NGO Vacancy Announcement – Organization for Welfare and Development in Action (OWDA)
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Organization For Welfare and Development in Action (OWDA) is an Ethiopian Residents Charity organization registered in FDRE Charities and Societies Agency with Certificate No. 0421 and operating in Somali Regional State since 1999 GC.
Organization for Welfare and Development in Action (OWDA) would like to invites competent and interested candidates for the following positions.
Position 1: – NRM officer
Main Responsibilities:
- Prepare weekly, monthly & quarterly activities plans
- Ensure that activities related with natural resource management components of the project, ensuring the required community participation approaches are fully adhered.
- Develop and prepare operation action plan for watershed and natural resources management in collaboration with concerned bodies.
- Coordinate & facilitate the selection of beneficiaries of the project & where the natural resource activities should be implemented jointly with government based on the agreed targeting criteria.
- Enhance to document update of Environmental Impact Assessment or Environmental Social Management frame work
- Enhance to the establishment/strengthening of community based range land management committee in the identified NRM sites and facilitate the development RLM bylaws.
- Identified appropriate biological and physical conservation and development measure in the identified areas and communal area closure and will make through discussion with the communities and develop action plan for its implementation.
- Provide training for kebele development committees / Food security task forces on DRR concepts and principles.
- Coordinate & facilitate the selection of beneficiaries of the project jointly with government based on the agreed targeting criteria.
- Properly & timely compile all relevant documents as like as case stories, success stories, pictures, photographs and lesson learned during the implementation and constantly share it to project team
- Provide all the written weekly, monthly and quarterly reports timely as required by OWDA and the donor.
Place of Work: Gode/East Imay
Number Required: 1
Duration of Contract: 9 months with possibility of extension
Reports to: Project coordinator
Job Requirements
Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge
- Minimum Qualification required: BSc Degree in Natural Resource Management, Watershed Management, Agricultural Engineering or Rural Development, or other relevant fields of study and over 4 years relevant experience.
- At least 2 year relevant NRM comprehensives experience
- Good technical knowledge of policy and practice in the field of food security/Livelihoods, NRM and Range Land Management and rural development as well as other cross cutting issues
- A good understanding of development issues and the policy context Ethiopia general and in the operational areas in particular
- Willingness to travel outside of the base frequently.
- Understanding the pastoral context of the intervention areas
- Basic computer skills.
- Reporting writing skills.
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff and other stakeholders.
- Ability to work in team, strong negotiation and analytical skills; ability to multitask and work under Pressure and tight deadlines.
Position 2: Financial Inclusion officer
Main Responsibilities:
- Build the capacity of, and continuously mentor the Field Agents (FAs) and Private Service Providers (PSPs) to continue offering quality financial services to the VSLA groups
- Support linkages of VSLA groups to formal financial institutions (FIs) to access more tailor-made financial products and services.
- Link the PSPs to formal financial institutions so that they (PSPs) can become the agents or outreach points for the FIs
- Support VSLA groups attain legal status by registering at the district level.
- Support VSLA groups in developing their business plans for investment purpose.
- Foster ongoing positive cooperation with relevant stakeholders including FIs and the local government to identify, assess and develop networks for potential linkages between financial market actors and consumers.
- Support the creation and registration of the private service provider network at the district and field agent certification/ graduation to scale up VSLA in the program area as guided by the supervisor
- Respond to queries, when necessary, by ensuring that the community accountability response mechanism (CARM) is functional and individual complaints are addressed.
- Ensure Financial Inclusion activities are gender and youth sensitive with a focus on building resilience in vulnerable populations
Place of Work: Gode/East Imay
Number Required: 1
Duration of Contract: 9 months with possibility of extension
Reports to: Project coordinator
Job Requirements
Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge
- The ideal candidate must hold a bachelor’s degree in business, agribusiness, agriculture, economic development, or other relevant fields required.
- Background in business or market/economic development, with minimum of 3 years’ practical experience in the private sector, NGO working with Private Sector or related
- At least 3 – 4 years of experience designing, implementing and managing financial inclusion and strengthening initiatives (private sector partnership, economic strengthening, and market systems development) is required.
- Somali Language is compulsory and Excellent (English) verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong computer literacy with a full knowledge of office
- Strong writing, communication, organization, prioritization and negotiating
- Excellent teamwork abilities and interpersonal
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to complete tasks in a timely
Position 3: – Crop and Livestock Officer
Main Responsibilities:
- Work with the project team and government counterparts to achieve the project outputs/outcomes
- Ensure timely project implementation at Woreda level
- Ensure adequate consultation and participation of Woreda and village/community level stakeholders ensuring active participation of women in particular.
- Facilitate identification of training needs, prepare training materials, and deliver training, business plan development and other services to CBOs and cooperatives
- Conduct other duties as may be assigned by the Project Coordinator
- Bring technical expertise to ensure high quality project delivery
- Take part in the assessments and surveys of crop and livestock related activities used for project planning and management
- Provide market linkages by working closely with market/cooperative experts across the woredas
- Promote Climate-smart agriculture such as agroforestry and improve agricultural practices and diversification where appropriate/within context;
- Sustainable livestock management: Development of sustainable community water management system for livestock and livestock productivity improvement
- Facilitate the planning, implementation, monitoring, review and evaluation of crop and livestock activities
- Identify and promote innovative livelihood programming approaches and interventions to achieve project objectives, and suited to the particular conditions and needs of diverse client groups in the operational areas;
- Assess and monitor all services in terms of rate of return, unit costs, cost efficiency other relevant
- Provide technical support to Woreda and Kebele level government technical staff.
- Organizes and coordinates capacity building trainings and workshop for beneficiaries, consortium partners, CBOs, private sectors on the improved agronomic and livestock practices and support.
- Participate in assessment, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation processes of the project activities.
- Prepare and develop status reports as required by management.
- Ensure proper recording and documentation of best practices and success stories
- Ensure that the project implemented according to original plan and project proposal.
- Identify and explore opportunities to grow and expand the country project pipeline, both in relation to the current project (e.g., potential scale-up opportunities, replication in other geographies/regions) or related to new project opportunities
Place of Work: Gode/East Imay
Number Required: 1
Duration of Contract: 9 months with possibility of extension
Reports to: Project coordinator
Job Requirements
Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge
- Good team building skills and the ability to work in a multi partner approach
- BSC/MSc in Rural development, Agricultural Economics, Plant Sciences, General Agriculture, Livestock /Animal science and other related disciplines.
- Knowledge of the crop/livestock development
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in livelihood, crop and livestock development
- Previous NGO work experience in agricultural (crop & livestock development)
- Practical experience of working on agricultural extension, crop and livestock development areas
- Experience of project planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation
- Experience working in the area of value chain and economic strengthening of rural community
- Somali Language is compulsory and Very good English language skills (written and spoken)
- Computer literacy, excellent record keeping and report writing
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Position 4: Gender officer
Main Responsibilities:
- Assist with the development and review of training materials to ensure that they are inclusive and address gender concerns;
- Train staff in the use of gender aware training materials and support Private Sector Players with roll out of community out-reaches that attain positive behavioral and social change. Monitor the replicated trainings and ensure that female, male and youth participation, learning and general quality remain high;
- Make recommendations for incorporating a gender perspective into the interventions in extension and trainings whilst working with teams to ensure that they are implemented correctly.
- Develop appropriate risk mitigation strategies for gender work that could have unintended and negative consequences for the groups that the program seeks to benefit.
- Review programmatic assessment tools (surveys, questionnaires etc.) to ensure that they are thematically and technically sound from the point of view of gender;
- Support the team with the collection of sex-disaggregated, gender-sensitive data and the documentation of program activities;
- Submit timely monthly, and quarterly reports that reflect program progress during implementation with field proven documented stories.
- Deliver gender training to staff to build employee capacity to conduct effective gender work;
Place of Work: Gode/East Imay
Number Required: 1
Duration of Contract: 9 months with possibility of extension
Reports to: Project coordinator
Job Requirements
Technical Skills, Experience & Knowledge:
- A degree in gender and economic development, women’s studies, sociology, law or a related field.
- Between 3-5 years of professional experience in the field of gender and development.
- Familiarity with gender mainstreaming tools (gender analysis, gender risk mitigation and use of gender-sensitive indicators etc.);
- Experience in working with Private Sector Partners.
- Demonstrated analytical and writing skills.
- Excellent reporting, communication and representation skills.
- Somali Language is compulsory.
- Proven knowledge and capacity in using basic computer applications like MS Word, Excel and the World Wide Web.
Application Deadline: April 7, 2023
How to Apply
Interested and qualifying applicants can submit their application letter and CV in English, with both phone and email contact details of at least 3 professional references, to the following email HR@owdaeth.org
Deadline for Submission: Close of business on Friday, April 07, 2023. Subject of email should include the position you are applying for. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted by OWDA. OWDA is an equal opportunity employer; qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
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