Country Programme Analyst
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)•Addis Ababa, Ethiopia•1(views)
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Job Description
Organizational Setting
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty and hunger by investing in rural people. The Department for Country Operations (DCO) oversees the design and management of IFAD investments, interfacing with governments and the private sector to ensure quality and oversight.
This position is located within the East and Southern Africa Division (ESA), specifically at the Multi-Country Office (MCO) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Applicants must be nationals of the country where the position is located.
Job Role
The Country Programme Analyst (CPA) is responsible for project coordination and portfolio analytics. The incumbent supports IFAD’s mandate to improve rural food security and nutrition, enabling poor rural populations to overcome poverty through capacity-building and sustainable development.
Key Functions and Results
1. Portfolio Intelligence & Data Analytics
- Serve as the portfolio intelligence focal point for the Addis MCO (covering Ethiopia, Eritrea, and South Sudan).
- Develop and maintain dashboards integrating project performance ratings, disbursement, procurement, and implementation data.
- Produce monthly and quarterly analytical briefs and scorecards highlighting performance trends and risks.
- Ensure data integrity across corporate systems (ORMS, OPEN, ICP, GRIPS).
2. Country Programme & Implementation Support
- Enhance technical quality by supporting project design (COSOP), supervision, and completion (PCR) activities.
- Monitor portfolio risk dynamics, identifying early warning signals such as delays in procurement or AWPB execution.
- Provide analytical support for supervision missions, ensuring ratings are evidence-based and tracking "Agreed Actions."
- Assist in budget preparation and monitor expenditures for the Country Office.
3. Monitoring, Evaluation (M&E) & Reporting
- Lead M&E for the Addis MCO, ensuring logical framework quality and alignment with results frameworks.
- Consolidate results analysis for corporate reporting, including RIDE and RMF.
- Draft regular reports, including country portfolio reviews, half-yearly reports, and annual reports.
4. Partnership Building & Policy Development
- Identify potential partners, development initiatives, and best practices to support CO relationships.
- Participate in policy meetings involving government, donors, and civil society to draft reports on innovations.
- Link ground-level realities with government policies through evidence-based data.
5. Capacity Building & Knowledge Management
- Engage with Project Management Units (PMUs) to improve reporting quality and implementation tracking.
- Document lessons learned and best practices to develop portfolio-level knowledge products.
- Foster "learning loops" to align with regional and corporate analytics.
Job Profile Requirements
Education
- Level: Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent).
- Areas: Rural development, agriculture, economics, rural finance, development policy, or related fields.
Experience
- Minimum: Two (2) years of progressively responsible professional experience in development institutions or government service.
- Asset: Experience in loan/grant administration or country programme analysis with international financial institutions.
Languages
- Required: English (Excellent command, Level C) and the local official language(s).
- Desirable: French, Spanish, or Arabic.
Technical Skills
- Data Management: Proficiency in data collection, cleaning, transformation, and dashboard development.
- Risk Management: Ability to identify liabilities and implementation risks.
- ICT Fluency: High level of digital literacy and ability to master new digital tools (ERP, etc.).
- Communication: Highly professional written communication for drafting position papers and briefings.
Organizational Competencies
- Building relationships and partnerships.
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving.
- Focusing on clients and learning/sharing knowledge.
- Managing time, resources, and information effectively.
Additional Information
- Equal Opportunity: IFAD does not discriminate on the basis of ethnic, social or political background, colour, nationality, religion, age, gender, disability, or sexual orientation.
- Fraud Alert: IFAD does not charge any fees at any stage of the recruitment process.
- Application: Applicants must complete the Personal History Form (PHF) in full. CVs will not be reviewed.
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
View ProfileAt the International Fund for Agricultural Development, we envisage vibrant, inclusive and sustainable rural communities where people live free from poverty and hunger. Three in four of the world's poorest people live in the rural areas of developing countries. Most of them depend on agriculture for their livelihoods – and in turn, produce much of the food we eat. It’s not an easy job. Many rural people living in poverty face massive economic, social and environmental challenges – from climate change and food insecurity, to inequality, conflict and lack of access to resources. These overlapping problems cannot be solved working alone. As an assembler of development finance, we partner with governments, the private sector, civil society and others to provide grants and concessional and low-interest loans to developing countries. This helps to address critical needs and support rural people as they lead their own development. IFAD-supported projects promote prosperity, food security and resilience by connecting rural poor people to the finance, markets, technology and knowledge they need to address their biggest challenges. We catalyse public and private investments, advocate for policies that empower rural people and their institutions, and promote innovation in order to achieve lasting, systemic change for rural communities in every region of the world. Throughout our work, we emphasize the importance of inclusion and equity, focusing special attention on gender and groups that are often overlooked, like youth, Indigenous Peoples and persons with disabilities. We strive to foster an organizational culture built around these values. Furthermore, as a results-driven organization, we conduct rigorous monitoring and evaluation to assess our impact and scale up what we know works. That’s one of the reasons we are a top-rated development organization.
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