Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Senior Grant Officer (Re-advert)
Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension
Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa
Required Number: One
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: November 18, 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 catalyse agricultural transformation. First, we support the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Resources (MoA), 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 Grant Officer (SGMO) has the overall responsibility of leading and evaluating appropriate implementation partners, namely governmental and non-governmental organizations and the private sector that are eligible to receive sub-grants from ATA according to ATA’s sub-grant operation guidelines. The SGMO will also be responsible to provide an overall oversight to ensure that implementing partners are executing on agreed plans and are providing timely reports on programmatic progress and financial utilization, and for monitoring the performance of funded activities against planed objectives and targets. The SGMO will coordinate with all ATA Program Teams to consolidate and provide comments on both the technical and cost components of project proposals and provide inputs for project appraisals. Moreover, the SGMO will liaise with program teams, procurement, and finance to track relevant information, such as progress of planned activities, new institutional partnerships and sub grantee processes.
The performance of the SGMO will be evaluated primarily on the degree of adherence of sub-grants to Implementing Partners to the principles and procedures of ATA’s sub-grant operation manual and on the processing efficiency of any sub-grant ideas initiated by the program team as per the required quality and within the agreed timeline.
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