Background:
The Bilateral Ethiopia Netherlands Effort for Food Income and Trade (BENEFIT) partnership is a portfolio of five programmes (REALISE Ethiopia, CASCAPE, ISSD, ENTAG and SBN), which is funded by the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands through its Embassy in Addis Ababa. BENEFIT was invited to develop a new programme so as to take the achievements of CASCAPE (Capacity building for Scaling up of evidence-based best Practices in Agricultural Production in Ethiopia) programme and the ‘Integrated Seed Sector Development’ (ISSD) Ethiopia programme to new areas and target groups in Ethiopia. This new BENEFIT programme is REALISE: ‘Realising Agricultural Livelihood Security in Ethiopia’ which is operational starting from January 2018.
REALISE is a three - year programme that will align with the Government of Ethiopia’s (GoE) Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP). This GoE flagship programme currently reaches 8 million chronically food insecure Ethiopians with a wide array of instruments to smooth consumption, prevent asset depletion and promote livelihood diversification including uptake of improved agricultural practices. REALISE aims to take lessons learned from the Wageningen University and Research CASCAPE and REALISE Ethiopia programmes to PSNP target woredas.
The goal of the REALISE programme is: ‘Enhanced human, organisational and institutional capacities to adapt, validate and scale best fit practices to improve the resilience of chronically food insecure households in PSNP woredas. REALISE’s goal is to be achieved through four primary outcomes:
The implementation model is based on the experiences of the CASCAPE and REALISE Ethiopia programmes in that REALISE will partner with the Regional Agricultural Research Institutes and a number of Ethiopian Universities that will each manage the so called clusters: Hawassa, Haramaya, , Bahir Dar, Woldia and Mekelle. The REALISE programme will validate and scale best fit practices, will assure the availability of quality seed, will train related GoE and NGO partners in the proper scaling of the practices and will work with its partners towards the institutionalisation of evidence based system innovations. As the REALISE programme is part of the BENEFIT portfolio of programmes, close collaboration with the Portfolio Manager and the sister programmes is expected.
The data management and sharing expert:
The job position on Data Management Expert for the REALISE-Programme Coordination Unit is positioned in Addis Ababa. Selected candidate will be supervised by the Deputy Project Manager, who is, in turn, supervised by the REALISE Project Manager. S/he will support University clusters on all issues related to the generation, management and use of data and data products in project activities. A team of experts from Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR), the Netherlands, will support REALISE-PCU (Programme Coordination Unit). Activity planning will be conducted jointly by REALISE-PCU and University clusters, often in collaboration with other projects united under the BENEFIT Partnership, which is explained briefly below. S/he will be an active participant in knowledge sharing and learning events with the teams based at University clusters. The REALISE programme, being part of the BENIFIT partnership, also reports on BENEFIT indicators to the REALISE M&E and BENEFIT communication officer. The main responsibility of the data management and sharing expert is to work closely with University clusters team to monitor the quality and completeness of incoming field data and to conduct data management, data analysis and data visualization, documentation and sharing.
The job has two succinct elements: 1) Data management, and 2) Documentation and sharing
Key Responsibilities
Data management:
Key responsibilities
Documentation and sharing:
Travel: Able to travel frequently to the project partners in Ethiopia.
Oversight: No direct oversight responsibilities.
The kind of person we are looking for
We are looking for an energetic and enthusiastic hard worker who is a team player and can also work independently. Working in interdisciplinary team, good interpersonal communication, mediation and facilitation skills are required. Acting as a vital member of a dynamic team, the candidate is expected to be flexible, reasonable, accommodating, and constructive and to actively contribute to making the working environment a happy one. We are also looking for a person with a demonstrated interest in data management of the seed sector and with a proven capacity to support effectively the experts working in the regional units in documenting data.
Experience, knowledge, and skills required:
Applicants must satisfy all of the following minimum requirements: