Tissue Culture Banana Technician

Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB)

Post: 1

Employment Type: Under Contract

Reports To: Plant & Microbial Biotechnology Program Coordinator / Senior Principal Research Fellow

Job Responsibilities

- Optimize and validate tissue culture banana protocols.
- perform experiments on banana tissue culture.
- Ensure multiplication of disease-free, true-to-type banana planting materials under aseptic conditions.
- keep banana mother stock and in vitro cultures.
- produce media, sterilize explants, and keep aseptic conditions.
- Ensure proper labelling, storage, and waste management.
- Ensure sterilization, contamination control, and quality standards.
- keep equipment, reagents, and laboratory records.
- Train technicians, students, and interns in banana tissue culture techniques.
- Ensure compliance with SOPs, biosafety, and phytosanitary regulations.
- Analyze data and produce technical reports.
- Ensure acclimatization, weaning, and handling of glasshouse experiments for banana crops.
- assist the scale-up of banana planting materials for research.
- assist laboratory inventory management.
- Perform any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in Biochemistry – 5 Years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in Agribusiness – 5 Years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in Crop Production – 5 Years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in Horticulture – 5 Years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in Agronomy – 5 Years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in Crop Science – 5 Years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Plant Biotechnology – 5 Years of relevant experience.

Required Competencies and Key Technical Skills

- Decision making skills.
- Time management skills.
- Knowledge of good agricultural practices.
- Good interpersonal communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others under pressure and solve problems.
- High integrity and professional ethical standards.

Psychometric Languages

- English

Psychometric Domains

- Analytical Skills – Competence / Skills
- Time Management – Competence / Skills
- Behavioral Observations – Behavior and Attitude
- Assertiveness – Communication Skills

Exams to be Conducted

1. Psychometric Test
2. Written
3. Oral

Application Deadline: Aug 6, 2026