Reports to: CGIAR Director level
Supervising: Part-time consultants, administrator (TBD)
Job grade: TBC
Contract type: Consultant, 12-month contract with probable extension
Time commitment: Preferably February 2024 start, but no later than March 2024. Optimally, 4-5 days per week, with flexibility. See SCENARIOS below.
Location: Remote or hybrid, with occasional travel. Montpellier, Rome, Washington DC or a CGIAR Center headquarter location is preferred, but not required, for home base.
Deadline for application : Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
Requirements
MISSION OBJECTIVE
CGIAR’s (www.cgiar.org) global partnership of 13 world-leading research Centers provides solutions to transform food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis. CGIAR is launching an Annual Flagship Report to synthesize its science to inform and influence global policy processes in the food systems and development domain. This annual Report will arm policymakers, regional institutions, and global decision-makers with the insights, innovations, and data they require to formulate, develop, and negotiate evidence-based policies. The Science Managing Editor or Lead Researcher is a senior position leading or contributing to the development of the first Report, possibly including conceptualizing the design, overseeing and undertaking science synthesis, facilitating input from key stakeholders, and developing, editing and/or writing a series of products that will catalyse positive change on a global scale (e.g. briefing papers, blogs).
ASSIGNMENT SCENARIOS
The approach to the position is dependent on applicant skills, their described scenarios, and upcoming decisions by the Flagship Report Advisory Team. 100% of the selected candidate’s time is preferable, but possible scenarios include:
1. Science Editor: support CGIAR science leads to define the Report, take on feedback from stakeholders/Advisory Teams, oversee analysis and writing, and feed into an effective advocacy plan. In this scenario the Science Editor will coordinate contributions of analysts, editors and writers, and ensure they are collated into a cohesive and powerful product. Commitment expected to be 3-5 days per week for 10-12 months, closer to full-time during the report writing phase (approx. Apr-Oct).
2. Lead Researcher: lead the full Report development process, acting as the primary researcher/synthesizer of science (while consulting CGIAR science leads), main writer, key expert on science to policy, organizer of expert engagement and stakeholder input, manager of related staff contributions and consultants, and overseer of delivery of intermittent and final products. Commitment expected to be 4-5 days per week for 10-12 months.
3. Lead Researcher, with Research Support: as in (2) above, but this scenario has the option of using a portion of the Lead Researcher budget to recruit a less senior researcher to assist on some responsibilities. Commitment expected to be 2-4 days per week for 10-12 months.
Ensure your application describes your preferred/possible scenarios. Note that the project will also have stakeholder meeting facilitation, administrative, editing/proofreading and other project support.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (dependent on scenarios section above)