POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT – INTERNAL/EXTERNAL
ASSOCIATE PROGRAM OFFICER – YOUTH, GENDER AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
REF: APOED/AGRA/08/2026
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) seeks to recruit an Associate Program Officer – Youth, Gender, and Enterprise Development – plays a critical role in driving and coordinating initiatives that contribute to employment creation, youth engagement, and gender integration in countries strategic implementation plans. This role focuses on establishing strategic partnerships to facilitate the development of a sustainable Business Development Services (BDS) ecosystem and fostering an inclusive environment that empowers youth and women. The incumbent will provide technical and advisory support to country teams, partners, and grantees in implementing AGRA funded programs in-country, and operationalization of AGRA’s Gender and inclusiveness, and youth-employment strategy.
AGRA is an African-led institution that actively supports the drive towards inclusive agricultural transformation and sustainable food systems. We do this by empowering the continent’s 33 million smallholder farming households to transform their agriculture from a struggle to survive to profitable businesses. The continent’s farmers regularly face challenges, and we aspire to provide uniquely African solutions that respond to their agricultural and environmental challenges, leading to increased harvests for reduced hunger and more income.
Working in alignment with the development priorities of our focus countries, we enable farmers to access improved and high-yielding seeds, gain knowledge on sustainable farming, and linkages to profitable markets.
In our work, we aspire to build the alliances, partnerships, and networks required to drive an inclusive agricultural transformation. We work with our partners to create an equitable youth-friendly environment that harnesses the youth dividend on the continent to drive growth and facilitate open employment opportunities for young women and men. We achieve our key objectives through a focus on the following four areas of intervention:
Implementing Our New Strategy Through People
People are the heart of our organization and remain the true drivers of our delivery and our impact. We work with incredible people and partners who have roots in farming communities across the continent combined with an inclusive and diverse workforce from over 24 nationalities. Our commitment to a call to action goes beyond ourselves as we arise to catalyze African Food Systems transformation by being Deeply collaborative, Executing Excellently, Sincerely Constructive and Increasingly Entrepreneurial aligned with our values of (I-RISE; Integrity, Respect, Innovation, Stewardship and Equity).
We are, therefore, looking for people who are passionate about Africa to join our innovative, growing, and multidisciplinary team. Together, we can grow Africa’s food systems improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Want to join us?
An important component in the market development for FL-RS is the provision of smart subsidies that benefit smallholder farmers through availing more affordable products and services. AGRA will (partially) procure FL-RS for further distribution of the FL-RS to smallholder farmers. To ensure impact delivery, the smart subsidies will only be released upon delivery of FL-RS to eligible farmers.
The role will focus on implementing the financing models and improving the bankability and performance of the MSMEs including cooperatives, youth groups, and other market actors. Additionally, the role will focus on stimulating private sector investment and innovation by addressing systemic barriers to finance and business support services, to achieve commercial viability, sustainability, and impact at scale. The role holder will work to strengthen the enabling environment for inclusive finance, foster commercially viable delivery channels for FL-RS, and facilitate sustainable partnerships that reduce market inefficiencies and promote long-term competitiveness across the value chain.
Role Summary:
The Associate Program Officer YGED is responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring initiatives, policies, and plans that align with AGRA’s objectives for youth and women empowerment, gender integration and inclusiveness, and enterprise development. The position holder will assist the country team, providing strategic guidance and leadership to ensure that youth, gender, and enterprise development receive due priority and visibility and are deliberately and effectively promoted as a critical component of AGRA in country programming.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Recommendations and Support
Monitoring and Evaluation
Job Creation and Entrepreneurship
Collaboration and Partnerships
Support for Country Teams
Awareness and Engagement Initiatives
Research and Analysis
Program Development and Knowledge Management
Academic and professional qualifications:
Education:
Experience
Skills:
Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Grade: HG16
Minimum Base Salary: USD 2,339 per month.
Terms of appointment: These are National Staff (NS) positions, initial appointment is for two years with the possibility of renewal, contingent upon individual performance and the availability of funding. The ILRI remuneration package for nationally recruited staff in Ethiopia includes a very competitive salary and benefits such as life and medical insurance, offshore pension plan, etc.
Applications: Applicants should provide a cover letter and curriculum vitae; names and addresses (including telephone and email) of three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work experience to be included in the curriculum vitae. The position and reference number: APOED/AGRA/08/2026, should be clearly indicated in the subject line of the cover letter. All applications to be submitted online on our recruitment portal: http://ilri.simplicant.com/ on or before 23 June 2026.
AGRA/ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training).
To find more about AGRA, visit our Website at www.agra.org.
To find out more about working at ILRI visit our website at https://www.ilri.org/
Suitably qualified women are particularly encouraged to apply.
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