define IITA/CGIAR participation, map governance and industry stakeholders, and organize a validation workshop. Final deliverables include curriculum, assessment, process, stakeholder, partnership, trainer development, and consolidated recommendation reports.

Provides operational treasury support, including reviewing payment requests, recording and reconciling transactions in OCS and Agresso, maintaining bank records, processing multi-currency payments, handling reversals and returns, preparing reports, supporting bank reconciliations, and backing up corporate credit card processes. The role also responds to payment-related queries, assists Treasury Analysts, and supports audit requirements.

Plan and execute risk-based internal audits across operational, financial, compliance, and programmatic areas. Perform fieldwork, control evaluations, substantive testing, and data analytics; produce evidence-based observations and practical recommendations; support remediation tracking, advisory engagements, and audit reporting aligned with Global Internal Audit Standards.

Provide country-level technical, market and stakeholder support to develop a Kenya solar-powered irrigation systems (SPIS) investment strategy. Tasks include market landscape review, stakeholder mapping and consultations, identification of bankable investment pathways, financing and risk-structuring assessment, and contribution of Kenya-specific inputs to the consolidated investment strategy report. Deliverables include inception note, market brief, consultation synthesis, investment shortlist, financing inputs, and final Kenya chapter.