Senior Scientific Officer-Pigeonpea Breeding

Job Summary

Senior Scientific Officer - Pigeonpea Breeding. ICRISAT seeks applications from dynamic and motivated Indian nationals for the position of Senior Scientific Officer - Pigeonpea Breeding to support ICRISAT's pigeonpea breeding team in the cluster Crop Breeding under the Global Research Program Accelerated Crop Improvement. This position is based at ICRISAT office in Odisha/Patancheru, India.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide scientific support and maintain accurate records of breeding nurseries and field trials.
• Support the implementation and coordination of pigeonpea breeding program activities in Odisha.
• Monitor breeding nurseries and multi-location trials at Odisha, partner sites and ensure timely and accurate data collection.
• To digitize, curate, and manage breeding and field trial data.
• Facilitate the migration of pigeonpea breeding data, location information, and pedigree records from Odisha, Patancheru, and partner sites to the Breeding Management System (BMS) platform.
• Execute planned scientific experiments and perform data analysis to support research objectives.
• Provide technical assistance and support for ongoing research activities within the pigeonpea breeding program.
• To summarize, interpret, and report experimental results in a timely manner.
• Contribute actively to the preparation of scientific manuscripts and publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Perform any other duties and responsibilities assigned by the supervisor from time to time.

Requirements

• A master's degree (M.Sc.) in Agriculture, Plant Breeding, Genetics, or Statistics.
• Should have 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in agricultural research settings, field trial management, or laboratory research.
• Experience in planning, execution, monitoring, and maintenance of breeding nurseries and multi-location trials.
• Familiarity with pedigree management and migration of breeding data across platforms.
• Good understanding of crop improvement programs, preferably in legumes and pigeonpea breeding.
• Sound knowledge of generating nurseries, trials and developing breeding experiments and generation advancement techniques through speed breeding in Pigeonpea.
• Hands-on experience with Breeding Management System (BMS) and related breeding informatics tools.
• Experience in Field experimentation (Field layout, field book), data analysis and interpretation (GENSTAT, R, Python, and SAS).
• Good English, communication and writing skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Team management and problem-solving skills.

General

This is a contractual role for a period of 36 months (03 years), renewable based on the performance of the incumbent and the institute's continuing need for the position.

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