Vacancy Announcement

ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY

Position:              Technology Analyst and Developer

Term of Employment:  Six months

Duty Station(s):             Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC), Addis Ababa

Required Number:        Two

Salary & Benefits:          Competitive

Application Deadline:   October 26, 2020

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 (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:   

This position is a secondment position to the Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC). Over the years, the EIC has pursued a series of policy, legal and institutional measures with the goal of effectively realizing Vision 2025 to make Ethiopia the favorite destination for investment in Africa. Clearer strategies have been put in place and a fairly enabling environment has been instituted, positioning the country to strengthen the competitive edge of its private sector, to attract foreign direct investment and to develop labor intensive industries and an export–oriented manufacturing sector. Yet, the transformation of the national economy continues to be hampered by the lack of full-fledged technology oriented service delivery within the EIC; particular problems include reviewing of physical investor folder to crosscheck previous activities regarding an investment project, missing investor pages while the movement of investor files from department to department, time taking and tiresome document reviewing processes. Although the EIC has recently launched an online investment registration and management portal for the registration of new investment projects, the portal does not include existing investment projects, which were registered manually and currently are stored only in hard copy. To address these limitations, the EIC has scanned relevant pages from existing investor files which accounts more than 9,000 hard folders. A data entry application has been developed to migrate these scanned pages to the new database. EIC together with the ATA, is launching a short-term exercise to test run this data entry application and to ensure the data migrated is accurate.

The Technology Analyst and Developer is expected, to work with EIC’s IT team to finalize and launch the data entry application and to ensure the successful migration of the data to EIC’s online investment registration and management portal’s database, according to the format provided by the Commission. The Technology Analyst and developer is responsible for the collection of data from a scanned copy of investor Files (around 9,000) using the Data Entry Application and ensure that the data is entered using the system/application to establish a baseline central Microsoft SQL server database. The Developer is also expected to develop an archive management system to help the EIC archive management department track the movement of investor files. The Developer will directly report to the Investment Information and Technology Department of the Ethiopian Investment Commission.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Coordinate, lead and work together with the Data Migration team.
• Coordinate and lead the team that will be testing and launching the data entry application.
• Deploy and set up the data entry application onto a local server.
• Test the data entry application on premises and provide access controls.
• Manage the data entry using the application to establish a baseline central Microsoft SQL server database for all existing investment projects.
• Verify the quality of data entered to the application and approve.
• Deploy a SharePoint based document management system onto a local server.
• Create a digital working platform for EIC in which all existing investor files will be stored.
• Write and develop a Utility Program and integrate the data base to the data base that is currently being used for the registration of new investment projects.
• Automate the current archive management at the EIC.
• Develop an archive management system that manages the movement of existing active physical investor folders. The archive management system should entail features recommended by the archive department.

Job Requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• A minimum of bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or in other related fields of study.
• At least 5 years of combined professional work experience in application development, digitization projects, data entry and system integrations and and team leadership experience
• Fluency in Amharic and English language.

 PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Proven experience in application development preferably experience related to investor data management system developments.
• Proven experience in document management system.
• Basic understanding of the Ethiopian Investment Commission’s workflow to subsequently understand the development of the data entry application and its integration to the existing online portal.
• Proven experience in coordinating and leading an execution of a project.
• Highly dedicated and energetic to successfully provide the required task.
• Excellent computer (ICT) skills, analytical and data gathering skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong set of personal values including integrity, honesty and desire to be of service.

How to Apply

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to submit (i) a cover letter and (ii) CV (maximum 3 pages) to https://apply.ata.gov.et

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

Please DO NOT submit scans of educational and experience certificates with your application.

Women are highly encouraged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.