Research Associate

The Research Associate will work on the GALILEO Project with teams of research and development partners, community-based organizations and farmers towards the achievement of project goals and objectives   Primary Responsibilities   ·         Provide support and technical backstopping for IITA and its partners in the identification, validation and establishment of living labs. ·         Support design of data collection tools, review data sources, data collection, etc. ·         Assist in the translation of results from the Living Labs on cocoa agroforestry and adapted technologies that can be used by the cocoa sector. ·         Support the design, organize and undertake survey activities gaps identified in cocoa agroforestry. ·         Undertake surveys, data analysis and reporting. ·         Provide technical support for on-farm cocoa agroforestry research activities. ·         Identify, define roles and build multistakeholder partnership (MSP) of key stakeholders and partners on agroforestry. ·         Participate in key stakeholder meetings, and field-based missions as and when needed. ·         Support IITA and its partners on training on adaptation practices for cocoa agroforestry ·         Produce reports on workshops and meetings conducted under the current cocoa project portfolios. ·         Contribute to stakeholder mobilization and coordinate communication between consortium partners. ·         Work closely with the project partners to identify results and field stories that should be highlighted in communication materials. ·         Undertake regular visits to the field to support implementation of ME&L and to identify where adaptation might be needed. ·         Contribute to project annual reporting by providing required ME&L data. ·         Any other tasks that may be assigned by the supervisors.