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Ethiopia: Chief of Party - DFID Migration

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Organization: Danish Refugee Council
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 09 Nov 2018

About Us

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is leading an international consortium to deliver a £21 million programme to protect would-be migrants and refugees form unsafe irregular migration through and from the Amhara and Tigray regions of Ethiopia as well as Djibouti. The 4-year programme, funded by the Department for International Development, UK (DFID, UK) will address the barriers to reducing unsafe irregular migration through and from Ethiopia, taking into consideration the most vulnerable groups - women, girls and unaccompanied irregular migrants.

The programme will coordinate and engage in high level national and regional advocacy with key stakeholders. The programme is anticipated to be innovative, cross-sectoral and solutions-oriented with strong emphasis on research, learning and adaptive mangement.

This appointment is subject to DRC succesfully securing funding from DFID, UK.

About the role

The Chief of Party (COP) will have overall responsibility for the direction and coordination of the project. The right candidate will ensure that planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as donor reporting functions are executed efficiently and effectively to ensure that the project achieves its purpose and outputs. Also, the right candidate will coordinate the process of learning, capturing and disseminating lessons from the programme.

The COP will lead and manage a multi-disciplinary team for the DRC in Ethiopia, including virtual and matrix management across the globe of in-country technical teams to deliver programme objectives set out in the donor terms of reference (TORs), our technical and commercial proposals and the logical framework. The COP will report to the Country Director, DRC Ethiopia and will be required to liaise on a regular basiswith the relevant DRC Regional office and DRC Headquarters in Copenhagen.

Responsibilities:

Management and Coordination:

  • Oversee implementation of the programme according to contract objectives, ensuring the programme meets or exceeds agreed targets, annual plans and budgeting processes for the programme with full accountability to the DRC, project partners and to DFID, UK.
  • Ensure DFID, UK’s compliance requirements are fully met.
  • Lead the overall technical, financial and operational management of the consortium, including programme planning and budget follow-up.
  • Identify and effectively manage due diligence and all associated key risks related to the programme.
  • Ensure Value for Money (VfM) is mainstreamed across the programme, supporting its incorporation into decision-making and programme delivery, and effectively reported to the donor.
  • Ensuring that technical, financial, and operational activities, including reporting are carried out according to DFID, UK’s and DRC's policies and procedures e.g quarterly and annual reports and submission of deliverables and payment by result (PbR) milestones to DFID, UK.
  • Represent the consortium in local, national, and international stakeholder meetings and events, as appropriate.
  • Identify and effectively manage all key risks related to the project, including compliance with DFID, UK’s International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) and due diligence requirements.

Programme and Technical Support:

  • Working closely with the implementation and technical leads in the Programme Management Unit:
  • Provide technical oversight of all programming in all field offices, ensuring achievement according to targets, on time, within budget, consistent with high impact quality programming and in compliance with core protection principles and best practices, and DRC and donor regulations;
  • Actively seek opportunities for generating and disseminating new research obtained by the program, managing adaptively throughout the program as necessary according to learnings.
  • Coordinate technical inputs from the consortium’s Technical Coordinator and Advisors with implementers in the field to maintain a high level of program quality

Finance and Administration:

Working closely with the Support Services Manager/Head and the wider Finance Team, assume full responsibility and accountability as the primary

budget holder for the programme:

  • Ensure that efficient and effective systems and procedures are established to monitor PbR requirements and demonstrate VfM .
  • Oversee and regularly update a comprehensive master budget for the programme.
  • Ensure full compliance with DRC and donor financial guidelines and policies.

Human Resources:

Working closely with the Head of Support Services and Human Resources Manager:

  • Assume full responsibility over the programme team, with direct line management over Managers as indicated above. Manage all team members and support respectful and positive working relationships for quality programme implementation

Logistics and Procurement:

Working closely with the Head of Support Services:

  • Ensure logistics and procurement processes are in place in all field offices and fully compliant with DRC and donor policies and standards.
  • Work with the Field Coordinators to collaborate with the Supply Chain Manager, ensuring that field-based records are well managed, fulfil DRC and donor requirements, and are always up-to-date for use in donor reports.

Safety and Security:

  • Ensure all relevant information regarding safety, security in the relevant context is collected, updated and shared in a regular and timely manner.
  • Collaborate with the Senior Management Team to make decisions and manage security incidents at a local level.

Experience and Technical Competencies:

  • Experience managing DFID contracts
  • An advanced degree in a related field, such as international relations, migration, human rights, law, or social sciences;
  • A minimum of 10 years’ experience working in international humanitarian and/or development aid, preferably with displaced populations, and with at least five (5) years as a Chief of Party or Deputy Chief of Party engaged in commercial contract delivery.
  • Proven ability to manage consortia with extensive experience managing multi-agency program
  • Technical expertise and experience in migration, protection and/or livelihoods programming
  • Demonstrated experience in managing large multi-location programs in complex operating environments;
  • Comprehensive understanding of DFID donor requirements, Value for Money and DFID results agenda
  • Robust analytical and strategic planning skills
  • Strong experience in management of finance and budget monitoring, financial forecasting, contracts and risk management
  • Demonstrable track record of meeting or exceeding programme targets, whilst maintaining technical quality
  • Highly diplomatic with excellent political awareness and understanding
  • High-level communications and interpersonal skills
  • A demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, partners, local organizations, and other stakeholders
  • Fluent in written and spoken English

Additional preferred background experience:

  • Previous experience in the Horn of Africa or East Africa desirable with experience in Ethiopia preferred

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:

Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.

Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.

Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.

Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.

Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with DRC’s vision and values.


How to apply:

Apply here.
Deadline 10 November


Mozambique: Education Specialist

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Organization: Right To Play
Country: Mozambique
Closing date: 30 Nov 2018

BACKGROUND:

Right To Play is a global organization committed to improving the lives of children and youth affected by conflict, disease and poverty. Established in 2000, Right To Play has pioneered a unique play-based approach to learning and development which focuses on quality education, life skills, health, gender equality, child protection and building peaceful communities. With programming in 18 countries, Right To Play transforms the lives of more than one million children each week, both inside and outside of the classroom. In addition to our work with children, Right To Play advocates with parents, local communities, and governments to advance the fundamental rights of all children.​

Right To Play is headquartered in Toronto, Canada and has operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Our programs are facilitated by more than 550 international staff and 15,800 local volunteer Coaches.

The Africa Regional Office located in Kampala, Uganda, supports 8 country offices including; Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.

The Mozambique country office is currently searching for a qualified and self-driven candidate to join a team of professionals in Mozambique as Education Specialist.

JOB SUMMARY:

The Education Specialist reports directly to the Program Manager. He/she is responsible for providing technical advice and guidance on the development and implementation of education programs in line with the Country Strategic Plan and Right To Play’s global theory of change. The incumbent works to integrate Right To Play’s methodologies into the system level education planning and delivery in addition to the curriculum of provincial and national boards/agencies as well as into the activities of Right To Play’s strategic and implementing partners. This includes developing materials and resources as necessary, in collaboration with the Regional Office programs team and Education Specialist at Headquarters as relevant. The incumbent also provides technical input to the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist/Officer on the development of education-related performance measurement frameworks, baseline assessments and evaluations. He/she plays a leadership role in policy engagement with external stakeholders. The Education Specialist is also responsible for analyzing education related results from Right To Play’s interventions and bringing innovative knowledge to organizational approaches.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Job Responsibility #1:Programme planning, implementation and delivery(60% of Time)

· Together with the Program Manager, leads the design and development of education program strategies in close coordination with the Regional Office and Education Specialist at HQ to ensure alignment with RTP’s global theory of change.

· Leads technical planning and monitoring of RTP’s education program(s) in line with the Country Strategic Plan, the Ministry of Education plans, and donor requirements.

· Supports Country Office Program Manager in developing education focused project proposals and concept notes for new projects.

· Identifies and develops new partnerships with education-focused NGOs, Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and communities.

· In coordination with Country Office Program Manager, the Gender Specialist and program staff ensures that issues of gender equality, inclusion, child protection and safeguarding, accountability, risk and vulnerability are addressed and monitored throughout all education programs.

· Leads in developing curricula and resources for basic education programs (pre-primary and primary) as needed, working in collaboration with the Global Training and Capacity Building Specialist.

· Builds networks with other Education Specialists in the region to support cross-learning with other RTP country programs in the region.

· Stays abreast of new developments and opportunities to develop new initiatives to improve education outcomes for children in the country.

· Provides technical leadership on the procurement and/or development of appropriate teaching and learning materials, training manuals and education resources.

· Develops and promotes support-materials for incorporating activity based learning methods for teachers.

· In close coordination with the Training Officer, conducts needs assessments in support of designing training for education departments, teachers and Education District Officers, and RTP strategic and implementing partners, where applicable.

· Works closely with teacher training and curriculum development institutions to integrate RTP methodology into curriculum, text books and class room teaching.

· Regularly develops lessons learned and best practices and shares them with the programs team, stakeholders and the Regional Office, ensuring that program lessons are being used to promote improved program delivery

· Collaborates with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist/Officer (MELS/O) to develop appropriate systems, tools and procedures for the monitoring and evaluation of education programs

Job Responsibility #2:Representation, advocacy and policy engagement(25% of Time)

· In close coordination with the Program Manager and the Country Director, leads RTP’s advocacy and policy effort in the education sector by participating in national coordination forums as applicable national strategic planning for the education sector, relevant technical working groups and other key coordination platforms.

· Represents RTP in various platforms and maintains positive relationships with governments and other relevant stakeholders regarding RTP activities.

· Regularly updates stakeholder analysis for the education sector and ensures that RTP is engaging with and is visible to the most influential actors in the sector.

· Coordinates research and advocacy interventions related to the program at national and international level, using data from school-level interventions to advocate for national-level policy development/implementation, in close coordination with the MELS/O.

· Leads and develops RTP’s analysis and best practices in education programming in the country and disseminates through documents and position papers with education stakeholders and within RTP at the regional and global levels.

· Provides technical inputs to regional and global strategies, policies and resources related to education programming to ensure that country experience and realities are well-reflected.

Job Responsibility #3:Capacity building support(10% of Time):

· Ensures that country staff are properly supported with the technical knowledge and skills necessary to deliver education program interventions.

· Conducts regular visits to the field to provide technical support to program teams.

Job Responsibility #4:Performs other duties as assigned(5% of Time):

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (Must have)

EDUCATION/TRAINING/CERTIFICATION

· Master’s degree in Education or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

EXPERIENCE:

· 5 years’ experience implementing and providing technical guidance on basic education programs and liaising with government officials. Proven experience in project planning, report writing, networking, partnership-building and working with NGOs.

· Significant experience in designing and delivering training and/or the development of education materials and resources.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS

· Understanding of active learning approaches, particularly play-based learning

· Knowledge and understanding of best practices in basic education programs, including technical experience in teacher training and resource and curriculum development

· Understanding of community development processes

· Strong MS Office and program management tools and procedures

· Knowledge and experience with programmatic approaches related to life skills or social emotional learning

· Knowledge and experience in education research, quantitative and qualitative methods

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS (Asset to have):

· Experience in quality improvement

· Experience in strengthening civil society organisations

· Experience in coaching

· Knowledge/experience in child protection, gender mainstreaming and/or governance

· Knowledge of adult learning

· Knowledge of international donors

COMPETENCIES/PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

· Superior organizational skills and ability to multi-task on a constant basis

· Excellent interpersonal communication skills to build rapport with staff, partners, government officials, donors and community leaders

· Ability to work under pressure meeting deadlines in a fast-paced fluid environment

· Creative and flexible with problem solving skills

· Demonstrated professionalism and diplomacy

· Ability to confidently represent oneself and Right To Play to high level officials

· Strategy planning skills for education initiatives

· People management particularly influence management

SPECIAL CONDITIONS:

Ability to travel in country and internationally.

Compensation: We offer a competitive salary and benefits package

Employment Start Date: Immediately**Contract Duration:** Long term engagement based on performance and availability of funds


How to apply:

If you are interested in applying for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to: MozambiqueHR@righttoplay.com and kindly include “Education Specialist” and your name in the subject line. While we thank all applicants for their interest, only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Right To Play is a child-centered organization. Our recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to the safety and protection of children in our programs.

To learn more about who we are and what we do, please visit our website at www.righttoplay.com.

Ethiopia: AU Liaison Director (Consultancy)

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Organization: Crisis Action
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 14 Nov 2018

Title: AU Liaison Director (Consultancy)

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (applicant must have relevant authorisation to work in Ethiopia)

Compensation: A competitive package commensurate with experience

Applications close: Wednesday 14 November 2018 at 23:59 EST

Starting date: February 2019

Responsible to: Chief of Staff

Crisis Action is an award-winning organization at the forefront of global advocacy to end conflict. We work to create and support strategic coalitions to prevent deadly conflict and to ensure the protection of civilians where conflict exists. We are lucky to work with some of the world’s most effective local and global civil society leaders, human rights, humanitarian, and policy organisations. We have staff in Beirut, Berlin, Brussels, Johannesburg, London, Nairobi, New York, Paris and Washington, D.C.

Current conflict priorities for Crisis Action include South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, though the organisation monitors other potential and actual conflicts and engages in shorter-term emergency response advocacy as well (including shorter-term campaigns over the past year on Cameroon, Central African Republic, Myanmar, and Democratic Republic of Congo).

Overview of role

As African Union (AU) Liaison Director you will advance Crisis Action’s unique model of advocacy among AU policymakers as well as NGO partners and other campaign allies in Addis Ababa. You will play a key role in crafting and delivering on strategies for impactful collective campaigns to protect civilians from armed conflict. You will continue building the network of Addis based partners, policymakers and media and work closely with colleagues across the world to build effective advocacy campaigns and maximise their impact to achieve change. We are looking for a politically savvy campaigner who is a passionate and dynamic advocate and understands how to make change happen at the African Union; we are seeking an exceptional strategist and powerful networker who strengthens our AU presence and ensures we are ever more effective in our mission to protect civilians affected by conflict.

Principal Roles

  1. Crisis Action’s Ambassador to the African Union and other Addis based institutions – As the Consultant heading our AU work, you will represent Crisis Action at the African Union and other Addis based institutions. We are looking for an individual who is equipped with a strong network of high-level contacts at the AU Commission (or has demonstrated ability to quickly establish such a network). You will also have experience working with civil society organisations, and ideally, experience coordinating joint advocacy efforts with these or similar organisations.

  2. Develop and implement impactful campaigns to protect civilians and prevent armed conflict – A core part of your responsibilities will be working with our Africa based partner organisations and policymaker allies to develop, drive forward and coordinate campaigns that mobilise the resources and influence of civil society to maximum effect. This will require you to engage the AU press corps and devise and lead impactful advocacy strategies that use a wide range of tactics that may include facilitating high-level diplomatic meetings for partners, hosting civil society delegations, running social media campaigns, and preparing compelling reports and briefings for Peace and Security Council members. Your success will depend upon your ability to build and nurture trusted relationships with policymakers in key AU departments and Addis Ababa based embassies, as well as potential allies from across civil society, academia, think tanks and the media. Working with colleagues in our other offices, you will lead or contribute to international campaigns that Crisis Action facilitates.

  3. Expert political analysis of the African Union - Focusing on actual or potential conflicts of most concern to our partners, you will ensure that Crisis Action supplements their understanding by investigating and analysing the policy positions of key AU member states, particularly members of the AU Peace & Security Council, and AU Commission officials. You will ensure that Crisis Action builds up in-depth and sophisticated intelligence on the position of key actors towards relevant conflicts, the results of which will be top quality advice to partners on advocacy demands, strategy and suggestions for action. You will also be responsible for feeding this intelligence into our global campaigns and sharing it in a timely manner with our global partner network.

  4. Contribute to the strategic development of Crisis Action at the AU and globally – As AU Liaison Office Consultant Director, you will lead the establishment of a Crisis Action office in Ethiopia. You will be responsible for consolidating and expanding Crisis Action’s relationship with core partners and our civil society network, and for developing and implementing the AU engagement strategy that aligns with the organisation’s overall organisational strategy and action plan. You will supervise the work of consultants and volunteers that may work with Crisis Action from Ethiopia. As a member of Crisis Action’s Directors Group, you will also play a leadership role in the direction of the organisation. This will include contributing to decisions about Crisis Action’s campaign portfolio, the development of our strategic plan and internal policies, as well as strategizing around both regional and international policy challenges and how best we can contribute to overcoming them.

Person specification

The following are essential:

  • Commitment to Crisis Action’s mandate.

  • 8+ years of experience working on conflict prevention, human rights or humanitarian assistance at the regional and/or international level.

  • Excellent political judgement and instincts, especially with regard to foreign policy and diplomatic engagement.

  • High levels of ambition, energy, drive, dynamism, determination and focus.

  • Knowledge of and experience in influencing AU policies and processes.

  • A broad range of established relationships with key AU Commission officials and relevant embassies.

  • Proven ability to analyse complex political issues, to identify campaign opportunities and to devise sophisticated strategies and innovative approaches for achieving policy change.

  • Expertise in media and communications; including knowing when and how to engage the media on a campaign, a deep understanding of different audiences, crafting media stories, producing high-quality media materials and working across media platforms, including social media.

  • Knowledge and experience of using a broad range of popular campaigning tactics, including stunts, photo-ops, social media pushes, etc. to achieve campaign aims.

  • First-rate project management and organizational skills.

  • First-class interpersonal and communication skills, including excellent writing skills and the ability to cultivate and maintain high-level contacts within governments, the media and the NGO community.

  • Demonstrated ability to work as a collegiate member of a small team, as well as to lead and empower your team to deliver their best.

  • Ability to instil trust and confidence in partner organisations and colleagues from a variety of backgrounds.

  • Resilience and an ability to cope with multiple internal and external demands.

  • Excellent administrative and information technology skills.

  • Fluent written and spoken English.

  • Relevant authorization to work in Ethiopia as a consultant.

The following are desirable:

  • Expertise in relation to advancing the women, peace and security agenda.

  • Experience working with the corporate sector, social movements or faith-based organisations to drive social change.

  • Experience of working with global teams and with people from varied cultural backgrounds.

  • Established relationships with media.

  • Additional languages, particularly French or Arabic.

Terms and conditions

Compensation: Competitive salary according to experience

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Equal opportunities: Crisis Action values diversity and is committed to equal opportunities. All applicants for employment will receive equal treatment without discrimination on any grounds.

Disabilities: We are committed to making every reasonable adjustment to the workplace or working arrangements so as to accommodate people with disabilities.


How to apply:

Submitting your application

To apply please upload by 14 November 2018 a CV and a cover letter in English, explaining why you are interested in Crisis Action and why you believe you are a good fit for the role, based on examples in your current or past positions, by following this link:

www.crisisaction.org/opportunities

Please note that first round interviews are provisionally scheduled to take place during week commencing 27 November 2018 and the second round likely to be an in-person interview on the week of 10 December 2018.

Ethiopia: Development Worker (m/f/d) as advisor for nursing instruction at Health Science College in Nekemte/Ethiopia

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Organization: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 28 Nov 2018

As a federal enterprise, GIZ supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development.

With the dispatch of qualified specialists as development workers, GIZ contributes to the sustainable improvement of living conditions of people in developing and transition countries.

For our operations in Nekemte/Ethiopia, we are looking for an

Development Worker (m/f/d) as advisor for nursing instruction at Health Science College in Nekemte/Ethiopia

Job description

The Ethiopian Government has invested significantly in the health sector to improve health care at all levels. Biomedical equipment is increasingly used whereby its application shall be part of the training of health professionals. However, pre- and in-service training is not yet focusing on practical aspects and much biomedical equipment in hospitals is not used and maintained adequately. The Nekemte Health Science College has started to apply interactive teaching in various specialized fields but wishes to expand this further with a special focus on the practical application of biomedical equipment for nurses. By supporting their training, nurses and other health staff will gain experience and competence to properly use and apply biomedical equipment at bedside and thus improve health care in the region.

Your tasks

  • Advising the Health Science College with regards to organization of the practical training at the college and the practical training in associated hospitals (Nekemte Regional Referral Hospital and selected others training sites)
  • Advising on the selection of appropriate training equipment
  • Design of complementary training components for nurses on appropriate use of biomedical equipment (e.g. suction unit, thermal bed for newborns, tocograph)
  • Design of training components for continuous education of the College’s teaching staff in didactics
  • Further development of the already existing preceptor training (designed by Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics - JHPIEGO) for the instruction of clinical preceptors and development
  • Supervision of teaching of other instructors and occasional teaching of nursing students (“leading by positive example”)
  • Fostering network formation among local/regional stakeholders involved in nursing education
  • Contributing to monitoring and knowledge management, therefore working closely with the GIZ Program as well as the college management and the regional health authorities

Your profile

  • Licensed nursing instructor / registered nurse with additional qualification in pedagogy (m/f/d)
  • Long-standing practical working experience as a nurse plus many years of teaching experience, including design of training components
  • A strong propensity for teaching
  • Enjoying supporting and fostering the professional growth of national instructor team members in a local environment
  • Good written and spoken English
  • Knowledge of the local language (Oromo) would be an asset, but a minimum is a willingness to learn it
  • Good communication skills, intercultural competence, diplomatic skills and a genuine interest in development cooperation
  • Overseas working experience, in particular in a low/middle income country is an asset, especially working experience in Ethiopia

If we caught your interest, we are looking forward to your application until 11/28/2018

For further information: https://jobs.giz.de/index.php?ac=jobad&id=39917

You can find this job under the Job-ID P1525V050.


How to apply:

If we caught your interest, we are looking forward to your application until 11/28/2018

For further information: https://jobs.giz.de/index.php?ac=jobad&id=39917

You can find this job under the Job-ID P1525V050.

Burundi: Programme Funding Manager - East and Central Africa

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Organization: Tearfund
Country: Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Sudan
Closing date: 08 Nov 2018

An exciting role has arisen in our new East and Central Africa Cluster based in region from late 2018. This role will support six countries - Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda and South Sudan.

The Programme Funding Team exists within Tearfund to be the centre of specialised expertise and skills on securing and managing Institutional Funding.

The role will be responsible for building the capacity of Tearfund's in-country teams and Tearfund partners to access and manage institutional funding, in order to increase the funding portfolio for both Tearfund and our partners.

Alongside developing capacity of Tearfund staff and partner staff, the roles will require undertaking assessments of partner capacity using internal tools; producing high quality proposals for institutional donors; managing the development of consortia and cross-team proposals; and providing management support and oversight to a portfolio of complex institutionally funded programmes and projects.

Applicants must have:

  • Experience within the Relief and Development Sector
  • Experience of training and capacity building; undertaking needs assessment; project design, development and reporting
  • Excellent proposal-writing skills
  • Experience in budgeting and financial management, monitoring and evaluation,
  • A proven ability in securing funding and managing relationships with major institutional donors (such as USAID, DFID, or the European Commission).
  • Excellent French language skills are essential

The role will be based and candidates must have the current right to live and work in one of the following countries:

  • Rwanda
  • Ethiopia
  • Burundi
  • CAR
  • DRC
  • South Sudan

Do you have experience in writing winning proposals? Are you an experienced in grant acquisitions? If so, this role may an exciting way for you to expand your horizons and support grant acquisition in the newly set up East and Central Africa Cluster.

We are looking for someone who has the right to live and work in one of the above mentioned six countries, has a proven track record (please list examples of successful grant acquisition in your application letter) and is fluent in French.

A competitive salary and benefits package will be offered for the role.

Tearfund is a faith based organisation and applicants must share our statement of faith. The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safe-guarding issues.


How to apply:

http://jobs.tearfund.org/tearfund/jobs/vacancy/programme-funding-manager---eca-1612/1638/description/

Ethiopia: Marketing and Communications Director

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Organization: Population Services International
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 28 Nov 2018

Title**: Marketing and Communications Director, Ethiopia**

Department: East Africa

Based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Up to international travel

Reports to Country Representative Ethiopia

Who we are

With over 45 years of experience, working in over 60 countries, Population Services International (PSI) is the world's leading non-profit social marketing organization. PSI is reimagining healthcare, by putting the consumer at the center, and wherever possible – bringing care to the front door. We are working to fix market failures, shape future health markets and shift policy and funding to better support consumer empowered healthcare.

There are over 7,000 “PSI'ers” around the world. We are a diverse group of entrepreneurial development professionals with a wide range of backgrounds and experience. All with unique skills that we bring to the critically important work that we do.

Join us!

PSI/Ethiopia is an innovative network member of PSI with a team of more than 240 people passionate about marketing and dedicated to serving Sara! Since 2003, we have marketed products and led programs to prevent and treat HIV, improve reproductive health for youth and adolescents, build markets for sanitation and support the health system to deliver non-communicable diseases services. At PSI/Ethiopia we do more than simply provide products and services, we seek to create true change – by making markets work for the poor – to increase the use of critical health products and services that are available, affordable, and desirable to the most vulnerable Ethiopian people.

We are looking for a charismatic leader, a marketing talent, a strategist, an innovator, an effective communicator and an excellent people and project manager. ALL in one individual! You are a natural-born marketer. You have experience working in the private sector, a proven track record in consumer marketing with developed core marketing skills across research, data analysis, portfolio management, communications, and marketing planning and execution. You are a tech enthusiast and have experience in developing innovative and impactful marketing programs that are continuously improved using a combination of research, routine monitoring data, and programmatic dashboard. Above all, you have and infectious energy for building empathy with our consumers leveraging their insights to design solutions that are tailored to their needs and desires.

Sound like you? Read on.

Your contribution

You will work under the supervision of the Country Representative, in close collaboration with the programs and support teams. You will learn all there is to know about our consumers, combine their insights with what you know about health markets, design solutions that bring healthcare closer to our consumers and package that information into compelling business cases that contribute to and inform our strategy.

  • Lead program design through the rigorous application of the PSI design framework to inform annual planning and oversee the business development of PSI Ethiopia;
  • Lead and coordinate market assessments and analysis, including market landscape research, market sizing activities and consumer segmentation;
  • Champion a consumer-centric approach to all activities – supporting teams in building empathy with consumers and translating insights into effective solutions;
  • Lead the design of marketing and social and behavior change and communication (SBCC) strategies for both products and services;
  • Promote the appropriate and effective use of marketing and SBCC methodologies to build marketing programs and drive impactful execution of marketing strategies;
  • Leverage the use technology to make the delivery of our activities more efficient and effective
  • Lead a team of brilliant and enthusiastic marketing, market research, external communication and new business development professionals across the full portfolio of PSI Ethiopia's program's – including Modern Contraception for youth and adolescents, Non-communicable diseases, HIV and WASH.

What are we looking for?

The candidate we hire will embody PSI's corporate values:

Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.

Pragmatism: You'll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won't be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.

Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it's the only way you'll learn and improve.

Collaboration: You'll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won't succeed.

Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt

Commitment: You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin

The basics

  • Bachelor's required. Master's degree (MBA, MPH, MSc) in marketing, business, communication, or a related field preferred.
  • Minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience in marketing, private sector development or health communications.
  • Proven track record of effective marketing, behavior change and communications programs.
  • Experience working with human-centered design approaches and leveraging consumer insights for program design.
  • Experience in developing country context and/or in the health sector strongly preferred.
  • At least three (3) years' experience managing teams to deliver excellence
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills, able to develop strong relationships across functions, abilities and work levels.
  • Demonstrated coaching skills, with an ability to inspire, influence and motivate teams.
  • References will be required.
  • The successful candidate will be required to pass a backfround check.

What would get us excited?

A self-starter. You have the ability to work independently with minimal supervision; you are someone who is proactive in looking for new opportunities;

A communicator. You have excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills;

Fire in the belly. You bring energy and passion in what you do;

Team player. You 'play well' with others and have proven ability to obtain buy-in from multiple stakeholders and create change;

Leader. You are a visionary role model with demonstrated coaching skills and the ability to inspire those around you to achieve their maximum;

Curious and Flexible. You're an information sponge and understand what worked yesterday won't necessarily work today (or tomorrow), that each context is different. You have an ability to adapt quickly to these changing environments;

Desire to Make the World a Better Place. You have a passion to create change in the world and believe in providing better health solutions to the poor. You might not have been able to do this in your career “to date” but this is a goal in your life.

STATUS

  • Exempt

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PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

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Ethiopia: Country Representative - Ethiopian Country Office

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Organization: Hope for Children Organization Australia Ltd
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 30 Nov 2018

Hope for Children Organisation Australia Ltd (HFC)

Our vision is to see empowered children and communities in Ethiopia break the cycle of poverty through sustainable solutions and social development.

Employment Status: Full Time

Remuneration: Attractive stipend depending on experience

Summary of Role

▪ Representation of HFC, its work and its vision and mission to the authorities and key decision-makers in the country.

▪ Ensuring high quality program work is delivered with a high level of participation of the communities in which HFC operates.

▪ Leadership, management and development of the HFC in country team comprising of over 60 national staff and international volunteers, in full compliance with local law and HFC policies and procedures.
▪ Direct reports: a team of 2 senior managers and 5 program managers

▪ Annual budget of US$1 million with expected increase to double in the next 3 years.

▪ Accurate and timely disbursement of the agreed Head Office budget including all donor commitments.

▪ Growing and managing a grant portfolio so that funds can be raised in a timely manner for key project responses.

Your Responsibilities

HFC’s work will be targeted to the needs of the most vulnerable community members in our target areas in Ethiopia

▪ The programme is registered with the relevant authorities and compliant with local law and agreements exist with concerned ministries giving due recognition to HFC and its work in Ethiopia

▪ Country Strategic Planning analysis is ongoing and very well informed using locally and internationally available sources of information

▪ HFC ́s commitments to sponsors and sponsored families and children are honoured

▪ A participatory community development approach is intrinsic to all program work

▪ Appropriate monitoring and evaluation systems measure the outcomes and

impact or HFC ́s interventions and guarantee sharing and learning from success and failure

Management of a HFC’s highly motivated team of staff:

▪ Creation and management of high performance teams delivering excellent technical work, using child-centred and gender-sensitive approaches in line with the HFC Country Strategic Plan.

▪ Management of individuals across the team to ensure full development of potential through induction, performance management and compliance in all core policy areas

▪ Staff numbers and structures will be designed and kept at a level that is cost effective

▪ Work environments will be managed to reduce risk from health and safety and security hazards

HFC’s operations in Ethiopia will be of high quality, meeting all organisational standards and our commitments to the Australian and Ethiopian governments

▪ All programme and business operations meet HFC’s accountability, key performance indicators and compliance standards including OAGDS (Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Australian Taxation Office)

▪ A robust risk management culture, including reporting is in place HFC’s work will be guided by accurate and timely workplans and budgets

▪ Development of workplans on the basis of ongoing analysis of the community’s

▪ Creation of accurate phased budgets for high quality programs

▪ Financial management efficient and fully compliant with industry standards in the disbursement of all resources

HFC’s work will be guided by accurate and timely workplans and budgets

▪ Development of workplans on the basis of ongoing analysis of the community’s

▪ Creation of accurate phased budgets for high quality programs

▪ Financial management efficient and fully compliant with industry standards in the

disbursement of all resources

HFC’s work in Ethiopia will be well funded and growing

▪ A strategy to grow income for HFC will be developed and implemented

▪ Pro-active engagement with locally represented donor agencies will result in timely knowledge of funding opportunities in a planned manner and allow for successful proposal development

▪ Timely delivery of agreed results with clear and measurable impact on

participants and in full compliance with donor requirements

▪ Capacity and resources in place for timely and effective emergency responses

where required in line with HFC’s policy mandate

HFC’s work in Ethiopia will be recognised locally and internationally by all relevant stakeholders

▪ Government relationships and registrations are well maintained and all national legal requirements for HFC ́s operation in Ethiopia are complied with

▪ Proactive publication of HFC ́s work and public relations with all key stakeholders (advisory group, local leaders, International NGOs locally and internationally) regularly promote the issues being addressed and the work addressing them

▪ Timely communication work keeps HFC visible as important player in addressing the issues affecting children in Ethiopia

Knowledge, Skills & Behaviours

Knowledge

  • Demonstrable knowledge as a result of study, training or practical experience on the key debates in development methods and effectiveness
  • Experience and understanding of child-rights-based and gender-sensitive programming for development
  • Knowledge of Ethiopia or a comparable environment;
  • Knowledge of the requirements of donor compliance and financial management including AusAid, US Aid DFID and charitable foundations would be an asset

Skills

  • Proven skills in the development and management of effective and motivated teams in multicultural environment
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and a solution based approach
  • Effective working with and through partner organizations
  • Excellent Communication skills
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Proven analytical skills in isolating and addressing priorities
  • Excellent oral and written English language skills

Behaviours

  • Self motivated leader with the passion for participatory social development ▪ Person of strong integrity that is an example to others
  • Flexibility in managing tasks
  • Creative and innovative
  • Motivating with the ability to influence others
  • Ability to analyse problems, handle ambiguity and decision making based on fact and figures
  • Commitment to continuous improvement with the overall aim of optimising the quality and impact of HFC’s program in Ethiopia

Qualifications

  • Master’s Degree in development, social sciences or related advanced degree relevant to the field of community development alternatively Degree in Business Administration or Project Management.
  • Minimum of 10-15 years senior level managerial, programmatic, and technical experience
  • At least 5-10 years experience with management of donor programs.

How to apply:

To apply please send your CV along with a cover letter to awolak@hopeforchildren.org.au.

Ethiopia: Senior ERP Consultant

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Organization: Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 09 Nov 2018

Vacancy Announcement ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AGENCY

Position: Senior ERP Consultant Term of Employment: One year with possibility of extension Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Required Number: One Salary & Benefits: Competitive Application Deadline: November 9, 2018

BACKGROUND The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) is a strategy and delivery oriented government agency created to help accelerate the growth and transformation of the country’s agriculture sector. The ATA envisions that, by 2025, smallholder farmers are commercialized with greater incomes, inclusiveness, resilience and sustainability, contributing to Ethiopia’s achievement of middle-income country status. The agency focuses on two primary national approaches to catalyze agricultural transformation. First, we support the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Resources (MoALR), its affiliate institutions, and other partners to identify and address systemic bottlenecks within an Agricultural Transformation Agenda. Second, we support Regional Governments to accelerate development of high-priority commodity value chains in clearly defined geographic clusters, through the Agricultural Commercialization Clusters (ACC) Initiative. Our major activities include conducting strategic and analytical studies, providing technical implementation support, coordinating platforms to better integrate partners and projects, and designing and directly leading a number of implementation projects. Our headquarters are in Addis Ababa, and we have regional offices in Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray regional offices, allowing us to work closely with a wide range of public, private and development sector partners across the country.

Our Culture We have an exceptional team of highly competent employees with a proven track record of success in managing complex activities and achieving transformational results. Our culture is one where talented, dedicated and adaptable individuals are committed to doing their best and exhibit great team work to achieve excellent results.
At ATA, we provide an exceptional platform for people who want to achieve their highest potential and make a meaningful contribution in changing the country’s agricultural sector. We offer rewarding work in a young, fast-paced growing organization with passionate, committed, motivated colleagues and excellent career development and training. We recognize our most valuable assets are our staff and are committed to providing our employees with the tools, training and mentorships necessary to achieve their career goals.

POSITION SUMMARY: The Senior ERP Consultant provides and utilizes technical skills across the life cycle of programming requests including, but not limited to, design, programming, documentation, testing, implementation, training and support. This role works directly with several departments to meet their specific programming requests. The Senior ERP Consultant possesses functional business process knowledge in one or more areas of Finance, Human Resources, Payroll, procurement, Logistics, grants, and fleet. The Business Applications Senior Developer works with a solid knowledge of IT architectures including applications, database, networking, and security. Initially this position will be responsible for fine tuning the existing implementation and implementing a new development requests as desired. Once implemented, this position will oversee the environment, ensuring that it is kept up to date, standardized, and that all development work performed is up to standard and as per the request by user teams.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES: • Work with a team within the ATA Enterprise Resource planning system (ERP) augmenting current program resources and provide technical assistance and consultation services in support of the operations and maintenance of the existing ERP system. • Analyze, define, and document technical requirements for workflow, logical processes, and interfaces with other systems, design new applications based on provided functional requirements documents and create logical and physical relational database designs. • Maintain and enhance existing application programs as requested, develop and implement program code based on design specifications using accepted programming techniques and standards and create and maintain all necessary application and program documentation. • Interprets enterprise business needs in design of program enhancements, tools, and platforms. • Works with process owners and other team members to define deliverables and project plans. • Assist in the periodic review and revision of the Operations and Maintenance of the existing ERP; • Use the Project Management tool to record time and progress reporting, assist in the development of project plans and manage incidents using the Department tool; • Perform a preliminary impact assessment of any support requests and provide an impact analysis that covers impact to hardware, software, schedule, and any downstream impact to other IT systems, projects or programs as requested and lead and manage support requests as assigned; • Implement potential and proposed changes to ERP with in the given time frame. • Assist in determining the problem and resolve requests and break-Fix resolution and root cause analysis support to address application problems; • Assist in the proactive management of systems and hardware, root cause analysis and resolution plan implementation and identify fixes that require code modification / enhancement to correct operational deficiencies • Perform routine system tests to determine if operational problems exist and analyze identified problems for root cause and options for resolution; • Develop functional specifications to document system changes and enhancements and correct if there are errors identified in current system. • Research Agresso documentation to identify fixes for potential and reported problems and apply to increase system efficiency; • Provide training to end users ad IT team • Maintain a daily log of activities worked to include begin and end times using the project management tool. • Complete a monthly time sheet and provide supporting documentation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: • MSc/BSc in computer science, information science, computer engineering or related field, or significant equivalent experience with the following skill sets: Software Design, Software Debugging, Software Development Fundamentals, Software Documentation, Software Testing, Software Requirement analysis, Software Development Process, Database development and administration, Software support, and problem solving. • Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience with Master’s degree (or 10 years with Bachelor’s degree) total experience in software development or application support. • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in ERP system development and support. Additionally the applicant should be conversant on using customization tools and Report Studio. • 5 years minimum programming experience, including C#, PHP, ASP.Net or MVC • 4 year minimum experience working with relational database systems such as MSSQL, MySQL or Oracle and a good working knowledge of SQL • Ability to optimize the solutions according to business requirements. • Ability to troubleshoot complex applications with multiple data sources and integration points. • Increase knowledge in the area(s) of programming languages and databases. • Demonstration of strong organizational skills; ability to work effectively under extreme stress; ability to effectively manage programming requests simultaneously. • Demonstration of attention to detail and a high sense of accuracy. • Ability to maintain positive interpersonal relationships which encourage openness with customers and peers. • Demonstration of good verbal and written communication skills. • Ability to remain confidential with sensitive materials such as ERP financial data.


How to apply:

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS We invite all candidates meeting the required qualifications to submit (i) a cover letter, (ii) CV (maximum 5 pages) to recruitment@ata.gov.et by mentioning the position title on the subjectline Please DO NOT submit scans of certificates with your application. Women are highly encouraged to apply. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.


Ethiopia: Finance and Administration Manager

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Organization: Link Community Development
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 12 Nov 2018

ABOUT LINK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Link Community Development is a family of not for profit organisations working together to transform education for children and communities across impoverished areas of Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda. Since our foundation in 1995 we have worked in 3,000 schools and improved the lives of over two million children through unique and effective school improvement models. We guide governments and educators to adopt low-cost solutions to improve learning and support for children, with a focus on literacy, numeracy and inclusion for the most marginalised children. Through a partnership delivery model which embeds piloting and learning within local systems, we influence changes to policy, practice and accountability on a national scale, and our interventions are regularly adapted and replicated by governments and NGOs in new countries and contexts. Link Community Development International (LCDI), based in Edinburgh, Scotland supports all project, M&E, fundraising, finance and governance activities in our five sub-Saharan partner countries.

JOB PURPOSE

The Finance and Administration Manager (FAM) will support the delivery of Link’s Girls’ Education Challenge ‘STAGES’ project in Ethiopia. Reporting to the Operations Manager of Link Community Development Ethiopia, the post-holder will provide high level finance support to LCDE to ensure all project activities are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest standard. Some travel within Ethiopia may be required.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Supporting Transition of Adolescent Girls through Enhanced Systems (STAGES) is an ambitious eight-year project which aims to improve girls’ learning and transition in 128 rural elementary schools and up to 17 secondary schools - 13 existing schools and 4 new ‘deep rural’ schools. Over the remaining seven years, working in all schools in four marginalised, densely populated districts of Wolaita, STAGES will:

• Reach 44,978 disadvantaged girls and support their transition to general secondary

• Support older girls’ transition from general secondary to preparatory school, (Technical Vocational Education Training TVET), College of Teachers’ Education CTE) or work

• Support activities to embed support for girls’ education at regional level and develop sustainable models owned by the education system which can be maintained and replicated by zonal authorities in 12 additional districts and other regional authorities

• Improve girls’ literacy and numeracy outcomes

• Engage multiple stakeholders and build on best practice to tackle the complex and intersecting causes that prevent girls performing and completing school

• Critically intervene in several key areas: lack of accurate data about girls’ performance; capacities to plan for and monitor girls’ education at all levels; access to safe, local secondary schools; quality of teaching and tutorial/ extracurricular support; socio-cultural beliefs and attitudes of community members, teachers and school managers; school construction and sanitation facilities; self-esteem and financial barriers to secondary education; community mobilisation in school improvement; and inclusive education practices

• Support the changing of entrenched attitudes and behaviour over this eight-year period STAGES will build on Link’s successful and innovative DFID-funded Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) interventions, working with existing GEC girls, streamlining interventions with the greatest impact and introducing new and adapted inclusive interventions targeting secondary school learners, as well as boys and men as ‘agents of change’.

INDICATIVE AREAS OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

· Manage the finance team to ensure high quality and administrative procedures and controls are in place

· Provide support and advice on financial administration matters to ensure compliance with government and donor requirements

· Supervise and manage payroll processing and tax filing activities

· Supervise and review the monthly preparation and reporting of bank and petty cash reconciliations

· Supervise the preparation and maintenance of all financial records, ensuring balance sheet reconciliations completed on a monthly basis

· Prepare, for review by the Programme Director, budget vs actual reports every month including variance analysis

· Develop and maintain chart of accounts and financial management mechanisms and templates that facilitate accurate financial planning and reporting

· Support Programme staff and Programme Director in budget development (operational and project budgets)

· Prepare cash flow forecasts, manage cash floats and manage funds requests

· Ensure accurate and up-to-date transaction list, ledger and trial balance, fixed asset register, account reconciliations and year-end adjustments are completed and availed to auditors for examination

· Ensure reconciled monthly stock balance report as part of stock inventory management

· Ensure payments are made on time and with necessary approvals

· Ensure that an accurate and up-to-date fixed asset register is maintained

· Identify and resolve financial and administrative issues

· Other ad hoc finance and administrative tasks as required

PERSON SPECIFICATION

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

· An undergraduate degree in Commerce/Accounts, Economics or Business Administration.

· At least 5 years’ experience working in a Finance related role preferably in an international organisation

· Qualified or part-qualified (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or working towards qualification

· Experience of providing high- level finance support to a busy multi-functional team

· Proven financial analysis and forecasting ability

· Experience of managing a team, including remote management of staff and office locations

Desirable

• Experience of working in an international NGO

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Advanced skills in MS PowerPoint, Excel and Word

• Excellent skills in commonly used accounting packages (e.g. Quick Books)

• Financial data analysis skills

• Initiative and enthusiasm

• Excellent written and spoken English

• Strong interpersonal and management skills

• High level of professional and ethical conduct

• Team player


How to apply:

• Please send a cover letter, Application Form and Equal Opportunities monitoring form to Link at Link@lcd.org.uk with the subject line “Finance and Administration Manager, STAGES Application”

o Your cover letter should detail how you meet the required criteria

o It should also include your available start date and salary expectations

o The Equal Opportunities form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/jobs-volunteering

o The Application form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/current-vacancies

• The closing date for applications is 12th November 2018

• We will acknowledge receipt of your application. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview by 19th November 2018. Unsuccessful applicants well not be notified. 

Interviews will be conducted in Addis Ababa in the week of the 26th of November.

Ethiopia: Operations Manager

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Organization: Link Community Development
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 12 Nov 2018

ABOUT LINK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Link Community Development is a family of not for profit organisations working together to transform education for children and communities across impoverished areas of Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda. Since our foundation in 1995 we have worked in 3,000 schools and improved the lives of over two million children through unique and effective school improvement models. We guide governments and educators to adopt low-cost solutions to improve learning and support for children, with a focus on literacy, numeracy and inclusion for the most marginalised children. Through a partnership delivery model which embeds piloting and learning within local systems, we influence changes to policy, practice and accountability on a national scale, and our interventions are regularly adapted and replicated by governments and NGOs in new countries and contexts. Link Community Development International (LCDI), based in Edinburgh, Scotland supports all project, M&E, fundraising, finance and governance activities in our five sub-Saharan partner countries.

JOB PURPOSE

The Operations Manager will support the delivery of Link’s Girls’ Education Challenge ‘STAGES’ project in Ethiopia. Reporting to the Programme Director of Link Community Development Ethiopia, the post-holder will work closely with the Programme Manager to ensure all project activities are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest standard. Some travel within Ethiopia is required.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Supporting Transition of Adolescent Girls through Enhanced Systems (STAGES) is an ambitious eight-year project which aims to improve girls’ learning and transition in 128 rural elementary schools and up to 17 secondary schools - 13 existing schools and 4 new ‘deep rural’ schools. Over the remaining seven years, working in all schools in four marginalised, densely populated districts of Wolaita, STAGES will:

• Reach 44,978 disadvantaged girls and support their transition to general secondary

• Support older girls’ transition from general secondary to preparatory school, (Technical Vocational Education Training TVET), College of Teachers’ Education CTE) or work

• Support activities to embed support for girls’ education at regional level and develop sustainable models owned by the education system which can be maintained and replicated by zonal authorities in 12 additional districts and other regional authorities

• Improve girls’ literacy and numeracy outcomes

• Engage multiple stakeholders and build on best practice to tackle the complex and intersecting causes that prevent girls performing and completing school

• Critically intervene in several key areas: lack of accurate data about girls’ performance; capacities to plan for and monitor girls’ education at all levels; access to safe, local secondary schools; quality of teaching and tutorial/ extracurricular support; socio-cultural beliefs and attitudes of community members, teachers and school managers; school construction and sanitation facilities; self-esteem and financial barriers to secondary education; community mobilisation in school improvement; and inclusive education practices

• Support the changing of entrenched attitudes and behaviour over this eight-year period STAGES will build on Link’s successful and innovative DFID-funded Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) interventions, working with existing GEC girls, streamlining interventions with the greatest impact and introducing new and adapted inclusive interventions targeting secondary school learners, as well as boys and men as ‘agents of change’.

INDICATIVE AREAS OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Work collaboratively and in tandem with the Programme Manager to support the delivery of the programme

• Develop and strengthen robust and effective support functions (HR, Finance, IT, Data Management) to enable the efficient delivery of programme activities and achieve organisational excellence

• Organise and support delivery of high quality federal dissemination and other project events

• Monitor and advise on security situation (escalating to PD as required), ensuring security guidelines are in place, up to date, communicated and adhered to. Provide pre-departure and arrival security information for project visitors

• Enhance systems and guidelines for vehicle use and maintenance, fuel tracking, etc. and monitor usage

• Establish robust procurement processes to ensure compliance with grant agreements, local legislation, quality control and Value for Money

• Ensure systems are in place for quality and security of the management and maintenance of IT, data management and communications and responsible for maintaining LCDE asset register

• Responsible for up-to-date software and anti-virus protection to enable functioning of IT-equipment

• Ensure compliance and timely management of NGO registration, work permits, visa and insurance issues;

• Act as key liaison person to ensure itineraries, logistics and fulfilment of safeguarding requirements in place for all visits (LCDI, Fund Manager, DFID, Govt, External Evaluators).

• Ensure that staff policies and procedures, following LCD International policies, are in place and adhered to (as a delegated responsibility of the PD)

• Support the PD to maintain efficient financial controls and separation of duties by reviewing activity cost breakdowns and payment requests against budgets

• Working with the Programme Director and the Chair of Advisory Committee, schedule and organize Advisory Committee meetings managing agenda and ensuring high quality papers and minutes

• Actively participate in Senior Management Team meetings to ensure delivery of business plan objectives

• Represent PD at LCDE Advisory Meetings when necessary

• Promote a safe, supportive and participatory working culture as per LCDI’s values

PERSON SPECIFICATION

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Degree in a relevant discipline (Finance, HR, Business Organisation)

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience of leading a multi-disciplinary team

• Strong skills in finance and budget management

• Expertise in HR management including understanding of employment law and best practice

• Experience of working with government officials at a high level within Ethiopia

• Experience working in a multicultural environment with a variety of stakeholders, including learners, communities and high-level government staff

• Understanding of and experience of ensuring compliance across the NGO sector

• Experience of delivering a high quality business support function

• Experience of effective partnership working

• Experience of working in an international NGO

• Experience of leading and providing support on international programmes financial management, donor contract management and compliance

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience of the Ethiopian education system

• A postgraduate degree in a relevant field (Finance, HR, Business Management)

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Excellent planning and organisational skills

• Ability to self-manage a demanding workload

• Excellent communication skills, fluent in English and Amharic

• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills

• Computer literate with the ability to apply effective IT systems


How to apply:

• Please send a cover letter, Application Form and Equal Opportunities monitoring form to Link at Link@lcd.org.uk with the subject line “Operations Manager, STAGES Application”

o Your cover letter should detail how you meet the required criteria

o It should also include your available start date and salary expectations

o The Equal Opportunities form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/jobs-volunteering

o The Application form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/current-vacancies

• The closing date for applications is 12th November 2018

• Interviews will be conducted in Addis Ababa in the week of the 26th of November. We will acknowledge receipt of your application. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview by 19th November 2018. Unsuccessful applicants well not be notified.

Ethiopia: Programme Manager

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Organization: Link Community Development
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 12 Nov 2018

ABOUT LINK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Link Community Development is a family of not for profit organisations working together to transform education for children and communities across impoverished areas of Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda. Since our foundation in 1995 we have worked in 3,000 schools and improved the lives of over two million children through unique and effective school improvement models. We guide governments and educators to adopt low-cost solutions to improve learning and support for children, with a focus on literacy, numeracy and inclusion for the most marginalised children. Through a partnership delivery model which embeds piloting and learning within local systems, we influence changes to policy, practice and accountability on a national scale, and our interventions are regularly adapted and replicated by governments and NGOs in new countries and contexts. Link Community Development International (LCDI), based in Edinburgh, Scotland supports all project, M&E, fundraising, finance and governance activities in our five sub-Saharan partner countries.

JOB PURPOSE

The Programme Manager will support the delivery of Link’s Girls’ Education Challenge ‘STAGES’ project in Ethiopia. Reporting to the Programme Director of Link Community Development Ethiopia, the post-holder will ensure all project activities are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest standard. Some travel within Ethiopia is required.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Supporting Transition of Adolescent Girls through Enhanced Systems (STAGES) is an ambitious eight-year project which aims to improve girls’ learning and transition in 128 rural elementary schools and up to 17 secondary schools - 13 existing schools and 4 new ‘deep rural’ schools. Over the remaining seven years, working in all schools in four marginalised, densely populated districts of Wolaita, STAGES will:

• Reach 63,571 disadvantaged girls and support their transition to general secondary

• Support older girls’ transition from general secondary to preparatory school, (Technical Vocational Education Training TVET), College of Teachers’ Education CTE) or work

• Include activities to embed support for girls’ education at regional level and develop sustainable models owned by the education system which can be maintained and replicated by zonal authorities in 12 additional districts and other regional authorities

• Engage multiple stakeholders and build on best practice to tackle the complex and intersecting causes that prevent girls performing and completing school

• Critically intervene in several key areas: lack of accurate data about girls’ performance; capacities to plan for and monitor girls’ education at all levels; access to safe, local secondary schools; quality of teaching and tutorial/ extracurricular support; socio-cultural beliefs and attitudes of community members, teachers and school managers; school construction and sanitation facilities; self-esteem and financial barriers to secondary education; community mobilisation in school improvement; and inclusive education practices

• Support the changing of entrenched attitudes and behaviour over this eight-year period STAGES will build on Link’s successful and innovative DFID-funded Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) interventions, working with existing GEC girls, streamlining interventions with the greatest impact and introducing new and adapted inclusive interventions targeting secondary school learners, as well as boys and men as ‘agents of change’.

INDICATIVE AREAS OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and support the programme team to plan, deliver and monitor all STAGES activities per the project agreement, workplan and budget

• Develop and maintain strong and positive working relationships with the SNNPR Regional and Zonal Education Bureaus, and the Woredas in delivery of STAGES

• Provide strategic programme input, with a particular focus on gender and inclusive education, school improvement processes and community engagement

• Work closely with the M&E Manager and the STAGES external evaluators to deliver on the STAGES MEL framework

• Act as lead for the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults. Ensure safeguarding policy is followed by the project team, contractors and visitors at all times, including supporting training needs of project staff and contractors and ensure concerns are escalated as appropriate

• Lead on field level reporting including the quarterly GEC-T Project Tracker, the LCDI quarterly report, and BoFED reporting

• Work with the programme team to strengthen government efforts around girls’ transition, learning and attendance, including training content, materials, resources and monitoring instruments

• Promote a safe, supportive, respectful and participatory organisational culture as per LCD’s values

• Ensure the robust and proactive management of project risk utilising the project risk register, due diligence assessment for downstream partners (as necessary), and fund flow map. Ensure the project level risk analysis and mitigation plan and actions are in place and risks are escalated in line with Link procedure.

• Attend and contribute to Advisory Committee meetings

PERSON SPECIFICATION

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Strong knowledge and understanding of international best practice on education and community engagement

• Demonstrable experience of the Ethiopian education system

• Experience of working with government officials at a high level within Ethiopia

• Strong technical background and experience around gender and inclusion, budgeting and financial management experience

• Experience working on large, multi-partner, complex projects

• Proven skills in child and vulnerable adult safeguarding processes

• Experience working in a multicultural environment with a variety of stakeholders, including learners, communities and high-level government staff

• Strong experience of M&E and use of data to continually improve and strengthen programme quality

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Amharic

• Degree in a relevant discipline

Desirable

• A postgraduate degree in a relevant field (International Development, education, research skills)

• Experience in delivering projects for marginalised beneficiaries

• An understanding of inclusive education programming

• Demonstrable human resource experience

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Ability to think and plan strategically

• Ability to self-manage a demanding workload

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• The ability to communicate complex information for a range of audiences, both in written reports and through presentations


How to apply:

• Please send a cover letter, Application Form and Equal Opportunities monitoring form to Link at Link@lcd.org.uk with the subject line “Programme Manager, STAGES Application”

o Your cover letter should detail how you meet the required criteria

o It should also include your available start date and salary expectations

o The Equal Opportunities form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/jobs-volunteering

o The Application form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/current-vacancies

• The closing date for applications is 12th November 2018

• Interviews will be conducted in Addis Ababa in the week of the 26th of November. We will acknowledge receipt of your application. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview by 19th November 2018. Unsuccessful applicants well not be notified.

Ethiopia: Safeguarding Senior Programme Officer

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Organization: Link Community Development
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 12 Nov 2018

ABOUT LINK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Link Community Development is a family of not for profit organisations working together to transform education for children and communities across impoverished areas of Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda. Since our foundation in 1995 we have worked in 3,000 schools and improved the lives of over two million children through unique and effective school improvement models. We guide governments and educators to adopt low-cost solutions to improve learning and support for children, with a focus on literacy, numeracy and inclusion for the most marginalised children. Through a partnership delivery model which embeds piloting and learning within local systems, we influence changes to policy, practice and accountability on a national scale, and our interventions are regularly adapted and replicated by governments and NGOs in new countries and contexts. Link Community Development International (LCDI), based in Edinburgh, Scotland supports all projects, M&E, fundraising, finance and governance activities in our five sub-Saharan partner countries.

JOB PURPOSE

The Safeguarding Senior Programme Officer will support the delivery of Link’s Girls’ Education Challenge ‘STAGES’ project in Ethiopia. Reporting to the Programme Manager of Link Community Development Ethiopia, the post-holder will work closely with the Programme Manager to ensure Link Ethiopia has and adheres to robust safeguarding procedures, follows safeguarding best practice and the STAGES project is compliant with donor safeguarding requirements. Child protection and participation, as core elements of Link’s overall safeguarding policy, are integral to the post-holder’s areas of responsibility. Some travel within Ethiopia may be required.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Supporting Transition of Adolescent Girls through Enhanced Systems (STAGES) is an ambitious eight-year project which aims to improve girls’ learning and transition in 127 rural elementary schools and up to 17 secondary schools - 13 existing schools and 4 new ‘deep rural’ schools. Over the remaining seven years, working in all schools in four marginalised, densely populated districts of Wolaita, STAGES will:

• Reach 43,978 disadvantaged girls and support their transition to general secondary

• Support older girls’ transition from general secondary to preparatory school, (Technical Vocational Education Training TVET), College of Teachers’ Education CTE) or work

• Support activities to embed support for girls’ education at regional level and develop sustainable models owned by the education system which can be maintained and replicated by zonal authorities in 12 additional districts and other regional authorities

• Improve gender and inclusion responsive pedagogy in schools

• Improve girls’ literacy and numeracy outcomes

• Engage multiple stakeholders and build on best practice to tackle the complex and intersecting causes that prevent girls performing and completing school

• Critically intervene in several key areas: lack of accurate data about girls’ performance; capacities to plan for and monitor girls’ education at all levels; access to safe, local secondary schools; quality of teaching and tutorial/ extracurricular support; socio-cultural beliefs and attitudes of community members, teachers and school managers; school construction and sanitation facilities; self-esteem and financial barriers to secondary education; community mobilisation in school improvement; and inclusive education practices

• Support the changing of entrenched attitudes and behaviour over this eight-year period

STAGES will build on Link’s successful and innovative DFID-funded Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) interventions, working with existing GEC girls, streamlining interventions with the greatest impact and introducing new and adapted inclusive interventions targeting secondary school learners, as well as boys and men as ‘agents of change’.

INDICATIVE AREAS OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be the Link Ethiopia focal person for Safeguarding and Child and Vulnerable Adult Protection

• Take action as necessary on revisions to safeguarding guidance and due diligence from the GEC-T Fund Manager; Respond to Fund Manager requests for information and updates on LCDE’s Safeguarding policy

• Strengthen and develop where necessary robust Safeguarding policies and procedures, including the Child and Vulnerable Adult policy, ensuring it aligns with Ethiopian legislation and donor compliance

• Ensure a robust Case Management system is in place and fit for purpose, including reporting, referrals and victim support

• Ensure the Risk Management system is updated and shared with appropriate team members

• Conduct a thorough service mapping of victim support services in Wolaita Zone and the SNPPR Region

• Ensure all staff, consultants, partners, contractors and visitors adopt and follow the Link Ethiopia Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct

• Work closely with LCDE programme team members to ensure that safeguarding is considered in all programme activities.

• Work closely with the Gender Officer in all activities to safeguard girls (and boys) who are particularly vulnerable to abuse, such as children with disabilities

• Strengthen the Link Ethiopia safeguarding training module and ensure it follows best practice

• Develop a training plan and train all Link Ethiopian staff on safeguarding best practice

• Implement existing and new screening procedures for new Link Ethiopia recruits

• Engage in scheduled revisions of Link Ethiopia Safeguarding and Child and Vulnerable Adult protection policies

• Ensure that girls (and boys) in project schools understand safeguarding and protection, and that they participate in the development of school level policies or guidelines which seek to protect them from harm, violence or abuse

• Strengthen GEC-T programming to ensure the active participation of girls (considering particularly marginalised girls including girls with disability) in the design, implementation and evaluation of project activities

• Play an active role in implementation of Child Protection project activities and provide high quality reports on activity status

• Make frequent field visits to project areas to monitor implementation of safeguarding/ child and vulnerable adult protection activities, identify opportunities and constraints and any adjustments needed including additional staffing or staff training

• Take part and/or support with implementation of all other STAGES programme activities at all levels

PERSON SPECIFICATION

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. law, child development)

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in safeguarding / child protection

• Knowledge of Government development plans and policies on Safeguarding and Child Protection

• Technical knowledge of safeguarding and child protection in the international development context

• Field work experience

• Strong spoken and written communication skills in English and Amharic

• Strong interpersonal skills

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience of the Ethiopian education system

• A postgraduate degree in a relevant field (law, child development, education, international development)

• Knowledge of the local statutory child protection network, including contact details for the local police and women’s and children’s affairs bureau, and awareness of local inter-agency child protection procedure Knowledge of education and NGO sector in Ethiopia

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Excellent planning and organisational skills

• Ability to self-manage a demanding workload

• Excellent communication skills, fluent in English and Amharic

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Computer literate


How to apply:

• Please send a cover letter, Application Form and Equal Opportunities monitoring form to Link at Link@lcd.org.uk with the subject line “Safeguarding Senior Programme Officer, STAGES Application”

o Your cover letter should detail how you meet the required criteria

o It should also include your available start date and salary expectations

o The Equal Opportunities form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/jobs-volunteering

o The Application form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/current-vacancies

• The closing date for applications is 12th November 2018

• Interviews will be conducted in Addis Ababa in the week of the 26th of November. We will acknowledge receipt of your application. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview by 19th November 2018. Unsuccessful applicants well not be notified.

Ethiopia: Communication Partner - Improving Worker Engagement and Retention

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Organization: DAI Global
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 11 Nov 2018

Communication Partner - Improving Worker Engagement and Retention

Background

The government of Ethiopia has adopted the second growth and transformation plan (GTP II) with the prime focus of transforming the country to a middle-income country by the year 2025. This GTP has a strong focus on supporting the development of an industrial economy and to this end, the government is establishing a number of industrial parks with the intent to boost the Ethiopian manufacturing sector, create an attractive investment proposition for foreign local investors and employment opportunity.

The Hawassa Industrial Park (HIP) is one of the completed and operational industrial parks where nineteen investors have begun operations, employing approximately twenty thousand workers. The Hawassa Industrial Park - Sourcing & Training Employees in the Region (HIPSTER) project was created to address the challenge of sourcing large number of workers into the IP mainly from an agrarian background and with no experience in formal or manufacturing jobs.

Enterprise Partners (EP) is a UKaid Funded program that aims to support and transform Ethiopia’s economic growth. EP facilitates the implementation of the HIPSTER project collaboratively with Ethiopian Textile Industry Development Institute (ETIDI), Southern Nations, Nationalities’ and Peoples’ Region – Bureau of Trade and Industry (SNNP-BoTI), Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC), and Investors Association (IA).

Within the HIPSTER pipeline; SNNP-BoTI identifies, sources and screens potential workers from ten catchment areas around HIP, and the workers are then sent to the grading centre where ETIDI tests against various industry standards. Workers are then allocated to factories by the IA, and are given in-class training/induction by Soft skills training providers.[1]

Background specific to this assignment

EP undertook an assessment in September 2015 to examine causes of labour related challenges in manufacturing and industry. The assessment was undertaken in Addis Ababa and included consultations with sectoral government bureau’s and institutes, private and government TVET colleges, fashion design and operator sourcing colleges, foreign direct investors and local garment factories.

The challenges identified included poor worker readiness, frequent absenteeism and turnover, poor awareness of factory working environment, poor employee sourcing, recruitment and training processes, low labour productivity and poor motivational systems amongst others[2].

In order to address this issue, EP supported the development of a soft skills training content and conducted training of trainers (ToT)[3]. The soft skills training includes work ethics, time management, and life skills- summary of training topics attached as Annex 1.

There are now four training service providers in HIP providing soft skills training and induction for recruited workers. These service providers have trained 7600 operators directly in Hawassa Industrial Park.

The training is in class and takes a total of five days (8 hours a day) to complete.

Although assessments of current training has shown that factories recognize the value of the training, and see good training results in orienting operators, majority of whom come from informal farming work or no work experience to factory floors, there are a number of challenges that remain to be addressed. Some of these challenges, as identified by factories include, the intensity of the induction process, the need for a more interactive methodology to get the message across, this can include audio/visual tools and the need for flexibility to deliver the training.

The cost of training per operator charged by current service providers is another major challenge in a situation where worker turnover was averaging 10%[4]. Factories have no incentive to invest in their workers at those replenishments rates and have clearly indicated they would be unwilling to cover the external costs of direct training to operators.

EP, investors and stakeholders are now interested in evolving the current training content, curriculum and training methodology to address overarching and specific challenges identified.

Purpose

The purpose of this TOR is to identify a strategic communication partner, who can support on developing a visually rich multimedia curriculum. The curriculum will help to guide and support worker’s transition into the new sector and environment.

Specific task

The communication partner is responsible for supporting the lead consultant with

· Writing story lines for the curriculum and more specifically;

a. developing the main narrative character and supporting characters for Worker Induction stories,

b. developing the storylines for each topic of Worker Induction multimedia content,

c. developing a storyboard (audio script and description/sketch of visuals) for each topic of worker induction multimedia content

· Graphic design and visual context development, more specifically;

a. Developing the visual style of multimedia content,

b. Developing the look of the characters Illustrate backgrounds, characters, materials and equipment, buildings and shop floors (all related to apparel manufacture and socio-economic background of workers),

c. Developing full frames as per the storyboard and design posters for Worker Induction.

· Video editing, which will include

a. Packaging illustrated frames, audio recording and text into video files as per storyboard

Communication partner will also be responsible for ensuring quality delivery of the curriculum and related materials.

Deliverables and timeframe

Writing - 30 days

Character descriptions

Storyboards for each topic

Graphic Design - 40 days

Illustrated frames based on storyboard

Posters

Video editing - 20 days

Packaged video files

TOTAL - 90 days

Qualification

General Experience

· Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience working as a communication partner for development projects, similar in nature and level of complexity as EP. Please refer to our website www.enterprisepartners.org for more information on EP.

· Experience in running media promotional campaigns and developing motion graphics to raise awareness for various development partner affiliates, a UN agency or similar international organizations is highly desirable.

Activity specific expertise

· Writer:

Ø Advanced design skills in sketching and creating storyboards

Ø Advanced skills working with Illustrator, In-Design and Adobe after Effects and Cinema 4D.

· Graphic Designer:

Ø Advanced design skills in motion graphics, particularly character animation.

Ø Advanced skills working with Illustrator, In-Design and Adobe after Effects and Cinema 4D.

· Video editor:

Ø Advanced design skills in motion graphics, particularly character animation.

Ø Advanced skills working with Illustrator, In-Design and Adobe after Effects and Cinema 4D.

Ø Advance skills in Adobe Premier.

Essential Competencies

· Registered business license for media campaign promotions.[5]

· Advanced design skills in motion graphics, particularly character animation.

· Advanced skills working with Illustrator, In-Design and Adobe after Effects and Cinema 4D.

Desirable

· Continental, East African and/or local contextual knowledge

Engagement Timeline

The consultant is expected to work with EP, HIPSTER stakeholders and local curriculum developers and training providers between November 2018 and February 2019. The consultancy is expected to take place over 90 days.

Working Arrangement

The EP/partner focal persons for this assignment to whom the consultant will be reporting to is the international consultant and Garment labour intervention Manager and Garment Sector Lead.

Disclaimer: Individual consultants will be solicited in the event that a company with the right skill set is not shortlisted.

LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION 11TH NOVEMBER 2018

[1]Refer to HIPSTER project document V2.0 March 2018 for more information on pipeline.

[2]Soft Skills Assessment, 2015

[3] For ETIDI staff, private fashion design and operators sourcing colleges and soft skills training provider firms


How to apply:

To apply, follow the link below:

https://chm.tbe.taleo.net/chm04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=DAINC&cws=1&rid=4067

Ethiopia: Development Worker as Advisor (m/f/d) for biomedical technology/engineering at Nekemte Referral Hospital

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Organization: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 28 Nov 2018

As a federal enterprise, GIZ supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development.

With the dispatch of qualified specialists as development workers, GIZ contributes to the sustainable improvement of living conditions of people in developing and transition countries.

For our operations in Nekemte/Ethiopia, we are looking for an

Development Worker as Advisor (m/f/d) for biomedical technology/engineering at Nekemte Referral Hospital

Job description

The Ethiopian Government has invested substantially in improvements of the health system. Biomedical technology is now increasingly applied and shall be part of the training for health care professionals. However, trainings are not yet practically oriented and much of the equipment in hospitals is not functioning. The Nekemte Regional Referral Hospital has established a workshop where biomedical equipment shall be repaired and health care staff and biomedical students shall be practically trained. By supporting this workshop, biomedical technicians and nurses will gain competence and practical experience. Furthermore, biomedical equipment from surrounding health posts can be repaired and maintained.

Your tasks

  • Establishing and supporting the regional hospital and workshop in Nekemte technically and in its managerial procedures
  • Training and supervising hospital staff in maintenance and repairs of the full range of biomedical equipment present in the hospital (unless requiring company maintenance), of all levels of technology; also include support staff of associated hospitals/health centers in the surrounding area
  • Advising the hospital’s management team on a comprehensive management of their biomedical equipment, roles and responsibilities, and respective needs
  • Supporting hospital staff in reaching out to associated hospitals and health centers to develop the workshop further into a supra-regional maintenance and repair hub
  • Training and mentoring of the staff of Nekemte Referral Hospital and the neighboring Nekemte Health Science College in the appropriate handling and use of medical equipment
  • In cooperation with Tegbare-id TVET College in Addis Ababa and other vocational training schools: supporting the practical vocational training of students (biomedical technicians)
  • Jointly with the hospital management team and in close cooperation with the International Expert placed in Addis Abeba at Tegbare-id: setting up an (electronic) inventory system for biomedical equipment, an internal hospital preventive maintenance system and ongoing training system to continuously introduce staff to operation and maintenance of medical equipment
  • Contributing to monitoring and knowledge management, therefore working closely with the GIZ Programme as well as the hospital management and the regional health authorities

Your profile

  • Biomedical technician (m/f/d) with trainer’s license or biomedical engineer (m/f/d) with practical and teaching/training experience
  • A minimum of 5 years practical working experience in maintenance and repair of (basic) medical equipment
  • Strong propensity for teaching
  • Overseas working experience, in particular in a low/middle income country is an asset, especially working experience in Ethiopia
  • Enjoying working with a young and motivated hospital management team in a local environment
  • Good communication skills, intercultural competence and a genuine interest in development cooperation
  • Fluent English skills; Knowledge of the local language (Oromo) would be an asset, but a minimum is willingness to learn it

If we caught your interest, we are looking forward to your application until 11/28/2018.

For further information: https://jobs.giz.de/index.php?ac=jobad&id=39822

You can find this job under the Job-ID P1527V051.


How to apply:

If we caught your interest, we are looking forward to your application until 11/28/2018.

For further information: https://jobs.giz.de/index.php?ac=jobad&id=39822

You can find this job under the Job-ID P1527V051.

Ethiopia: Finance and Administration Manager

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Organization: Link Community Development
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 12 Nov 2018

ABOUT LINK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Link Community Development is a family of not for profit organisations working together to transform education for children and communities across impoverished areas of Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda. Since our foundation in 1995 we have worked in 3,000 schools and improved the lives of over two million children through unique and effective school improvement models. We guide governments and educators to adopt low-cost solutions to improve learning and support for children, with a focus on literacy, numeracy and inclusion for the most marginalised children. Through a partnership delivery model which embeds piloting and learning within local systems, we influence changes to policy, practice and accountability on a national scale, and our interventions are regularly adapted and replicated by governments and NGOs in new countries and contexts. Link Community Development International (LCDI), based in Edinburgh, Scotland supports all project, M&E, fundraising, finance and governance activities in our five sub-Saharan partner countries.

JOB PURPOSE

The Finance and Administration Manager (FAM) will support the delivery of Link’s Girls’ Education Challenge ‘STAGES’ project in Ethiopia. Reporting to the Operations Manager of Link Community Development Ethiopia, the post-holder will provide high level finance support to LCDE to ensure all project activities are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest standard. Some travel within Ethiopia may be required.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Supporting Transition of Adolescent Girls through Enhanced Systems (STAGES) is an ambitious eight-year project which aims to improve girls’ learning and transition in 128 rural elementary schools and up to 17 secondary schools - 13 existing schools and 4 new ‘deep rural’ schools. Over the remaining seven years, working in all schools in four marginalised, densely populated districts of Wolaita, STAGES will:

• Reach 44,978 disadvantaged girls and support their transition to general secondary

• Support older girls’ transition from general secondary to preparatory school, (Technical Vocational Education Training TVET), College of Teachers’ Education CTE) or work

• Support activities to embed support for girls’ education at regional level and develop sustainable models owned by the education system which can be maintained and replicated by zonal authorities in 12 additional districts and other regional authorities

• Improve girls’ literacy and numeracy outcomes

• Engage multiple stakeholders and build on best practice to tackle the complex and intersecting causes that prevent girls performing and completing school

• Critically intervene in several key areas: lack of accurate data about girls’ performance; capacities to plan for and monitor girls’ education at all levels; access to safe, local secondary schools; quality of teaching and tutorial/ extracurricular support; socio-cultural beliefs and attitudes of community members, teachers and school managers; school construction and sanitation facilities; self-esteem and financial barriers to secondary education; community mobilisation in school improvement; and inclusive education practices

• Support the changing of entrenched attitudes and behaviour over this eight-year period STAGES will build on Link’s successful and innovative DFID-funded Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) interventions, working with existing GEC girls, streamlining interventions with the greatest impact and introducing new and adapted inclusive interventions targeting secondary school learners, as well as boys and men as ‘agents of change’.

INDICATIVE AREAS OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

· Manage the finance team to ensure high quality and administrative procedures and controls are in place

· Provide support and advice on financial administration matters to ensure compliance with government and donor requirements

· Supervise and manage payroll processing and tax filing activities

· Supervise and review the monthly preparation and reporting of bank and petty cash reconciliations

· Supervise the preparation and maintenance of all financial records, ensuring balance sheet reconciliations completed on a monthly basis

· Prepare, for review by the Programme Director, budget vs actual reports every month including variance analysis

· Develop and maintain chart of accounts and financial management mechanisms and templates that facilitate accurate financial planning and reporting

· Support Programme staff and Programme Director in budget development (operational and project budgets)

· Prepare cash flow forecasts, manage cash floats and manage funds requests

· Ensure accurate and up-to-date transaction list, ledger and trial balance, fixed asset register, account reconciliations and year-end adjustments are completed and availed to auditors for examination

· Ensure reconciled monthly stock balance report as part of stock inventory management

· Ensure payments are made on time and with necessary approvals

· Ensure that an accurate and up-to-date fixed asset register is maintained

· Identify and resolve financial and administrative issues

· Other ad hoc finance and administrative tasks as required

PERSON SPECIFICATION

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

· An undergraduate degree in Commerce/Accounts, Economics or Business Administration.

· At least 5 years’ experience working in a Finance related role preferably in an international organisation

· Qualified or part-qualified (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or working towards qualification

· Experience of providing high- level finance support to a busy multi-functional team

· Proven financial analysis and forecasting ability

· Experience of managing a team, including remote management of staff and office locations

Desirable

• Experience of working in an international NGO

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Advanced skills in MS PowerPoint, Excel and Word

• Excellent skills in commonly used accounting packages (e.g. Quick Books)

• Financial data analysis skills

• Initiative and enthusiasm

• Excellent written and spoken English

• Strong interpersonal and management skills

• High level of professional and ethical conduct

• Team player


How to apply:

• Please send a cover letter, Application Form and Equal Opportunities monitoring form to Link at Link@lcd.org.uk with the subject line “Finance and Administration Manager, STAGES Application”

o Your cover letter should detail how you meet the required criteria

o It should also include your available start date and salary expectations

o The Equal Opportunities form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/jobs-volunteering

o The Application form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/current-vacancies

• The closing date for applications is 12th November 2018

• We will acknowledge receipt of your application. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview by 19th November 2018. Unsuccessful applicants well not be notified. Interviews will be conducted in Addis Ababa in the week of the 26th of November.


Ethiopia: Operations Manager

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Organization: Link Community Development
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 12 Nov 2018

ABOUT LINK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Link Community Development is a family of not for profit organisations working together to transform education for children and communities across impoverished areas of Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda. Since our foundation in 1995 we have worked in 3,000 schools and improved the lives of over two million children through unique and effective school improvement models. We guide governments and educators to adopt low-cost solutions to improve learning and support for children, with a focus on literacy, numeracy and inclusion for the most marginalised children. Through a partnership delivery model which embeds piloting and learning within local systems, we influence changes to policy, practice and accountability on a national scale, and our interventions are regularly adapted and replicated by governments and NGOs in new countries and contexts. Link Community Development International (LCDI), based in Edinburgh, Scotland supports all project, M&E, fundraising, finance and governance activities in our five sub-Saharan partner countries.

JOB PURPOSE

The Operations Manager will support the delivery of Link’s Girls’ Education Challenge ‘STAGES’ project in Ethiopia. Reporting to the Programme Director of Link Community Development Ethiopia, the post-holder will work closely with the Programme Manager to ensure all project activities are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest standard. Some travel within Ethiopia is required.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Supporting Transition of Adolescent Girls through Enhanced Systems (STAGES) is an ambitious eight-year project which aims to improve girls’ learning and transition in 128 rural elementary schools and up to 17 secondary schools - 13 existing schools and 4 new ‘deep rural’ schools. Over the remaining seven years, working in all schools in four marginalised, densely populated districts of Wolaita, STAGES will:

• Reach 44,978 disadvantaged girls and support their transition to general secondary

• Support older girls’ transition from general secondary to preparatory school, (Technical Vocational Education Training TVET), College of Teachers’ Education CTE) or work

• Support activities to embed support for girls’ education at regional level and develop sustainable models owned by the education system which can be maintained and replicated by zonal authorities in 12 additional districts and other regional authorities

• Improve girls’ literacy and numeracy outcomes

• Engage multiple stakeholders and build on best practice to tackle the complex and intersecting causes that prevent girls performing and completing school

• Critically intervene in several key areas: lack of accurate data about girls’ performance; capacities to plan for and monitor girls’ education at all levels; access to safe, local secondary schools; quality of teaching and tutorial/ extracurricular support; socio-cultural beliefs and attitudes of community members, teachers and school managers; school construction and sanitation facilities; self-esteem and financial barriers to secondary education; community mobilisation in school improvement; and inclusive education practices

• Support the changing of entrenched attitudes and behaviour over this eight-year period STAGES will build on Link’s successful and innovative DFID-funded Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) interventions, working with existing GEC girls, streamlining interventions with the greatest impact and introducing new and adapted inclusive interventions targeting secondary school learners, as well as boys and men as ‘agents of change’.

INDICATIVE AREAS OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work collaboratively and in tandem with the Programme Manager to support the delivery of the programme

• Develop and strengthen robust and effective support functions (HR, Finance, IT, Data Management) to enable the efficient delivery of programme activities and achieve organisational excellence

• Organise and support delivery of high quality federal dissemination and other project events

• Monitor and advise on security situation (escalating to PD as required), ensuring security guidelines are in place, up to date, communicated and adhered to. Provide pre-departure and arrival security information for project visitors

• Enhance systems and guidelines for vehicle use and maintenance, fuel tracking, etc. and monitor usage

• Establish robust procurement processes to ensure compliance with grant agreements, local legislation, quality control and Value for Money

• Ensure systems are in place for quality and security of the management and maintenance of IT, data management and communications and responsible for maintaining LCDE asset register

• Responsible for up-to-date software and anti-virus protection to enable functioning of IT-equipment

• Ensure compliance and timely management of NGO registration, work permits, visa and insurance issues;

• Act as key liaison person to ensure itineraries, logistics and fulfilment of safeguarding requirements in place for all visits (LCDI, Fund Manager, DFID, Govt, External Evaluators).

• Ensure that staff policies and procedures, following LCD International policies, are in place and adhered to (as a delegated responsibility of the PD)

• Support the PD to maintain efficient financial controls and separation of duties by reviewing activity cost breakdowns and payment requests against budgets

• Working with the Programme Director and the Chair of Advisory Committee, schedule and organize Advisory Committee meetings managing agenda and ensuring high quality papers and minutes

• Actively participate in Senior Management Team meetings to ensure delivery of business plan objectives

• Represent PD at LCDE Advisory Meetings when necessary

• Promote a safe, supportive and participatory working culture as per LCDI’s values

PERSON SPECIFICATION

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Degree in a relevant discipline (Finance, HR, Business Organisation)

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience of leading a multi-disciplinary team

• Strong skills in finance and budget management

• Expertise in HR management including understanding of employment law and best practice

• Experience of working with government officials at a high level within Ethiopia

• Experience working in a multicultural environment with a variety of stakeholders, including learners, communities and high-level government staff

• Understanding of and experience of ensuring compliance across the NGO sector

• Experience of delivering a high quality business support function

• Experience of effective partnership working

• Experience of working in an international NGO

• Experience of leading and providing support on international programmes financial management, donor contract management and compliance

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience of the Ethiopian education system

• A postgraduate degree in a relevant field (Finance, HR, Business Management)

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Excellent planning and organisational skills

• Ability to self-manage a demanding workload

• Excellent communication skills, fluent in English and Amharic

• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills

• Computer literate with the ability to apply effective IT systems


How to apply:

• Please send a cover letter, Application Form and Equal Opportunities monitoring form to Link at Link@lcd.org.uk with the subject line “Operations Manager, STAGES Application”

o Your cover letter should detail how you meet the required criteria

o It should also include your available start date and salary expectations

o The Equal Opportunities form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/jobs-volunteering

o The Application form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/current-vacancies

• The closing date for applications is 12th November 2018

• Interviews will be conducted in Addis Ababa in the week of the 26th of November. We will acknowledge receipt of your application. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview by 19th November 2018. Unsuccessful applicants well not be notified.

Ethiopia: Programme Manager

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Organization: Link Community Development
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 12 Nov 2018

ABOUT LINK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Link Community Development is a family of not for profit organisations working together to transform education for children and communities across impoverished areas of Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda. Since our foundation in 1995 we have worked in 3,000 schools and improved the lives of over two million children through unique and effective school improvement models. We guide governments and educators to adopt low-cost solutions to improve learning and support for children, with a focus on literacy, numeracy and inclusion for the most marginalised children. Through a partnership delivery model which embeds piloting and learning within local systems, we influence changes to policy, practice and accountability on a national scale, and our interventions are regularly adapted and replicated by governments and NGOs in new countries and contexts. Link Community Development International (LCDI), based in Edinburgh, Scotland supports all project, M&E, fundraising, finance and governance activities in our five sub-Saharan partner countries.

JOB PURPOSE

The Programme Manager will support the delivery of Link’s Girls’ Education Challenge ‘STAGES’ project in Ethiopia. Reporting to the Programme Director of Link Community Development Ethiopia, the post-holder will ensure all project activities are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest standard. Some travel within Ethiopia is required.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Supporting Transition of Adolescent Girls through Enhanced Systems (STAGES) is an ambitious eight-year project which aims to improve girls’ learning and transition in 128 rural elementary schools and up to 17 secondary schools - 13 existing schools and 4 new ‘deep rural’ schools. Over the remaining seven years, working in all schools in four marginalised, densely populated districts of Wolaita, STAGES will:

• Reach 63,571 disadvantaged girls and support their transition to general secondary

• Support older girls’ transition from general secondary to preparatory school, (Technical Vocational Education Training TVET), College of Teachers’ Education CTE) or work

• Include activities to embed support for girls’ education at regional level and develop sustainable models owned by the education system which can be maintained and replicated by zonal authorities in 12 additional districts and other regional authorities

• Engage multiple stakeholders and build on best practice to tackle the complex and intersecting causes that prevent girls performing and completing school

• Critically intervene in several key areas: lack of accurate data about girls’ performance; capacities to plan for and monitor girls’ education at all levels; access to safe, local secondary schools; quality of teaching and tutorial/ extracurricular support; socio-cultural beliefs and attitudes of community members, teachers and school managers; school construction and sanitation facilities; self-esteem and financial barriers to secondary education; community mobilisation in school improvement; and inclusive education practices

• Support the changing of entrenched attitudes and behaviour over this eight-year period STAGES will build on Link’s successful and innovative DFID-funded Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) interventions, working with existing GEC girls, streamlining interventions with the greatest impact and introducing new and adapted inclusive interventions targeting secondary school learners, as well as boys and men as ‘agents of change’.

INDICATIVE AREAS OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and support the programme team to plan, deliver and monitor all STAGES activities per the project agreement, workplan and budget

• Develop and maintain strong and positive working relationships with the SNNPR Regional and Zonal Education Bureaus, and the Woredas in delivery of STAGES

• Provide strategic programme input, with a particular focus on gender and inclusive education, school improvement processes and community engagement

• Work closely with the M&E Manager and the STAGES external evaluators to deliver on the STAGES MEL framework

• Act as lead for the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults. Ensure safeguarding policy is followed by the project team, contractors and visitors at all times, including supporting training needs of project staff and contractors and ensure concerns are escalated as appropriate

• Lead on field level reporting including the quarterly GEC-T Project Tracker, the LCDI quarterly report, and BoFED reporting

• Work with the programme team to strengthen government efforts around girls’ transition, learning and attendance, including training content, materials, resources and monitoring instruments

• Promote a safe, supportive, respectful and participatory organisational culture as per LCD’s values

• Ensure the robust and proactive management of project risk utilising the project risk register, due diligence assessment for downstream partners (as necessary), and fund flow map. Ensure the project level risk analysis and mitigation plan and actions are in place and risks are escalated in line with Link procedure.

• Attend and contribute to Advisory Committee meetings

PERSON SPECIFICATION

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Strong knowledge and understanding of international best practice on education and community engagement

• Demonstrable experience of the Ethiopian education system

• Experience of working with government officials at a high level within Ethiopia

• Strong technical background and experience around gender and inclusion, budgeting and financial management experience

• Experience working on large, multi-partner, complex projects

• Proven skills in child and vulnerable adult safeguarding processes

• Experience working in a multicultural environment with a variety of stakeholders, including learners, communities and high-level government staff

• Strong experience of M&E and use of data to continually improve and strengthen programme quality

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and Amharic

• Degree in a relevant discipline

Desirable

• A postgraduate degree in a relevant field (International Development, education, research skills)

• Experience in delivering projects for marginalised beneficiaries

• An understanding of inclusive education programming

• Demonstrable human resource experience

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Ability to think and plan strategically

• Ability to self-manage a demanding workload

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• The ability to communicate complex information for a range of audiences, both in written reports and through presentations


How to apply:

• Please send a cover letter, Application Form and Equal Opportunities monitoring form to Link at Link@lcd.org.uk with the subject line “Programme Manager, STAGES Application”

o Your cover letter should detail how you meet the required criteria

o It should also include your available start date and salary expectations

o The Equal Opportunities form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/jobs-volunteering

o The Application form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/current-vacancies

• The closing date for applications is 12th November 2018

• Interviews will be conducted in Addis Ababa in the week of the 26th of November. We will acknowledge receipt of your application. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview by 19th November 2018. Unsuccessful applicants well not be notified.

Ethiopia: Safeguarding Senior Programme Officer

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Organization: Link Community Development
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 12 Nov 2018

ABOUT LINK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Link Community Development is a family of not for profit organisations working together to transform education for children and communities across impoverished areas of Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda and Uganda. Since our foundation in 1995 we have worked in 3,000 schools and improved the lives of over two million children through unique and effective school improvement models. We guide governments and educators to adopt low-cost solutions to improve learning and support for children, with a focus on literacy, numeracy and inclusion for the most marginalised children. Through a partnership delivery model which embeds piloting and learning within local systems, we influence changes to policy, practice and accountability on a national scale, and our interventions are regularly adapted and replicated by governments and NGOs in new countries and contexts. Link Community Development International (LCDI), based in Edinburgh, Scotland supports all projects, M&E, fundraising, finance and governance activities in our five sub-Saharan partner countries.

JOB PURPOSE

The Safeguarding Senior Programme Officer will support the delivery of Link’s Girls’ Education Challenge ‘STAGES’ project in Ethiopia. Reporting to the Programme Manager of Link Community Development Ethiopia, the post-holder will work closely with the Programme Manager to ensure Link Ethiopia has and adheres to robust safeguarding procedures, follows safeguarding best practice and the STAGES project is compliant with donor safeguarding requirements. Child protection and participation, as core elements of Link’s overall safeguarding policy, are integral to the post-holder’s areas of responsibility. Some travel within Ethiopia may be required.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Supporting Transition of Adolescent Girls through Enhanced Systems (STAGES) is an ambitious eight-year project which aims to improve girls’ learning and transition in 127 rural elementary schools and up to 17 secondary schools - 13 existing schools and 4 new ‘deep rural’ schools. Over the remaining seven years, working in all schools in four marginalised, densely populated districts of Wolaita, STAGES will:

• Reach 43,978 disadvantaged girls and support their transition to general secondary

• Support older girls’ transition from general secondary to preparatory school, (Technical Vocational Education Training TVET), College of Teachers’ Education CTE) or work

• Support activities to embed support for girls’ education at regional level and develop sustainable models owned by the education system which can be maintained and replicated by zonal authorities in 12 additional districts and other regional authorities

• Improve gender and inclusion responsive pedagogy in schools

• Improve girls’ literacy and numeracy outcomes

• Engage multiple stakeholders and build on best practice to tackle the complex and intersecting causes that prevent girls performing and completing school

• Critically intervene in several key areas: lack of accurate data about girls’ performance; capacities to plan for and monitor girls’ education at all levels; access to safe, local secondary schools; quality of teaching and tutorial/ extracurricular support; socio-cultural beliefs and attitudes of community members, teachers and school managers; school construction and sanitation facilities; self-esteem and financial barriers to secondary education; community mobilisation in school improvement; and inclusive education practices

• Support the changing of entrenched attitudes and behaviour over this eight-year period

STAGES will build on Link’s successful and innovative DFID-funded Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) interventions, working with existing GEC girls, streamlining interventions with the greatest impact and introducing new and adapted inclusive interventions targeting secondary school learners, as well as boys and men as ‘agents of change’.

INDICATIVE AREAS OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Be the Link Ethiopia focal person for Safeguarding and Child and Vulnerable Adult Protection

• Take action as necessary on revisions to safeguarding guidance and due diligence from the GEC-T Fund Manager; Respond to Fund Manager requests for information and updates on LCDE’s Safeguarding policy

• Strengthen and develop where necessary robust Safeguarding policies and procedures, including the Child and Vulnerable Adult policy, ensuring it aligns with Ethiopian legislation and donor compliance

• Ensure a robust Case Management system is in place and fit for purpose, including reporting, referrals and victim support

• Ensure the Risk Management system is updated and shared with appropriate team members

• Conduct a thorough service mapping of victim support services in Wolaita Zone and the SNPPR Region

• Ensure all staff, consultants, partners, contractors and visitors adopt and follow the Link Ethiopia Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct

• Work closely with LCDE programme team members to ensure that safeguarding is considered in all programme activities.

• Work closely with the Gender Officer in all activities to safeguard girls (and boys) who are particularly vulnerable to abuse, such as children with disabilities

• Strengthen the Link Ethiopia safeguarding training module and ensure it follows best practice

• Develop a training plan and train all Link Ethiopian staff on safeguarding best practice

• Implement existing and new screening procedures for new Link Ethiopia recruits

• Engage in scheduled revisions of Link Ethiopia Safeguarding and Child and Vulnerable Adult protection policies

• Ensure that girls (and boys) in project schools understand safeguarding and protection, and that they participate in the development of school level policies or guidelines which seek to protect them from harm, violence or abuse

• Strengthen GEC-T programming to ensure the active participation of girls (considering particularly marginalised girls including girls with disability) in the design, implementation and evaluation of project activities

• Play an active role in implementation of Child Protection project activities and provide high quality reports on activity status

• Make frequent field visits to project areas to monitor implementation of safeguarding/ child and vulnerable adult protection activities, identify opportunities and constraints and any adjustments needed including additional staffing or staff training

• Take part and/or support with implementation of all other STAGES programme activities at all levels

PERSON SPECIFICATION

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. law, child development)

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in safeguarding / child protection

• Knowledge of Government development plans and policies on Safeguarding and Child Protection

• Technical knowledge of safeguarding and child protection in the international development context

• Field work experience

• Strong spoken and written communication skills in English and Amharic

• Strong interpersonal skills

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience of the Ethiopian education system

• A postgraduate degree in a relevant field (law, child development, education, international development)

• Knowledge of the local statutory child protection network, including contact details for the local police and women’s and children’s affairs bureau, and awareness of local inter-agency child protection procedure Knowledge of education and NGO sector in Ethiopia

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Excellent planning and organisational skills

• Ability to self-manage a demanding workload

• Excellent communication skills, fluent in English and Amharic

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Computer literate


How to apply:

• Please send a cover letter, Application Form and Equal Opportunities monitoring form to Link at Link@lcd.org.uk with the subject line “Safeguarding Senior Programme Officer, STAGES Application”

o Your cover letter should detail how you meet the required criteria

o It should also include your available start date and salary expectations

o The Equal Opportunities form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/jobs-volunteering

o The Application form is available here: http://www.lcdinternational.org/current-vacancies

• The closing date for applications is 12th November 2018

• Interviews will be conducted in Addis Ababa in the week of the 26th of November. We will acknowledge receipt of your application. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview by 19th November 2018. Unsuccessful applicants well not be notified.

Mozambique: Grants Officer

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Organization: Aga Khan Foundation
Country: Mozambique
Closing date: 09 Nov 2018

The Position

AKF(Moz) is seeking a Grants Officer, working as a member of its Health team and in collaboration with the organisation’s Grants Management Unit, responsible for day-to-day grants and contract management for the SPARC project, and support in grant compliance. Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, this position works closely with programme objectives are being met in a timely manner and in accordance with donor compliance requirements timely and with standard high quality by all, as well as work with the finance team to ensure transparency, accountability and efficient use of financial resources. The Grants Officer will be responsible for project reporting, in close collaboration with the M&E team.

The Grants Officer will be based in Pemba and will report directly to the SPARC Project Manager. He/she will have the active support of AKF(Moz)’s senior Health programme managers as well as the Grants Management Unit, in carrying out their day-to-day work.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities of the Grants Officer will include:

· Responsible for the effective grant management of the SPARC project in close collaboration with programme, operations and finance teams to ensure all programme and reporting milestones are met;

· Develop an understanding of donor policies, regulations, procedures, and compliance requirements and support the project team to comply with donor requirements

· Proactively identify grant compliance risks throughout the portfolio and advise programmes, operations, finance and senior management on necessary corrective actions and next steps;

· Liaise and coordinate with donors to coordinate project deliverables including programme implementation plan, annual work planning and semi-annual reporting;

· Liaise with programme, operations and finance staff to conduct quarterly grants review, to ensure programme implementation and spending are in line with the annual work plan;

· Collaborate with the M&E team to identify progress against the targets and contribute to lesson learning and knowledge sharing through the development of reports and communication material;

· Support the programme team to identify compliance concerns and contribute to the solution by suggesting programmatic adaptations and supporting the approval of changes;

· Undertake regular field monitoring visits to assess progress and identify compliance issues and/or other implementation issues, provide solutions and implement modifications as required;

· Collaborate with the Communications team to develop content reports, briefs and events

· Other tasks assigned by line manager.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

The successful candidate is expected to have:

  • An undergraduate degree in international development, public health or a related field (graduate degree preferable);

  • A minimum of three (3) years of reporting, documentation, managing budgets, making programme forecasts, and programme development experience in the NGO field;

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Portuguese, including for reports, grant-writing, research and presentations;

  • Excellent interpersonal skills, and an ability to communicate effectively and build durable relationships with people of varied professional and cultural backgrounds;

  • Excellent time management skills, ability to prioritise tasks effectively with the ingenuity to take initiative and apply well-informed judgement to situations;

  • Adept with standard technical and computer tools including Microsoft Office.


How to apply:

Please forward your CV and cover letter in English to hr.akfmoz@akdn.org. Mozambican nationals and particularly women are encouraged to apply.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Ethiopia: Curriculum Designer - Improving Worker Engagement and Retention

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Organization: DAI Global
Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 11 Nov 2018

Curriculum Designer - Improving Worker Engagement and Retention

Background

The government of Ethiopia has adopted the second growth and transformation plan (GTP II) with the prime focus of transforming the country to a middle-income country by the year 2025. This GTP has a strong focus on supporting the development of an industrial economy and to this end, the government is establishing a number of industrial parks with the intent to boost the Ethiopian manufacturing sector, create an attractive investment proposition for foreign local investors and employment opportunity.

The Hawassa Industrial Park (HIP) is one of the completed and operational industrial parks where nineteen investors have begun operations, employing approximately twenty thousand workers. The Hawassa Industrial Park - Sourcing & Training Employees in the Region (HIPSTER) project was created to address the challenge of sourcing large number of workers into the IP mainly from an agrarian background and with no experience in formal or manufacturing jobs.

Enterprise Partners (EP) is a UKaid Funded program that aims to support and transform Ethiopia’s economic growth. EP facilitates the implementation of the HIPSTER project collaboratively with Ethiopian Textile Industry Development Institute (ETIDI), Southern Nations, Nationalities’ and Peoples’ Region – Bureau of Trade and Industry (SNNP-BoTI), Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC), and Investors Association (IA).

Within the HIPSTER pipeline; SNNP-BoTI identifies, sources and screens potential workers from ten catchment areas around HIP, and the workers are then sent to the grading centre where ETIDI tests against various industry standards. Workers are then allocated to factories by the IA, and are given in-class training/induction by Soft skills training providers.[1]

Background specific to this assignment

EP undertook an assessment in September 2015 to examine causes of labour related challenges in manufacturing and industry. The assessment was undertaken in Addis Ababa and included consultations with sectoral government bureau’s and institutes, private and government TVET colleges, fashion design and operator sourcing colleges, foreign direct investors and local garment factories.

The challenges identified included poor worker readiness, frequent absenteeism and turnover, poor awareness of factory working environment, poor employee sourcing, recruitment and training processes, low labour productivity and poor motivational systems amongst others[2].

In order to address this issue, EP supported the development of a soft skills training content and conducted training of trainers (ToT)[3]. The soft skills training includes work ethics, time management, and life skills- summary of training topics attached as Annex 1.

There are now four training service providers in HIP providing soft skills training and induction for recruited workers. These service providers have trained 7600 operators directly in Hawassa Industrial Park.

The training is in class and takes a total of five days (8 hours a day) to complete.

Although assessments of current training has shown that factories recognize the value of the training, and see good training results in orienting operators, majority of whom come from informal farming work or no work experience to factory floors, there are a number of challenges that remain to be addressed. Some of these challenges, as identified by factories include, the intensity of the induction process, the need for a more interactive methodology to get the message across, this can include audio/visual tools and the need for flexibility to deliver the training.

The cost of training per operator charged by current service providers is another major challenge in a situation where worker turnover was averaging 10% Factories have no incentive to invest in their workers at those replenishments rates and have clearly indicated they would be unwilling to cover the external costs of direct training to operators.

EP, investors and stakeholders are now interested in evolving the current training content, curriculum and training methodology to address overarching and specific challenges identified.

Purpose

The purpose of this TOR is to identify a Curriculum Designer, who can support on developing a visually rich multimedia curriculum. The curriculum will help to guide and support worker’s transition into the new sector and environment.

Specific task

The Curriculum Designer will be responsible for

a. Outlining the curriculum ( topics and sequence) of:

· Supervisor training

· Manager trainer

· Worker induction

b. Developing the Facilitator Guide and Student Workbook (for supervisors & Managers)

c. Collaborate with the writer to develop storylines for Worker Induction multimedia content

d. Develop key messages for Worker Induction posters

Deliverables and timeframe

Description of each deliverable

Curriculum outline

Facilitator Guides

Student Workbooks

Total Days - 30 days

Qualification

Job Experience

· Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience working as a communication partner for development projects, similar in nature and level of complexity as EP. Please refer to our website www.enterprisepartners.org for more information on EP.

· Experience in running media promotional campaigns and developing motion graphics to raise awareness for various development partner affiliates, a UN agency or similar international organizations is highly desirable.

Essential Competencies

· Advanced design skills in curriculum development and design.

· Advanced skills working with Illustrators, writers and graphic designers.

Desirable

  • Continental, East African and/or local contextual knowledge

Engagement Timeline

The consultant is expected to work with EP, HIPSTER stakeholders and local curriculum developers and training providers between November 2018 and February 2019. The consultancy is expected to take place over 30 days.

Working Arrangement

The EP/partner focal persons for this assignment to whom the consultant will be reporting to is the international consultant, Garment labour intervention Manager and Garment Sector Lead.

[1]Refer to HIPSTER project document V2.0 March 2018 for more information on pipeline.

[2]Soft Skills Assessment, 2015

[3] For ETIDI staff, private fashion design and operators sourcing colleges and soft skills training provider firms


How to apply:

To apply follow the link below:

https://chm.tbe.taleo.net/chm04/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=DAINC&cws=1&rid=4068

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