Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Senior Pedometrician (Re-advert)
Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension
Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa
Required Number: One
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: July 15, 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.
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
The Senior Pedometrician will be a full time employee of the Ethiopian Soil Information System (EthioSIS) project, and will be a point person in supporting geo-statistical and Machine learning analysis (MLA) predictions of soil properties and fertilizer recommendations, and atlas productions of the EthioSIS. The incumbent will be coordinating all geo-statistics, cartography and atlas/maps production for regions and at National level. She/He will also be a member of a team supporting the capacity building of GIS experts in the MoA, Regional Agriculture Bureaus and other stakeholders.
Her/his main area of responsibility will be applying geo-statistics and/or ensemble modeling of MLA to predict spatial variability of soil properties (soil fertility statuses) and fertilizer recommendations work from field, laboratory data and satellite imageries using R programming (A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing) and other GIS tools for map production work. The candidate should be prepared to do other related office activities given by his immediate supervisor.
The incumbent will officially report to the EthioSIS Project Team Leader. The position will be for one year with possibility of extension
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