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Program/Project Management Job in Kenya, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from CIMMYT; closing on 04 Mar 2021

Translate NASC, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, others launch IMAGE to provide farmers quality seeds On By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja As the nation yearns to boost food security, availability, and affordability, the National Agricultural Seeds Council, NASC, in collaboration with Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation, and Content Global Development, Tuesday, launched Institutionalizing Monitoring of Crop Variety Adoption Using Genotyping programme, IMAGE, to provide farmers qualit...

Duties Work with Data Manager and the Excellence in Breeding Platform (EiB) on the adoption of a data management system (Enterprise Breeding System – EBS) for storing and retrieval of information; Curate historical data from the Maize crop improvement program into templates for migration to the EBS; Check the quality and integrity of the data to be uploaded to the EBS; Ensure that the CG-core metadata standards are adhered to for all Maize improvement data; Perform data wrangling of large dat...