Position:                           Data management officer

Term of Employment:   One year with a possibility of extension

Duty Station(s):              Addis Ababa  

Required Number:         One

Application Deadline:    October 26, 2023

Background

The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) is a strategy and delivery-oriented government Institute created to help accelerate the growth and transformation of the country’s agriculture sector. The ATI envisions to be the leading center of innovative solutions for the transformation of Ethiopian Agriculture by 2030.

The Institute focuses on two primary national approaches to catalyze agricultural transformation. First, we support the Ministry of Agriculture (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 the 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, Sidama, South-West, 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 teamwork to achieve excellent results. 

At ATI, 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: 

Data management team is established to managing data and documents in ATI. The team is responsible to collect, manage and organize data and documents from projects, and analyse, generate reports for decision makers. The team also develop datahub to improve the advisory system, avail the data set, and handle the data request by consolidate data from different database systems.

Data management officer will report to the data management team leader. The Data management officer is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and reporting on data from projects and implementation regions of the ACC program. This includes data from all ACC projects and the four implementation regions.

ACCOUNTABILITY:

The Data management officer is responsible for data & document collection, analyse and generate report for decision makers. He/she is accountable for:

• Developing and Implementing Data management strategies

• Managing Data Quality and Accuracy

• Ensuring Data Security and Privacy

• Recognizes and complies with legal, regulatory, accrediting, and procedural requirements related to data

• Provide capacity building for staffs.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implementing Data Management Strategies

  • Determining ATI’s data needs and developing strategies to meet those needs.

  • Develop and implement data architecture

  • Ensure that all of the ATI's data assets have metadata loaded into the data catalogue

• Managing Data Quality and Accuracy     

  • Working together with the Data team, ACC projects teams, the planning team 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 ACC program

  • Ensures the collected data is accurate, complete, and consistent.

  • Implement processes and procedures to maintain data quality, such as data validation and quality control

  • To guarantee that all data created from diverse source systems comply with quality requirements, lead initiatives under the direction of Data Governance Committee.

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

  • Collect performance data across a host of KPIs from projects and implementation regions of the ACC program on a monthly and quarterly basis

  • Engage with the Planning and reporting and project teams to continuously monitor and identify data and reporting anomalies and recommend solutions including tools, processes and systems to address these challenges

•  Ensuring Data Security and Privacy

  • Implement data privacy policies and disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure that data is protected. This includes

  • Implement security controls, such as encryption and access controls, to prevent unauthorized access to data

• Recognizes and complies with legal, regulatory, and procedural requirements related to data

  • Understands and follows principles and standards as outlined in ATI’s Code of Conduct.

  • Protects customer and team member privacy and only accesses customer and/or team member related information as needed to perform job duties.

  • Reports violations or areas of concern to supervisor via established methods of communication.

  • Designs and constructs appropriate data structures to meet project requirements and comply with overall datahub design standards and principles.

• Capacity building provided to staff

  • Conduct gap assessment and identify key capacity building needs regarding data, data set and data policy.

  • Provide training to the staffs.

• Collaboration with the stakeholders

  • Works closely with project stakeholders and fellow team members to suggest and deliver appropriate solutions to operational challenges.

  • Works with the team to understand and leverage data sources into the datahub.

  • Follow up the updated and recent data and documents are uploaded.

Job Requirements

• MSC Degree in Information and Communication Technology, Computer Science, Statistics, or related fields and at least 4 years of experience

• Familiar with MS Excel and relational databases including SQL server, MYSQL and PostgreSQL

• Extensive experience working with SQL.

• Experience on analyse using python and R.

• Experience in Data Visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau and SQL Server Reporting Services

• Experience using, configuring, and managing of Microsoft SharePoint

• Familiar with data collection tools (Kobotoolbox, ODK and other)

• Strong analytical skills, especially with agriculture data

• Works well collaborating with others.

• Strong communication skills - both oral and written

• Fluency in Amharic and proficiency in English are essential. Knowledge of other Ethiopian languages is a plus

How to Apply

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to submit (i) a cover letter and (ii) a CV (maximum 5 pages) to THIS LINK

It is mandatory to mention the position title under the subject line of your cover letter.

Please DO NOT submit scans of certificates with your application.

NB. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.