Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Project Officer, AIM project
Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension
Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa (Oromia); Mekelle; Hawassa
Required Number: Three (3)
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: January 25, 2019
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 ATA, with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Resources (MoALR), developed an Ethiopian Agricultural Investment Mapping Project (AIM). This initiative will consist of convening government and donor partners and gathering information on their investment portfolios in order to develop a comprehensive picture of who is doing what, with whom, and where in the agriculture sector.
The AIM Project aims to maintain and administrate an online database and a mapping tool, which outline all major investment taking place in the agricultural sector in Ethiopia by Government, bilateral and multilateral development agencies and other actors. The data collected will be uploaded onto an Agricultural Investment Mapping Tool, which will be tailored to fit the scope of the agricultural sector in Ethiopia. The database and Tool will categorize investment activities according to their geographical location and specific areas of intervention, aligned with Ethiopia’s Growth Transformation Plan II (GTP II). It will further outline major details about the investment projects (title, description, timeline, amount, etc.).
Currently, the ATA is in the process of formally launching the tool and supporting the MoALR, government and donor partners populate and visualize their respective investment portfolios. After the information is uploaded, the information should increase coordination among GoE and Development Partners (DPs), harmonized allocation of resources and geographically targeted interventions in the agricultural sector.
As part of the projects next phase, the AIM project team has been requested to begin engaging with the regions and design and implement a process of collecting the similar type of information for the regions. This initiative will support the regions, government, and donors get a clearer and more disaggregated observation of the investments and activities occurring in the regions.
Towards achieving the objective of expanding the AIM tool into the four main regions, ATA will be working with Spatial Development International LLC (Spatial Dev – an international technology and data visualization firm) to assist in updating the system and ultimately hosting the system at the ATA. The information and resources on the system will be accessible by users in the regions, zones, woredas, etc.
ATA is seeking a qualified candidate to serve as a Project Officer on the AIM project.
The Project Officer will assist in data management, database development and data visualization. The Data Analyst will work closely with Spatial Dev.
This position will officially report to the Project Lead. The position will be a 6-month contract, starting with a six month probationary period.
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