CareerTrax has been retained by the International Rice Research Institute (Los Baños, Philippines) to assist them with the candidate selection process for a critical hire, a Senior Scientist who will lead the human nutrition area. IRRI is a highly respected research organization, a world leader for agricultural know-how and research science focused on small farmers in the rice producing nations of the world. This new research portfolio will be centered on the relationship between rice-based systems and nutritional outcomes in these rural communities.
The selected candidate will provide a strategic leadership role in developing and implementing major research programs and projects on improving the human nutritional value derived from rice-based cropping systems. The position will lead this new area of research on rice-based systems and nutritional outcomes for smallholder farmers, their dependents, and their rural and urban rice consumers. It is an opportunity for a human nutrition research scientist, with expertise in nutritional epidemiology or dietary optimization, to forge a multi-disciplinary effort in close collaboration with crop experts that will define relationships and optimize practices, rotations, and systems that maximize human nutritional values. Through collaboration with cropping system experts, nutrition outcomes will be optimized in conjunction with strategies to improve livelihoods, enhance overall system productivity, and improve environmental outcomes.
The successful candidate will examine and optimize opportunities to enhance human diets by balancing the nutritional contributions of rice, legumes, other cereals, oil crops, vegetables, aquaculture, and livestock products, working closely with research programs at IRRI and partners in topics such as biofortification (vitamin A, increased iron and zinc), decreased toxins, and heavy metals contaminants including cadmium and arsenic and also by optimizing starch, dietary fiber and protein quality.
The successful applicant will work to develop a highly interactive network of nutrition experts across leading human nutrition research centers and partners in target countries, to access the required expertise and capacity for conducting nutrition trials and for assessing and validating diets and health outcomes. It is an opportunity to very directly impact the lives of millions of people.
For a full job description, contact:
Dave Jensen, Managing Director
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(928) 274-2266 Cell (Preferred)
Skype: daveproactive