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Research Officer – Agronomy (5 Posts)

Full time @NARO posted 2 days ago in Government Email Job

Job Detail

  • Job ID 23985
  • Career Level  Officer
  • Experience  3 Years
  • Gender  Both
  • Industry  Government
  • Qualifications  Degree Bachelor
  • Job Type  Full time

Job Description

The National Agricultural Research Organisation is established by the National Agricultural Research Act 2005 as a body corporate with the mandate to provide strategic direction for publicly funded agricultural research in Uganda. The organisation is composed of the Council as its governing body, Committees of Council, a Secretariat for its day-to-day operations with semi-autonomous Public Agricultural Research Institutes (PARI’s) under its policy guidance. The Director General invites suitably qualified Ugandans to apply for the following positions at PARIs and NARO Secretariat.

REF. NO: NARO/RS/JOB1/2026/27
Position: Research Officer – Agronomy (5 Posts)
Reports to: Respective Programme Leader
Salary Grade: UR5(i)RS
Age Limit: Not more than 50 years

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

  1. Applicants should hold an Honour’s Bachelor’s degree in Plant Science plus Master’s Degree in Soil Science or Crop Science with a bias in Agronomy.
  2. Should have a minimum of three years demonstrated working experience in a related field and proven record of publication in referred journals.
  3. Possession of a PhD is an added advantage.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Design and implement farmer participatory research for crop commodity systems.
  2. Collect, analyze and interpret agronomy and on-farm research trial data.
  3. Study the effects of various cropping systems on crop yield and determine the most efficient cropping system for optimum crop production.
  4. Identify nutrient needs of the various crops (plant nutrition) and develop corrective measures to alleviate the problems.
  5. Develop appropriate crop and soil management technologies that are gender responsive and avoids soil resource mining but increase crop yield.
  6. Study the effects of weeds, weed competition and nutrient mining on crop yield, diseases and insect pests.
  7. Collaborate with other researchers in multiplication of early generation seed.
  8. Disseminate study results through farmer feedback workshops, training workshops and sessions, conferences, seminars, brochures, newsletters, journals, reports, media, field days and agricultural shows.
  9. Contribute to the development of training and outreach materials, training of farmers, extension personnel, university students and interested parties on pasture improvement and management.
Application Procedures:

Interested persons with the requirements should download NARO Job Application Form 2. Attach a recent passport photo and fill it in triplicate; attach detailed curriculum vitae with copies of academic certificates and testimonials to the undersigned not later than 5.00 pm on 05th August 2026

Applicants are advised to quote the reference number of the post applied for on the top-left hand corner of the envelope.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and notified via NARO website, telephones and e-mail addresses as provided on the CV. Short-listed candidates will be required to provide certified copies of their Academic Qualifications.

Tenure of Office: The tenure of office is a 5-year contract renewable upon satisfactory performance.

Only applications responding to this advertisement and its attendant timelines will be received.

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