Job Openings at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Job Overview

Location
Nairobi, Nairobi Area
Job Type
Full Time
Date Posted
2 days ago

Additional Details

Job ID
702

Job Description

Regional Human Resources Manager- Africa (Readvertisement)

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA
  • Experience8 - 10 years
  • LocationNairobi
  • Job FieldHuman Resources / HR 

Duties and responsibilities

Strategic Support and Alignment

  • Conduct regular assessments of country office operations to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and regional priorities.
  • Review and provide insights on the impact of country office activities and initiatives.
  • Coordinate strategic planning and execution between country offices and HQ.

Governance and Compliance

  • Ensure adherence to organizational policies, DOA, and compliance standards.
  • Conduct reviews and spot checks to ensure compliance, recommending corrective actions for HR processes and activities.
  • Collaborate with Legal and other departments to review compliance and address irregularities.
  • Monitor ongoing compliance through regular reporting and data analysis.

Operational Effectiveness

  • Monitor operational performance, identifying inefficiencies in key HR processes at the regional level. Implement process improvements and training initiatives.
  • Ensure effective resource utilization and alignment with cost management strategies (structure, staffing, and work allocation).
  • Work with the regional Director and Country Offices, to include HR management, training, support, well-being, and other relevant aspects in operational plans and budgets.
  • Contribute for HR to the opening or closing of country Offices in the Region.

Workforce and Talent Development

  • Evaluate and promote/ support leadership and management practices to enhance team engagement and morale.
  • Support talent development initiatives, focusing on building local/ regional capacity.
  • Work with relevant areas to address workforce gaps and strengthen team cohesion.
  • Develop and implement annual training plans with program leads/managers and HQ.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • At least 8-10 years of progressive HR experience, including regional or multi-country management.
  • Experience in human resources governance, compliance, and strategy alignment.

Temporary Remote Sensing Officer

  • Job TypeContract , Remote
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience
  • LocationNairobi
  • Job FieldData, Business Analysis and AI  , ICT / Computer 

Duties and responsibilities

Data science & remote sensing

  • Train and deploy complex GNN models for continental weather forecasting.
  • Perform scientifically robust validation of ML predictions.
  • Develop pipelines to populate and update the STAC.
  • Spatial data analysis tasks, including spatial queries, vector data extraction, processing, and cleaning.
  • General data analysis and report writing.

Dashboard development

  • Develop interactive dashboards to display analyses using R, Python and/or Julia
  • Develop interactive tools to share and communicate spatial data sets through, for instance, earth engine app

Various other tasks

  • Contribute to scientific papers.
  • Contribute to proposal development and writing.

Requirements

  • BSc degree in remote sensing and spatial data science is required with proven ability to perform complex data science and remote sensing tasks and combine various (remotely sensed) datasets.
  • Develop dashboards showing (remotely sensed) data.
  • Advanced computer programming skills in R, Python, Javascript, database technologies, and data management.

Method of Application

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