Systems Analyst

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**The Opportunity**:

- **Investigate the impacts of innovative crop management strategies to improve productivity and input-use efficiency**:

- **Compile, organise, analyse and interrogate large complex data sets arising from farming systems experiments**:

- **Design and conduct field based agricultural research experiments**

CSIRO is Australia’s National Science Agency and is one of the world’s largest and most successful publicly funded research and development organisations. We deliver world-class science and outcome-focused research that generates economic, environmental, and social benefits for Australia in a global context. We have improved the lives of many around the world through our research and developments including BARLEYmax, WiFi, the Hendra virus vaccine, advances in atmospheric dynamics and predictability, simulations of marine ecosystems dynamics, and the Total Wellbeing Diet.

The CSIRO Systems Program works in partnership with rural industries, communities, and governments to deliver improvements in agricultural productivity and profitability whilst minimising environmental damage. The core of the Program’s science lies in better understanding and managing soil-plant-animal interactions that underpin productive, profitable and sustainable farm businesses. Using combinations of experimentation, modelling and monitoring of plot
- and farm-level experiments we seek to address farm productivity by developing novel approaches and interventions for the sustainable intensification of agriculture.

Joining the Innovative Agronomy Team within the Enterprise Resilience Group in the Systems Program, you will conduct on-farm agronomic experimentation in southern Australia to investigate the impacts of innovative crop management strategies to improve productivity and input-use efficiency. As well as involvement in the conception, design and conduct of field-based systems experiments, a specific role for the new appointment will be to organise, maintain, analyse and interrogate large data sets arising from the field experiments including simulated data and digital data from drones, satellites and other sensor platforms. Existing systems experiments on commercial farms and at CSIROs new Boorowa Agricultural Research Station (BARS) will be an initial focus, while new experiments involving emerging technologies in soil and crop sensing, digital platforms and farming systems simulation will be encouraged. The position offers a unique opportunity to develop a national profile and reputation; and to become a future leader of R&D in the area of modern, digitally enabled farming systems agronomy and analysis.

**Your duties will include**:

- Develop novel scientific approaches to investigate original concepts and innovations for new and current agronomic research as applied to cropping and mixed dryland farming systems in Australia.
- Design, conduct and analyse field-based experiments enterprise mix, soil and climate variability and management parameters using novel and emerging technologies.
- Compile, organise, analyse and interrogate large complex data sets arising from farming systems experiments including simulated data as well as digital data from drones, satellites and other sensor platforms.
- Publish data arising from farming systems experiments in high profile internationally refereed journals.
- Develop, negotiate and lead new research projects that bring together skills across CSIRO, external partners and funding organisations.
- Manage research projects or significant components of projects, including responsibility for project planning, effective communication of research outcomes to partners and clients to facilitate implementation of findings and delivery of impact to Industry and publication of scientific papers in leading international journals.

**Location**: Black Mountain, ACT
**Salary**: AU$105k - AU$114k plus up to 15.4% superannuation
**Tenure**:Specified term of 3 years
**Reference**: 94759

**To be considered you will need**:

- A doctorate and or equivalent research experience in farming systems agronomy, including considerations of interactions between system productivity, input-use efficiency, soil characteristics, and climate variability.
- Experience with field-based agronomic experimentation in cropping systems investigating aspects of soil-plant interactions underpinning productivity and resource use efficiency.
- Demonstrated experience in the compilation, manipulation, interrogation and analy