Vacancy Announcement
ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY
Position: Regional Data Management Officer Click here to enter text.
Term of Employment: One Year possibility of extension
Duty Station(s): Oromia (Addis Ababa),
Required Number: One
Salary & Benefits: Competitive
Application Deadline: 7 Sep 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 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.
The Digital Agriculture program within the ATA has been established to develop and support initiatives related to the use of information communication technologies within the Ethiopian agriculture sector. The Project Officer will currently work on two projects – AIM and CropIn.
The Agricultural Investment Mapping (AIM) project convenes government and development partners to gather information on investment portfolios. The tool develops a comprehensive view on actors, activities, and geographic locations involved to maintain and administer an online database and mapping tool displaying all major investment in the Ethiopian agricultural sector (by Government, bilateral and multilateral development agencies as well as other actors).
The Project Officer will collect and manage data, assist in the development of databases and data visualization tools working closely with regional partners and stakeholders as well as Spatial Dev, an international technology, and data visualization firm.
The Project Officer will ensure the accuracy of data collected by development agents, demonstrate and socialize the platform to relevant Regional Bureaus, assist in the preparation/translation of materials as well as delivery of trainings to development agents. The Project Officer will further provide support to development agents in the collection of data through the CropIn system.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsibilities of Project Officer for CropIn and AIM include, but are not limited to:
Manage the regional AIM and CropIn workload to ensure on time completion of deliverables
Assist the CropIn and AIM Team Leads in results-focused stakeholder management in order to build collaborative relationships with key internal, Federal, and Regional stakeholders
Assist the Team Leads for AIM and CropIn in the implementation of the projects’ deliverables to ensure the intended impact collecting the relevant datasets
The Project Officer is responsible for compiling and submitting data and reports in order to ensure alignment on project implementation
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