Position: Director – Women and Social Affairs
Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension
Duty Station: Addis Ababa
Required Number: One
Application Deadline: December 11, 2022
BACKGROUND:
The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) is a strategy and delivery-oriented government Institute created to help accelerate the growth and transformation of the country’s agriculture sector. The ATI envisions to be the leading center of innovative solutions for the transformation of Ethiopian Agriculture by 2030.
The Institute 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.
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, Sidama, South-West, 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 teamwork to achieve excellent results.
At ATI, 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.
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
The Director, Women and Social Affairs, is a leadership position reporting to the Head, Office of the CEO. The Director is primarily responsible for planning, designing, and implementing a high impact program of interventions to achieve gender equality at the ATI and its projects. She/he is responsible for ensuring that women and youth quest for development and other issues are mainstreamed and integrated into projects and relevant operational policies and are consistently implemented across the ATI programs and projects. The Director will serve as thought partner and strategic advisor to ATI’s leadership team on gender inclusivity in the Institute and be responsible for coordinating and managing ATI’s transformation initiatives. This includes leading the development of clear women and youths’ targets against selected outcomes and mobilizing and coordinating multiple teams across the Institute in the implementation of those key initiatives and targets. To this effect, he/she must possess and be able to demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, and relationship building abilities among multiple stakeholders. The candidate should possess a thorough understanding of the agricultural system and passion for improving the lives of small-holder farmers, familiarity with Ethiopia’s gender and social dynamics relations, and the stakeholders involved in the sector.
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