Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Senior Project Officer, National Shallow Groundwater Mapping
Term of Employment: Project – initially one year with possibility of extension
Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa
Required Number: One
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: January 31, 2017
BACKGROUND:
The Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) has been established by the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) to identify and address systemic bottlenecks to Ethiopia’s agricultural development. The Agency does this through problem-solving, implementation support, and capacity building of stakeholders involved in implementation of interventions that address the systemic bottlenecks. The Agency reports to the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources Development and is Secretary to the Transformation Council chaired by the Prime Minister.
The programmatic focus of the Agency responds to a core set of needs identified by the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources Development and the Transformation Council. Within the Agency, issues are divided into four different pillars: Production and Productivity which includes Inputs and Crop Protection, Livestock, Research and Extension, Mechanization and Rural Finance; Environmentally Sustainable and Inclusive Agricultural Growth including Sustainable Irrigation and Watershed Management, Sustainable Land Management, Gender and Nutrition, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Targeted Livelihood Support, Biodiversity and (temporarily) Planning and MLE; Agribusiness and Markets including Market Support Services, Commercial Farming, Agro-processing & Market Development, and Cooperatives Development; and Enhanced Implementation Capacity which includes ICT, Private Sector, and Organizational and Human Capacity. In addition, the Agricultural Commercialization Clusters Initiative is another critical focus area for the Agency. Across the programs, the ATA engages public, private and non-governmental stakeholders to support strategic planning, manage and strengthen implementation capacity and test innovative models.
Our Culture
We have an exceptional team of highly competent employees with a proven track record of success in managing complex activities and achieving transformational results. Our culture is one where talented, dedicated and adaptable individuals are committed to doing their best and exhibit great team work to achieve excellent results.
At ATA, we provide an exceptional platform for people who want to achieve their highest potential and make a meaningful contribution in changing the country’s agricultural sector. We offer rewarding work in a young, fast-paced growing organization with passionate, committed, motivated colleagues and excellent career development and training. We recognize our most valuable assets are our staff and are committed to providing our employees with the tools, training and mentorships necessary to achieve their career goals.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Sustainable Irrigation and Watershed Development Program addresses major bottlenecks such as poor information on the Water Resources (WR) available for irrigation and their current use, lack of well-developed best practices in irrigation and unsustainable Water Management (WM) practices. To unlock these challenges, the program is planning to map SGW resources nationwide and disseminate results along with other transformational agendas. Towards implementing this intervention, Sustainable Irrigation and Watershed Development Program is looking for senior project officer who will help us to go forward to identify, develop and manage countries shallow groundwater resources
The Senior Project Officer in the Sustainable Irrigation and Watershed Development Program will be responsible for national shallow groundwater mapping which primarily needs high expertise and experience on all technology packages and methodologies for shallow groundwater resource mapping at a national level to use groundwater for the development of household irrigation and prepares yearly detail work plan.
This shallow groundwater mapping exercise is expected to help determine the types and quantity of water lifting technologies for each study Woredas, with the objective of enabling smallholder farmers to produce at least twice a year, to withstand the impact of recurrent drought, and to increase production and productivity.
This position will report to the Director of the Sustainable Irrigation and Watershed Development Program.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
The SPO of Sustainable Irrigation and Watershed Development Program sector will be responsible for:
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
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