This position is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Applicants for vacancies in the National Professional Officer (NPO) category should be nationals of the country in which the position is located.
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. It does so by investing in rural people. IFAD finances programmes and projects that increase agricultural productivity and raise rural incomes, and advocates at the local, national and international level for policies that contribute to rural transformation.
The Department for Country Operations (DCO) oversees the origination, design and management of IFAD investments, including sovereign and non-sovereign operations, as well as the design and implementation of non-lending activities within country programmes, including policy engagement and SSTC. DCO is the department that primarily interfaces with governments, the private sector and other stakeholders to deliver IFAD's programme of work and to provide oversight to ensure quality of the portfolio.
Job Role
The Country Programme Analyst (CPA) is responsible for established programme/project coordination. The incumbent is expected to perform functions related to IFAD's mandate of improving rural foods security and nutrition and enabling poor rural men and women to overcome their poverty and to overall efforts by IFAD within the UN Common System to increase capacity-building and sustainable development in developing countries.
Key Functions and Results
Position specific
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The CPA will serve as the portfolio intelligence focal point for the Addis MCO, consolidating and analysing portfolio data across Ethiopia, Eritrea and South Sudan, including developing and maintaining dashboards integrating project performance ratings, disbursement, procurement, and implementation data as defined for the ESA division and DCO.
The CPA will produce monthly and quarterly analytical briefs and scorecards highlighting performance trends, risks, and priority management actions to enable informed, risk-aware decision-making across the MCO.
The CPA will monitor portfolio risk dynamics, including identifying NAR/PPP/APP transitions and emerging implementation risks, and will analyse early warning signals such as delays in procurement, disbursement, and AWPB execution, contributing to programme delivery risk reporting.
The CPA will serve as the M&E lead for the Addis MCO, ensuring logical framework quality and alignment with COSOP results, and will lead portfolio-level results analysis and contribute to corporate reporting including RIDE and RMF.
The CPA will provide analytical support across all supervision and implementation missions - from preparation through to post-mission follow-up - including quality assurance of Supervision Mission Reports to ensure ratings are evidence-based, and will track the implementation of Agreed Actions with respective project leads.
The CPA will lead preparation of Addis MCO portfolio-level reports, including quarterly reviews and inputs to regional and corporate stocktakes, ensuring these include trend analysis, constraint identification, and actionable recommendations.
The CPA will ensure Addis MCO data integrity across corporate systems including ORMS, OPEN, ICP and GRIPS, and will support the development and use of structured templates, dashboards, and digital tools for portfolio monitoring.
The CPA will, in coordination with respective project leads, engage with PMUs to improve reporting quality, data consistency, and implementation tracking, providing targeted analytical support particularly where PMU capacity is constrained.
The CPA will document lessons learned and best practices from supervision and implementation, support the development of portfolio-level knowledge products and learning loops, and ensure alignment with regional and corporate analytics, results measurement frameworks, and programme delivery risk monitoring.
Job Profile Requirements
Education:
Level - Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent)
Areas - rural development, agriculture, economics, rural finance, development policy or other job related fields.
Degree must be an accredited institution listed on https://www.whed.net/home.php.
Experience:
At least two (2) years' progressively responsible professional experience in development institutions and/or government service.
Must be a national of, or hold a valid working permit for, the country of assignment.
Qualifying work experience in country programme analysis or loan/grant administration with International financial institutions, development cooperation agencies, etc., would be an asset.
Languages:
Required: English (4 - Excellent)
Desirable: French, Spanish, or Arabic
Excellent command of the local official language(s)
Skills:
Budgeting, resource management: Know-how in budget administration and accounting, resource allocation and planning at divisional level
Advocacy: Know-how in advocacy, to maintain and promote constructive dialogue around IFAD's vision to external actors
Data management: Data collection, cleaning, transformation and consolidation; data-base architecture & development; data presentation
Risk management (e.g. reputational): Identification and assessment of potential liabilities and risks in IFAD's activities, particularly vis-à-vis third parties; ability to handle risks via contingency and mitigation strategies
Stakeholder management: Strong alignment capabilities and consultation skills, building on effective interactions and relationships with different stakeholders (e.g. for the co-creation of communication material with member states) and ability to build and maintain a strong network (e.g. with journalists, media outlets, etc.)
Ethics & Compliance: Expertise in managing and overseeing the ethics and compliance functions, advising management and staff on ethical issues, reviewing allegations of violation of the Code of conduct, managing the mandatory ethics training programme on harassment including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, the whistleblowing protection procedures and the financial disclosure programme
Adaptability: Adaptability and flexibility when facing new or unexpected situations, and to specific constraints and circumstances and managing complex processes
Basic ICT & digital fluency: High level of digital literacy and ability to quickly get familiar with new digital tools (e.g. ability to carry out EPR data entry and extraction when budgeting; monitoring security systems, uploading content to inter/intra-net websites, etc.)
Political acumen: Ability to conduct sound political analysis and understand complex environments, providing options and advice
Problem solving: Strong systemic and structured thinking, ability to identify and dissect problems into components and formulate a comprehensive set of creative viable and sustainable solutions and strategies
Written communication: Clear, succinct and convincing written communication in the language needed for specific role; highly professional, balanced and diplomatic language (e.g. for drafting of position papers, briefings, etc.)
Loans & grants: Know-how in designing loan and grant operations and managing loan and grant preparation process
Programme/Project development, management: Know-how in Programme/Project development, implementation, management
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Deadline to apply: Monday, 1 June 2026 23.59 CET