ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Senior Technical Expert I, Inclusive Growth (IG)
Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension
Duty Station (s): Addis Ababa
Required Number: One
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: August 26, 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 Senior Technical Expert (STE), Inclusive Growth will primarily support the mainstreaming of gender, youth and nutrition considerations across all ATA initiatives. The STE is expected to provide programmatic and technical content expertise related to gender, youth and nutrition issues within ATA’s Crosscutting Initiative team and will focus on:
(i) developing technical capacities within ATA on gender, youth and nutrition;
(ii) providing content input to ATA projects, the ACC initiative, Core Analytics and Evaluation and learning teams on gender, youth and nutrition considerations
(iii) developing gender, youth and nutrition specific products as necessary
The STE will report to the Director of Crosscutting Initiatives (CCI) team.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Capacity building:
Technical input to various ATA teams:
Inclusive Growth specific products
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