Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Senior Technical Expert II - Livestock Value Chains - Amhara RBoA Technical Support Unit
Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension
Duty Station(s): Amhara Bureau of Agriculture, Bahir Dar
Required Number: One
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: January 31, 2021
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 ATA focuses on two primary national approaches to catalyze agricultural transformation. First, we support the Ministry of Agriculture (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 the development of high-priority commodity value chains in clearly defined geographic clusters, through the Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC) Initiative and other programs.
ATA is currently in the process of launching a Technical Support Unit (TSU) along with a Delivery Unit in the Amhara Bureau of Agriculture (BoA) to enhance the bureau’s technical capabilities in selected priority areas. The unit’s responsibilities include providing targeted technical support during planning, implementation, and performance management, providing policy and strategy support/advisory, building the capacity of the implementation owners, and providing other strategic support on senior leadership’s high priority requests.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Senior Technical Expert (STEII) - Livestock Value Chains, will report to the Technical Support Unit Head and will work in close collaboration with RBoA leadership, the Delivery Unit, and other colleagues at the RBoA and Affiliated institutions to provide technical support to implementation owners for priority work related to Livestock Value Chains. The Senior Technical Expert will also provide policy and strategy advisory and other strategic support to senior leadership on high priority requests. He/she will also work to ensure meaningful planning and target setting, timely and accurate reporting, and rigorous and practical problem-solving.
The person in this role will further work to strengthen the technical, project management, and analytical capacity of priority agenda owners in the Regional Bureau of Agriculture (RBoA). The successful candidate for this role will have the technical expertise to effectively drive the interventions in his/her area of assignment, strong analytical and critical thinking skills, experience influencing others in large organizations to simplify, focus and have urgency, and a passion for both results and capacity building. We are applying private-sector style rigor to major social issues that can transform Ethiopian society.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Related to her/his specific area of assignment the Livestock Value Chains Senior Technical Expert performs the following:
o Provide expert advice to focus area owners to ensure timing, resources, and sequencing of the work efforts are aligned to produce the desired results.
o Data on performance indicators are being effectively collected and analysed.
o Team routines are set internally between implementation owners to arrive at a shared view of progress and agree on a corrective measure to ensure progress is on track.
o A deeper review is conducted for areas of strengths and weakness to understand what is happening on the ground and develop specific and actionable recommendations.
o Identify and prioritize critical technical, strategic, and operational issues hindering achievement of targets together with implementers.
o Jointly work with implementation owners, involving the Delivery Unit, the ATA, and other external partners, to develop high-impact and feasible solutions for addressing identified technical issues.
o Collaborate with internal and external experts or consultants as needed to solve more complex issues.
o Strengthen implementation owner’s technical, project management, and problem-solving capabilities thorough day-to-day on the job coaching and support.
o Identify capacity gaps, develop training materials, and provide training to RBoA leadership and staff – working with the Delivery Unit as needed
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
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