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Vacancy title:
Research Officer-Plant Breeder
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Category: Science & Engineering]
Jobs at:
National Agricultural Research Organisation
Deadline of this Job:
Monday, November 3 2025
Duty Station:
Kampala | Uganda
Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, October 15 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Background information about the job or company:
To develop new crop varieties with desirable traits, identify genetic variations, analyze genetic data.
Responsibilities or duties:
- Conducting comprehensive literature review and update literature of major crops
- Collecting, introducing, conserving, characterizing and utilizing germplasm
- Drawing up short-, mid- and long-term plant breeding goals
- Designing plant breeding strategies
- Planning and conducting experiments/studies
- Developing grant proposals
- Developing sustainable management practices
Qualifications or requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture (crop science option)
- Master’s Degree in Plant Breeding, Genetics or Molecular Breeding
- Minimum of three years demonstrated working experience
- Proven record of publications in referred journals
Experience needed:
Minimum of three years
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36
Level of Education: postgraduate degree
Job application procedure
Interested persons with the above requirements should visit the NARO website: www.naro.go.ug and download NARO Application Form 2. Attach a recent passport photo and fill it in triplicate; attach detailed curriculum vitae with copies of academic certificates and testimonials to the undersigned not later than 5.00 pm on 3rd November 2025
Applicants are advised to quote the reference number of the post applied for in the top-left-hand corner of the envelope.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and notified via the NARO website, telephones and e-mail addresses as provided on the application form. Shortlisted candidates will be required to provide certified copies of their Academic Qualifications.
Only applications responding to this advertisement and its attendant timelines will be received.
The Director General,
National Agricultural Research Organization,
Plot 11-13, Lugard Avenue,
P.O.Box 295
Entebbe - Uganda
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