Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency Senior Project Officer – Agricultural Investment Mapping Jobs

Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency Senior Project Officer – Agricultural Investment Mapping Jobs

Job Id: 199933

Category: Agriculture, Economics, Information Technology
Location:
Career Level: Mid Level ( 2+ - 5 years experience)
Employment Type: Full time
Salary: Competitive

Job Description

Vacancy Announcement

Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency

Position: Senior Project Officer – Agricultural Investment Mapping (AIM)

Term of Employment: 1 year with possibility of extension

Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa

Required Number: Two

Salary & Benefits: Competitive

Application Deadline: March 08, 2019

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.

Purpose of the Position

The ATA, in partnership with the Rural Economic Development and Food Security (RED&FS) Secretariat of the MoALR and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), have developed an Agricultural Investment Mapping (AIM) tool, which will be utilized collect, centralize and visualize agriculture and livestock investment portfolio information.

The AIM tool will support stakeholders obtain a comprehensive picture of who is doing what, with whom, and where in the Ethiopian agriculture sector.

The AIM project team has been instructed, by the MoALR and ATA, to expand the AIM tool into the four main regions and capture the regional agriculture and livestock investment information.

This expansion will provide regional organizations a clearer understanding and data of regional agriculture and livestock project and ultimately improving collaboration/synergies at the regional level.

The Senior Project Officer will lead the AIM project team in strategic problem solving, strategic integration, data management, database development and data visualization.

The Senior Project Officer will work closely with the RED&FS Secretariat, the Ministry and Regional Bureaus of Agriculture, Development Partners, Regional Bureaus of Agriculture SpatialDev, and the Ministry and Bureaus of Finance and Economic Cooperation.

This position will officially report to the ICT Project Team Lead

Essential Duties and Responsibilities