Vacancy title:
3 Senior Principal Research Officers

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Public Administration, and Government, Category: Media, Communications & Writing]

Jobs at:
National Agricultural Research Organization

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, May 13 2025

Duty Station:
Kampala | Kampala | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 9 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Overall Responsibility:

The officer will be responsible for leading, coordinating, and executing high-impact, multidisciplinary research initiatives aligned to the Institute’s strategic objectives

Generic Tasks and Responsibilities:
The Generic tasks of the successful candidate will be to:

1. Designing and implementing innovative and integrated research projects, experiments and studies based on thematic multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams.
2. Developing grant proposals to secure funding for conducting specific research programs in line with the Institute’s strategic management plan.
3. Identifying sources of funding, mobilizing resources and developing proposals for competitive funding especially those that enhance linkages and partnerships.
4. Publishing and disseminating scientific research findings in peer reviewed journals, books etc.
5. Providing technical leadership, mentorship, supervision and consultation to team members, research officers, professional co-workers, collaborators, students and others attached to the organization.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

Mandatory criteria: Applicants must meet the following five criteria.

1. Possession of a PhD with the exception of staff in the Engineering Discipline who possess a Master’s degree.
2. Having served as Principal Research Officer for at least five (5) years.
3. Evidence of having contributed towards development of at least one research development proposals in the last five years totaling to Five Million United States Dollars (US $ 5,000,000).
4. Having participated in high quality research resulting in the development of patented, licensed, and/or commercialized new product(s). This shall be evidenced by a patent, license, registration number, or by any other defendable means.
5. Having published as first author and/or co-author of at least two articles in a journal(s) with an impact factor > 3.0 in the past five years.

Optional criteria:
Applicants must meet any four of the following criteria.

1. Having published at least a chapter in a book with ISBN or ISSN numbers.
2. Successful supervision of at least five postgraduate students, with three of the students at PhD level, in the past five years.
3. Examination of at least three PhD theses as “Internal/External Examiner” or “Opponent” in the past five years.
4. Being a reviewer for at least one peer reviewed Journal.
5. Having served as a Principal Investigator (PI), Co-PI on an international and/or regional project.
6. Direct mentorship and/or supervision of at least ten NARO staff of middle level rank in the past five years.
7. Serving or having served as a member of a regional and/or global research board.
8. Contribution to development of at least one physical infrastructure and/or equipment for niche analytical capacity.
9. Contribution to the development of at least one draft policy, strategy, manual and guideline.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: postgraduate degree

Job application procedure

Interested persons with the above requirements should submit hard copy applications in triplicate together with a detailed curriculum vitae giving telephone and e-mail addresses as well as copies of all your academic documents and certificates plus a summary of your appraisals for the past three years, to the undersigned not later than 5.00pm on Tuesday 13^th May 2025.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and notified via NARO web-site, telephones and e-mail addresses as provided on the CV.

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