The Position

The Director of Biodiversity and Integrated Gene Management Program reports to the Director General (DG), through the Deputy Director General - Research (DDG-R)), and is based at ICARDA's modern headquarters and main research station located in a rural setting 30 km from Aleppo, Syria.

The Director is responsible for the overall management and supervision of a multidisciplinary team of some 20 international senior scientists and 100 support staff working on the conservation, improvement and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity, of wheat, barley, lentil, faba bean, kabuli chickpea, and forage legumes. The Program includes Center's Seed Unit on the adoption of genetic material by farmers. The team includes experts in the areas of genetics, plant genetic resources, plant breeding, plant pathology, virology, entomology, molecular biology and in vitro culture, and nutritional quality and Seed System The Program's overall goal is to assist the national agricultural research systems (NARS) in achieving sustainable increases in the productivity of mandate crops while protecting the resource base.

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