MSc Graduate Fellow - Genetic diversity forage spp collections (Four Positions)
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Job Description
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tags; we keep them.
We need to use
for section headers like Responsibilities, Position Requirements, Post location, Fellowship Duration, Terms of appointment and benefits, How to apply, etc. The original uses for those. We should replace with and keep the text inside.
We must preserve the text word-for-word, but we can change tags. So we will convert The positions: to The positions:
. Similarly for other sections.
We also need to remove empty paragraphs like
(non-breaking space). We'll just omit.
Let's process the given HTML.
Original text:
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit four MSc Graduate Fellows under the supervision of the Forage Genebank team within the Livestock Genetics, Nutrition and Feed Resources Program.
ILRI works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock. It is the only one of 15 CGIAR Research Centres dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing world. Co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, it has regional or country offices and projects in East, South and Southeast Asia as well as Central, East, Southern and West Africa. www.ilri.org
The Forage Genebank at ILRI holds a diverse collection of tropical and subtropical forage accessions and related information. The genebank conserves nearly19,000 accessions from over 1,800 species. The collection is one of the most diverse collections of forage grasses, legumes and fodder trees held in any genebank in the world. In addition to the routine genebank operations, the genebank also conducts characterization at agronomic, nutritional and genomic levels and add value to the collection through generating information and making available the seeds of the accessions to diverse users. https://www.ilri.org/research/facilities/ilri-genebank .
The positions:
The fellows will work on the genetic diversity studies of forages (Vicia spp, Pisum spp, Cajanus spp, Glycine spp, etc) maintained in the ILRI Forage Genebank. The positions are based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The fellows will work with the multidisciplinary team of the genebank working on the conservation, distribution and characterization of forage genetic resources. The fellows will gain knowledge and practical skills on plant genetic diversity study and genetic data analysis.
Responsibilities:
- Literature review on the genetic resource conservation and diversity assessment of forage crops.
- Analyse genotyping data and write summary of the analysis for presentation and manuscript.
- Report and MSc thesis writing, and
- Draft an article for journal publication and poster for presentation.
Position Requirements:
- MSc student(s) who have finished course work and ready to start Thesis project.
- Possess a BSc Degree in Plant Science, Horticulture, Plant Genetics, Plant breeding, Plant Biotechnology, Biological Sciences, or the related field.
- Demonstrated experience working in molecular genetics, quantitative genetics or bioinformatics.
- Experience with R statistical software for genetic data analysis is advantage.
- Good working knowledge of MS Office packages.
- Experience contributing to writing reports and journal publications.
- Ability to work independently, multi-task and meet tight deadlines.
- Proficiency with written and spoken English.
Post location: The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Fellowship Duration: 7 months.
Terms of appointment and benefits: ILRI will offer a monthly stipend to cover living expenses in the project location, medical insurance, and cover research expenses. The fellow will be co-supervised by academic and ILRI supervisor(s) and receive various capacity development opportunities at ILRI.
How to apply:
All applications MUST include the following (applications not containing these documents will not be considered):
- a cover letter addressed to the Senior Manager – Capacity Development ILRI, expressing interest in the fellowship position and the motivation. The position title and reference number (REF: ILRI MSc/GF/LGNFR/02/2026) should be clearly marked on the subject line of the cover letter.
- CV, including names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience.
- academic qualification certificates/transcripts.
Applications must be submitted by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” tab on or before 9 June 2026.
We thank all applicants for their interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts.
To find out more about ILRI visit our websites at http://www.ilri.org
ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.
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, - . We'll keep tags but strip style attributes. Also we need to keep and inside text where they appear (like in the cover letter bullet). Those are okay.
We need to convert
to . Also need to change section headers to . Also need to handle the line "Post location: The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia." This is a mix: we should make Post location:
then a
The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
. Similarly for Fellowship Duration.
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We also need to handle the bullet list under How to apply: currently with - . We need to strip style attributes, keep
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We also need to preserve the "Applications must be submitted by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” tab on or before 9 June 2026. " Keep tags.
We need to remove empty
at end.
Also need to remove any inline style attributes from tags (like style="text-align:justify;"). We'll strip them.
Also need to remove any spaces? We'll keep as normal spaces.
Now construct final HTML.
Let's go step by step.
First paragraph: keep as
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit four MSc Graduate Fellows under the supervision of the Forage Genebank team within the Livestock Genetics, Nutrition and Feed Resources Program.
Second paragraph: keep ILRI works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock. It is the only one of 15 CGIAR Research Centres dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing world. Co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, it has regional or country offices and projects in East, South and Southeast Asia as well as Central, East, Southern and West Africa. www.ilri.org
Note: there is a non-breaking space before the link; we keep as a space.
Third paragraph: The Forage Genebank at ILRI holds a diverse collection of tropical and subtropical forage accessions and related information. The genebank conserves nearly19,000 accessions from over 1,800 species. The collection is one of the most diverse collections of forage grasses, legumes and fodder trees held in any genebank in the world. In addition to the routine genebank operations, the genebank also conducts characterization at agronomic, nutritional and genomic levels and add value to the collection through generating information and making available the seeds of the accessions to diverse users. https://www.ilri.org/research/facilities/ilri-genebank .
Note there is a space before the period after link; keep.
Next: The positions: becomes The positions:
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Fellowship Duration: Fellowship Duration: 7 months.
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Terms of appointment and benefits: Terms of appointment and benefits: ILRI will offer a monthly stipend to cover living expenses in the project location, medical insurance, and cover research expenses. The fellow will be co-supervised by academic and ILRI supervisor(s) and receive various capacity development opportunities at ILRI.
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Inside first li:
- a cover letter addressed to the Senior Manager – Capacity Development ILRI, expressing interest in the fellowship position and the motivation. The position title and reference number (REF: ILRI MSc/GF/LGNFR/02/2026) should be clearly marked on the subject line of the cover letter.
Make - a cover letter addressed to the Senior Manager – Capacity Development ILRI, expressing interest in the fellowship position and the motivation. The position title and reference number (REF: ILRI MSc/GF/LGNFR/02/2026) should be clearly marked on the subject line of the cover letter.
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Then paragraph: Applications must be submitted by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” tab on or before 9 June 2026.
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Note there is a double strong? Actually original: “APPLY NOW” tab . We'll keep as is.
Then paragraph: We thank all applicants for their interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Then: ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts.
Then: To find out more about ILRI visit our websites at http://www.ilri.org
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Then: ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.
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. Must preserve original content word-for-word, but we need to remove any inline style attributes and any tags? The instruction: "Preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase". However we must also remove CSS classes, inline styles, no
. The original content includes tags with style attributes. We cannot keep style attributes because they are inline styles, which we must not include. But we must preserve content word-for-word; removing style attributes changes content. However the rule says "No CSS classes, no inline styles, no
tags". So we must strip out style attributes from tags, but keep the tags themselves? The instruction says preserve ALL original content word-for-word, but also says no inline styles. There's a conflict. Usually we interpret that we should remove the style attributes but keep the link href and text. That is a modification but necessary to comply with no inline styles. We'll assume we can strip style attributes but keep the href and content. Also we need to convert and etc? The instruction only mentions using
,
, - . It doesn't forbid other tags like , . It says use those for sections, but we can keep other tags as they are? It says "Use
for introductory paragraphs and general text, Use
for section headers, Use - for list items. No CSS classes, no inline styles, no s, no
tags". It doesn't forbid other tags like , , . So we can keep them but must strip style attributes.
Also we need to convert existing lists to - ? The instruction says use
- for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). The original uses
. We should change to - to comply. However preserving original content word-for-word would be violated. But the rule about using
- for list items likely overrides preserving exact markup; we need to convert ordered lists to unordered lists. We'll do that.
Also need to wrap paragraphs in
tags if not already. The original already has
tags; we keep them.
We need to use
for section headers like Responsibilities, Position Requirements, Post location, Fellowship Duration, Terms of appointment and benefits, How to apply, etc. The original uses for those. We should replace with and keep the text inside.
We must preserve the text word-for-word, but we can change tags. So we will convert The positions: to The positions:
. Similarly for other sections.
We also need to remove empty paragraphs like
(non-breaking space). We'll just omit.
Let's process the given HTML.
Original text:
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit four MSc Graduate Fellows under the supervision of the Forage Genebank team within the Livestock Genetics, Nutrition and Feed Resources Program.
ILRI works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock. It is the only one of 15 CGIAR Research Centres dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing world. Co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, it has regional or country offices and projects in East, South and Southeast Asia as well as Central, East, Southern and West Africa. www.ilri.org
The Forage Genebank at ILRI holds a diverse collection of tropical and subtropical forage accessions and related information. The genebank conserves nearly19,000 accessions from over 1,800 species. The collection is one of the most diverse collections of forage grasses, legumes and fodder trees held in any genebank in the world. In addition to the routine genebank operations, the genebank also conducts characterization at agronomic, nutritional and genomic levels and add value to the collection through generating information and making available the seeds of the accessions to diverse users. https://www.ilri.org/research/facilities/ilri-genebank .
The positions:
The fellows will work on the genetic diversity studies of forages (Vicia spp, Pisum spp, Cajanus spp, Glycine spp, etc) maintained in the ILRI Forage Genebank. The positions are based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The fellows will work with the multidisciplinary team of the genebank working on the conservation, distribution and characterization of forage genetic resources. The fellows will gain knowledge and practical skills on plant genetic diversity study and genetic data analysis.
Responsibilities:
- Literature review on the genetic resource conservation and diversity assessment of forage crops.
- Analyse genotyping data and write summary of the analysis for presentation and manuscript.
- Report and MSc thesis writing, and
- Draft an article for journal publication and poster for presentation.
Position Requirements:
- MSc student(s) who have finished course work and ready to start Thesis project.
- Possess a BSc Degree in Plant Science, Horticulture, Plant Genetics, Plant breeding, Plant Biotechnology, Biological Sciences, or the related field.
- Demonstrated experience working in molecular genetics, quantitative genetics or bioinformatics.
- Experience with R statistical software for genetic data analysis is advantage.
- Good working knowledge of MS Office packages.
- Experience contributing to writing reports and journal publications.
- Ability to work independently, multi-task and meet tight deadlines.
- Proficiency with written and spoken English.
Post location: The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Fellowship Duration: 7 months.
Terms of appointment and benefits: ILRI will offer a monthly stipend to cover living expenses in the project location, medical insurance, and cover research expenses. The fellow will be co-supervised by academic and ILRI supervisor(s) and receive various capacity development opportunities at ILRI.
How to apply:
All applications MUST include the following (applications not containing these documents will not be considered):
- a cover letter addressed to the Senior Manager – Capacity Development ILRI, expressing interest in the fellowship position and the motivation. The position title and reference number (REF: ILRI MSc/GF/LGNFR/02/2026) should be clearly marked on the subject line of the cover letter.
- CV, including names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience.
- academic qualification certificates/transcripts.
Applications must be submitted by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” tab on or before 9 June 2026.
We thank all applicants for their interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts.
To find out more about ILRI visit our websites at http://www.ilri.org
ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.
We need to produce HTML with ,
, - . We'll keep tags but strip style attributes. Also we need to keep and inside text where they appear (like in the cover letter bullet). Those are okay.
We need to convert
to . Also need to change section headers to . Also need to handle the line "Post location: The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia." This is a mix: we should make Post location:
then a
The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
. Similarly for Fellowship Duration.
Also "Terms of appointment and benefits:" is inside a with . We'll make Terms of appointment and benefits:
then a ILRI will offer a monthly stipend...
.
"How to apply:" similar.
We also need to handle the bullet list under How to apply: currently with - . We need to strip style attributes, keep
- . Also inside first
- there is (REF: ILRI MSc/GF/LGNFR/02/2026). Keep that.
We also need to preserve the "Applications must be submitted by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” tab on or before 9 June 2026. " Keep tags.
We need to remove empty
at end.
Also need to remove any inline style attributes from tags (like style="text-align:justify;"). We'll strip them.
Also need to remove any spaces? We'll keep as normal spaces.
Now construct final HTML.
Let's go step by step.
First paragraph: keep as
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit four MSc Graduate Fellows under the supervision of the Forage Genebank team within the Livestock Genetics, Nutrition and Feed Resources Program.
Second paragraph: keep ILRI works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock. It is the only one of 15 CGIAR Research Centres dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing world. Co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, it has regional or country offices and projects in East, South and Southeast Asia as well as Central, East, Southern and West Africa. www.ilri.org
Note: there is a non-breaking space before the link; we keep as a space.
Third paragraph: The Forage Genebank at ILRI holds a diverse collection of tropical and subtropical forage accessions and related information. The genebank conserves nearly19,000 accessions from over 1,800 species. The collection is one of the most diverse collections of forage grasses, legumes and fodder trees held in any genebank in the world. In addition to the routine genebank operations, the genebank also conducts characterization at agronomic, nutritional and genomic levels and add value to the collection through generating information and making available the seeds of the accessions to diverse users. https://www.ilri.org/research/facilities/ilri-genebank .
Note there is a space before the period after link; keep.
Next: The positions: becomes The positions:
Then the paragraph after: keep as The fellows will work on the genetic diversity studies of forages (Vicia spp, Pisum spp, Cajanus spp, Glycine spp, etc) maintained in the ILRI Forage Genebank. The positions are based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The fellows will work with the multidisciplinary team of the genebank working on the conservation, distribution and characterization of forage genetic resources. The fellows will gain knowledge and practical skills on plant genetic diversity study and genetic data analysis.
Next: Responsibilities: Responsibilities:
then . We'll make Responsibilities:
then - ... etc.
We need to ensure we close
.
Proceed.
Position Requirements: similar.
Post location: Post location: The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
We'll make Post location:
then The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Fellowship Duration: Fellowship Duration: 7 months.
Make Fellowship Duration:
then 7 months.
Terms of appointment and benefits: Terms of appointment and benefits: ILRI will offer a monthly stipend to cover living expenses in the project location, medical insurance, and cover research expenses. The fellow will be co-supervised by academic and ILRI supervisor(s) and receive various capacity development opportunities at ILRI.
Make Terms of appointment and benefits:
then ILRI will offer a monthly stipend to cover living expenses in the project location, medical insurance, and cover research expenses. The fellow will be co-supervised by academic and ILRI supervisor(s) and receive various capacity development opportunities at ILRI.
How to apply: How to apply:
Make How to apply:
Then paragraph: All applications MUST include the following (applications not containing these documents will not be considered):
Make All applications MUST include the following (applications not containing these documents will not be considered):
Then the list: with lis. We'll make - ... etc. Strip style attributes.
Inside first li:
- a cover letter addressed to the Senior Manager – Capacity Development ILRI, expressing interest in the fellowship position and the motivation. The position title and reference number (REF: ILRI MSc/GF/LGNFR/02/2026) should be clearly marked on the subject line of the cover letter.
Make - a cover letter addressed to the Senior Manager – Capacity Development ILRI, expressing interest in the fellowship position and the motivation. The position title and reference number (REF: ILRI MSc/GF/LGNFR/02/2026) should be clearly marked on the subject line of the cover letter.
Second li: - CV, including names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience.
Make - CV, including names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience.
Third li: - academic qualification certificates/transcripts.
Make - academic qualification certificates/transcripts.
Then paragraph: Applications must be submitted by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” tab on or before 9 June 2026.
Make Applications must be submitted by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” tab on or before 9 June 2026.
Note there is a double strong? Actually original: “APPLY NOW” tab . We'll keep as is.
Then paragraph: We thank all applicants for their interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Then: ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts.
Then: To find out more about ILRI visit our websites at http://www.ilri.org
Make To find out more about ILRI visit our websites at http://www.ilri.org
Then: ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.
We need to keep ... . That's fine. Also there is a leading non-breaking space before ILRI? It shows a space before ILRI inside the tags. We'll keep as is.
Finally empty
we
for introductory paragraphs and general text, Use
for section headers, Use - for list items. No CSS classes, no inline styles, no s, no
tags". It doesn't forbid other tags like , , . So we can keep them but must strip style attributes.
Also we need to convert existing lists to - ? The instruction says use
- for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). The original uses
. We should change to - to comply. However preserving original content word-for-word would be violated. But the rule about using
- for list items likely overrides preserving exact markup; we need to convert ordered lists to unordered lists. We'll do that.
Also need to wrap paragraphs in
tags if not already. The original already has
tags; we keep them.
We need to use
for section headers like Responsibilities, Position Requirements, Post location, Fellowship Duration, Terms of appointment and benefits, How to apply, etc. The original uses for those. We should replace with and keep the text inside.
We must preserve the text word-for-word, but we can change tags. So we will convert The positions: to The positions:
. Similarly for other sections.
We also need to remove empty paragraphs like
(non-breaking space). We'll just omit.
Let's process the given HTML.
Original text:
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit four MSc Graduate Fellows under the supervision of the Forage Genebank team within the Livestock Genetics, Nutrition and Feed Resources Program.
ILRI works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock. It is the only one of 15 CGIAR Research Centres dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing world. Co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, it has regional or country offices and projects in East, South and Southeast Asia as well as Central, East, Southern and West Africa. www.ilri.org
The Forage Genebank at ILRI holds a diverse collection of tropical and subtropical forage accessions and related information. The genebank conserves nearly19,000 accessions from over 1,800 species. The collection is one of the most diverse collections of forage grasses, legumes and fodder trees held in any genebank in the world. In addition to the routine genebank operations, the genebank also conducts characterization at agronomic, nutritional and genomic levels and add value to the collection through generating information and making available the seeds of the accessions to diverse users. https://www.ilri.org/research/facilities/ilri-genebank .
The positions:
The fellows will work on the genetic diversity studies of forages (Vicia spp, Pisum spp, Cajanus spp, Glycine spp, etc) maintained in the ILRI Forage Genebank. The positions are based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The fellows will work with the multidisciplinary team of the genebank working on the conservation, distribution and characterization of forage genetic resources. The fellows will gain knowledge and practical skills on plant genetic diversity study and genetic data analysis.
Responsibilities:
- Literature review on the genetic resource conservation and diversity assessment of forage crops.
- Analyse genotyping data and write summary of the analysis for presentation and manuscript.
- Report and MSc thesis writing, and
- Draft an article for journal publication and poster for presentation.
Position Requirements:
- MSc student(s) who have finished course work and ready to start Thesis project.
- Possess a BSc Degree in Plant Science, Horticulture, Plant Genetics, Plant breeding, Plant Biotechnology, Biological Sciences, or the related field.
- Demonstrated experience working in molecular genetics, quantitative genetics or bioinformatics.
- Experience with R statistical software for genetic data analysis is advantage.
- Good working knowledge of MS Office packages.
- Experience contributing to writing reports and journal publications.
- Ability to work independently, multi-task and meet tight deadlines.
- Proficiency with written and spoken English.
Post location: The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Fellowship Duration: 7 months.
Terms of appointment and benefits: ILRI will offer a monthly stipend to cover living expenses in the project location, medical insurance, and cover research expenses. The fellow will be co-supervised by academic and ILRI supervisor(s) and receive various capacity development opportunities at ILRI.
How to apply:
All applications MUST include the following (applications not containing these documents will not be considered):
- a cover letter addressed to the Senior Manager – Capacity Development ILRI, expressing interest in the fellowship position and the motivation. The position title and reference number (REF: ILRI MSc/GF/LGNFR/02/2026) should be clearly marked on the subject line of the cover letter.
- CV, including names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience.
- academic qualification certificates/transcripts.
Applications must be submitted by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” tab on or before 9 June 2026.
We thank all applicants for their interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts.
To find out more about ILRI visit our websites at http://www.ilri.org
ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.
We need to produce HTML with ,
, - . We'll keep tags but strip style attributes. Also we need to keep and inside text where they appear (like in the cover letter bullet). Those are okay.
We need to convert
to . Also need to change section headers to . Also need to handle the line "Post location: The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia." This is a mix: we should make Post location:
then a
The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
. Similarly for Fellowship Duration.
Also "Terms of appointment and benefits:" is inside a with . We'll make Terms of appointment and benefits:
then a ILRI will offer a monthly stipend...
.
"How to apply:" similar.
We also need to handle the bullet list under How to apply: currently with - . We need to strip style attributes, keep
- . Also inside first
- there is (REF: ILRI MSc/GF/LGNFR/02/2026). Keep that.
We also need to preserve the "Applications must be submitted by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” tab on or before 9 June 2026. " Keep tags.
We need to remove empty
at end.
Also need to remove any inline style attributes from tags (like style="text-align:justify;"). We'll strip them.
Also need to remove any spaces? We'll keep as normal spaces.
Now construct final HTML.
Let's go step by step.
First paragraph: keep as
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit four MSc Graduate Fellows under the supervision of the Forage Genebank team within the Livestock Genetics, Nutrition and Feed Resources Program.
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Fellowship Duration: Fellowship Duration: 7 months.
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ILRI works to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock. It is the only one of 15 CGIAR Research Centres dedicated entirely to animal agriculture research for the developing world. Co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia, it has regional or country offices and projects in East, South and Southeast Asia as well as Central, East, Southern and West Africa. www.ilri.org
The Forage Genebank at ILRI holds a diverse collection of tropical and subtropical forage accessions and related information. The genebank conserves nearly19,000 accessions from over 1,800 species. The collection is one of the most diverse collections of forage grasses, legumes and fodder trees held in any genebank in the world. In addition to the routine genebank operations, the genebank also conducts characterization at agronomic, nutritional and genomic levels and add value to the collection through generating information and making available the seeds of the accessions to diverse users. https://www.ilri.org/research/facilities/ilri-genebank .
The positions:
The fellows will work on the genetic diversity studies of forages (Vicia spp, Pisum spp, Cajanus spp, Glycine spp, etc) maintained in the ILRI Forage Genebank. The positions are based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The fellows will work with the multidisciplinary team of the genebank working on the conservation, distribution and characterization of forage genetic resources. The fellows will gain knowledge and practical skills on plant genetic diversity study and genetic data analysis.
Responsibilities:
- Literature review on the genetic resource conservation and diversity assessment of forage crops.
- Analyse genotyping data and write summary of the analysis for presentation and manuscript.
- Report and MSc thesis writing, and
- Draft an article for journal publication and poster for presentation.
Position Requirements:
- MSc student(s) who have finished course work and ready to start Thesis project.
- Possess a BSc Degree in Plant Science, Horticulture, Plant Genetics, Plant breeding, Plant Biotechnology, Biological Sciences, or the related field.
- Demonstrated experience working in molecular genetics, quantitative genetics or bioinformatics.
- Experience with R statistical software for genetic data analysis is advantage.
- Good working knowledge of MS Office packages.
- Experience contributing to writing reports and journal publications.
- Ability to work independently, multi-task and meet tight deadlines.
- Proficiency with written and spoken English.
Post location: The positions will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Fellowship Duration: 7 months.
Terms of appointment and benefits: ILRI will offer a monthly stipend to cover living expenses in the project location, medical insurance, and cover research expenses. The fellow will be co-supervised by academic and ILRI supervisor(s) and receive various capacity development opportunities at ILRI.
How to apply:
All applications MUST include the following (applications not containing these documents will not be considered):
- a cover letter addressed to the Senior Manager – Capacity Development ILRI, expressing interest in the fellowship position and the motivation. The position title and reference number (REF: ILRI MSc/GF/LGNFR/02/2026) should be clearly marked on the subject line of the cover letter.
- CV, including names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience.
- academic qualification certificates/transcripts.
Applications must be submitted by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” tab on or before 9 June 2026.
We thank all applicants for their interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts.
To find out more about ILRI visit our websites at http://www.ilri.org
ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.
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