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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 Specialist, Evaluations will report to the Director of Evaluation and Learning Unit (EL), and contribute to the team’s activities by (1) conducting baseline study, mid-term, final and impact evaluations of ATA managed projects and Transformation Agenda Programs contributing to GTP II goals, (2) advising EL Unit and relevant ATA teams on evaluations and baseline studies (3) supporting capacity building on evaluation within EL Unit and ATA project teams.

 ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

  • Lead the design of and conduct in-depth baseline and evaluation of ATA projects in collaboration with the ATA project team as well as the Evaluation Managers, Learning Manager and Senior Technical Experts within EL Unit
  • Support baselines and evaluation of Transformational Agenda Programs contributing to GTP II goal of the Ethiopian government.
  • Prepare and validate evaluation instruments;
  • Collect qualitative and quantitative data using appropriate methods including quantitative surveys, document review, interviews and FGDs with evaluation participants;
  • Analyze data collected from various sources and formulate findings, conclusions and recommendations; and write evaluations and baseline reports.
  • Organize stakeholders workshop and meetings to validate evaluation findings and recommendations and disseminate results of evaluations to relevant parties
  • Provide advisory services to EL Unit and project teams on evaluation and statistical questions, including implementation of evaluation recommendations;
  • Support capacity-building activities with in ATA on evaluation and impact assessment
  • Contribute to the strengthening of evaluation and learning function of EL Unit  to improve efficiency and effectiveness of project implementation
  • Support the management and coordination of evaluations conducted by partner institutions or external consultants.
  • Engage in dissemination of learning from evaluations and other studies in collaboration with the Learning Manager and communication team
  • Engage in preparing and reviewing project Result Frameworks (RFW) and ensure all projects have and updated version of RFWs.
  • Perform other duties as required and requested by the EL Unit Director

Job Requirements

  • Master’s Degree in Development Evaluation, Development Economics/ Economics/ Agricultural Economics, Development Studies, Statistics  or other relevant fields
  • At least 8 years for BSC and  6 Years for MSC experience in managing a monitoring and evaluation system and/or impact evaluation, preferably in the fields of agriculture or rural development
  • Have demonstrated skill on conducting evaluations and can provide proof of work for conducting evaluations and baseline studies
  • Deep understanding of the theory and application of evaluation including best-practice tools and approaches
  • Hands on experience with data management and analytical software such as SPSS/Stata
  • An understanding of Ethiopia’s agricultural system, with a broad perspective on how the entire system operates and how public, private, NGO and informal actors operate within the system
  • Good knowledge of on-going efforts to transform agriculture in Ethiopia
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment, with an emphasis on high performance, teamwork, accountability and results
  • Highly facilitative and collaborative working style
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and data gathering skills.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Strong set of personal values including integrity, honesty and desire to be of service
  • Fluency in English is essential apart from Amharic

How to Apply

We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to submit (i) a cover letter, (ii) CV (maximum 5 pages), and (iii) a completed ATA Application Form at http://apply.ata.gov.et.

Women are highly encouraged to apply.

  1. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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Ethiopia is a country of natural contrasts, with waterfalls and volcanic hot spring, dry desert lands and rich fertile soil. Agriculture is the foundation of the Ethiopian economy. It contributes approximately 46 percent to the national GDP and employs over 80 percent of the population.

In 2009, Ethiopia was in the final year of its five year Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP) and beginning to design its next five year plan – the first Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). It had also begun a rapid growth period with major gains in its agriculture sector. In the midst of these development, the late Prime Minister Meles had a fortuitous meeting with Melinda Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he asked for the Foundation’s support in identifying an innovative way to catalyze not only the growth but of the transformation of Ethiopia’s agriculture sector.

This began a journey of nearly two years, where the Gates Foundation facilitated a process led by the Ministry of Agriculture that developed eight different diagnostic and a series of recommendations. The summary conclusions identified two key challenges to transforming Ethiopia’s agricultural sector:

  • Narrow approach to sectoral change – Many projects and programs have focused on selected aspects of the sector, leading to disconnected interventions that fail to address the root causes of low agricultural productivity. As such, many initiatives do not achieve the cohesion and integration required for success at scale. Furthermore, individual programs are frequently not adapted to local conditions in different regions.
  • Lack of implementation capacity – Many large-scale initiatives lack staff with the appropriate mindsets or skills needed at both the federal and regional level. Even projects that are well-designed and well-resourced often fail to meet all their objectives due to the lack of strong project management and systematic implementation.

Furthermore, this study identified learning’s from other rapid growth and transformation initiatives around the world and in other sectors within Ethiopia. Key to these efforts has been a dedicated unit with strong management and support from key government leaders that led a successful effort of transformative and sustainable change in a focused program area.

Based on these recommendations, in December 2010 the Council of Ministers in Ethiopia passed Regulation 198/2010 which established the Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) as the Secretariat of an Agricultural Transformation Council chaired by the Prime Minister.

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0 USD Addis Ababa CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency

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 Specialist, Evaluations will report to the Director of Evaluation and Learning Unit (EL), and contribute to the team's activities by (1) conducting baseline study, mid-term, final and impact evaluations of ATA managed projects and Transformation Agenda Programs contributing to GTP II goals, (2) advising EL Unit and relevant ATA teams on evaluations and baseline studies (3) supporting capacity building on evaluation within EL Unit and ATA project teams.

 ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

  • Lead the design of and conduct in-depth baseline and evaluation of ATA projects in collaboration with the ATA project team as well as the Evaluation Managers, Learning Manager and Senior Technical Experts within EL Unit
  • Support baselines and evaluation of Transformational Agenda Programs contributing to GTP II goal of the Ethiopian government.
  • Prepare and validate evaluation instruments;
  • Collect qualitative and quantitative data using appropriate methods including quantitative surveys, document review, interviews and FGDs with evaluation participants;
  • Analyze data collected from various sources and formulate findings, conclusions and recommendations; and write evaluations and baseline reports.
  • Organize stakeholders workshop and meetings to validate evaluation findings and recommendations and disseminate results of evaluations to relevant parties
  • Provide advisory services to EL Unit and project teams on evaluation and statistical questions, including implementation of evaluation recommendations;
  • Support capacity-building activities with in ATA on evaluation and impact assessment
  • Contribute to the strengthening of evaluation and learning function of EL Unit  to improve efficiency and effectiveness of project implementation
  • Support the management and coordination of evaluations conducted by partner institutions or external consultants.
  • Engage in dissemination of learning from evaluations and other studies in collaboration with the Learning Manager and communication team
  • Engage in preparing and reviewing project Result Frameworks (RFW) and ensure all projects have and updated version of RFWs.
  • Perform other duties as required and requested by the EL Unit Director

Job Requirements

  • Master’s Degree in Development Evaluation, Development Economics/ Economics/ Agricultural Economics, Development Studies, Statistics  or other relevant fields
  • At least 8 years for BSC and  6 Years for MSC experience in managing a monitoring and evaluation system and/or impact evaluation, preferably in the fields of agriculture or rural development
  • Have demonstrated skill on conducting evaluations and can provide proof of work for conducting evaluations and baseline studies
  • Deep understanding of the theory and application of evaluation including best-practice tools and approaches
  • Hands on experience with data management and analytical software such as SPSS/Stata
  • An understanding of Ethiopia’s agricultural system, with a broad perspective on how the entire system operates and how public, private, NGO and informal actors operate within the system
  • Good knowledge of on-going efforts to transform agriculture in Ethiopia
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment, with an emphasis on high performance, teamwork, accountability and results
  • Highly facilitative and collaborative working style
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and data gathering skills.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Strong set of personal values including integrity, honesty and desire to be of service
  • Fluency in English is essential apart from Amharic

How to Apply

We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to submit (i) a cover letter, (ii) CV (maximum 5 pages), and (iii) a completed ATA Application Form at http://apply.ata.gov.et.

Women are highly encouraged to apply.

  1. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
2018-12-17

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