World Vision Ethiopia began its first intervention in Ethiopia in 1971 with relief and opened the Ethiopia office in 1975. Relief, rehabilitation and small community development projects dominated the decade that followed. During the 1984/85 drought, World Vision Ethiopia participated in a massive relief operation that saved the lives of millions of people.

Major Responsibility

• Facilitate the distribution and implementation of all JEOP activities of woreda by closely working with program team, commodity staff and stakeholders at woreda level.
• Ensure the best management of food commodities as per the minimum commodity management standards by communicating and acting with commodity team at head office and woreda level.
• Lead the planning and implementation of food distribution to project participants in a timely manner and to the best standard required by closely working with the commodity team at head office, regional and woreda level
• Supervise and lead the commodity team at woreda level to insure best commodity management practice in warehousing and distribution to project participants on timely manner.
• Provide written reports, data and etc. to JEOP team and commodity staff at head office and regional level constantly in the course of JEOP response program implementation.
• Maintain a strong and smooth relationship with woreda and Kebele /Center level major stakeholders in planning and implementing the program
• Maintain and demonstrate a decent and respectful manner in serving the target community and in interacting with the society in general.

Requirements

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• BA/BSc Degree in Agric. Econ, Disaster Management, Rural Development, and Economics &Dev’s. Studies

Required Professional Experience

• Experience:  Minimum of 2 years of experience in relief and/or any emergency response program interventions implementation

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience in integrated project design, implementation and monitoring.

• Familiarity with major donor programs- WFP and USAID.
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skill including influencing and negotiation.
• Good level of computer literacy (word, excel, power point and outlook).

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

• Office-based with periodic travel to the field