Position: Project Officer II- Cluster Coordinator
\nTerm of Employment: One year with possibility of extension
\nDuty Station(s): Oromia (Based at Babile)
\nRequired Number: One
\nApplication Deadline: December 28, 2025
\nBACKGROUND
\nThe 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\u2019s agriculture sector. The ATI envisions that, to be the leading center of innovative solutions to catalyze and contribute to the transformation of Ethiopian Agriculture by 2030 where smallholder farmers are commercialized with greater incomes, inclusiveness, resilience, and sustainability.
\nATI provides a unique platform for people who want to achieve their highest potential and make a meaningful contribution in changing the country\u2019s 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.
\nThe 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.
\nOur Culture
\nWe 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.
\nAt ATI, we provide an exceptional platform for people who want to achieve their highest potential and make a meaningful contribution in changing the country\u2019s 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.
\nPOSITION SUMMARY:
\nThe Cluster Development project within ATI has been established to improve income of smallholder farmers (SHFs) by helping them to increase agricultural yield and achieve greater commercialization. The project is expected to develop farmer production clusters (FPCs) which is an approach of grouping farmers with adjacent farm plots to consolidate their farm activity, develop them like a business entity and access targeted support across the value chain.
\nThe Cluster coordinator will work across the three ACC crop segments (Input, production & market linkage) and will reports to the Regional Director. The Cluster Coordinator will drive day-to-day coordination of implementation activities in the ACC by public, private, and development sector stakeholders, as agreed in the ACC target-setting and operational-planning process.
\nACCOUNTABILITY:
\nThe cluster coordinator is accountable to support clusters with ACC prioritized interventions or projects across the value chain and ensure the interventions or projects contributes to increasing level of farmers\u2019 aggregation and adoption of improved production practices through effective delivery of the following KPIs:<\/p>\n
Farmers know about and get registered in FPCs,
\nLand covered under FPCs\/ACC with full package recommendations increased.
\nVolume of production and priority commodity productivity under FPC\/ACC increased.
\nVolume of marketable surplus under FPC & ACC woreda increased.
\nInvolvement of farmers in the bottom up FPC plan preparation ensured.
\nACC planning and M&E system integrated into respective zonal system and processes.
\nVCA forums are facilitated and conducted regularly.
\nSupport and follow up HDP project activity implementation in the zones.<\/p>\n
RESPONSIBILITIES:
\nSpecific responsibilities for the cluster coordinator in the ACC Project include, but not limited to:<\/p>\n
Mainstream use of planning, program management and reporting processes and tools developed by the National and Regional cluster development teams and by other local stakeholders, to ensure effective decision-making.
\nCoordinate planning (including preparation and circulation of meeting agendas, presentation decks, and cluster reports) and facilitating of cluster commodity value chain alliance meetings and other activities within the cluster and its follow ups.
\nEnsure strong program management within the FPC\/ACC through driving day to day coordination of interventions and reporting, verifying status and progress of interventions, proactively identifying issues and solution options, working with stakeholders to ensure effectively joint problem-solving.
\nEscalate issues and needs which cannot be addressed at the ACC level to regional director where appropriate, including support around coordination, resources, capacity-building, policy, and other systemic interventions.
\nOversight and tracking of relevant ATI-owned interventions implemented by another ATI team.
\nFollow up woreda focal persons and VC members and report regularly on progress.
\nCoordinate DAs for periodic and yearly FPC assessment,
\nEnsure upward reporting meets needs for Regional and National stakeholders,
\nRecord and document cluster level basic databases including cropping system and all agricultural data and information\u2019s, any ATI intervention projects and ACC Woreda agricultural basic data .
\nEngage on delivery of full package training for Zonal and woreda experts and DAs in collaboration with Zonal and Woreda office of agriculture.
\nProvide FPC technical support\/backstopping, implementation monitoring and supervision in collaboration with Zonal and Woreda Agricultural office
\nActively participate on clusters level monitoring.
\nOrganize learning field days for ACC\/FPC participant farmers in collaboration with the Zonal Office of Agriculture.
\nFacilitate capacity-building activities for IDPs and follow up on HDP project implementations across the zones.
\nLiaise with community leaders, IDPs\/refugees, local stakeholders, and humanitarian organizations in the zones to ensure effective and coordinated HDP project implementation.
\nOrganize, collect, and maintain accurate data on IDPs\/refugees for proper targeting and resource allocation.
\nEnsure timely updates of beneficiary lists, service mapping, and activity documentation.
\nEnsure transparent, inclusive, and equitable beneficiary selection for HDP project activities .
\nDocument best practices in collaboration with the Zonal Office of Agriculture and share to other areas.
\nFacilitate market linkage platforms for FPCs with potential buyers to enhance contract farming\/marketing.<\/p>\n
Other<\/p>\n
The cluster coordinator is responsible for additional tasks assigned by the Regional ACC Director to meet the team\u2019s functions.
\nEducation: Master\u2019s degree in Agronomy, Crop Science, Plant Science, Agriculture, Crop Protection, Plant Breeding, Irrigation Agronomy, Dryland Agriculture, Rural development, Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics and other relevant field .
\nExperience: At least 4 years of professional experience
\nThe cluster coordinator is expected to have in-depth knowledge of agriculture and rural development particularly on Agricultural policy and regulatory framework in Ethiopia including specifically<\/p>\n
About You<\/p>\n
Required Qualification, Competencies, and Experience:<\/p>\n
In-depth experience and know how of agricultural commercialization, agri-business \/ agro-industry, or industrial cluster or corridor initiatives in Ethiopia,
\nPossess excellent stakeholder management skills including knowledge and understanding of various public and private stakeholder relationships in the ACC, extensive experience in facilitating dialogue with them.
\nStrong knowledge and skill on identifying and problem-solving challenges to agricultural value chain development, as well as best practice program and project management approaches and monitoring and evaluation activities.
\nUnderstanding of private sector, commercial farming, market-based programming experience with a particular focus with smallholder farmers,
\nExperience working with IDPs, refugees, or emergency response programs is highly desirable.
\nGood understanding of humanitarian principles and protection standards.
\nExcellent oral and written communication skills, with highly collaborative working style.
\nFluency in English and Afan Oromo, written and spoken, is essential; knowledge of other local Ethiopian languages preferred.
\nExperience in working within multi-cultural teams .
\nExcellent analytical and problem-solving skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"https:\/\/apply.ati.gov.et","_company_name":"Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)","_company_website":"","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job_listing_region":[11],"job-categories":[],"job-types":[12],"class_list":["post-2107","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-expired","hentry","job_listing_region-ethiopia","job-type-full-time"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/2107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_region?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}