Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Program and Performance Reporting Officer, ACC Regional Secretariat
Term of Employment: Project-based 1 Year Term with Possible Extension
Duty Station(s): Oromia Region
Required Number: 1
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: August 21, 2018
BACKGROUND:
The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) has been established by the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) to identify and address systemic bottlenecks to Ethiopia’s agricultural development and transformation. The Agency does this through problem-solving, project implementation and support, and coordination and capacity building of stakeholders involved in implementation.
The National Framework for Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC) is being introduced in Ethiopia by the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency, and partners at the Federal and Regional levels, and from the development and private sectors. ACCs apply a geographically-focused approach for rapidly enhancing priority agricultural commodity value chains throughout the country. The implementation of this National Framework will support agricultural sector transformation by enhancing and supporting existing structures to address systemic as well as commodity- and geography-specific bottlenecks across priority commodities value chains. This Framework builds on previous federal and regional efforts for value chain development and advocates for a more focused and market-driven solution with significant coordination between diverse public, private and development sector actors.
To support implementation of this National Framework for ACCs, Regional ACC Secretariats are being established by Regional Governments with the following main responsibilities:
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Regional ACC Secretariat will consist of a regional Director (Secretariat Lead), Program manager, Program and Performance Reporting Officer and several additional professional staff. The Program and Performance Reporting Officer reports to the Unit Lead, and provides effective support for planning, activity and deliverable progress reporting, management reporting, M&E and related decision-making processes within the overall ACC structure through template and indicator design, developing and overseeing implementation of data collection and reporting processes, and other activities. The ideal candidate will have performance management and reporting, M&E, and ideally also financial reporting expertise, with over 5 years of experience in these areas in public, private and development sector organizations. Specific experience with DevResults software is preferred. The candidate will also demonstrate a passion for transforming agriculture and improving the lives of small-holder farmers.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES: