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PIB PLCVacancy AnnouncementPosition: Export Officer - Qty: 2- Salary: Negotiable and Attractive

Oromia Water Works Design and Supervision EnterpriseExternal Vacancy AnnouncementJob Title: Senior Agronomist- Name of Project / Process/: Different Irrigation Projects - Salary: 13,772.00- Terms of Contract: 1 year- Req. No: 2

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)Vacancy Announcement Position: Scientist - Climate Information and Agro-Advisory The position• Farmers in East Africa need to increase agricultural productivity and achieve food and nutrition security through adoption of appropriate climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices, technologies, and institutional innovations to effectively adapt to climate variability and change. CCAFS works with the national agricultural research and extension agencies, climate institutes and weather forecast centers, NGO’s and CGIAR centers to develop climate information services, farm technologies and management systems based on high resolution spatial modeling applications such as the CCAFS Regional Agricultural. Forecasting Toolbox (CRAFT) and CCAFS Agricultural Monitor (CAM) around a set of crops and along value chains that are well adapted to East Africa. The use of system modelling tools in association with seasonal and sub-seasonal climate forecasts enable researchers to identify intervention strategies and points of intervention in the farm-value chain that result in the greatest returns for the lowest risk. With increased focus on developing climate risk and vulnerability profiles and identifying target regions more to environmental changes, CCAFS is retooling to undertake multidisciplinary research for development and systems approaches.• The Climate Smart Agriculture project is implemented by the CGIAR research program Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in East Africa (CCAFS EA) that is hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in the region, in cooperation with SNV Netherlands Development Organization, Wageningen University and Research, Agriterra and Rabo Partnership. The project will provide an opportunity to farmers to adapt their farming activities and minimize the negative effects of climate change by adopting innovative climate-smart agriculture technologies and practices along value chains, thereby contributing to the increased availability of safe and affordable nutritious food for the growing population in the region. The scientist will play a key role in developing climate change scenarios from available model outputs, perform data analytics using CRAFT, CCAFS Agricultural Monitor (CAM) and other relevant approaches and procedures for downscaling climate information, and using a range of analytical techniques for understanding modelled scenario information at different scales of relevance for East Africa. The scientist will also support other related activities across other bilateral projects.Responsibilities:• Identify key issues constraining starting-up or doing business in the different agri-food chains and sub sectors in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and the implications for climate smart agriculture and food systems in these countries;• Lead the development of climate risk and vulnerability analysis along agricultural value chains;• Initiate effective engagement with relevant national government and regional organizations, CGIAR centers, private sector and other relevant stakeholders, and lead development of climate information services to support development of effective climate information and agro-advisory services for farmers;• Develop and lead climate-informed and safety net interventions for the target countries in East Africa;• Contribute to on-going research in climate risk management, assessing climate change vulnerabilities and impacts, and planning for adaptation;• Support use and analysis of climate modelling experiments (outputs) at different time scales, seasonal and sub-seasonal climate forecast information services and modeling/generation of future climate change scenarios and associated research on choice of CSA technologies;• Provide analytical expertise in big data analytics for developing CRAFT, CAM and other approaches to understand temporal and spatial dynamics and change in crop-based systems, such as developing high resolution crop, climate, soil and crop management data for agricultural systems models in multi-point simulations to support climate information services and agro-advisories, and develop digital fertilizer recommendations in collaboration with other CCAFS partners;• Coordinate and design integrated digital agricultural data hub, agricultural decision support platform and advisories, as well as decision support tools (DSTs), and test effectiveness of DSTs in the field and value-chains;• Identify opportunities for mitigation (reduction of GHG and increase of carbon sequestration) within the business cases along the agricultural value-chain;• Support research on barriers to adoption of climate-smart technologies and practices, and enabling environment hurdles as part of CCAFS scaling and policy engagement efforts;• Support creating an enabling policy environment, linkage and influencing of national climate plans and priority setting for targeted investments that support scaling of interventions under climate change scenarios to support CCAFS’s scaling and policy engagement efforts;• Provide technical and strategic support to further develop relevant public and private meteorological services in the target countries;• Collaborate with and lead interdisciplinary teams from CCAFS South-South Initiative, CGIAR centers, regional NARES, development partners (e.g. SNV, IFAD, GIZ, USAID etc.) and higher education institutions to further develop and contextualize CAM for weather deviations and crop loss assessment for national and regional area yield index insurance schemes;• Strengthen capacity of partners and engagement with CCAFS strategic partners from international, regional and national universities through co-supervising undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students; and• Contribute to the resource mobilization efforts of CCAFS in collaborations with other CGIAR Research Programs and CCAFS partners through writing research proposals.- Post location: The position will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia- Position level: The position level is 4C- Duration: 3 years with the possibility of renewal, contingent upon individual performance and continued funding.- Benefits: ILRI offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes medical insurance, life insurance and allowances for: education, housing, home leave, and annual holiday entitlement of 30 days + public holidays.- Closing Date: December 31, 2018

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)Vacancy Announcement Position: TAAT Wheat Value Chain Project - Technology Transfer SpecialistThe Position: The African Development Bank has funded through its African Development Fund "Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) program, which is a flagship initiative in support of the Bank's Feed Africa Strategy. The objectives of the TAAT Program are to scale up proven agricultural technologies and achieve a widespread and transformative impact on African agriculture in terms of enhancing productivity, food security, income and poverty alleviation.ICARDA is implementing the wheat component within the frame of TAAT Program, which will be executed in low-income African countries. The project activities are conducted within BCI program in close collaboration with the National Agricultural Research and Extension System (NARES,) private sector and other relevant partners in the project target countries.ICARDA seeks to hire a TAAT Wheat Value Chain Project - Technology Transfer Specialist to provide a technical support in scaling up activities and participate in establishing and operationalizing innovation platforms (IP)s. The position provides critical support to national partners to link IP participating farmers with output markets and who will be a member of ICARDA-Ethiopia team.Key Responsibilities:• Participate and support national partners in establishing and operationalizing functional IPs at selected sites in project target countries;• Provide technical support for implementing scaling up activities in partnership with NARES, private sector and other stakeholders in each project target country;• Contribute to technology dissemination activities, seed production, and prototype mass production through promoting a participatory research for development approach;• Provide technical and coordination support to organize field days for promoting and expanding IP based success stories and best practices leading to a transformative and nation-wide impact in each target country and across the similar agro-ecology;• Coordinate and support regional and national partners to link IP participating farmers with output markets;• Develop/enhance/expand collaboration and networking among all partners involved in the wheat value chain in the target agro-ecology;• Organize and participate focused and hands-on trainings with national partners to build capacity of farmers and stakeholders on improved production and post-harvest management techniques in the target countries;• Coordinate and assist national partners in preparing and widely distributing technical production manuals, fliers, leaflets, brochures for IP participating farmers and stakeholders in the target countries;• Participate and assist in organizing annual planning and joint coordination meeting with project partners;• Perform any other duties as required by the PIU coordinator.- Duty Station: Addis Ababa. - Job level: 3C.- Monthly Base Salary: Birr 51,874 (Negotiable depending on experience, skill and salary history of the candidate)- Terms of appointment: This is a Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position, initial appointment is for three years. ICARDA offers a multicultural, collegial research environment with competitive salary and excellent benefits in line with ILRI salary applicable for its Nationally Recruited Staff.The ILRI campus is set in a secure, attractive campus with dining and sports facilities.

PIB PLCImmediate Vacancy AnnouncementPosition: Export Officer- Required: 2- Work/Office Location: Saris- Salary: Negotiable and Attractive

Belayneh Kindie Import & Export CompanyVacancy AnnouncementPosition: Agronomist- No. Required: 1 - Terms of Employment: Permanent- Salary: Negotiable and attractive- Place of Work: Addis Ababa

Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency Vacancy AnnouncementPosition: Director, Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC)- Term of Employment: Fixed- Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa- Required Number: One- Salary & Benefits: Competitive- Application Deadline: September 18, 2018Position summary- The ACC Director will lead the refinement of ACC strategies, integrate ACC strategies with national priorities (Agro-industrial parks, AGP and others), represent ACC in strategic platforms (Inter-ministerial, parliament , command post etc.), develop capacity building plan for regional ACC, serve as an independent voice to ATA senior management team and the CEO to gage the progress of cluster strategies implementation on ATA priorities and act as a risk mitigating agent in the project management office (PMO). In addition, the ACC Director will create national level platforms to bridge the gap of public and private sector to maximize the commercialization of small farmers output. The ACC director will report to the Senior Director of the CEO officeESSENTIAL DUTIES:The main responsibilities of the ACC Director include:• Lead the refinement of ACC/cluster strategies with the support of ATA senior management team and the CEO• Align ACC strategies with national priorities and flagship programs to enhance the integration of ACC strategies to the transformation of the agricultural sector• Lead ACC stakeholder interaction with federal, regional and other implementation partners• Plan and deploy technical expertise to the regions in an optimal manner to ensure Value chain interventions are executed in a pre-set standards• Develop capacity building plans to ensure skill transfer in increasing production and productivity and marketing while transformational mindset is instilled in regional staff• Co-coordinating public-private stakeholders' alignment on ACC strategies and deliverables• Ensure effective regular communication with the various government offices, the private sector and development partner• Support the Project Management Office to achieve its intended results• Support the mobilization of domestic and external resources for the ACC Initiative, including development of project proposals, as necessary• Support the facilitation of private sector investments and provide on-going problem-solving support by closely working with the concerned stakeholders