International Potato Center

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Ref: 2026/09/Consultant/IND/ASIA

Consultant (IT)

Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

The International Potato Center (CIP) is seeking a dynamic and
creative
Consultant (IT)
For its office based
in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.

About CIP:
CIP is part of the
CGIAR global research partnership committed to transforming food, land, and
water systems in a climate crisis. CIP’s mission is to develop and share
science-based innovations in potato, sweet potato, and other root and tuber
crops. CIP partners with organizations in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia,
and Latin America to strengthen agri-food systems and provide economic, social,
and nutritional benefits, especially for women and youth. We integrate social
and biophysical sciences to address complex challenges in food and agriculture.
For more information, please visit
https://cipotato.org/about/
.

About the position:
The
International Potato Center (CIP) is looking to engage a Consultant (IT) for
CIP country and project offices for routine IT support across all offices
within India.

Key
responsibilities:

·
Provide regular and urgent IT
technical support to office users (including staff, consultants and visitors)
with hardware and software issues and requests that affect their capacity to
use any IT related equipment (e.g. laptops, smartphones, peripherals, printers,
projectors, conference devices); coordinating and escalating with suppliers,
ITU and local administrative parties as required to deliver the required
support.

·
Provide regular and urgent IT
technical support to users for issues and requests related to network and
internet performance and availability, coordinate and escalate with suppliers
(ISP), ITU and local administrative parties as required to deliver the required
support.

·
Ensure network equipment
(switches, routers, wireless access point) software and firmware is up to date
by assessing and patching them as required by the criticality of the updates.

·
Monitor network performance to
proactively detect current and potential issues; and manage network access to
help prevent security incidents.

·
All support calls must be
logged whether they originated via phone,
email,
or other channels,
recording Open Date, User, Ticket Summary, Close date and ITU ticket # (for
information security incidents).

·
Desirable: The consultant must
offer a ticket management system to log and report on support tickets.

·
Provide conference support.

·
Assist the Country Asset Administrator to ensure
that the
IT equipment
information and
inventory
is
up-to-date, according
to
CIP's
IT inventory requirements
.

·
Identify obsolete equipment,
recommend, and support IT asset decommission by ensuring CIP’s data is
purged, according to the standard
IT asset disposal
procedure
of CIP.

·
Provide yearly computer
maintenance consisting of cosmetic and internal cleaning, hardware (test and
diagnostics) and operating system cleanup (temporary files, manufacturer
tests).

·
Ensure
information security incidents
are informed to ITU (
cip-helpdesk@cgiar.org
) and assist
with incident resolution in coordination with ITU.

·
Support
the CIP's
information security awareness program (to prevent phishing and other
cyberthreats) with quarterly training, new
staff
training, and
follow-up.

·
Document procedures related to
office IT support and operation including network security assessment and
patching, network configuration, supplier contacts and escalation, and others
as required.

Requirements

What are we looking
for?

Educational
Qualifications and experience

·
Bachelor's degree or technical
degree in computer,
systems,
or telecommunication engineering or related field.

·
4 years of experience providing
computer, network and other IT equipment support to end users, including
network equipment patching in a corporate environment.

·
4 years of experience in IT
asset management including managing computer inventory.

·
Experience with Microsoft
ecosystem including Windows 10 and 11, Office 365, Azure AD and SharePoint
Online.

·
Knowledge about information
security frameworks or standards such as NIST-CSF, ISO 27001 or similar related
to incident prevention, detection,
containment,
and recovery.

·
Information security and IT
service management certifications desired

·
Ability
to communicate in written and orally in English for regular
business communication. C1 level.

Why should you consider this opportunity?

·
Opportunity to contribute to an internationally
recognized climate-resilient agriculture program.

·
Work alongside leading scientists and development
professionals within the CGIAR system.

Benefits

What are we
offering?

·
Fixed term contract till March 2027, with a
possibility of renewal based on requirements and performance.

·
Work in an equal and diverse workplace.

How to apply?

Please visit the
following link:
http://cipotato.org/open-vacancies/
to submit a full
C.V. along with your references (preferable recent supervisors). We highly
encourage all interested candidates to participate in this exciting and
competitive process. The deadline for the receipt of applications is
8
th
July 2027.

This position WILL NOT have contact with children or vulnerable
adults.

We look forward to receiving applications from individuals with
disabilities who are willing to contribute their talents and skills to our
team. If you require specific accommodation for the selection process due to a
disability, please do not hesitate to inform us.

Learn more about CIP by accessing our web site at
http://www.cipotato.org

CIP is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified women and
professionals from developing countries are particularly encouraged to apply.