NGO Vacancy Announcement – ORDA Ethiopia

Vacancy Announcement – ORDA Ethiopia

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ORDA Ethiopia is an NGO committed to enhancing livelihoods and environmental security in Amhara and Ethiopia since 1984. It aims to achieve this by working on various areas such as environment, climate change, water, agriculture, nutrition, disaster risk management, gender, disability inclusion, youth employment, food commodity management, and emergency response interventions. ORDA Ethiopia is a results-driven organization with efficient management and staff.

ORDA Ethiopia would like to invite qualified and interested job seekers to apply for the following different position.

Position 1: – Enterprise Development Lead

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Map existing agribusinesses (beekeepers, pullet growers and other input suppliers, output operators and agro processors).
• Technically drives the implementation of commercial apiculture and other commodity enterprises development related activities.
• Ensure effective operational planning of business enterprise development related interventions and activities, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and communications with partners and stakeholders is in place.
• Provide TOT on enterprises development to clusters team in the hub.
• Provide technical backstopping to cluster and woreda based ORDA Ethiopia and IPs Enterprise development experts.
• Ensures the timely supply of finance and non-finance resources needed by the youth agribusiness enterprises in collaboration with governmental and other stakeholders.
• Work with commercial banks and Micro finance Institutions to facilitate youth friendly financial services.
• Ensure the establishment and strengthening of youth owned and youth led credit and saving cooperatives/associations.
• Ensure innovation and technology based approach is used to transform production, marketing and financial services.
• Ensure that all ecosystem actors are engaged to create enabling environment for the flourishing of apiculture and other commodities based agribusinesses.
• Ensure ORDA Ethiopia Safeguarding policy is effectively implemented and report any form of abuse to the safeguarding officer
• Conduct other activities as deemed necessary.

Program/section: Gender, Disability Inclusion and Youth Employment Program

Reports to: MAYEA Sub-National Hub Program Director

Date of Registration: Within 7 working days after the first day of announcement.

Required number: 01

Minimum qualifications and requirements:

Educational Background

• MA/MSc in Economics, Agricultural Economics, Masters of business administration,  international development, Agribusiness,

Work Experience

• Minimum of 8(eight) years and four years of relevant experience
• Two years of managerial experience.
• Experience in International NGO
• Strong understanding and practical experience with good practice in agribusiness development, value chains development, domestic and international marketing and trade development.
• Willing to innovate, design and plan catalytic and implementable interventions to address major enterprise development bottlenecks.

Skills/Knowledge and Competencies

• Strong stakeholder management skills, including thorough extensive experience with government institutions, development partners, private sector stakeholders and youth agribusiness groups.
• Demonstrated team player
• Strong communication and facilitation skills.
• Ability to work in and perform under pressure and in a dynamic fast paced environment.
• Excellent report writing in English.
• Advanced computer skills.

 PERSONAL VALUES

• Integrity and honesty
• Hard working
• Firm belief in gender equality, team work, transparent and participatory management.
• Women candidates are encouraged.

Workplace: Bahir Dar, Amhara

Position 2: – Capacity Building Lead

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the capacity building components of the program for ensuring all capacity development interventions at grass root as well as institution level are in place effectively.
• Ensure effective operational planning of capacity building interventions and activities, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and communications with partners and stakeholders is in place.
• Facilitate the development of training materials and processes for specific areas/topics identified as needed for capacity development including training; mentoring and coaching of MAYEA program clusters’ IPs.
• Provide technical backstopping to cluster officers.
• Ensures the timely provision of capacity building services for the youth and other local government and private actors of the sector.
• Provide guidance in developing comprehensive capacity building plan and other capacity building related issues and ensure its implementation.
• Collect and apply state of the art capacity building tools and techniques for the program stakeholders both at service delivery and service recipients’ end.
• Ensure the preparation and management of the full range of field level capacity building trainings.
• Provide strategic directions and guidance to implementing partners (IPs).
• Prepare capacity building related reports for the Sub National Hub Program Director.
• Ensure ORDA Ethiopia Safeguarding policy is effectively implemented and report any form of abuse to the safeguarding officer.
• Conduct other activities as deemed necessary.

Program/section: Gender, Disability Inclusion and Youth Employment Program

Job Grade: By negotiation

Reports to: MAYEA Sub-National Hub Program Director

Date of Registration: Within 7(seven) working days after the first day of announcement.

Required Number: 01

Job Requirements

Minimum qualifications and requirements:

Education Background

• Master’s degree in Economics, business administration,  Agribusiness, Management

Work experience

• Minimum of 8(eight) years of experience in development of which at least four(4) years of relevant experience in developing training manuals, modules, curricula and training materials for national/international organizations.
• Two years of experience in managerial positions.
• Experience of conducting ToT, training needs assessment along with facilitations skills and ability to independently prepare training report.

Knowledge/Skills and Competencies

• Strong facilitation and adult learning skills.
• Skills on evaluation and monitoring of training program.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including thorough extensive experience with government institutions, development partners, private sector stakeholders and youth agribusiness groups. 
• Strong communication and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated team player
• Ability to work in and perform under pressure and in a dynamic fast paced environment.
• Excellent report writing in English.
• Advanced computer skills

PERSONAL VALUES

• Integrity and honesty
• Hard working
• Firm belief in gender equality, team work, transparent and participatory management.
• Women candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Workplace: Bahir Dar, Amhara

Position 3: – Communication Lead

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with program team members to develop and implement an effective communication strategy to the program’s target audiences.
• Write, edit, and distribute content, including publications, press releases, website content, annual reports, speeches, and other marketing material that communicates the program’s activities, approaches, and results.
• Create engaging content across a range of communications platforms, including social media, email, newsletters, articles, graphics, and videos – ensuring an effective communication means to reach the intended audience, including hard to reach groups
• Promote other alliances, events, and networks on behalf of the MAYEA program 
• Develop an annual plan for communications, based around seasonal and topic needs
• Be responsible for the branding of the program- creating internal templates for team use and ensuring consistent and accurate branding.
• Respond to media enquiries, arrange interviews, and act as a spokesperson for the program.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with journalists
• Maintain records of media coverage
• Maintain a photo library for MAYEA program use, ensuring appropriate consents in compliance with the donor requirements, i.e. when photographing of individuals particularly target beneficiaries and related persons consent has to be signed.
• Prepare case and success stories of the program and document them accordingly.
• Ensure ORDA Ethiopia Safeguarding policy is effectively implemented and report any form of abuse to the safeguarding officer
• Search for networking opportunities and work together for advocacy and influencing.
• Network with the national and sub-national hubs, apiary associations/cooperatives and implementing organizations of MasterCard Foundation for a better scale up of the program.
• Conduct other activities as deemed necessary.

Program/section: Gender, Disability Inclusion and Youth Employment Program

Job Grade:  BY negotiation

Reports to: MAYEA Sub-National Program Director

Date of Registration: Within 7(seven) working days after the first day of announcement.

Required Number: 01

Job Requirements

Minimum qualifications and requirements:

Education Background

• A minimum of Master’s Degree in Communications, Journalism.

Work Experience

• Minimum of 8(eight) years and a minimum of four years of relevant experience. 
• Two years of experience in managerial positions.

Skills/Knowledge and Competencies

• Proficiency in design and publishing software
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills.
• Excellent organizational and record keeping skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, content management systems, and social media platforms.
• Knowledge of SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams in additional to core Microsoft packages
• Excellent report writing in English and in Amharic.

PERSONAL VALUES

• Integrity and honesty
• Hard working
• Firm belief in gender equality, team work, transparent and participatory management.
• Women candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Workplace: Bahir Dar, Amhara

Position 4: – Finance and Grant Lead

Duties and Responsibilities

FINANCE:

• Lead and coordinate financial reports and audits.
• Analyzing allocable expenses and projection of expenses on a quarter basis or depending on the donor requirements
• In collaboration with the sub national hub program director will prepare and submit cash requests and financial reports to successfully administer finance.
• Work with sub national hub program director to ensure compliance and effective and proactive fiscal management
• Ensure financial files are maintained according to ORDA Ethiopia’s, MCF’s and the government standards.
• Ensure the management of program payroll and legal deductions.
• Lead and oversee annual budget preparations which include overseeing work plan costing and the integration of work plan and donor-approved budgets.

GRANT AND PROCUREMENTS

• Assist in the design, development and implementation of sub awards, under supervision of ORDA Ethiopia Deputy Executive Director (programs) and in close coordination with Grant officer and other relevant ORDA Ethiopia staffs, to ensure compliance with donor and ORDA Ethiopia’s policies and procedures, and achievement of intended results.
• Ensuring compliance with all donor requirements and policies,
• Provide support focusing on compliance, grant and contracts management, and successful implementation of grant and contracts IPs.
• Ensure proper negotiation of final terms of conditions for grant and contract document, under direction of Sub National Hub Program Director and relevant ORDA Ethiopia senior management team and review and analyses budget estimates for availability, reasonableness, and consistency.
• Ensure the proper preparation and execution of grant and contract documents and grant disbursements are consistent and compliant with donor and ORDA Ethiopia’s requirements, policies and best practices.
• Work closely with Sub National Hub Program Director and program team to ensure the sub-award monitoring and evaluation are conducted as required and that financial deliverables, deadlines, programmatic outputs and impact are captured and recorded in the program data bases in an accurate and timely manner.
• Ensure timely and accurate use of ORDA Ethiopia’s sub award management system for sub-award issuance and management.
• Ensure that sub awards are closed out with in the required time frame.
• Assist with the resolution of internal and external audit findings.
• Support the preparation of program procurement plan.
• Support in logistics and other logistics assignments that ensure goods, works and services are procured timely to facilitate program implementation and at the same time ensure value for money is in place.
• Work with ORDA Ethiopia head office procurement department to ensure vendors follow all the tendering regulations, procedures and instructions and meet ORDA Ethiopia procurement internal policies.
• Ensure that program resources are effectively managed (assets and equipment, human resources, finance).
• Perform other duties as deemed necessary.

Program/section: Gender, Disability Inclusion and Youth Employment Program

Job Grade:  By Negotiation

Reports to: MAYEA Sub National Program Director

Date of Registration: Within 7(seven) working days after the first day of announcement.

Required Number: 01

Minimum qualifications and requirements:

Education Background

• MA/SC in Accounting, Finance, Masters of Business Administration in finance, Economics, Business management.

Work Experience

• Minimum of 8(eight) years with relevant experience of four years and out of this two years in managerial positions
• Experience in International NGO

Skills/Knowledge and Competencies

• Ability to exercise sound and timely judgment and maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Excellent Skills in application of accounting software
• Proficient skill in excel and other MS computer applications
• Critical thinker with a can do approach to problem-solving, disaggregating larger/ complex problems to identify underlying drivers and critical issues.
• Ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks.
• High degree of professionalism
• Strong interpersonal (verbal and written) communication skills, including professional fluency in English.

PERSONAL VALUES

• Integrity and honesty
• Hard working
• Firm belief in gender equality, team work, transparent and participatory management.
• Women candidates are encouraged to apply.

Workplace: Bahir Dar, Amhara

Position 5: Apiculture Lead

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Map existing beekeepers and support them to transform into commercial apiculture business owners.
• Technically leads the implementation of apiculture related activities and results of the program.
• Ensure effective operational planning of apiculture related interventions and activities, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and communications with partners and stakeholders is in place.
• Provide technical backstopping to clusters and woreda based officers.
• Ensure that 80% of program participants are women in apiculture enterprise and value chain
• Ensures the timely supply of beekeeping tools, bees, and honey extraction materials for youth led agribusiness organized by the support of the program.
• Lead the identifying of commercial opportunities and conduct market analysis for apiculture value chain. Map national, regional and international market channels.
• Ensure the value addition in the value chain-safety and quality of the product, branding and labeling, social, gender related and environmental norms and sustainability standards. 
• Impact the value addition of youth enterprises apiculture products through quality assurance, packaging and marketing.
• Provide ToT to the IPs, government and private apiculture experts in relation to apiculture and related matters
• Ensure the strengthening of government-private apiculture extension system.
• Leads apiculture production aggregation, value addition and market driven works.
• Ensure holistic approach is implemented to apiculture-centered value chains.
• Ensure innovation and technology based approach is used to transform production, marketing and financial services.
• Ensure that all ecosystem actors are engaged to create enabling environment for the flourishing of apiculture based agribusinesses.
• Suggest improvement in the value chain system to ensure direct linkages of the youth agribusinesses with major markets.
• Ensure ORDA Ethiopia Safeguarding policy is effectively implemented and report any form of abuse to the safeguarding officer
• Conduct other activities as deemed necessary.

Program/section: Gender, Disability Inclusion and Youth Employment Program

Job Grade: By negotiation

Reports to: MAYEA Sub-National Program Director

Date of Registration: Within 7 working days after the first day of announcement.

Required Number: 01

Minimum qualifications and requirements:

Educational background

• MSc in apiculture/Beekeeping, Livestock Production

Work Experience

• Minimum of 8(eight) years with relevant experience of four years.
• Two years of experience in managerial positions. 
• International NGO work experience is advantageous
• Strong understanding and practical experience with good practice in agribusiness development, value chains development, domestic and international marking and trade development.
• Specific experience in apiculture commodity value chain, including processing of honey and honey/wax for international marketing.

Skills/Knowledge and Competencies

• Willing to innovate, design and plan catalytic and implementable interventions to address major value chain, institutional and operational bottlenecks.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including thorough extensive experience with government institutions, development partners, private sector stakeholders and youth agribusiness groups.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated team player
• Ability to work in and perform under pressure and in a dynamic fast paced environment.
• Excellent report writing in English.
• Advanced computer skills

PERSONAL VALUES

• Integrity and honesty
• Hard working
• Firm belief in gender equality, team work, transparent and participatory management.
• Women candidates are encouraged to apply.

Workplace: Bahir Dar, Amhara

Position 6: PMEL Lead

Duties and Responsibilities

PROGRAM WIDE MONIOTIRNG, EVALUATION, REPORTING:

• Assist the sub national hub program Director with development of the PMEL Plan for the program, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing PMEL and/ performance monitoring plans.
• Leads to the development of annual work plans to identify program targets for sub national hub including IPs.
• Lead role in overseeing data collection, collation, storage, analysis, and reporting, ensuring that data is of high quality and audit worthy.
• Oversee the program monitoring, evaluation and learning of performance and results, providing regular program reports to the different stakeholders of the program
• Responsible for supporting the preparation and review of program reports in collaboration with program staff.
• Manage research activities and ensure outcomes and lessons learned are integrated into the program and shared with relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare regular reports and submit to MCF and national hub.
• Provide training and mentoring to Cluster staffs to ensure the implementation of strong PMEL systems.
• Design and manage gender-disaggregated beneficiary monitoring and database systems.
• Drive the implementation of MAYEA Sub-National Hub Program’s result frame works.
• Drive internal learning and the use of MEL findings and facilitate opportunities.
• Advise MAYEA Sub National Hub program management on PMEL processes and outcomes including strategic directions and areas for program improvement.
• Ensure MAYEA Sub National Hub Program technical staffs are supported in monitoring and assessing progress of the program.
• Ensure quality assurance of the technical supports through verifying the tools and techniques are followed properly.

DEVELOPING PMEL CAPACITIES

• Provide capacity building support, coaching and mentoring for hub and IPs staffs.
• Ensure the PMEL staff good understanding of feedback mechanism to spot and cases with in the existing system as well as clear understanding of data protection.
• Developing the beneficiary data base for the MAYEA program in consultation with the national hub and IPs.
• Ensure alignment of program systems and approaches with donor monitoring and evaluation guidelines, protocols, information and reporting systems
• Facilitate learning and use of evaluation findings, conducting internal reflection and discussion and reviews to inform program improvement as well as promoting and facilitating opportunities.
• Ensure that a robust risk identification and management framework for the program is built and monitored.
• Ensure ORDA Ethiopia Safeguarding policy is effectively implemented and report any form of abuse to the safeguarding officer

DOCUMENTATION AND DISSEMINATION OF LESSONS

• Improve quality of data through data verification procedures, including routine data quality audit.
• Support the documentation and dissemination of lessons and good practices and facilitate the use of such data for program improvement.

Program/section: Gender, Disability Inclusion and Youth Employment Program

Job Grade:  By negotiation

Reports to: MAYEA Sub-National Hub Program Director

Date of Registration: Within 7 working days after the first day of announcement.

Required Number: 01

Minimum qualifications and requirements:

Education Background

• MSc/MA in Monitoring and Evaluation, Economics, International development, project Management, statistics.

Work Experience

• 8(Eight) years of experience in monitoring and results reporting for development sector, with a thorough understanding of international best practices in a wide range of quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods and data analysis.
• Proven record in the design of effective monitoring systems, data collection tools, building staff capacity in monitoring, reporting and consolidating data from multiple locations, organizations for results reporting at hub level.
• Experience in project management; need assessment, planning, monitoring, evaluation and Accountability is required.
• Work experience in international NGO
• Two years of experience in managerial position.

Skills/Knowledge and competencies

• Skilled in the development and use of data bases and systems of visualizing, entering, processing/cleaning and extracting data, including experience in web based monitoring and reporting systems-
• Advanced computer and data analysis skills (SPSS, spread sheet and other applications)
• Strategic thinker, with well-developed analytical skills and meticulous attention for details.
• Ability to train and motivate program and sub grantee staff on PMEL system monitoring and result reporting and using of online reporting tools.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and report writing skills in English.
• Strong people skills (influencing and relationship building) ability to work in inclusive and gender sensitive environment.
• Ability to frequently travel to the operational areas
• Ability to work effectively in complex environment, building successful work relationships across IPs and persuading skill with diplomacy.
• Other duties as assigned.

Workplace: Bahir Dar, Amhara

Position 7: Gender, Youth Engagement and Safeguarding Lead

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Developing and leading on gender and youth engagement initiatives
• Developing and delivering TOT to program and IPs cluster staffs on safeguarding.
• Creating outreach and engagement programmes for young people
• Proactively works with other program team members of the program and partners to ensure the safe and meaningful engagement of female and young people.
• Ensure ORDA Ethiopia safeguarding policy is familiarized among the program staff.
• Work with ORDA Ethiopia safe guarding focal point on installing safeguarding cases reporting system and functioning of the system.
• Aware on MCF Child and Youth Safeguarding Guideline for the program and IPs staffs.
• Ensure that the 80% the MAYEA program beneficiaries are young women.
• Provide technical backstopping to clusters on the theme
• Supporting youth groups to build capacity and develop effective strategies on safeguarding and gender
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders
• Prepare gender and safeguarding related reports for the Sub National Hub Program Director.
• Conduct other activities as deemed necessary.
• Identifying information

Program/section: Gender, Disability Inclusion and Youth Employment Program

Job Grade: By negotiation

Reports to: MAYEA Sub National Hub Program Director

Date of Registration: Within 7 working days after the first day of announcement.

Required Number: 01

Minimum qualifications and requirements:

Education Background

Master’s degree in Law, Gender, sociology, psychology,

Work Experience

• Minimum of 8(eight) years with relevant experience of four years
• Two years in managerial position
• Experience in International NGOs
• Substantial experience of gender and youth engagement and safe guarding in development setting.
• Experience at providing advice, developing and delivering on keeping female and young people safe on a diverse range of issues and to a diverse audience.
• Demonstrable experience of working with youth

Skills/Knowledge and Competencies

• Knowledge and understanding of meaningful participation and engagement of female and young people and deep understanding of safeguarding and protection issues that may arise.
• Expertise, technical knowledge and substantial experience in responding to issues, breaches and investigation and case management.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills.
• Knowledge of human rights, young people rights, inclusion and gender equality
• Knowledge and experience on safe programing
• Ability to change behaviour/attitudes in non-confrontational manner and with evidence.
• Excellent report writing in English
• Advanced computer skills

PERSONAL VALUES

• Integrity and honesty
• Hard working
• Firm belief in gender equality, team work, transparent and participatory management.
• Only Women candidates can apply.

Workplace: Bahir Dar, Amhara

Deadline: December 6, 2023

How to Apply

References will be taken and background checks will be carried out in conformity with ORDA ETHIOPIA code of conduct (Child safe guarding, Inclusion of persons with differently abled and adults at risk, Prohibiting of sexual exploitation & abuse, trafficking in persons as well as child labor) in general. ORDA Ethiopia operates an equal opportunities policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all persons meeting the skills and experience required but with due convergence of the code of conduct aforementioned above.

Interested candidates who met the above requirements are invited to apply in person or send their non-returnable application letter; CV’s and copies of essential credentials with in the above mentioned registration days to ORDAETHIOPIA head office in person and via E-mail: recruitment@ordaethiopia.org

ORDA ETHIOPIA

Tel (058)226-26-56

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