Associate Scientist

Associate Scientist - Data Analyst

ICRISAT seeks applications from highly motivated professionals for the position of Associate Scientist–Analytical Support. This is a joint position between the Data Management, Analytical Support Cluster, and the ICRISAT Development Center. The candidate will report to the Cluster Lead of the Data Management and the Analytical Support Cluster. The new incumbent will work closely with both clusters and also support multidisciplinary scientists by assisting with the design, analysis, and interpretation of their experiments and data. This position is based at ICRISAT Headquarters, at Patancheru, Telangana, India.

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. Please visit -

Responsibilities:

• Assist ICRISAT's scientists in the planning of agricultural field trials.
• Generate randomizations and trial layouts for field experiments.
• Support the scientists in data curation, simple and complex analysis, and interpretation of the results from varying disciplines.
• Develop and/or refine existing SAS /R /ASReml-R codes for data curation, analysis, and visualization.
• Actively contribute to data analysis and interpretations.
• Contribute to conducting training programmes for both ICRISAT's scientists and National Agricultural Research Scientists (NARS) in data management and data analysis.
• Perform any other task assigned by the supervisor.

Eligibility and Qualification:

• Ph.D. in Agricultural Statistics, with a minimum of two years of post-Ph.D. experience in agricultural research or similar / related field
• Experience in generating modern experimental designs in field trials (breeding and agronomy).
• Knowledge of multi-environment trial analyses using mixed-models, interpretable machine learning models for getting insights from agricultural data, spatial and stability analyses, heritability, genetic gain estimations of field trials, genomic selection, and quantitative genetics.
• Use of statistical software such as R, SAS, SPSS, STATA, GENSTAT, ASREML-R, and Python and related technical expertise
• Fluency in spoken and written English is important and knowledge in any other local language will be an added advantage
• Demonstrate strong Interpersonal skills, communication, and teamwork, across diverse teams and stakeholders

General:

This is a contractual role for a period of 36 months (3 years), renewable subject to performance of new incumbent, funding availability and continuing need for the position.

How to apply:

The position will remain open until a suitable candidate is identified. Shortlisting will start from 26 October 2025. All Applicants should apply with their latest Resume, and the names and contact information of three references that are knowledgeable about their professional qualifications and work experience. All applications will be acknowledged; however, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

ICRISAT is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing diversity and maintaining a progressive and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether they have a disability.