Position:                             Senior Technical Expert I, Data management and analysis

Term of Employment:     One Year with a possibility of extension

Duty Station(s):               Addis Ababa  

Required Number:           One

Application Deadline:      October 27, 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.  

Program Background:

The Agriculture Commercialization Cluster (ACC) a flagship program being implemented by the ATI. The ACC functions as a multi-stakeholder program which brings together diverse public, private and development partners on a common goal, i.e. transformational, sustainable, and inclusive impact on smallholder farmers and the agricultural sector through commercialization​. ATI primarily plays a strategic role to define prioritized interventions, coordinate activities and implement selected interventions. The ACC was devised based on best practice international examples as Ethiopia’s size and agro-ecological diversity necessitate a manageable, tailored solution for rapid enhancement across a 11 commodity value chains. ​

The ACC’s geographical commodity clusters drive integration and effective execution of multiple prioritized interventions across each value chain, between various actors, and across enabling support sectors.​ The interventions have a heavy focus on commercial viability of specific value chains to ensure effective policy action and sustainable investment.​ Through these interventions, the ACC aims to leverage the expertise of diverse actors in Ethiopia to commercialize smallholder agriculture through an inclusive and environmentally sustainable approach, increasing employment and income for the rural population.​

 POSITION SUMMARY: 

The data management and analysis senior technical expert will report to the data management team leader and will work with the ACC and other project teams. The expert will collect data, analyse, and create dashboards for decision makers based on the required use cases.

The senior technical expert will be tasked with coordinating the data tracking and management activities across approximately 15 projects of the program and across the 4 implementation regions. The senior technical expert will act as a liaison and focal person for all data and performance related information of the ACC program.

The ideal data management and analysis senior technical expert possesses a passion for improving the lives of small-holder farmers, and familiarity with Ethiopia’s agricultural system. The candidate should have strong skills and experience in data tracking & management, project management, stakeholder management and coordination. In addition, s/he should possess the operational ability to mobilize and leverage stakeholders across the program.    

ACCOUNTABILITY:

The STE I Data management and analysis is responsible for data collection, management, analyse and generate report for decision makers. He/she is accountable for:

·   Identify new sources of data and methods to improve data collection, analysis, and reporting.

·    Pursue data quality, troubleshoot data validation, and see issues to resolution.

·    Update data, reports, and dashboards within the assigned timeline and due dates

·    Handle internal and external data request.

RESPONSIBILITIES:   

Identify new sources of data and methods to improve data collection and analysis     

       ·  Design studies, data collection tools, and analysis plans

·   Lead and manage the data collection of ACC projects and others using Kobotoolbox tool.

·   Draw program performance insights from data points collected across project teams

·   Ensure data and information collection tools, processes, and procedures are complying.

·    Ensure data collection is optimized to provide crystal-clear visibility into the past, present, and future behaviours of our users.

·    Develop alternative ways of sourcing data working with project teams and partnering with external stakeholders when needed  

·   Extract data from different format and import it to central database.

Pursue data quality, troubleshoot data validation, and see issues to resolution

·  Analyse structured and unstructured data using quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods

·   Retrieve data from database or electronic files as requested 

 Update data, reports, and dashboards within the assigned timeline and due dates

·  Facilitate ACC projects’ performance data collection activity from both head office and regional project teams and on monthly and quarterly basis

·  Identify performance gaps and justifications for extreme (both high and low) performance values of projects

·  Work with the project teams to develop action plans based on decisions and directions given on performance review sessions:

·  Identify areas of improvement in data tracking and reporting through regular follow up with project teams and ACC leadership

·  Maintain and report on accuracy and timeliness of documentation submission

·  Create dashboards by pulling data from different sources and present them to management team

·  Collaborate with teammates, leaders, and managers to determine and address data and reporting needs for various projects

·  Ensure that best practices are collected and documented and ensure the application of lessons and best practices form previous efforts or other external sources                                                                                     

Handle internal and external data request

      ·  Entertain any data request comes from internal and external users based on the data policy

       ·  Document and create rules relating to data standards and definitions   

 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.

Provide Capacity building

·   Prepare user guide documentation for all trainings

·   provide data collection (kobotoolbox) training for project staffs.

·   Provide Power BI training for Analytics and ATI staffs.

Job Requirements

• MSC Degree in Information and communication Technology, Computer Science, Statics, or related fields with at least 6 years' experiences

• Expert knowledge of various relational databases to include SQL server, mySQL and PostgreSQL required.

• Extensive experience working with database queries.

• Experience on 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 and analysis tools (Kobotoolbox, ODK and other),  

• Strong analytical skills, especially with agriculture data

• Works well collaborating with others.

• Strong communication skills - both oral and written

• Comfortable navigating complex data structures in Databases to retrieve data

• 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 CLICK HERE

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.