The fellow will be part of ILRI’s Tanzania Dairy Value Chain project team affiliated to the Livestock and Fish CRP. The position will be based at ILRI’s office in Morogoro, Tanzania and report to the project’s Agricultural Economist.
Graduate Fellowship Project Title: Monitoring and evaluating household welfare effects of dairy management hubs
ILRI Research Project: More milk in Tanzania (MoreMilkiT) – Adapting dairy market hubs for pro-poor Smallholder value chains in Tanzania (a ‘Maziwa Zaidi’ project)
The MoreMIlkiT project aims to achieve inclusive growth and reduced poverty and vulnerability among people with dairy-dependent livelihoods in selected rural areas in Tanzania. Rural poor are expected to secure more income through enhanced access to demand-led dairy market business services and viable organizational options.
Responsibilities:
- Work with a team of scientists to evaluate the impact of dairy management hubs (DMHs) on the welfare of dairy farm households in Tanzania. Specific welfare changes to be monitored and analyzed include: dairy productivity and dairy income; household income and poverty and; intra-household accrual of earnings from dairy enterprises.
- Conduct household surveys to collect input-output data for dairy enterprises among dairy farm households in the target sites.
- Use data to write his/her PhD thesis and publish research findings in peer-reviewed journals.
Essential Skills and Qualifications will include:
- Holder of a Masters degree in Agricultural Economics or related discipline from a highly recognized university.
- Practical experiences in field surveys design and collecting household data and willingness to travel extensively within Tanzania.
- Familiarity with handling of large datasets and knowledge of econometric and qualitative tools for the analysis of household data using relevant statistical software (e.g. STATA).
- Good writing skills demonstrated through research reports and journal publications.
- An effective and energetic team player with the ability to work in a multidisciplinary and multi-cultural environment.
- Excellent oral communication and writing skills in English. Knowledge of Swahili will be an added advantage.
- Ability to work independently, multi-task and meet tight deadlines. Have completed their last degree less than 6 years ago at the time of application.
- Must be nationals of a Sub-Saharan African Country. Please note that it is not possible to apply for studies in your home country.
Terms of appointment: ILRI will offer a competitive stipend to cover living expenses in the project location(s). The successful candidate will be supervised jointly by an ILRI scientist and the university supervisor.
How to apply:
Interested applicants should address should submit the following documents;
- A cover letter explaining your interest in the position, what you can bring to the job and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about your professional qualifications and work experience. The position title and reference number: PHDIBB/DAAD/05/2014 should be clearly indicated in the subject line of the cover letter.
- Curriculum Vitae without photograph; please use the europass CV template at http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu.
- Certified copies of all university degree certificates.
- Certified copies of all university transcripts.
- Detailed and precise description of the research project (incl. working plan and time schedule until graduation). The proposal has to be in line with the above outlined ILRI’s research projects.
- At least temporary admission letter from the host institution.
- Declaration of acceptance from academic/university supervisor.
- Recommendation letter by the affiliate university head of department.
- Proof of employment with certification that you receive an unpaid leave (where applicable).
Applications: All applications to be submitted online on our recruitment portal: http://ilri.simplicant.com by the deadline of 10 June 2014
Suitably qualified women and citizens of developing countries, with experience of working internationally, are particularly encouraged to apply.
For more information and application please visit the ILRI-DAAD PhD Scholarship: More milk in Tanzania (MoreMilkiT) in Tanzania page.
