NGO Vacancy Announcement – Catholic Relief Services – CRS
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Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding. For nearly 60 years, CRS has taken the lead in responding to natural and man-made disasters affecting Ethiopia’s most vulnerable communities. Moving beyond emergency response, CRS’ disaster mitigation and recovery projects in drought and flood-prone areas have rebuilt individual and community assets through non-food aid in the form of agriculture, livestock, health, nutrition, and water and sanitation assistance. CRS’s humanitarian work in Ethiopia also provides livelihoods support to farmers and entrepreneurs, promotes equality and inclusion, and mitigates the impact of COVID-19.
Catholic Relief Services – CRS would like to invites competent and interested candidates for the following positions.
Position 1: Technical Advisor I – Peacebuilding
Job Summary:
You will be based in Mekele and you will technically lead CRS peacebuilding activities and support partners. Your thorough and service-oriented approach will ensure that the project consistently applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve.
Job Responsibilities:
Support the implementation of CRS Ethiopia peacebuilding activities throughout the project cycle in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices.
- Develop tools and activities on build peacebuilding, conflict prevention and conflict resolution for different groups in the community.
- Conduct conflict analysis and peacebuilding needs of communities in CRS intervention areas as may be required.
- Support in the preparation and training of staff from CRS and partners on Trauma Informed Care, PFA, PSEA and GBV, and Conflict Sensitivity.
- Support the provision of individual and Group PSS Services and follow up the cascading of knowledge to community members.
- Ensure that youth are engaged in peacebuilding and bring a positive impact on the broader community.
- Support the National Peacebuilding Network’s Northern Taskforce.
- Support the preparation of high-quality reports as needed by the local government, donors, the region or headquarters.
- Support in the development of concept notes and proposals for peacebuilding projects.
- Identify capacity building needs and provide peacebuilding training as required for staff, beneficiaries, and partners.
- Ensure the proper utilization of the project budget as per the DIP in line with CRS and donor financial guideline and procedure.
- Develop/adopt standardized peacebuilding curriculum for the different target audiences in collaboration with partners.
- Ensure the creation of strong partnership with the government Universities, local partners and other organizations involved in peace building activities.
- Enhance cross-learning across the different sectors through review reflections, and partner meetings.
- Support the communications team to identify and develop solid success stories, write-up of lessons learned and human-interest pieces.
- Closely work with protection and safeguarding team in creating the required linkage between social cohesion and protection activities.
Typical Background, Experience & Requirements:
- Master’s degree in Conflict Studies, Political Sciences and International Relations, Law, Social Sciences
- Minimum of five (5) years of relevant work experience on peacebuilding programs, other related fields
- Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, government, other peer organizations
- Fluency in English, Tigrigna, and Amharic languages
- Able to work on a high level with Word, Power Point, and Excel
- A previous experience in an international NGOs is a strong advantage
Personal Skills
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team-oriented environment with good interpersonal skills
- Observation, active listening and analysis skills with ability to make sound judgment
- Good relationship management skills and the ability to work closely with local partners and community members
- Attention to details, accuracy and timeliness in executing assigned responsibilities
- Proactive, results-oriented and service-oriented
Required/Desired Foreign Language: English
Travel required (50% field travel as per the demand)
Key Working Relationships:
Supervisory:
Internal: PB Manager; Head of Programming; MEAL Program Manager, Project Officers; PMs and operations
External: ECS, DOC, Diocesan partners, UN agencies, regional
Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff):
These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.
- Trusting Relationships
- Professional Growth
- Partnership
- Accountability
Workplace: Mekele, Tigray
Deadline: June 26, 2023
Position 2: ASPIRE Professional Development Program – Female Applicants Only
Primary Responsibilities
Under the supervision of an experienced staff member and in collaboration with CRS partners, the ASPIRE participant will support programming and operations as follows:
Project Management
- Support implementation of current projects (e.g. participate in planning/review workshops, support activity implementation in the field)
- Support appropriate management of cash and in-kind resources (e.g. monitor/analyze spending on project budgets, prepare cash forecasts, participate in financial reporting to donors, support commodity management).
- Support timely and accurate reporting (e.g. review/synthesize data to report on project indicators, draft/edit narrative reports).
- Support communication-related activities for country program and projects (e.g. draft program summaries, annual reports, partnership newsletters, social media content and webpage updates).
Project Design and Proposal Development
- Support project design (e.g. participate in needs assessments and problem identification, stakeholder analysis, development of concept notes)
- Support proposal development (e.g. participate in design workshops, draft sections of technical narratives and budgets, package/edit proposals for submission).
- Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)
Support MEAL activities in:
- Project design (e.g. support data collection, needs assessments, gender analysis, gap analysis, development of results frameworks, Proframes, theories of change, evaluation plans, performance management plans).
- Project start-up (e.g. support baseline assessments, development of MEAL manuals and accountability mechanisms)
- Project implementation (e.g. prepare survey instruments using ICT4D, support collection of monitoring data, prepare donor reports, organize learning events, document learning)
- Project close-out (e.g. draft final reports, support final evaluations and knowledge management activities).
Partnership & Capacity Strengthening
Support CRS partners with project management, project design and MEAL
Support partnership strengthening and capacity building (e.g. participate in partnership reflection workshops, partner assessments and monitoring visits).
Finance, Supply Chain, HR, Compliance
- Support strong financial management by analyzing budgets, monitoring & forecasting spending, reviewing supporting documentation for financial transactions by CRS and sub-recipients.
- Support supply chain and procurement by assisting with inventory counts, data collection, bid analysis and vendor selection, contracting, receipt and warehousing of goods.
- Support human resources by preparing job descriptions, reviewing applications/shortlisting candidates.
- Support audit and compliance by reviewing internal controls, systems for fraud prevention, studying CRS policies and donor regulations.
- Support staff safety by reviewing security protocols and manuals, updating as needed.
Key Working Relationships
Internal: CRS Country Representative, Head of Programming, Head of Operations, Program Managers, Finance, Supply Chain and HR staff
External: CRS partner organizations
Job Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in related field
- Graduated within 24 months of program start date (degree conferred between Oct 2021 – Oct 2023)
- 3 – 24 months of related work experience (internships, volunteering, or paid work)
- Excellent speaking and writing skills in English
- Citizen of Ethiopia
- Willingness to travel (up to 25% of the time)
- Willing to be based in field offices during and after program
- Excels in collaborative, multicultural environment
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and research skills
- Agile, proactive, results-oriented
- Female applicants only
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of local language(s)
Agency-wide Respect, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) Competencies
Based on the mission, values, and guiding principles of the agency, CRS REDI competencies are to be exemplified by all staff in fulfillment of his or her respective roles and responsibilities.
- Personal Accountability
- Acts with Integrity
- Builds and Maintains Trust
- Collaborates with Others
- Open to Learn
- Strategic Mindset
- Develops and Recognizes Others
- Leads Change
Workplace: Addis Ababa
Deadline: June 30, 2023
How to Apply
The application period will be open until June 30, 2023. We encourage interested candidates to visit the link, which mentioned under each position/job title to learn more about the program structure, core learning areas, requirements, application, and selection process and apply for the program.
We also invite candidates to engage with our team by participating in one of the online information sessions.
You can also access the FAQs page for further details about the program.
You will be contacted only if selected for written exam/interview. Phone solicitations will not be accepted. These job opportunities are open to Ethiopian nationals only.
CRS requires its staff to treat all people with dignity and respect and to actively prevent harassment, abuse, exploitation, and human trafficking.
Qualified people with disabilities are highly encouraged to apply
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