
5001 - 10000 employees
Founded 1971
🍽️ Food & Beverage
💼 Consulting
🌾 Agriculture
Food & Beverage • Consulting • Agriculture
CGIAR is a global research partnership dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems to achieve a food-secure future. The organization addresses critical global challenges like climate change, environmental health, and sustainable agriculture through its extensive network of research centers and partnerships. CGIAR focuses on impact areas such as climate adaptation and mitigation, nutrition and food security, environmental health, and social inclusion. With a presence in 89 countries, CGIAR leverages its vast resources and expertise to drive innovation and policy to achieve sustainable development goals.
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🌐 Kenya, Spain, +3 more countries – Remote
💵 $30k / year
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🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
🏛️ Architect
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5001 - 10000 employees
Founded 1971
🍽️ Food & Beverage
💼 Consulting
🌾 Agriculture
Food & Beverage • Consulting • Agriculture
CGIAR is a global research partnership dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems to achieve a food-secure future. The organization addresses critical global challenges like climate change, environmental health, and sustainable agriculture through its extensive network of research centers and partnerships. CGIAR focuses on impact areas such as climate adaptation and mitigation, nutrition and food security, environmental health, and social inclusion. With a presence in 89 countries, CGIAR leverages its vast resources and expertise to drive innovation and policy to achieve sustainable development goals.
• Produce an architectural blueprint for a rebuilt Performance & Results Management System (PRMS) • Map priority internal and external users, uses, and required outputs • Assess existing PRMS building blocks, including Theory of Change, Projected Benefits, Results Framework, and planning instruments • Characterize data supply, fragmentation, manual versus automated inputs, and data across CGIAR, donor, and Center systems • Define a FAIR, API-first, interoperable, and orchestrable connecting layer • Enable CGIAR tools, authorised external actors, and AI agents to query and contribute to the data layer • Address heterogeneous Window 3/bilateral data integration and Center-level ownership and access • Explain how the redesign can reduce manual entry, duplication, and double reporting while accounting for AI operating costs and human judgment • Set out a phased, costed roadmap for the 2027 interim release and fuller rebuild • Diagnose barriers to Center and Program adoption and specify design requirements to reduce friction • Review PRMS technical documentation, AI tool dependency evidence, interoperability frameworks, incident records, enhancement history, API documentation, and agent integration work • Conduct interviews with infrastructure, AI tool, MELIAF, Center MEL, and demand-side stakeholders • Facilitate co-design sessions with PPT • Deliver an architectural blueprint, costed build roadmap, and Steering Group briefing deck • Participate in independent technical review and revise deliverables before Steering Group briefing
• Senior-level expertise in data architecture and API design for complex, federated data environments, including AI orchestration and agentic access patterns • Advanced understanding of AI/ML pipeline requirements, including LLM-based and agentic tools and cost modelling at scale • Deep experience in MEL and risk-informed systems in international development, including results frameworks, theory of change, indicator management, and bilateral reporting structures • Proven ability to advise on organizational change and adoption in federated, multi-stakeholder settings • Track record producing architectural blueprints actionable by non-technical leadership and developers • Strong capacity to translate user, governance, and reporting needs into system and data requirements • Experience with CGIAR, multilateral research organisations, or comparable federated institutional environments is an advantage • Updated CVs and cover letter • Technical proposal of 2–4 pages outlining approach and comparable assignments • Financial proposal in USD quoted as a lump sum with cost breakdown by deliverable • Resume and cover letter must be in English • Documents in languages other than English will not be considered
• Fair, safe, and inclusive workplace • Multi-cultural, multi-color, multi-generational, and multi-disciplinary collegial working environment • Inclusive organization committed to gender equity and global representation
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