Job Summary

The position holder serves as the SPAII program focal person at the program operation woreda/Local Rights Program (LRP) and ensures participatory planning, budgeting and reporting of the program activities and implements the plan with the required programme quality standards.

Key accountabilities:

• Responsible for the delivery of the program as per the results framework/logical framework/  at
• the grass roots level and compliance with AAE’s overall strategy and LRP program priority
• Closely work with people living in poverty, young peoples, women and marginalized communities and other vulnerable groups through-out the cycle to ensure direct engagement, leadership and ownership of the program
• Promote, facilitate and design systemic digital engagement of young people and provide capacity building to people living in poverty and their agencies
• Advocate, facilitate and support safe space for young people in the LRPs mainly for young women
• Responsible for deliberate inclusion and leadership of young women in the program
• Ensures implementation of Human Rights Based Approach and intersectional feminist analysis approaches in the program delivery
• Ensures timely planning, regular review and reporting, and follow up of actions with young peoples
• and other stakeholders’ engagement resulting to sustaining of results
• Strive towards strengthening AAE’s position as strong and strategic partner on young peoples’, mainly young women’s leadership on climate justice at local level
• Responsible for identifying needs and priorities of young people in the LRP and  strengthen their collectives and movements
• Ensure continuous evidence generation and documentation to feed in regional and national policy
• advocacy initiatives
•  Ensure quality program delivery through adherence and compliance to the organizational MEAL, &
• program logical framework
• Digital galvanization of the program for ease of access to the young and link with national, and global movements and networks
• Build communities resilience in timely assessing, analyzing and reporting of crises situations, and
• design and deliver responses as per AAE’s humanitarian signatures
• Represent AAE in Key strategic meetings at LRP level and
• Supports in the project budget management at the local level and facilitate payments as per the finance policy

Job Requirement

• BA   degree in community development, social work, sociology, anthropology, gender and other social science fields Minimum of 4 years’ experience;-Practical experience working with young people and marginalized communities and their agencies and movements ;Solid understanding and proven knowledge and skill on community mobilization and development, experience on    human rights, women’s rights, livelihoods and climate justice, feminist economy, and good governance projects ; Proven digital engagement and social justice and human rights advocacy ,Practical experience of budget flows and financial management
• Required number:  Four (one for each woreda-project area)

Duty base: Ameya and Elfeta woreds’s (oromiya region), Guna Woreda (Amhara) and Semen Bench Woreda (South west region)