Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Policy Advisor - Analytics Team
Term of Employment: Two years with possibility of extension
Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa
Required Number: one
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: November 26, 2018
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.
ABOUT THE TEAM:
As ATA’s strategic advisory and consulting function, the Analytics Team works with Senior Directors and Directors across the organization, as well as senior leadership at key government, development and private sector partners, to execute high-impact, analytically challenging assignments. This strategy and evidence based analytical support, to both internal and external facing partners, typically falls into one of five areas: strategy development and strategic planning, design and incubation of innovative pilot projects, policy and regulatory analysis, institutional and organizational enhancement, and business model and business case development. The team includes a Data Analytics & GIS Unit and a Policy Unit, and consists of a Director, Principals, Case Team Leaders, Senior Analysts and Analysts, Data Management and GIS experts, and Policy Specialists.
Specifically, the Policy Unit has a number of main areas of focus:
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Policy Advisor is a critical new senior role in the team’s Policy Unit, and will be involved across the Unit’s various areas of focus, noted above. In particular, the Policy Advisor will be involved with two to four internally executed policy-focused studies at a time, which focus on identifying and assessing policy options for the Ethiopian government in a range of challenging agricultural and trade policy areas.
He or she will work closely with the Principals and Case Team Leaders, who lead and manage these engagements, to provide thought partnership, guidance and support on the existing policy situation, how policy-makers can be most effectively engaged, and the specific policy and economic analysis required.
He or she will also manage a number of studies outsourced to local and international study partners, including the procurement of services from these partners. He or she will review and input to policy study TORs and plans, facilitate interaction between study partners and key stakeholders, and manage regular updates and other activities to ensure the studies are completed on time and to the quality required.
To ensure the impact of the Policy Unit’s work, the Policy Advisor will need to maintain strong relationships and lead discussions with senior policy-makers across government, as well as relevant development sector and private sector partners.
Significant experience and proven success leading and delivering high-impact, challenging policy-related analysis, stakeholder consultation, and engagement with policy-makers is therefore required. A strong passion for transforming agriculture and improving the lives of smallholder farmers is highly preferred
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