Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Program Manager, ACC Support Team
Term of Employment: Project-based - 1 Year Term with Possible Extension
Duty Station(s): Amhara, Oromia & Tigray Regions – exact location in each to be determined
Required Number: 1 for each Duty Station
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: November 30, 2014
BACKGROUND:
The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) has been established by the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) to identify and address systemic bottlenecks to Ethiopia’s agricultural development and transformation. The Agency does this through problem-solving, project implementation and support, and coordination and capacity building of stakeholders involved in implementation.
The National Framework for Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC) is being introduced in Ethiopia by the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency, the Synergos Institute, and partners at the Federal and Regional levels, and from the development and private sectors. ACCs apply a geographically-focused approach for rapidly enhancing priority agricultural commodity value chains throughout the country. The implementation of this National Framework will support agricultural sector transformation by enhancing and supporting existing structures to address systemic as well as commodity- and geography-specific bottlenecks across priority commodities value chains. This Framework builds on previous federal and regional efforts for value chain development and advocates for a more focused and market-driven solution with significant coordination between diverse public, private and development sector actors.
To support implementation of this National Framework for ACCs, Regional structures including ACC Support Teams are being established by Regional Governments with the following main responsibilities:
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Regional ACC Support Team will consist of a Team Lead, Program Manager and several additional professional staff. The Program Manager reports to and supports the Team Lead, focusing on managing day-to-day operations of the Team to ensuring effective and efficient execution of the its responsibilities. The ideal candidate will therefore possess very strong knowledge and experience with large program and project management approaches, including experience managing teams and working with diverse stakeholders across public and private sectors. He/she should have experience working in strategically and analytical focused roles with public, private or development sector organizations, and ideally also knowledge and experience of agricultural commercialization, agri-business / agro-industry promotion, or industrial development initiatives in Ethiopia and abroad, with a particular emphasis on implementation modalities (e.g. governance and operational structures, strategic and operational planning, program management, financing, human resourcing, MLE). Finally, the candidate will demonstrate a passion for transforming agriculture and improving the lives of small-holder farmers.
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