NGO Vacancy Announcement – Finnish Refugee Council
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Finnish Refugee Council (FRC) (www.refugeecouncil.fi) is an international non-governmental organisation with Head Office in Helsinki. FRC advocates for the rights of refugees, displaced populations and migrants, and supports their new beginnings. By reinforcing equality and creating opportunities for everyone to lead a good life, FRC promotes the establishment of stable and peaceful societies.
The “extended emergency support to IDPs in Amhara Region” project specific objective is that Vulnerable internally displaced communities who found refuge in Werebabo, Hayik, Telehudere, Kuta Ber and Mekane Selam Woredas have access to life saving support. Vulnerable communities’ access to life saving support will be ensured through improving vulnerable households’ ability to meet their food needs through cash for food, improving the access of target groups to multiple purpose relief through the provision of relief kits, improving the availability of gender and disability friendly and quality sanitation facilities and other basic facilities, strengthening community based GBV prevention and response mechanism, and by providing targeted IDPs with functional Literacy (Amharic) and financial skill courses.
Finnish Refugee Council would like to invites competent and interested candidates for the following positions.
Position 1: MEAL Officer
Position Summary:
Under the direct supervision of the Field Office Manager (with matrix support from the MEAL specialist), the MEAL officer will be responsible to ensure effective, timely and quality implementation of the project. He/she will provide technical expertise and take part in generating and analyzing quality evidence and data through monitoring, assessments, and evaluations for improved programming, and promote evidence-based program management and learning. The job holder with demonstrated experience in results-based thinking and building and strengthening monitoring systems, will be skilled in quantitative and qualitative data collection tools and analysis and have excellent communication skills. The special focus of this assignment will be strengthening the analytical MEAL capacities in the Field Office ensuring baselines, process monitoring, outcome post-distribution monitoring surveys, and other qualitative and quantitative surveys are properly managed.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Monitoring and Evaluation:
- Prepare and coordinate the MEAL plan implementation for the Field office.
- Lead on, and participate in, needs assessment exercises, beneficiary targeting, including the development of assessment protocols, data collection tools, data analysis and results-based reporting.
- Provide capacity development on M&E in the field office,
- Lead in reviews and lessons learnt exercises among the partners and stakeholders including the targeted communities and beneficiaries.
- Lead the project monitoring including post-distribution survey.
- Generate evidence, lessons learned and recommendations to the field office based on evaluation and assessment findings.
- In coordination with the MEAL Specialist and project Manager/Head of Field Office, monitor the progress of program implementation as per set objectives, indicators, and desire results.
Accountability
- As a focal point, ensure functioning, use of and improvements to the community feedback and response mechanism, and adherence to cluster standards and expectations.
- Contribute to staff understanding and capacity building of accountability principles.
Learning
- Collaborate with colleagues to ensure learning events are conducted to document learnings and best practices on the projects for future implementation.
- Participate on proactive impact data gathering to analyses specific activities or components outcomes.
- Set up reflection practices around evaluation results.
Reporting
- Facilitate the collection and compilation surveys (baseline, mid-term, end-line, PDM etc), and give inputs to ensure FRC standard reporting,
- Gather information and develop case stories, and success stories relevant to programs
- Compile and consolidate periodic MEAL reports and submit them to the Field Office Manager and Head of Field Office as per the template communicated.
Location: Dessie with frequent travel to 5 targeted Woredas
Duration: Up to March 31, 2024 – with possibility of extension
Job Requirements
Professional Standards:
- FRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the FRC Code of Conduct.
Education & Qualifications:
University degree in M&E, Economics, Statistics, Business Management, Social science, or related fields.
Work Experience:
- 5 years and more years of working experience focusing on M&E, results-based project planning and management.
- NGO experience
- Has led/participated in surveys, multiple assessments at different levels, including the design, data collection and analysis.
- Experience in both development and humanitarian contexts are requirements particularly cash distribution, GBV, etc.
Technical skills & knowledges:
- Proven knowledge, abilities, and skills in the areas of Monitoring and Evaluation and results-based management.
- In-depth knowledge of monitoring and evaluation methods, statistical applications (excel, PBI, SPSS, kobo tool etc );
- Create/use digital tools and data visualization platforms.
- Data collection tool development.
Competencies:
- Ability to visualize data in creative ways and able to see patterns and trends in data for analysis and decision making.
- Commitment to Mission, vision, and values of FRC
- Takes a data-oriented approach to decision making.
- Self-motivated and results oriented.
- Demonstrable ability to work within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Willing to work in remote and at times challenging field conditions.
Language:
Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Amharic language is a requirement
Position 2: Emergency Response Officer – Education
Position Summary:
The main responsibility of the position holder is to ensure adult education course is effectively implemented in the IDP centres. He/she ensures the participation of women, people with disabilities (PWD), and other vulnerable groups in adult education programs. Overall, the position holder is responsible for the proper planning, implementation, and monitoring of the learning and provides technical support to volunteer facilitators who deliver the adult education course. He/she will also partake in integrated intervention which includes cash-based support, protection, inclusive WASH, and other cross-cutting issues into the project.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Technical Functional Adult Education Support and Training (40%)
- Work closely with FRC team, education sector, community leaders, and relevant stakeholders to recruit competent volunteer adult education facilitators,
- Take a lead role in target learners’ identification with due consideration for women, PWD, and other vulnerable groups.
- Provide capacity-building technical support for the volunteer facilitators on adult teaching methodologies, inclusive education, and other identified capacity gaps.
- facilitate community mobilization and awareness-raising proper targeting of adult learners (with due consideration for the inclusion of women, PWD, and other vulnerable groups) in close collaboration with community leaders and other relevant stakeholders.
- Monitor regularly and ensure volunteer facilitators provide the course based on the developed curriculum and contextualized thematic topics.
- Arrange the available resources (supportive materials) required for the proper implementation of the adult education course in the respective learning centers.
- Continuously coach/mentor and build the capacity of volunteer facilitators to step in where the facilitation gap is identified,
- Support the cash technical person in the identification, selection, and verification of beneficiaries for cash distribution,
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (30%)
- Record learners’ profiles and documents as per FRC requirements.
- Participate in regular project review and reflection exercises.
- Monitor and evaluate the attendance and progress of learners; and report the summary to your line manager.
- In collaboration with the MEAL Officer, assess the performance and competencies of volunteer facilitators.
- Periodically review learners’ performance progress and capacitate on identified gaps.
- Participate in baseline, endline, placement tests, and other monitoring such as PDM (Post Distribution Monitoring) and evaluation surveys.
- Compile periodic reports, success stories, and best practices for your line manager
Innovation (10%)
- Find out relevant participatory adult learning methodologies and share them with team members to enhance course functionality and learners’ achievement.
- In consultation with volunteer facilitators and learners, design and implement co-curricular activities that enhance the quality of adult education course delivery and improve the learning atmosphere.
- Facilitate grassroots reading material development.
- Coordination and Collaboration Community Mobilisation (10%)
- Encourage and mobilize adult learners (especially women and persons with disabilities) to enrol in adult education courses.
- Engage stakeholders in the mobilization and other adult education activities.
- Identify appropriate temporary learning location in collaboration with responsible government and community structure and ensure its minimum standard is maintained.
- Participate at grassroots-level meetings representing FRC and in coordination with the line manager.
- Other (10%)
- Identify and flag to Programs Team any potential humanitarian/development interventions that can be implemented in the intervention locations.
- Perform other duties given by the immediate supervisor.
Location: Dessie with frequent travel to IDP centers in South Wollo.
Duration: Up to March 31, 2024-with possibility of extension
Job Requirements
Professional Standards:
- FRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the FRC Code of Conduct.
Education & Qualifications:
Bachelor or master’s degree in Adult Education, Community Development, development studies, Rural Development and Family Science or related fields.
Work Experience:
- At least 5 years of relevant professional experience in managing adult education with communities.
- At least two years of work experience in the NGO sector
- Working knowledge and practical experience of inclusive adult learning processes
- Practical experience in community mobilization in emergency settings
- Strong experience in provision of training, material development, participatory assessments,
Essential Skills and Qualities:
- Demonstrated skills in supervision and capacity building of community-based workers. participatory group facilitation methodologies
- Practical experience in working with trauma affected communities in post conflict and displacement contexts.
- Good understanding of gender, inclusion, and accountability to affected populations (AAP)
- Able to work with minimum supervision.
- Good communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills.
- Able to work with a multi-cultural environment.
Workplace: Dessie
Application Deadline: April 24, 2023
How to Apply
Submit (filled FRC Application Form, CV, and cover letter only) shall be sent by email to email recruitment.ethiopia@refugeecouncil.fi by 24 April 2023
Please refer in the subject line of your email to the following code: FRC/DES/ERO/06/23
Important Note: – Strictly follow the instructions. Applications that do not follow the instructions of the application process will not be considered.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
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