Scientific Officer – Digital Agriculture position available at ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana

Post Name : Scientific Officer – Digital Agriculture

ICRISAT seeks applications from Indian nationals, for the position of “Scientific Officer – Digital Agriculture’’ to support activities of Global Research Program on Resilient Farm and Food Systems. The requirement is for 2 positions and the incumbent is based at ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Telangana.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, non-political organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide array of partners throughout the world. Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries, the semi- arid or dryland tropics has over 2 billion people and 644 million of these are the poorest of the poor. ICRISAT and its partners help empower these disadvantaged populations to overcome poverty, hunger and a degraded environment through better agricultural production systems.

ICRISAT is headquartered at Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and eight country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT envisions a prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics. Its mission is to reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics. ICRISAT conducts research on its mandate crops of chickpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet in the arid and semi-arid tropics. The Institute focuses its work on the drylands and in protecting the environment. Tropical dryland areas are usually seen as resource-poor and perennially beset by shocks such as drought, thereby trapping dryland communities in poverty and hunger and making them dependent on external aid.

Responsibilities:

• Research, design, implement, and manage applications for digitalization of agriculture value chain interventions

• Identify appropriate solutions, databases, programming packages to design and implement the solutions for mobile and web-based data collection and visualization

• Design, develop and manage databases for web/mobile applications for filed-based data collection

• Write efficient code for developing mobile and web applications

• Test, debug, fix and implement the codes

• Outline and adhere to QA standards and good practices of application development

• Work with start-ups and other technology organizations, universities, partners for implementing solutions
  

Required skills:

• Candidate should have Deep Knowledge in HTML, CSS, MySQL, PHP, J-query, Java Script, Rest API and WordPress

• Experienced in using database storage in Android like SQLite for mobile based data collection applications

• Experienced in designing and developing mobile SDK and integrating mobile apps with web services and external APIs

• Candidate should have a proven track record of building robust, high-performance mobile applications with good UX design experience.

• Candidate should have good understanding of the website development framework & architecture & experience in developing web-based applications based on the requirement

• Should be able to gather, refine specifications and requirements based on technical needs

Desired Requirements:

• Masters in Computer Application or Computer Science or in a related field with 2-3 years of experience in web and software development.

Number of Positions: Two

Position tenure : 24Monts

Last Date : 12 January 2023

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Why ICRISAT?

ICRISAT offers a rewarding career opportunity in dryland agricultural research to have a lasting impact on millions of lives and communities. The state of the art research infrastructure with high performance culture, ICRISAT provides global exposure and learning. For more details, visit www.icrisat.org