Junior Specialist, Rice Knowledge Bank (RKB) Web Content Developer (PRS-2013-48-KN) – IRRI

Type: Fixed-term (Renewable), National Posted on 03/11/2013

     

Apply by	03/22/2013
Location	Philippines
Specialization/Skills	Agronomy, Plant Pathology or Development Communications or related field
Basic purpose	The successful candidate will support the work of the Agronomy Extension Specialists on the development of the IRRI Rice Doctor and IRRI-RKB. She/He will be under the supervision of the Organizational Unit head. She/He will organize and develop contents for the Rice Doctor. She/He will collect data and test the Rice Pest and Disease diagnostics key with stakeholders.
Roles and responsibilities	- Research internal and external rice production information sources and triangulate content with institutional messages verified by IRRI scientists - Translate scientific writing into understandable language for farmer and extension audience - Organize and edit content in a way that intuitive, understandable, and actionable to our target audience - Create web content for Rice Knowlede Bank including but not the following: weeds, pests, diseases, water, nutrients, seed production, varieties, land rep, planting, harvest, drying, storage, milling, rice quality, marketing, step-by-step rice production, namgement guides (material will be created in several text formats including web,HTML5, short message, fact sheets brochures, powepoints, poesters, video, audio, script writing) - Create content for Rice DOctor output page including but not limited to the following: diagnostics results of crop health problems (insects, fungal/bacteria/viral disease, nematodes, weeds, nutrients, mollusks, mangement issues, and other pests relating to fact sheets on RKB), possible management recommendations, future prevention - Identify graphics pictures, recordings, video or other digital assets that can be distributed by hypertxt markup language (HTML) - Research and dapt web tools for rice farmers such as: financial calculators, harvesting loss assessment calculator, budgeting and recording tools, digital crop calendars - Create database that features content in different formats so that the consistency of messages maintained - Develop data for rice pest and disease diganostics tool by extracting content from existing factsheets and reformatting it - Work together with RKB IT and graphic design team as well as the IRRI.org and RicePedia teams on content standards to ensure consistent institutional message is upheld at all times - Communicate with extension and farmers on the accessibility and understandibility of the information to promote a user-centered product and delivery system - Attend field trips to farmer villages around Laguna or possibly further - Support the organization of trials of rice pest and diseases diagnostics key to its comprehensiveness ans user-friendliness - Support the collection and interpretation of data from trialing the diagnostics key with users outside IRRI - Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor from time to time Qualification requirements: - Bachelor's degree in Agronomy, Plant Pathology or Development Communications or related field - Minimum of 2 years related work experience - Has strong organizational and time management skills - Has strong written and oral communication skills

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