Strategy Officer(s) at Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

Job description

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the process of institutional strategic planning and drive AGRA’s strategy performance management:
• Support the design of AGRA’s organizational strategy and Theory of Change for transformation.
• Develop strategic frameworks, models, tools and processes ttrack and critically analyse delivery of the strategy; recommend adaptive strategies based on results/evidence, lessons learnt and insights gained, in the face of changing ecosystems.
• Working closely with the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) team, help drive better decision making and performance through the development of effective country and institutional level performance tracking tools; and critical analysis of results ttease out relevant and actionable recommendations.
• Work with key operational units tensure strategic alignment, business efficiency, resource allocation, internal capacity building etc. are effected.
• Support in-country teams with strategic planning and roll-out, as well in-depth analytics on agriculture transformation pathways and country progress towards this goal:
• Work with Geographic Service Team (GST) / Country leads and technical teams tdevelop and support execution of high-impact country-level strategies and implementation plans.
• Provide analytics support tGST’s and in-country teams tsupport evidence-based decision making; strategic selection of initiatives; credible engagement with governments and other partners; and assessment of the progression of country agriculture transformation.
• Scope and grow AGRA’s analytics capability via partners / external service providers.
• Work with the Country Support and Policy team and GST’s tprovide strategic and analytics support tAfrican Governments through AGRA’s country support model:
• Scope and structure engagement with governments and other partners.
• Support the design of a country support package that is responsive tgovernment needs and encompasses strategy and analytics support, institutional strengthening, implementation support and resource mobilization, tdeliver on country strategies.
• Scope Terms of Reference for external advisory and analytics services; source and oversee service providers as required, tensure quality of services provided.

Other tasks will include:

• Design and roll-out of new strategic initiatives as identified by the Executive Management of AGRA - examples include efforts such as the refinement of a country plan for a priority country; the development of a strategy around youth in agribusiness; or the development of a Fellows Program tembed support staff within partner ministries.
• Oversee work streams and manage cross-functional teams for institutional or GST/in-country-level strategic initiatives.
• Support knowledge management and thought leadership in AGRA through identification of impactful strategic content, and support for its production and dissemination via appropriate channels.
• Support development, structuring, and occasional implementation of strategic partnerships in collaboration with the resource mobilization team, technical teams and in-country teams.