ICIPE Geospatial Data Clerk 1 Jobs in Kenya

icipe is a pan-African and non-profit Centre of Excellence for research and development and capacity building in insect science and its applications. Its mission is to help alleviate poverty, ensure food and nutritional security and improve the overall health status of peoples of the tropics by developing and extending management tools and strategies for harmful and useful arthropods, while preserving the natural resource base through research and capacity building.

Since its establishment in 1970, icipe has become a significant contributor to science and innovation required to meet the health and food security challenges of sub-Saharan Africa. The Centre has achieved this status by developing alternative and environmentally friendly pest and vector management technologies and products that are effective, selective, non-polluting, non-resistance inducing, and are affordable to resource-limited rural and urban communities.

icipe is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with offices in Ethiopia and Uganda, a major station on the shores of Lake Victoria, and several other field stations in Kenya. Employing close to 500 international and national staff, icipe also has approximately 150 graduate students who contribute to its research portfolio annually. The Centre currently has operations in more than 40 African countries, and thriving partnerships with
universities and research organizations across the world. (www.icipe.org)

icipe seeks to recruit a Geospatial Data Clerk in the Data Management, Modelling and Geo-Information (DMMG) Unit. The position is tenable in Nairobi at the icipe Duduville campus. This is two-year contract, renewable subject to continued project needs, funding for the position, and performance of the staff member.

This is a nationally recruited position. A competitive compensation package will be offered to the right candidate. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Overall purpose of the job

The position holder will be responsible for collecting and collating data (occurrence, bionomic, and insecticide resistance) from various sources (e.g., Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), VectorBase, MalariaGEN, Global Vector Hub) into the Vector Atlas data-hub. He/She will transform the data to the Common Data Model (CDM) for downstream analyses and will be responsible

for developing/adopting bioinformatic
pipelines for analysis of genomic and insecticide resistance (IR) data.

Specific Duties

The successful candidate will be expected to:

▪ Abstract, collate and accurately record georeferenced data (occurrence, bionomic, and insecticide resistance) from various sources (e.g., Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), VectorBase, MalariaGEN, and Global Vector Hub).

▪ Source malaria vector data (genomic and bionomic) from published literature.

▪ Continuously populate the vector atlas data platform.

▪ Apply the Common Data Model (CDM) for data integration across platforms.

▪ Conduct basic bioinformatic analysis of raw sequence data to identify molecular markers associated with insecticide resistance in malaria vectors.

▪ Assist in conducting training to various stakeholders including icipe postgraduate students on data documentation.

Requirements/Qualifications

▪ Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Bioinformatics, Population Biology or related field. The degree should have been obtained from a recognised university in the last three years (2019 – 2022).

▪ Knowledge of programming languages (e.g., R, C++, Python, and PERL).

▪ At least 1 year of work experience in a relevant field.

▪ Experience in genomics, population genetics, data manipulation, and computational biology.

▪ Previous experience at an international/ regional research organisation is an added advantage.

▪ Knowledge of commonly used tools for variant detection (samtools, bowtie2, BWA, IGV, ANNOVAR,
and GATK) and file formats (BED, VCF, FASTQ, BAM, and FASTA).

▪ Knowledge of commonly used and publicly available bioinformatics databases (e.g. GenBank,
Uniprot, DDBJ, Ensemble, GEO, SRA, ExAC, ESP,ClinVar, VectorBase, KEGG, HGMD, OMIM,
PubMed, and UCSC).

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; ICIPE Geospatial Data Clerk 1 Jobs in Kenya

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