The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts. After passing a century, which it celebrated in 2019, it is now a global movement made up of 29 national member organizations which work in 120 countries.

Project Overview:

The overall goal of Leadership and Economic Empowerment Project (LEEP) is to create opportunities for young women  in business in semi-urban and urban areas to empower themselves to engage meaningfully in their development, improve their technical and transferable skills and have equal access to, and use of capital, resources and services to achieve economic self-sufficiency and well-being. The young women will receive the resources needed to scale their businesses, support their families and become agents of change, role models and leaders in their communities.

LEEP project will be implemented from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2026 to address 8900 young women in business in Sidama region, SNNPR and AddisAbaba. The project has the below three objectives:

Objective I: Young women access and use assets to develop and grow their businesses

Objective 2: Young women develop capabilities, skills knowledge, and attitudes to manage and grow their businesses.

Objective 3: Young women live in a healthy, violence-free and supportive environment in their households, communities and society and are part of a collaborative effort to advocate for equal access to resources and services

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Initiate the targeting of project participant and facilitate the selection process of project participants
• Provide Business development skill, entrepreneurship and leadership trainings and other related Soft Skills training for at least 200 young women in business in a yearly basis
• Organize trainings and events together with supervision of Youth livelihood Officer(YLO) and regional coordinator
• Facilitate the formation of YESGs groups and provide coaching support for the organized groups and individual businesses
• Represent the project and delivery of community awareness, YES center promotion and women empowerment activities, under the respective Kebele with the support from YLO and Regional coordinator
• Facilitate and coordinate the components of youth development activities, like facilitate trainings, coach and mentor the target youth
• Follow up the progress of each program activity and provide the appropriate support for targeted youth.
• Facilitate loan linkage with MFI through supporting in fulfilling the requirements such as business plan preparation in close supervision with YLO and regional coordinator
• Collection, documentation and dissemination of lessons learned, case stories and good practices of the project and its partners
• Coach and record participant personal development plan (PDP) progress
• Be part of the planning team of the LEEP project staff at Woreda level.
• Develop monthly activity plans and reports in close consultation with YLO and regional project coordinator
• Carry out other duties as requested by the Regional Project coordinator.

In order to be successful, you will bring/have:

MINIMUM QUALFICATION, EXPEREINCE, COMPETENCIES

Essential:  

• Bachelor degree in field (s) such as: Sociology, community development, rural development, Business management, developmental psychology, economics, commerce and related courses
• Year of service (2-3 years)
• Age: Below 35
• Speaks the local language
• Excellent understanding of the culture and ways of living of target communities.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and excellent awareness about communities, government structure etc.
• Good report writing skill; able to collect document and share records and information.
• Ability and willingness to travel and work in rural Kebeles where the program is implemented, within approved security frameworks.
• Basic computer skills and mobile literacy are desirable.
• Experiences of working in NGOs; and communities at grass root level are advantageous
• Experiences in volunteering, community service and passion for development work are advantageous.

Desirable

• Experience of working with community mobilization, youth centers, Women empowerment, training facilitation, Coaching and Mentoring youth.
• Work experience in productive areas and knowledge of local culture is advantageous
• Ability to deliver training and coaching support in complex and demanding workload.
• Experience in NGO setup.
• Experience working in the region and understanding of local context

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary capacity to improve performance and applying appropriate measures when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for himself/herself (and their team).
• Takes responsibility for his/her own personal actions and encourages others to do the same.
• Widely shares his/her personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, his/her team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency
• Assists in the processing of advance requests and follow on the retirement of such advances.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY

• Strong training skill
• Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices, flexibility in working long hours and ability to work with incoming surge teams;
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
• Fluency in written and spoken English;
• Commitment to Save the Children values
• Teams, in the event of emergencies