Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 17 Jul 2015
Reporting Lines:Reports to Country Director, Girl Hub Ethiopia; no direct reports
Contract:One-year fixed term, with the option to extend
Girl Hub's mission is to empower the 250 million adolescent girls living in poverty to reach their full potential. We believe that girls are a proven force for change and the catalyst to end global poverty. When you improve girls' lives through education, health, safety and economic opportunity, these changes have a positive ripple effect on their families, communities and nations. Our work aims to shift the social norms that hold girls back, and drive better investments that directly benefit girls. To achieve this, we focus on unlocking insights. Everything we do is built on what girls tell us they need and what they tell us will work for them.
Girl Hub is a strategic collaboration between the Department for International Development and the Nike Foundation, designed to bring together the expertise of both organisations to transform the lives of adolescent girls. We currently operate in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Nigeria.
Girl Hub Ethiopia is a big programme with an investment of $22 million over 3 years, and additional investment expected. We have an ambitious and complex portfolio of work and a range of technical disciplines within the team. As we grow and develop, we want to ensure that the delivery of our work continues to be integrated and results-oriented, which requires an in-depth understanding of the different components of our work, attention to decision-making and trade-offs across functions, as well as line of sight on the bigger picture. Until now, there has been no resource dedicated to this in our team.
In order to ensure our success and to further raise our profile in the international development world, we need to take a highly strategic approach to programming and ensure that we maximise all the opportunities that present themselves. The new Strategic Advisor will report to the Country Director, providing guidance, advice and strategic support to the programme teams (Brand, Brand Strategy, Communications, MLR, Girl Specialists, Partnerships) with the core target of developing and supporting the implementation of a strategy to improve our programme performance, cohesion, integration and delivery.
The role will be based in our office in Addis Ababa, which is made up of Girl Hub and DFID staff, a mix of expats and local staff.
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