Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Senior Project Officer I-Horticulture Value Chain Expert
Term of Employment: Project-based One Year Term with Possible Extension
Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa (Oromia)
Required Number: One
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: December 15, 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 role of the Senior Project Officer-Horticulture Value Chain Expert (SPO) within the Federal ACC Team and ATA Regional Offices working closely with staff in ATA’s Regional Offices, is to lead this coordination of efforts across partners for the Horticulture value chain as well as implement key interventions that are owned by ATA but sit outside the purview of other ATA teams. Specifically, the SPO will be instrumental in the design, development of value add programs while providing implementation support to bring about efficiency across the Value chain alongside key Government , private sector and development partners . The SPO will also be responsible to develop operational planning, budgeting and reporting on Horticulture activities at the regional and cluster levels, and provide technical backstopping, capacity building and support across implementing partners.
Critical gaps and interventions have been identified in the prioritized commodity value chains related to:
The SPO is responsible for the successful delivery of the horticulture initiative in these areas, working closely with a range of other ATA teams, and coordinating implementing partners and stakeholders across horticulture value chains. He/she will report to the ACC program manager and respective regional director under the Senior Director of the ACC Initiative, and will work closely with other staff in the Federal ACC Team, Regional Office Directors, and other ATA staff at various levels.
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