Senior Data and Reporting Officer, Delivery Unit 103 views0 applications

Vacancy Announcement

ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY 

Positions:                        Senior Data and Reporting Officer, Delivery Unit

Term of Employment:   One year with possibility of extension

Duty Station(s):              Addis Ababa

Required Number:         One

Salary & Benefits:           Competitive

Application Deadline:    December 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 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 Data and Reporting Officer will report to the Manager of the Delivery Unit and focus on supporting design, development and roll out of enhanced planning, project management and reporting templates, tools, processes and systems. He/she will also focus on troubleshooting data collection and reporting tools, systems and activities, producing value added reports for decision-making through analysis and synthesis of data, and advising implementing partners on data and reporting activities required to support timely and effective reporting to senior leadership. The Data and Reporting Officer will be supported by senior ATA staff working in this area including receiving initial and ongoing training and regular guidance and coaching, and will also work closely with the Planning and Programming functions in each partner institution given the various touch points of these teams with the Delivery Unit.

Candidates for these roles must therefore bring an entrepreneurial, can-do attitude, and enjoy working in a fast-paced organization that is mission and results driven. They will have expertise with data collection, management, analysis, and reporting, including developing and/or supporting roll out and troubleshooting of new data and reporting tools, processes and systems, preferably in large organization and working senior leaders. The ideal individuals will also demonstrate strong attention to detail, and excellent written and verbal communication, problem solving and project management skills. He/she will also have the ability to exercise good judgment in a variety of situations, multitask and work under pressure and competing priorities.

 ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Working together with other DU staff, senior staff at ATA and others, support design, development and roll out of enhanced planning, project management and reporting templates, tools, processes and systems, and serve as a liaison and resource person for the DUs and host institution staff in these areas.

• Troubleshoot data collection and reporting tools, systems and activities.

• Apply data analysis and statistical techniques to assess trends, forecast future performance, and generate insights from data.

• Producing value added reports for decision-making through analysis and synthesis of data, and provision of recommendations.

• Develop data management and information exchange manuals and guidelines for effective data collection, storage, analysis and interpretation.

• Serve as point person in the DU to track progress and provide support on data collection and reports preparation.

• Continuously monitor and identify challenges to timely, accurate and effective reporting, and propose and support implementation of enhancements to tools, processes and systems to address these challenges.

• Support engagement and alignment with the Planning and Programming functions in each host institution in the areas of data collection and management systems, data analysis and reporting.
• Advise DU host institution staff and implementing partners on data collection, management and reporting activities required to support timely and effective reporting to senior leadership.

• Bachelors or master’s degree in computer science, information systems, statistics, business administration, or social sciences.

• At least 8 years of work experience with bachelor’s degree or 6 years of experience with master’s degree, with at least 2 years of this experience specifically focused on data collection, management, analysis and reporting activities in a large international NGO or private company setting.

• Experience with design, development and roll out of enhanced planning, project management and reporting templates, tools, processes and systems.

• Experience working with multiple types of data sources systems, tools and formats, extract, structure, process, analyze and synthesis data.

• Ideally some experience also preparing dashboards, performance reports and documents for senior leaders.

• Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills.

• Very strong skills with Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access) required, experience with database systems preferable.

• Self-starter with strong motivation, ownership and commitment to drive transformation.

• Exhibits an innovative and high-performance mindset and culture and can perform at a high level under pressure and in challenging environments.

• Can act as a champion for change and can effectively support change management efforts.

• Strong team player with excellent relationship building and management skill, ability to promote dialogue and communicate clearly and confidently, and a network of professional contacts.

• Proactively seeks and acts on feedback to drive own development and contributes to others’ development through active coaching and sharing knowledge and best practices.

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

• Fluency in English and Amharic languages.