CIMMYT is a cutting edge, non-profit, international organization dedicated to solving tomorrow's problems today. It is entrusted with fostering improved quantity, quality, and dependability of production systems and basic cereals such as maize, wheat, triticale, sorghum, millets, and associated crops through applied agricultural science, particularly in the Global South, through building strong partnerships. This combination enhances the livelihood trajectories and resilience of millions of resource-poor farmers, while working towards a more productive, inclusive, and resilient agrifood system within planetary boundaries.

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The CIMMYT Dryland Crops Program supports crop improvement activities across sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, chickpea, pigeonpea, and groundnut. The program generates and manages large volumes of breeding, phenotyping, and multi-location trial data that require timely, high quality, and reproducible analysis to support product advancement, selection decisions, reporting, and strategic planning.





To strengthen data analysis support for the Dryland Crops Program, CIMMYT seeks an experienced Consultant – Data Analysis and Biometrics Support to contribute to statistical analysis, data quality control, reporting, and documentation of breeding trial datasets.

Requirements

Objective of the consultancy

The objective of this consultancy is to provide technical support to CIMMYT-DCP in the analysis of breeding trial data, ensuring that datasets are quality checked, analyzed using appropriate statistical methods, and translated into explicit outputs for breeder decision-making and program reporting.

Scope of work

The consultant will work closely with the CIMMYT quantitative genetics, biometrics, data management, and breeding teams to support the following areas:

1. Review and organize breeding trial datasets received from different crops, locations, partners, and seasons.

2. Conduct data quality checks, incl

📌 Consultant (Locally Recruited) (Hyderabad)
🏢 CIMMYT
📍 Hyderabad