Overview
The role holder will lead advocacy, partnerships, and organizational capacity-building efforts for the Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture & Food System project in Ethiopia. The purpose is to support the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture in improving national nutrition through revised sector policies and strategic frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct human resources needs assessment
- Develop advocacy and partnership guidelines
- Design and implement organizational development (OD) plans
- Provide technical leadership concerning project objectives and successful project activities delivery
- Lead human resource needs assessments and develop actionable work plans
- Support the establishment of resource mobilization structures within the MoA
- Provide mentorship and on-the-job training to MoA and regional staff
- Identify and implement capacity-building initiatives
- Facilitate the appointment of Nutrition Champions and Advocacy Groups
- Strengthen partnerships with stakeholders and development partners
- Support the development and revision of sector strategies, guidelines, and manuals
- Lead the design and implementation of advocacy and partnership strategies
- Coordinate advocacy initiatives targeting government institutions and stakeholders
- Facilitate evidence-based policy dialogues and learning events
- Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with government, NGOs, academia, and civil society
- Promote collaboration and information sharing
- Support resource mobilization efforts
- Serve as a liaison between SCI, MoA, and partners
- Assess institutional and organizational capacity gaps
- Design and implement capacity development plans
- Support operationalization of AGMIS-2 systems
- Strengthen data management and utilization for decision-making
- Map the existing organizational structure and develop a new human resource plan
- Develop a change management plan to facilitate and guide structural transitions
- Support the development of job descriptions and career structures for staffing the NS-AFS Strategy implementation plan
- Develop organizational standard operating procedures around the major organizational changes being rolled out
- Continually engage with all stakeholders to ensure satisfaction and key involvement from key functions
- Responsible for communication of project progress and challenges to the Sr. Manager and developing mitigation plans
- Ensure data-driven decision-making, leveraging insights to inform future project strategies
- Lead the Agriculture Management Information System design testing and piloting in coordination with relevant stakeholders
- Support the scaling up of the identified NSA evidence and lessons
- Establish/Strengthen the federal MOA food and nutrition coordination mechanism
- Establish/Strengthen the regional nutrition coordination mechanisms
- Design tools that will be used to guide coordination mechanisms across the board
- Assesses, analyzes and designs relevant capacity building initiatives to build effective partnership mechanisms
- Conduct stakeholder mapping to guide strategic partnership among different actors
- Based on the stakeholder mapping result, a map of intervention areas will be identified and shared with relevant partners for prioritization of intervention areas
- Collaborate with the Federal and regional Civil Service organization to facilitate financing for nutrition
- Provide technical guidance to implementing partners, ensuring the effectiveness of interventions
- Facilitate cross-learning workshops, ensuring stakeholders exchange best practices
- Evaluate and amend the agriculture sector organizational development policy and strategy
- Contribute to learning and knowledge management systems
- Promote evidence-based decision-making
- Support internal knowledge sharing and team capacity development
- Ensure effective coordination and advocacy mechanism is in place for all organizational development activities
- Establish relationship with Federal Ministry of Public Service and Human Resources Development and Ministry of Agriculture to advocate the establishment/strengthening of Nutrition Structure in agriculture sector
- Promote learning throughout the project, particularly on issues of organizational change
- Regularly produce and report on best practices and case studies
- Comply with Save the Children policies, including safeguarding, code of conduct, and health and safety.
Required Experience
Minimum 8 years of experience in organizational development or change management. At least 3 years in leadership roles in agriculture or nutrition-related projects. Experience working with government institutions. Strong training, mentoring, and capacity-building experience. Desired Experience in developing programs, guidelines, and manuals.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in economics, Agricultural Economics, Social Sciences, Development Management, HR Management, Public Policy, or related field.
