Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency Senior Delivery Analyst, MoA Delivery Unit Jobs

Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency Senior Delivery Analyst, MoA Delivery Unit

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Job Id: 224400

Category: Agriculture

Location: Addis Ababa

Career Level: Senior Level (5+ years experience)

Employment Type: Full time

Salary: Competitive

Job Description

Vacancy Announcement

Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency

Positions: Senior Delivery Analyst, MoA Delivery Unit

Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension

Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa

Required Number: One

Salary & Benefits: Competitive

Application Deadline: October 09, 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 catalyse agricultural transformation. First, we support the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Resources (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 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.

Position Summary:

The Senior Delivery Analyst supports planning, problem solving and analysis within the Delivery Unit. The Senior Associate will work directly with Transformation Agenda Deliverable (TAD) owners within the MoA to ensure meaningful planning and target setting, timely and accurate reporting, and rigorous and practical problem solving.

The person in this role will also work to strengthen the project management and analytical capacity of TAD project teams.

The Senior Delivery Analyst will report to the Manager of the Delivery Unit, and work with the Associate, Senior Data & Reporting Officer and a team of different technical experts (Transformation Agenda Specialists and Advisors).

The Delivery Unit is part of the Implementation Support vertical at the ATA, which also includes the Delivery Unit at the MoA, Evaluations and Learning, Program and Project Management, Cross Cutting Initiatives and Analytics.

The successful candidate for this role will have superior analytical and communication skills and demonstrate focus and urgency in their work, along with 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:

Run a process to facilitate meaningful and timely planning and target-setting by project teams.

Monitor activity management and reporting for TADs, working closely with project teams.

Work proactively and independently with project teams to identify strategic and operational issues hindering achievement of targets and support problem-solving to identify high-impact and feasible solutions.

Ensure critical issues are effectively escalated to senior leadership.

Provide analytical problem-solving support to senior leadership on high priority requests.

Propose and support roll out of enhancements to planning, tracking, reporting and escalation processes in the Delivery Unit and in collaboration with the Senior Data & Reporting Officer and project teams.

Develop training materials and lead training's on planning, activity management / execution, reporting and problem-solving, in collaboration with the Project Manager.

Job Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Business, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Agriculture or Rural Development.

At least 5 years of professional experience in Project Management, Strategy, Business Analysis, Business Development, Management Consulting, Project Design or other relevant field.

Proven record of structuring and delivering challenging projects, with data analysis, regular reporting, and independent troubleshooting and problem solving.

Past work experience demonstrates strong results orientation in a high-performance culture.

Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills.

Communicates clearly, concisely and confidently in both English and Amharic.

Passion for improving the lives of smallholder farmers.

Team player with excellent relationship management skills.

Strong set of personal values including integrity, honesty and desire to be of service.

Proficiency with Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint) is required.

How to Apply

Application Instructions

We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to send (i) a cover letter and (ii) CV (maximum 3 pages) at http://apply.ata.gov.et

Also, please do not submit scans of certificates with your application form.

Women are highly encouraged to apply.

NB. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency Senior Delivery Analyst, MoA Delivery Unit
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