Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency Senior Technical Expert I, Climate and Environment Jobs

Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency Senior Technical Expert I, Climate and Environment Jobs

Job Id: 219190

Category: Agriculture
Location: Addis Ababa
Career Level: Managerial Level (Manager, Supervisor, Director)
Employment Type: Full time
Salary: Competitive

Job Description

Vacancy Announcement

Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency

Position: Senior Technical Expert I, Inclusive Growth (IG)

Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension

Duty Station (s): Addis Ababa

Required Number: One

Salary & Benefits: Competitive

Application Deadline: August 26, 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.

Position Summary:

The Senior Technical Expert (STE), Climate will primarily support the mainstreaming of climate change mitigation and adaptation considerations across ATA initiatives.

The STE is expected to provide programmatic and technical content expertise related to climate and environmental sustainability issues within ATA’s Crosscutting Initiative team and will focus on:

(i) developing technical capacities within ATA on Climate and Environment issue (C&E);

(ii) providing content input to ATA projects, the ACC initiative, Core Analytics and Evaluation and learning teams on climate and environment considerations

(iii) developing C&E specific products as necessary

The STE will report to the Director of Crosscutting Initiatives (CCI) team.

Essential Duties:

Capacity building:

Directly support CCI Director in developing the content and technical capabilities of ATA program teams through developing a training/mentoring and coaching program and supporting delivery of the same.

Share lessons learned on C&E through ATA’s initiatives and processes among ATA staff and with stakeholders.

Technical input

to various ATA teams:

Provide technical input to project and analytical teams as they plan and organize C&E interventions

Provide technical input and continuous support to ATA project teams during implementation of climate and environment related interventions

Provide technical input and continuous support to ACC implementation and design refinement

Engage with ATA’s core analytics team to provide technical input on upcoming studies, and other analytical work from the climate change adaptation and mitigation perspective.

Under the supervision of ATA’s communications team, design briefing materials on C&E issues

Provide technical support to ATA’s Project and Program Management (PPM) and Evaluation and Learning (E&L) teams for developing C&E mainstreaming performance targets and tracking progress on climate and environment related initiatives of various programs and the ACC Initiative

Climate specific products

Directly support the CCI Director in enhancing or updating the CCI framework and tools for mainstreaming and tracking C&E issues both in relation to the current ATA projects and in the context of ACC including identifying key C&E interventions, analyze and prioritize the identified interventions and developing action plan for implementation

Directly support the CCI Director to identify (upon consultation with stakeholders) C&E related crosscutting deliverables for implementation during project design and implementation as per ATA’s project design template.

Assist in identifying and sharing new and required national and international sources of data and information on C&E.

General

Engage in climate consultations with key stakeholders and build independent working relationships with all stakeholders at all levels; Organize ATA’s workshop and represent ATA in national and international seminars, forums and conferences on issues related to C&E

Prepare presentations, propose ideas for communication and support facilitation of constructive dialogue where required

Contribute to knowledge sharing and creation of positive atmosphere in teams and across teams, as appropriate.

Demonstrate depth of expertise in area of C&E and use knowledge to enrich and guide problem-solving with teams and external stakeholders.

Job Requirements

Master’s Degree or above level of education in Environment and Climate, Environmental Economics, Agriculture, Rural Development, or other related fields.

At least 8 years of experience in the field of Environment and climate, Agriculture, with at least 3 years’ experience in project management position.

Proven skill in program design, performance management, learning systems and monitoring & evaluation.

Deep understanding of and work experience on Ethiopia’s agricultural systems and climate-smart agriculture, with a broad perspective on agricultural value chains and an intimate knowledge of how public, private and informal actors operate within the system.

Excellent analytical skills and strong project management background.

Practical experience in piloting and scaling up relevant solutions at the local level.

Excellent interpersonal skills as well as stakeholder management and coordination experiences.

Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Strong set of personal values including integrity, honesty and desire to be of service.
Fluency in Amharic and sufficient command of

English language are essential. Knowledge of additional Ethiopian language is desired.

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 Technical Expert I, Climate and Environment Jobs