Senior Policy Advocacy Fellows
The Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is a not-for-profit organization formed in 2006 to
work with African governments, farmers, donors, NGOs and the private sector to
reduce hunger and poverty in Africa through agricultural development targeted
at resource poor farmers. AGRA has its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya and an
office in Accra, Ghana.
The Policy program focuses
on five core priority policy areas: Seed sector policies and regulations to
speed up adoption of crop varieties; Soil health policies to improve soil and
crop productivity; Staple crop market and trade policies to stimulate expansion
and efficiency; Land and property rights policies to stimulate equitable
agricultural growth for the poor; and environmental and climate change
resilience policies.
To achieve its objectives, AGRA is enhancing local capacity for policy analysis and advocacy in each of the priority countries through “policy action nodes”.
A policy action node is a
group of existing or new policy research institutions and other stakeholders
that have the technical expertise and are willing to work together to address
policy, institutional and regulatory bottlenecks along an agricultural value
chain.
A loose network of Policy
Action Nodes constitutes a Policy Hub.
AGRA is also implementing
the AGRA Policy Advocacy Fellowships Program (APAFP) with a broad objective to
generate evidence for policy advocacy by the policy action nodes.
The AGRA Policy Program
intends to recruit two (2) Senior Policy Fellows for the Ghana and Tanzania
Policy Hubs with the lead responsibility of advocating and promoting more
effective policies in agricultural and rural development.
Expected to be drawn from a
pool of well trained and highly experienced individuals, the Senior Policy
Fellows would be provided with the financial support needed to conduct policy
analysis and advocacy to support the Policy Action Nodes’ agenda in Ghana and
Tanzania.
Detailed responsibilities
are listed in the Terms of Reference on AGRA’s website.
Qualifications
- Candidates
should have an advanced university degree in agricultural economics, economics,
development studies, public policy, management or other relevant subject
with at least fifteen (15) years of experience.
- Senior
policy makers with sound understanding of the political economy that
shapes agricultural policies who can help translate evidence-based
policies into action through their high-level connections with policy
makers are also considered. Recently retired Policy Makers are strongly
encouraged to apply.
- Extensive
experience and familiarity with the seeds, soil, market, land and property
rights, and environment and climate change policies.
- Proven
intellectual, managerial and technical leadership of a high order in the
relevant subject areas
- Extensive
experience in the handling of agricultural policies.
- Ability to
lead and work effectively with people of different backgrounds in a
domestic or international environment.
Competences:
- Candidates
should be conversant with current development debates and policies and
should have experience of primary research in developing countries, working
both independently and in close collaboration with development actors and
institutions in those countries.
- Experience
of coordinating research projects and managing collaborative teams is also
essential.
Duration and Location: The Senior Policy Fellowship will be held for
up to two (2) years in duration and will be located at the Science and
Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) in Accra for Ghana, and at the
Research on Poverty Alleviation for Tanzania.
Application procedure and
deadline:
Applicants are invited to
send a cover letter illustrating their suitability for the above position
against the listed qualifications, competencies, skills together with a
detailed curriculum vitae, including names and addresses of three referees
knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional qualifications and work
experience.
All correspondence should
be addressed to Dr. Augustine Langyintuo (ALangyintuo@agra.org) with copy to
Dr. Konan N’dri (KNdri@agra.org).
Salary: A competitive salary including benefits commensurate with experience is offered.
Salary: A competitive salary including benefits commensurate with experience is offered.
This is a consultancy
position and is tenable for a maximum of three years.
Closing date: October 20, 2012
See details at: www.agra-alliance.org
AGRA reserves the right at
any time in the process to terminate this request without entering into a
contract and to accept or reject any or all applications and is not bound to
give reasons for its decision.
Canvassing in any form will
lead to automatic disqualification.
