Responsibilities
Generic responsibilities
- Develop LFS Core Competency (CC) strategy, technical guidance and Macro Logframes that are aligned with regional and global strategies and priorities.
- Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures
- Contribute to fundraising, develop and revise funding proposal, budgets and donor reports
- Identify and monitor trends in conditions, technical standards and donor priorities
- Responsible for following up on compliance with contractual commitments within the CC, and ensure high technical quality and synergies in project implementation.
- Provide technical direction and project implementation support.
- Ensure key learnings and successes are extracted from CC implementation, and incorporate them in CC development processes.
- Provide systematic training and build capacity of technical staff, in approaches, including CVA and MBA.
- Represent NRC in relevant forums/clusters, including with national authorities and donors.
- Promote the rights of IDPs/returnees in line with the advocacy strategy.
Please check the detailed job description to learn more about the Specific responsibilities
Qualifications
- Minimum 4 years of experience within technical expertise area in a humanitarian/ recovery context
- Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- LFS Core competency expertise
- Knowledge and skills in market assessments and analysis, CVA, MBA and integrated programming
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
- Political and cultural awareness
- Context knowledge and/or prior experience in the Horn of Africa and in Ethiopia particularly is an asset
- Experience working in a similar position or role in similar contexts is an asset.
- Experience with both Humanitarian and Development work, and the transition between the two ends of the spectrum would be an asset.
- Solid experience in leading livelihoods and food security assessments, particularly in protracted crises is required
- Experience of leading multi-sectoral market assessments and analysing the findings will be an asset
- Experience in designing and implementing innovative market-driven income-generation activities in both urban and rural contexts.
- Experience of supporting the design of CVA and MBA across a range of CCs and sectors
- Strong experience in resilience programming including natural resource management and nutrition sensitive programming is required
- Experience working in financial inclusion, including small business support, value chain analysis, private sector engagement, M4P approaches and savings groups will be an asset
- Experience establishing innovative partnerships with external actors
- Significant experience in multi-sectoral Cash Based Interventions (CBIs) and coordination is required
- Experience in Youth Programming is desirable
- Excellent engagement and representation skills at all levels both internally and externally is required.
Languages: Fluency in English, both written and verbal
Nationals and Females are highly encouraged to apply.
We offer:
- Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- Type of Contract: 12 months renewable based on funding and performance
- Salary: Based upon the NRC grading Scale
- Travel: 50%
We are also looking for people who share our values:
- To be dedicated in what we do;
- To be innovative with our solutions;
- To act as one unified and inclusive team;
- To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve; and to each other… the members of our NRC family.
