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Background:

Arizona State University (ASU) is seeking a Research Capacity Building Lead for the Feed the Future Innovation Lab Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence (FSPRCI) program with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Through the FTFIL for FSPRCI, USAID seeks to influence global, regional, and national policy that advances food security through high quality, relevant research from credible and sound policy research institutions in partner countries and in the U.S. The program will work to improve credibility of country and regional policy research institutions, and greater application of global research to guide food security policies; with strengthened organization effectiveness of country and regional policy research institutions. This full-time position is based in Washington, D.C., and requires frequent travel to ASU’s campus in Tempe, Arizona, and to the locations of institutional partners in Feed the Future priority countries worldwide.

Key Responsibilities:

The Research Capacity Building Lead (Leadership, Expertise, and Advice on Research Capacity-Building) is responsible for developing and overseeing BFS-funded global research, including:

• Working with COP in putting in place a process to identify key national/regional policy research institutions to benefit from (a) project capacity strengthening and (b) partner in/lead on in-country research.
• Working with the project’s global and country/regional research staff to ensure that research planning, implementation, analysis, and presentation are all done in ways that maximize capacity of both the individual local/regional researchers involved and the capacity of the institutions that employ them.
• Identifying best practice, alternative approaches, key challenges, and most useful consortium staff and organizational resources for capacity building to be done under Mission funded AAs and buy-ins.
• Working with COP in identifying and putting into place a mechanism to ensure that consortium staff as well as country/regional institutions have access to capacity strengthening best practice and alternative approaches and also feed their own experiences, needs, and learning into that mechanism.

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Master’s degree in management, agriculture, international development, or a related field
• At least 15 years’ experience leading, managing and implementing capacity-strengthening activities and/or relationships, especially of national or regional research and/or policy organizations.
• Specific and significant experience working with or overseeing university faculty or other research staff

To apply:

Please submit your candidacy through the DEVEX platform: https://www.devex.com/jobs/research-capacity-building-lead-569625