Job Description: Responsibilities & Requirements
The Centre for Plant Medicine Research, Mampong-Akuapem is an Agency under the Ministry of Health with a mandate to undertake research and development in plant medicine. Applications are invited from suitably qualified Ghanaians for the following appointments in the above institution.
Botanist/ Taxonomist
QUALIFICATION
- PhD or MPhil in Botany/Taxonomy
- At least one-year (1) post-qualification experience for PhD and two (2) years' post-qualification experience for MPhil.
DUTIES
- Research into plant systematics and cultivation
- Cultivation of specific medicinal plants species
- Conservation of medicinal plants species in the arboreta
- Sourcing of medicinal plants species from the wild and identification of crude drugs
- Ensure appropriate documentation and management of research data
- Keeping of the herbarium
- Disseminate Research findings. Perform administrative duties
- Sourcing for funding for research
- At least 3 publications should be presented during the interview
- Any other duties assigned by the Executive Director
SALARY AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
Remuneration shall be subject to the condition of service of the Centre and shall be subject to the Single Spine Salary Structure.
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The Centre for Plant Medicine Research, Mampong-Akuapem is an Agency under the Ministry of Health with a mandate to undertake research and development in plant medicine. Applications are invited from suitably qualified Ghanaians for the following appointments in the above institution.
Botanist/ Taxonomist
QUALIFICATION
- PhD or MPhil in Botany/Taxonomy
- At least one-year (1) post-qualification experience for PhD and two (2) years' post-qualification experience for MPhil.
DUTIES
- Research into plant systematics and cultivation
- Cultivation of specific medicinal plants species
- Conservation of medicinal plants species in the arboreta
- Sourcing of medicinal plants species from the wild and identification of crude drugs
- Ensure appropriate documentation and management of research data
- Keeping of the herbarium
- Disseminate Research findings. Perform administrative duties
- Sourcing for funding for research
- At least 3 publications should be presented during the interview
- Any other duties assigned by the Executive Director
SALARY AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
Remuneration shall be subject to the condition of service of the Centre and shall be subject to the Single Spine Salary Structure.
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