Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Regional Data Management Officer (Re-advert)
Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension
Duty Station(s): Oromia (Addis Ababa)
Required Number: Two
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: August 03, 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:
To this end the ATA will develop and pilot a new solution to collect, store and visualize project data. The Data Management Officers will be responsible for working closely with end-users of the solution at the Regional, Zoneal, Woreda and Kebele level and ensure the successful implementation the solutions. In particular, Regional Data Management Officers will provide training sessions on the solutions and tools, observe and communicate user feedback to the Federal team and then provide the required field support and troubleshooting, as the Federal team manages new iterations of the software.
Additionally, Data Management Officers will work closely with Development Agents (DAs) at the Kebele level to identify and investigate issues around data quality, suggest additional recommendations and enhancements and then implement these through training's.
The Regional Data Management Officers are regionally based data management project team members who works very working closely with the Data Analysts and reporting to the team leader of the data management project at the federal Office and Regional Senior Project Manager of the PPMO.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Rollout of Data solution and training to users
Data Quality Issue Identification and Remediation
User Support and Troubleshooting
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
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