Senior Project Officer I: Data Analyst

Internal/External Job Announcement

Position:                                   Senior Project Officer I: Data Analyst

Term of Employment:             One year with a possibility of extension

Duty Station:                             Addis Ababa

Required Number:                    One

Application Deadline:             January 24, 2025

Job Description

BACKGROUND

The Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) was established by the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) to identify systemic bottlenecks, conduct studies, and provide recommendations, provide implementation support, manage projects, create linkages and coordination among activities and agricultural development programs. The Institute 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 that, to be the leading centre of innovative solutions to catalyse and contribute to the transformation of Ethiopian Agriculture by 2030 where smallholder farmers are commercialized with greater incomes, inclusiveness, resilience, and sustainability.

ATI provides a unique 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 teams with the tools, training, and mentorships necessary to achieve their career goals.

The programmatic focus of the Institute responds to a core set of needs identified by the Ministry of Agriculture and other sectors along commodity value chains. Across the programs, the ATI engages public, private, and non-governmental stakeholders to support strategic planning, manage and strengthen implementation capacity and test innovative models. Currently, ATI is tasked to coordinate the revised Agriculture and Rural Development policy agendas of the sector and such sectoral level delegation requires high level expertise in the policy areas and skillsets in coordination and networking with multiple stakeholders.

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.

Project Background:

The Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) has been established by the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) to identify and address systemic bottlenecks to Ethiopia’s agricultural development. The Institute does this through problem-solving, implementation support, and capacity building of stakeholders involved in implementation of interventions that address the systemic bottlenecks.​ ATLAS Adaptation is a new project in ATI which brings together and confirms disparate spatially explicit Ethiopian data on the nature and evolving patterns of climate hazards, the exposure of smallholder populations, farms, and crop and livestock enterprises, factors illustrative of the adaptive capacity of those populations, and evidence of the efficacy of a range of climate adaptation intervention options (“solutions”).

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:

The senior project office-data analyst  will report to the data and knowledge management team leader and will work on the ATLAS Adaptation project. The expert will collect data, clean, analyse, and create dashboards for decision makers based on the required use cases. The senior technical expert will be tasked with coordinating the data collection, management and analysis activities within Data and knowledge management team and ATLAS adaptation project.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

ACCOUNTABILITY:

The SPO I-Data Analyst will be is responsible for collecting, processing, and analysing large sets of data to provide actionable insights and support decision-making within an organization. He/she will work with various data sources, tools, and techniques to extract, organize, and interpret data to identify trends, patterns, and business opportunities. He/she is accountable for: Identify new sources of data, Collect and Manage ,Data Analysis, Interpretation and Visualization, Handle internal and external data request, Collaboration with the stakeholders an Provide capacity building.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1.Identify new sources of data, Collect and Manage

• Design studies, data collection tools, and analysis plans
• Lead and manage the data collection of projects using Kobo toolbox or other tool.
• Gather and organize data from various sources (databases, APIs, spreadsheets, etc.).
• Clean and preprocess raw data to remove inconsistencies, duplicates, and errors.
• Ensure data and information collection tools, processes, and procedures are complying.
• Perform data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) to prepare data for analysis.
• Maintain and manage institute databases and data repositories.
• Ensure that data is stored securely, efficiently, and in accordance with data governance standards.

2.Data Analysis, Interpretation and Visualization

• Analyse large datasets using statistical techniques and tools (e.g., Excel, SQL, Python, R).
• Identify trends, patterns, correlations, and insights from data
• Develop dashboards, charts, and reports to present data insights to stakeholders
• Use tools like Power BI, or Excel to create visual reports and data visualizations
• Collaborate with teammates, leaders, and managers to determine and address data and reporting needs
• Works closely with project stakeholders and fellow team members to suggest and deliver appropriate solutions to operational challenges.

3.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

4.Collaboration with the stakeholders

• Works closely with project stakeholders and team members to suggest and deliver appropriate solutions to operational challenges.
• Works with the team to understand and leverage data sources into the data hub.

5.Provide Capacity building

• Prepare user guide documentation for all trainings
• provide data collection (kobo toolbox) and management training for staffs.
• Provide Power BI training for Analytics and ATI staffs.

Required qualifications, competencies, skills, training, and experience:

• BSc or MSc in Information and Communication Technology, Computer Science, statistics, and related fields.
• Minimum of 8 years for BSc or 6 years for MSc with directly related experience.
• Expert knowledge of various relational databases to include SQL server, my SQL and PostgreSQL, Duck DB 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.
• Comfortable navigating complex data structures in Databases to retrieve data
• Fluency in both spoken and written English and Amharic.

 

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: https://apply.ata.gov.et

It is mandatory to mention the position title under the subject line of your application email.

Please DO NOT submit scans of certificates with your application.

Women are highly encouraged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.