Assistant Executive Director
The Global Crop Diversity Trust is an independent international organization whose mission is to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide. The Trust is building an endowment fund in order to provide secure financial support for key collections of crop diversity, in perpetuity. The Global Crop Diversity Trust oversees a large program of activities to advance an efficient and sustainable global system of ex situ conservation. The Trust works in partnership with implementing agencies worldwide and has a particularly close relationship with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Bioversity International and the other Centers of the CGIAR. For further information about the Trust, please visit: http://www.croptrust.org. The Global Crop Diversity Trust is now seeking well qualified candidates for the position of:
Assistant Executive Director
The primary role and responsibility of the Assistant Executive Director is to support the work of the Executive Director. Working closely with the Executive Director, as well as with other staff, the Assistant Executive Director will assume primary responsibility for the Trust’s Long-term grant making, and will have responsibility for overall Trust managerial, governance and administrative undertakings. He/she will report to the Executive Director.
The successful candidate will have an advanced degree in agricultural, biological or social sciences, or equivalent qualification (preference will be for competencies related to plant genetic diversity and development); a minimum 10 years of experience (preferably including with institutions maintaining crop diversity collections) taking on progressively more managerial responsibility at an international senior level; and in-depth knowledge and understanding of the critical roles of agricultural biodiversity, and genetic resources in particular, for food security and climate change adaptation.
For more information about the position, the terms and conditions and details on how to apply, please visit http://www.croptrust.org/main/employment.php
The Global Crop Diversity Trust is an equal opportunity employer and strives for staff diversity. Women and candidates from developing countries are encouraged to apply.
The Global Crop Diversity Trust is currently located in Rome, Italy, but will establish its permanent Headquarters in Bonn, Germany in mid-2012. The successful candidate must be willing to assume the post in Rome and subsequently move with the Trust to Bonn.
Closing date: 22 August 2011
Assistant Executive Director
The primary role and responsibility of the Assistant Executive Director is to support the work of the Executive Director. Working closely with the Executive Director, as well as with other staff, the Assistant Executive Director will assume primary responsibility for the Trust’s Long-term grant making, and will have responsibility for overall Trust managerial, governance and administrative undertakings. He/she will report to the Executive Director.
The successful candidate will have an advanced degree in agricultural, biological or social sciences, or equivalent qualification (preference will be for competencies related to plant genetic diversity and development); a minimum 10 years of experience (preferably including with institutions maintaining crop diversity collections) taking on progressively more managerial responsibility at an international senior level; and in-depth knowledge and understanding of the critical roles of agricultural biodiversity, and genetic resources in particular, for food security and climate change adaptation.
For more information about the position, the terms and conditions and details on how to apply, please visit http://www.croptrust.org/main/employment.php
The Global Crop Diversity Trust is an equal opportunity employer and strives for staff diversity. Women and candidates from developing countries are encouraged to apply.
The Global Crop Diversity Trust is currently located in Rome, Italy, but will establish its permanent Headquarters in Bonn, Germany in mid-2012. The successful candidate must be willing to assume the post in Rome and subsequently move with the Trust to Bonn.
Closing date: 22 August 2011
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