Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency - Cluster Coordinator - Jobs in Ethiopia

Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency - Cluster Coordinator - Jobs in Ethiopia


Position:
  • Cluster Coordinator

    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 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.

    Specific responsibilities include:

  • Coordinate planning within the ACC, including strategic as well as joint operational planning with other ongoing activities,
  • Ensure strong program management within the ACC through driving day to day coordination of interventions and reporting, verifying status and progress of interventions, proactively identifying issues and solution options, working with stakeholders to ensure effectively joint problem-solving,
  • Escalate issues and needs to Regional levels where appropriate, including support around coordination, resources, capacity-building, policy and other systemic interventions
  • Ensure upward reporting meets needs for Regional and National stakeholders
  • Coordinate planning (including preparation and circulation of meeting agendas, presentation decks, and cluster reports) and facilitating of cluster commodity value chain alliance meetings and other activities within the cluster, follow ups
  • Record and document cluster level basic databases including cropping system and all
    agricultural data and information.
  • The ideal candidate will therefore possess strong senior public and private stakeholder relationships in the ACC, with a strong understanding of identifying and problem-solving challenges to agricultural value chain development, as well as best practice program and project management approaches and monitoring and evaluation activities. He / she will also have in-depth experience and knowledge of previous agricultural commercialization, agri-business / agro-industry, or industrial cluster or corridor initiatives in Ethiopia and Africa.

    Job Requirements
  • Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Agriculture, Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, Economics or other relevant fields
  • At least 6 years of professional experience (4 years with Master’s Degree) supporting planning and implementation of value chain development and upgrading activities, preferably including project management of large-scale agro-processing and agribusiness focused initiatives
  • In-depth knowledge of agriculture and rural development, in particular:
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills including thorough knowledge and understanding of various regional level and federal level institutions; extensive experience in facilitating dialogue with relevant senior public and private stakeholders
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, with highly collaborative working style
  • Experience in working within multi-cultural teams preferred
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Fluency in English and Amharic languages and Working Languages of the respective regions is required;
  • Strong set of personal values including integrity, honesty and desire to be of service
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment, with an emphasis on high performance, teamwork, accountability and results.

    How to Apply

    We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to submit

  • a cover letter,
  • CV (maximum 5 pages) online OR recruitment@ata.gov.et by mentioning the position title on the subject line.
  • Please DO NOT submit scans of certificates with your application.
  • Interested and qualified candidates are highly encouraged to apply by 22nd May 2019
  • Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
  • For more information and job application details, see; Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency - Cluster Coordinator - Jobs in Ethiopia

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