Job Summary
The role reports to the Senior Policy Adviser, HAPA and will interact strategically and complementarily with the Head of HAPA and AGRA’s Policy and State Capability Team.
Minimum Qualification:PHD
Experience Level:Mid level
Experience Length:5 years
Job Description/Requirements
Policy Analyst, Hub for Agricultural Policy Action (HAPA), Nairobi, Kenya – Job Reference: PA/HAPA/03/2021
Founded in 2006, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
(AGRA), is an African-led African-based organization that seeks to
catalyze Agriculture Transformation in Africa. AGRA is focused on
putting smallholder farmers at the center of the continent’s growing
economy by transforming agriculture from a solitary struggle to survive
into farming as a business that thrives. As the sector that employs the
majority of Africa’s people, nearly all of them small-scale farmers,
AGRA recognizes that developing smallholder agriculture into a
productive, efficient, and sustainable system is essential to ensuring
food security, lifting millions out of poverty, and driving equitable
growth across the continent.
Under its 5-year strategy, AGRA looks to catalyze and sustain an
Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa to increase incomes and
improve food security for 30 million farmers. Under this strategy, AGRA
will deliver through an approach that simultaneously catalyzes change at
farmer level, strengthens input and output market systems and puts
government at the center to enable and champion private-sector-led
agricultural growth at national level.
The Hub for Agriculture Policy Action (HAPA) which
sits within the Policy & State Capability Division of AGRA, is a
distinct service offering by AGRA to provide consolidation and
translation advisory services to governments seeking to reform, refine
and/ or develop a more clearly defined policy direction. The approach
recognizes the urgent need for timely policy support to the Agriculture
sector, which plays an important role in ensuring inclusive growth. It
also recognizes the demands for political expediency and the need to
ensure that a particular policy direction is anchored in evidence. The
approach proposed also addresses the challenge posed by the high
turnover of senior government decision makers by engaging local capacity
and building on existing knowledge and partnerships. It will also draw
on international and continental best practice and enhance the use of
evidence given the salient political realities in policy making.
To support this objective, AGRA is seeking to recruit an experienced and exceptional individual to the role of Policy Analyst, HAPA.
Role Summary
The role reports to the Senior Policy Adviser, HAPA and will interact
strategically and complementarily with the Head of HAPA and AGRA’s
Policy and State Capability Team. The Policy Analyst will support all
aspects of government engagements under HAPA (with support from a Senior
Policy Advisor and the Head of HAPA) in order to produce high-quality
outputs, but more importantly, to drive each government partner to
achieve its inclusive agricultural transformation goals. The Analyst
will be required to provide high quality analytical support and
evidence-based guidance to senior leaders in partner governments.
Towards this end, the Policy Analyst is expected to possess a diverse
skill set, including establishing trusted advisor relationships with
governments, developing expertise in a broad range of econometric and
data tools, and communicating effectively to internal and external
stakeholders, including partner governments. In developing related
analyses and reports, the Policy Analysts shall work within the Policy
and State Capability Division and with other AGRA teams and research
partners to inform AGRA’s overall approach to policy engagement.
The role will be based in Nairobi, Kenya with frequent travel both local and international.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Support the Senior Policy Advisor and Head of HAPA in developing
HAPA strategy and building impact driven relationships across select
priority countries.
Support the Senior Policy Advisor and Head
of HAPA to continuously refine HAPA’s delivery model based on progress,
lessons learned, and the evolving policy context.
Work closely
with the Senior Policy Advisor of HAPA in refining the theory of change
and operational plans for the sustainability and scaling of HAPA.
Support
the identification, mapping and collaboration with the highest quality
institutional sources of data and evidence in Africa.
Support the validation and prioritization of incoming government demands through a collaborative, consultative process.
Produce analytical options for the best set of policy options in line with the government request for support.
Ensure consistency of consolidation and translation of approaches across the regions.
Support research to inform and shape the effort(s) within policy consolidation and translation and best practices.
Capture
lessons learned from HAPA implementation and disseminate them through
production of knowledge products such as occasional papers, blog posts,
and webinars.
Design and iterate a policy engagement plan with
the range of leading actors in data and evidence generation, selection,
analysis, e.g., national think tanks and policy bodies, advocacy groups
and government advisory service providers.
Innovate and synergize new models for engagement and drive quickly towards early success.
Provide
analytical support in consolidating and translating policy decisions as
well provide strategic advice to HAPA and the PSC division during
negotiations and wider engagements with government and stakeholders.
Support
HAPA’s interface with the respective AGRA Country Manager and the
Policy and State Capability Team to add value from a consolidation and
translation perspective to existing policy implementation efforts and
ensure the delivery of an integrated policy support package to
governments.
Support knowledge management and thought leadership
in AGRA through identification of methodologies and systematization of
approaches to consolidation and translation and provide support for
production and dissemination via appropriate channels.
Support
HAPA participating country governments in monitoring progress of
implementation of evidence-based policies towards achieving Inclusive
Agricultural Transformation (IAT).
Support development,
structuring, and occasional implementation of strategic partnerships in
collaboration with the resource mobilization team, technical teams and
in-country teams.
Academic, Professional Qualifications and Relevant experience
A PhD or Master’s degree in Economics, Agricultural Economics, International Economics, Statistics, or closely related field.
Minimum
five (5) years’ experience in agricultural policy and political economy
analyses in Africa. Experience advising governments and other types of
organizations on the use of data and evidence preferred.
Proficiency
and experience with data analysis and modelling techniques using
software programs such as Excel, STATA, R, SPSS and SAS.
Experience
in survey design, questionnaire design, and conducting and supervising
surveys. Familiarity with data entry software packages (ODK, Survey CTO,
Epi Info, etc) desired.
Demonstrable ability to assist and
backstop governments through ministries of agriculture and related
ministries to diagnose and assess, prioritize and reform policies, laws,
regulations and administrative practices aimed at enhancing Inclusive
Agricultural Transformation (IAT).
Ability to provide technical
assistance to HAPA participating country governments to make data-driven
policy choices that reduce distortionary effects and support progress
towards Inclusive Agricultural Transformation (IAT).
Strong relationships with key national, regional and international partners working on state capability and policy development.
Strong
ability to track the implementation and impact of AGRA supported
policies and regulatory frameworks on HAPA investments in the
agriculture sector.
Strong analytical skills and demonstrable
ability to support HAPA in providing rigorous analysis on indicator
quality and data systems and use these to validate and support AGRA’s
work in the HAPA participating countries.
Demonstrated
understanding and familiarity with Africa’s policy and political economy
landscape including policy issues related to poverty, economic growth,
food security, and agricultural or rural development.
Excellent oral, facilitation and written communication skills; works well in diverse teams, with efficiency and diplomacy.
Strong analytical, critical thinking, problem solving, programming and decision-making skills;
Strong
oral and written communication skills required, including the ability
to communicate complex technical analyses to non-technical audiences.
Good command of English required, and fluency in French and Portuguese
will be an advantage
An attractive remuneration package commensurate with this position’s
responsibility will be negotiated with the successful candidate.
If you believe you are the right candidate for this position, kindly
submit your application with a detailed CV (including your e-mail
address and telephone contacts) **********oting to quote the job reference number in the subject of your email.
To be considered, applications must be received on or before 30th March, 2021.
For more information on AGRA, applicants can visit www.agra.org
AGRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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