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GENERAL INFORMATION
- 1. SOLICITATION NO.: 72066324R10020
2. ISSUANCE DATE: October 21, 2024
3. CLOSING DATE AND TIME FOR RECEIPT OF OFFERS: November 4, 2024 NLT 11:59 p.m. EAT
4. POINT OF CONTACTS: Reid Ahl, Supervisory EXO and Fekadu Tamirate, HR Specialist, e-mail at
addisusaidjobs@usaid.gov.
5. POSITION TITLE: Project Management Specialist (Economic Policy Advisor)
6. MARKET VALUE: $26,638 – $47,950 yearly i.e., equivalent to FSN-11. In accordance with AIDAR
Appendix J and the Local Compensation Plan of USAID/Ethiopia. Final compensation will be
negotiated within the listed market value. Salary will be paid in local currency at the exchange rate
in effect when the payroll is processed.
7. PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: Five (5) years. The services provided under this contract are
expected to be of a continuing nature through a series of sequential contracts, subject to continued
need, satisfactory performance, and the availability of funds. The expected initial period of
performance is 03/02/2025 – 03/01/2030.
8. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE: US Embassy, Entoto Road, Addis Ababa, with possible travel as stated
in the Statement of Duties.
9. ELIGIBLE OFFERORS: Cooperating Country Nationals (CCNs). “Cooperating country national”
means an individual who is a cooperating country citizen, or a non-cooperating country citizen
lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the cooperating country.
10. SECURITY LEVEL REQUIRED: Facility Access.
STATEMENT OF DUTIES:
a. General Statement of Purpose of the Contract
The Project Management Specialist is a senior expert specialized in working in the areas of
macroeconomic and microeconomic (agriculture, food security, natural resources), policies, and
learning, monitoring, and evaluation of food and agriculture development programs. The
jobholder will be an expert in aggregate and sector policy review, analysis and reporting;
development and communication of new strategies to stakeholders; analysis of macro- and
micro-economic dynamics, review of market system approaches, and coordination of research
designs and implementation. The incumbent supports USAID, other donor and host country
economic growth and assistance programs by developing strategies, analytical models, and
methodologies; analyzing data; and providing assistance and advice on economic growth issues.
Employs economic analyses, such as inclusive growth diagnostic/constraints analysis, and
insights derived from them to provide guidance to the Mission Leadership for decisions about
allocation of resources across sectors. The jobholder will have broad experience working with
senior government officials and institutions, civil society and business organizations (such as the
Ethiopian Economics Association, the Ethiopian Agricultural Professional Associations, the
Ethiopian Land Administration Professionals Association, Chamber of Commerce, and Sectoral
Association Apex Entities at the Federal and Regional levels), and various bilateral and
multilateral donors and development partners.
The jobholder leads mission-wide collaboration and coordination of economic, food security,
resilience, nutrition, and water, sanitation, and hygiene activities, and represents the Mission’s
efforts to the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry
of Industry, the Agriculture Transformation Institute, the Ethiopian Policy Studies Institute, the
Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research, the U.S. Government interagency, international and
bilateral organizations, other development partners, and civil society and business organizations,
such as the Ethiopian Economics Association, the Ethiopian Agricultural Professional
Associations, the Ethiopian Land Administration Professionals Association, the Chamber of
Commerce, among others, and sectoral association apex entities at the Federal and Regional
levels. The jobholder serves as a Contracting Officer’s Representative/Agreement Officer’s
Representative (COR/AOR) and/or Activity Manager on assigned program/project/activities and
serves as a trusted resource in development and economic growth practices and principles.
b. Statement of Duties to be Performed
- Technical and Strategic Leadership (45%)
Serves as the Mission’s technical expert and lead on economic, food and agriculture policy
and learning, providing high level technical guidance to the Mission, the Government of
Ethiopia, and other development partners on issues pertaining to agriculture and food
system transformation in order to reduce poverty, hunger and malnutrition. - Provides overall strategic and technical guidance and direction on food and agriculture
policy programs, institutional capacity building, and learning. - Provides expert technical assistance and support to the Mission, implementing partners,
government counterparts, and policy system actors on strategy development, policy
development and implementation, learning and impact assessment, participatory
engagement, collaboration, and adaptive management. - Works closely with leadership across the agrifood system to ensure that the quality of
programs implemented by partners are adequately addressed. - Through literature review, research and regular communications with local and
international stakeholders, keeps abreast of emerging developments in food systems
development approaches, and provides advice on how these policies and strategies can
most effectively be incorporated to enhance Mission approaches. - Analyzes the effects of current economic policies and briefs and advises senior Interagency,
USAID Mission and EGR Office management regarding economic policy issues relevant to
successful achievement of USG assistance objectives. - Serves as a technical resource and advisor, providing analyses on the economic aspects of
assistance programs and analyzing and presenting consumer price index and forex market
data. - Contributes economic criteria into scopes of work for project and program evaluations and
briefs evaluation teams regarding economic background and conditions within which USAID
programs operate. - Coordinates evidence and learning agendas as related to assessing the high-level impact of
the USG’s FtF Initiative on food system transformation, poverty reduction, and nutrition,
including the collection and analysis of data and the identification of lessons learned. - Identifies and arranges for the procurement of short-term technical assistance and ensures
that the objectives of this assistance are consistent with and support the furtherance of the
Mission’s FtF and economic development portfolio. - Organizes site visits and prepares orientation materials for delegations from USAID
headquarters, the State Department, and other agencies. - Identifies potential external partners and builds, develops and maintains strategic,
high-level relationships with external partners, including private sector, governmental,
non-governmental, and non-traditional development organizations, and others, through
formal and informal outreach, personal contacts and networking. - Builds capacity for partner engagement and learning throughout the Mission.
Program/Project/Activity Management (30%) - Leads the design of FtF, resilience, economic growth and other project mechanisms and
activities supporting work with food systems actors to promote inclusive and sustainable
agriculture-led growth, prosperity, resilience, and nutrition. Primary areas of programming
will include sustainable production and market systems, business and entrepreneurship and
inclusive policy systems for agriculture, resilience, land governance and nutrition. - Designs, implements, monitors, and evaluates programs directed at achieving rapid,
sustainable, and broad-based economic growth. - Serves as the Alternate COR for the $11 million Land Governance activity and the $68
million Feed the Future Transforming Agriculture activity and the Activity Manager for the
$18 million Policy Link activity. - Keeps the Office Director regularly informed of FtF, resilience, economic growth and other
relevant program implementation progress, results, and issues/problems on a timely basis. - Prepares and reviews technical scopes of work for technical assistance activities.
- Reviews implementing partners’ annual work plans, monitoring and evaluation plans, and
learning and adapting strategies. - Oversees strategic implementation of FtF and other relevant activities, to include but not be
limited to: activity pipeline management, design of USAID-funded transaction support
mechanisms; monitoring performance and compliance issues; and providing operational
guidance to implementing partners and mission staff about the partner technical support
and business relationship(s). - Engages with government, civil society, and business leadership to support new and existing
efforts to advance availability and affordability of nutrition-sensitive agriculture. - Supports and strengthens the implementation and coordination of Ethiopia’s food and
agriculture policies and programs. - Designs and conducts impact and/or performance assessments to assess the effectiveness
of FTF, economic growth, resilience, nutrition and agriculture policy and programming. - Communicates results of analysis both verbally and in writing to specialist and
non-specialist audiences in a manner easily understood. - Provides policy related technical guidance to the Mission’s COR/AORs and Activity
Managers of FtF activities as needed, requested, and/or otherwise appropriate
Representation and Reporting (25%) - Leads Mission engagement with, and represents Mission programming to, high-level GoE
officials with respect to Mission-wide FtF and other relevant activity implementation and
performance. - Produces briefing materials for, and facilitates, high-level engagement between senior USG
and GoE officials related to food security policy, food and agriculture system
transformation, and agriculture sector competitiveness, resilience, sustainability, and
inclusivity. - Represents the Mission as its designated representative to national, regional and
international meetings and other fora related to economic growth, food security policy,
food and agriculture system transformation, and agriculture sector competitiveness,
resilience, sustainability, and inclusivity. Develops presentation materials for self and other
senior USG officials for such engagements. - Communicates regularly with donors, Ethiopian chambers and associations, civil society
actors, and policy makers to better understand the business enabling environment for
agriculture, anticipate upcoming policy changes before they happen, and build broad
consensus on USAID’s development implementation approach to food security in Ethiopia. - Works with non-government entities in civil society, associations, and business to increase
their capacity to advocate for the changes required to better enable agribusiness, food
security, and nutrition. - Establishes strategic working relationships with senior government officials at the national
and district levels, development partners, civil society organizations, private sector
counterparts, and professional organizations to enhance regular and timely sharing of
information on issues related to food and agriculture policy reform and business enabling
environment affecting USAID implementation. - Leverages relationships to attain high-level consensus on changes to key policy, legal and
regulatory constraints that limit inclusive, resilient, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture-led
growth. - Exchanges evidence, experiences, and learning with Washington and other USAID Missions
to advance the Agency’s FtF and other projects learning agenda.
The contractor is eligible for travel to the U.S., or to other locations abroad, for training, for
temporary duty, or to participate in the “Foreign Service National” Fellowship Program, in
accordance with USAID policy. - c. Supervisory Relationship. The Specialist will report to the Policy and Strategy Division Chief in
the EGR Office. Most assignments are self-generated and occur in the normal course of work and
the jobholder exercises independence in most phases of his/her job responsibilities but
determines those situations that must be coordinated with the supervisor or other team
members. Completed work is accepted as technically correct, and the overall work is reviewed in
terms of results achieved.
d. Supervisory Controls. The position will not have supervisory responsibility.
12. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The work requested does not involve undue physical demands.
II. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION
a. Education: A minimum of master’s degree in agricultural economics, agricultural extension,
economics, food security, rural development, statistics, or relevant field of studies is required.
b. Prior Experience: A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in food and
agriculture systems development, economic and policy analysis and strategic planning, program
management, collaboration with and/or working for a large governmental organization, donor
organizations, the host country government, or other related organizations is required.
c. Language: Level 4 (advanced professional proficiency) in English and Amharic, both oral and written.
d. Knowledge: Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of food and agriculture system
transformation, economics analysis, policy, and learning approaches and interventions. Demonstrated
senior-level knowledge of the overall agricultural development sector context and coordination
platforms between government and development partners. Working knowledge of project design and
management to support the agriculture sector and food system through bilateral cooperation.
e. Skills and Abilities: Demonstrated strong leadership, coaching, mentorship skills, particularly in the
areas of program coordination, learning, adaptation, and improvement. Demonstrated strategic,
technical, and analytical skills needed to effectively conceptualize, design, implement, monitor and
evaluate the Mission’s food security interventions. Demonstrated strong skills in communication,
advocacy, negotiating, consensus building, and networking. Demonstrated strong conceptual and
analytical skills to be able to quickly grasp situational realities, envision solutions, and translate these
new concepts into operational plans and results.
Demonstrated outstanding ability to exercise flexibility to be able to accept and react to evolving
planning and implementation contexts. demonstrated excellent computer skills including skills with
Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, web-based databases, and electronic filing. Demonstrated ability to
exercise individual judgment in his/her roles. Demonstrated ability to take initiative and offer leadership
in reviewing the progress of programs and projects under his/her responsibility, including performance
reports, pipeline management, program implementation reviews, as well as fulfilling other reporting
requirements. Demonstrated timely decision-making ability and extensive judgment in planning and
carrying out tasks, using diplomacy and tact.
Job Requirement
Qualification & work experience
- A minimum of master’s degree in agricultural economics, agricultural extension, economics, food security, rural development, statistics, or relevant field of studies A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in food and agriculture systems development, economic and policy analysis and strategic planning, program management, collaboration with and/or working for a large governmental organization, donor organizations, the host country government, or other related organizations is required
Place of work: USAID/US Embassy Entoto Road
Salary Range: The salary range of the position is FSN-11; $26,638 – $47,950 yearly, articulated in U.S. dollars but paid in Birr
How to Apply
Deadline for Applications: 11/04/2024
Detailed information and instructions for applying can be found at https://www.usaid.gov/usaidethiopia-project-management-specialist-economic-policy-advisor-fsn-11: https://www.usaid.gov/usaidethiopia-project-management-specialist-economic-policy-advisor-fsn-11 calling USAID/HR via +251-111-30-6240