Position:                           Senior Ethics 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:

The Senior Ethics Officer is accountable for the specific deliverables of the Ethics Unit, focusing on study and capacity building to ensure transparency and accountability in the Institute operations by safeguarding the procedures are free from corruption and impropriety. The Senior Ethics Officer reports to the Director of the Ethics Unit and is responsible to study the risk of corruption vulnerability areas; facilitate capacity building trainings and other platform to enhance staff & leadership knowledge and attitude on ethics and prevention of corruption; conduct income and asset registration and declaration for staff and leadership; and monitor the implementation of established procedure for corruption prevention, receive, organize, and analyze corruption incidents come through whistleblowing.

Responsibilities

• Identify knowledge and attitude gap of staff and leadership on ethics and prevention of corruption and develop capacity building training and other learning platforms (email communication, events, and other communication channels) to fill the identified gaps.

• Conduct a study on corruption and impropriety vulnerability in the Institute, including areas of conflict of interest of leadership and employees; and prepare an assessment report including recommendations and forward it to the Institute concerned body for further processing.

• Organize information collection from the Institute’s employees for the incidence of corruption, analyze it to further processing and decision making.

• Support the revision of the Institute’s corruption prevention strategy, and code of conduct for the leadership and employees of the Institute in coordination with other concerned bodies and follow up its implementation; and ensure that the revised strategy and code of conduct is timely communicated to all leaders and staff; follow the implementation.

• Coordinate the income and asset declaration and registration of all leadership and employees of the Institute and follow the implementation of the registration through digital system and other alternatives channels.

• Ensure the respect of anti-corruption laws and give advisory service for the organization for their implementation.

• Follow up on the internal and external audit finding rectifications.

• Facilities to make an integration with other organs which work on building ethics and prevention of corruption.

• Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor or by other appropriate staff of the Institute.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in law, Ethics and Civics, Good Governance, Economics, Business Administration, Sociology, Management, or other related fields.

• At least 6 years of experience working in above stated fields for BA and 4 years for master’s degree.

• A nuanced understanding of Ethiopia’s anti-corruption policies.

• Experience in identifying potential areas of work that are vulnerable to corruption and impropriety and conducting ways of correcting working methods studies.

• Excellent data collection and analysis as well as analytical skills pertaining to corruption prevention and ethical building.

• Experience in training need assessment and development of capacity building training and other learning platforms

• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, start-up environment, with an emphasis on high-performance, teamwork, accountability, and results.

• Strong set of personal values including integrity, honesty, and desire to be of service

• Experience in developing policies and guidelines that help prevent corruption and impropriety.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Amharic are essential.

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.