International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Consultant

• Review and organize breeding trial datasets from different crops, locations, partners, and seasons
• Conduct data quality checks covering trial design, traits, missing values, outliers, plot-level inconsistencies, genotype naming, location metadata, and treatment information
• Clean and prepare datasets for statistical analysis according to CIMMYT workflows
• Conduct single-site, across-location, and adjusted means or BLUP statistical analyses where applicable
• Generate outputs for product advancement, breeder review, reporting, and decision-making
• Document analysis procedures, scripts, assumptions, and outputs for reproducibility and handover
• Support harmonization of analysis outputs across crops and projects
• Participate in technical check-ins with CIMMYT-DCP staff
• Deliver data inventories, QC reports, cleaned analysis-ready datasets, trial-level and multi-location analysis outputs, breeder-ready Excel/CSV files, reproducible R/Python scripts, monthly progress summaries, and a final consultancy report
• Maintain confidentiality of CIMMYT and partner data
• Follow CIMMYT-DCP data management standards, including organized folder structures, version control, documentation, and FAIR-aligned data handling