Genebank Application Developer at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Genebank Application Developer

Ref: IITA-HR-NRS2020-003
Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Recruitment Type: National (3-year renewable contract)

Duties
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

• Maintain and upgrade existing inventories system and accessions application;
• Develop and deploy web services to consume/expose data from GRC databases
• Assist the database manager in implementing GRIN-Global system;
• Assist in developing web and mobile applications for data capturing in the lab, screen-house and on the field;
• Conduct trial runs of programs and software applications to be sure they will produce the desired information and that the instructions are correct
• Maintain IITA Genetic Resources Center website;  
• Assist the database manager in training IT students and NYSC in software programming;
• Assist the database manager in source code maintenance using Git, writing databases and application user’s manuals;
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• B.Sc / HND in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Programming or related field with minimum of five (5) years’ work experience performing similar role.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:  

• Have strong experience in mobile and web applications programming using. Net Core and JAVA EE.
• Have ability to work under Linux/Windows operating system.
• Be familiar with android and windows mobile development, Eclipse, Tomcat and MS Visual Studio environment
• Have good communication skill and work off time.

Application Closing Date
4th February, 2020.