Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Project officer, Apiculture Value Chain expert
Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension
Duty Station(s): Hawassa, Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar, Mekele
Required Number: Four
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: October 22, 2018
BACKGROUND
The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) is a strategy and delivery oriented government agency created to help accelerate the growth and transformation of the country’s agriculture sector. The ATA envisions that, by 2025, smallholder farmers are commercialized with greater incomes, inclusiveness, resilience and sustainability, contributing to Ethiopia’s achievement of middle-income country status.
The agency focuses on two primary national approaches to catalyze agricultural transformation. First, we support the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Resources (MoALR), its affiliate institutions, and other partners to identify and address systemic bottlenecks within an Agricultural Transformation Agenda. Second, we support Regional Governments to accelerate development of high-priority commodity value chains in clearly defined geographic clusters, through the Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC) Initiative.
Our major activities include conducting strategic and analytical studies, providing technical implementation support, coordinating platforms to better integrate partners and projects, and designing and directly leading a number of implementation projects. Our headquarters are in Addis Ababa, and we have regional offices in Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray regional offices, allowing us to work closely with a wide range of public, private and development sector partners across the country.
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:
The Government of Ethiopia, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Resource, has initiated a broad-based program for supporting the agricultural sector including apiculture which is known as the Agricultural Growth Program (AGP). The AGP is active in four regions: Amhara; Tigray; SNNPR; and Oromia. One of the components of AGP is to strengthen the capacity of beekeepers organizations and their service providers by scaling up best practices and adopting improved technologies.
The regional offices of the Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) is primarily established to be the link between the ATA headquarter and regional bureaus of agriculture and Livestock Resources in bringing transformational initiatives that are developed and incubated by different programs at the federal level closer to the smallholder farmers, the private sectors, cooperatives and other key actors in the agriculture sector. The government approved mandate of the ATA regional offices to support agricultural sector transformation by enhancing and supporting existing structures of government, private-sector and other non-governmental partners, to address systemic as well as commodity- and geography-specific bottlenecks in the agricultural value chains.
As part of the agreement entered between the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Resources and the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), the ATA will hold responsibilities for agreed activities as an implementing agency which includes hiring highly qualified technical experts dedicated to work at regional ATA office to support the implementation of the Apiculture value chain development project.
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