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ChildFund International is inspired and driven by the potential that is inherent in all children; the potential not only to survive but to thrive, to become leaders who bring positive change for those around them.
The heart of ChildFund International remains the one-to-one connection made through child sponsorship. Our work began in 1938 with an effort to build orphanages for the children who had been left without homes or families in the wake of the second Sino-Japanese War.
These orphanages were funded by individuals in America who “sponsored” an orphaned child in China. This approach continues today.What began as a modest effort to build and operate orphanages, has evolved into a global force working for children encompassing the globe. Our area of excellence and great strength is our deep understanding of children's experiences of deprivation, exclusion and vulnerability, and our dedication to placing those experiences at the center of our policy and practice.
We work in 31 countries, assisting approximately 15.2 million children and their family members, regardless of race, creed or gender. Our distinctive approach focuses on working with children throughout their journey from birth to young adulthood, as well as with families, local organizations and communities globally to create the environments children need to thrive.
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ChildFund Ethiopia is an international child focused NGO working to improve the well being of deprived, excluded arid vulnerable children and families. Pact, in conjunction with ChildFund, FHI and 50 local implementing partners is implementing a large USAID/PEPFAR funded program serving orphan and vulnerable children in Ethiopia. The program is a five year OVC program which will be implemented in the nine Regions and two Administrative Cities in Ethiopia. ChildFtmd is a technical lead in Economic Strengthening; and age and developmentally appropriate programming o the program.
In order to implement the programs, ChildFund Ethiopia is seeking experienced candidates for the following positions.
Economic Strengthening/Livelihood Specialist
Economic Strengthening/ Livelihood Specialist is responsible for organizing, facilitating and delivering ToT for implementing partners’ staff in areas of economic strengthening implementation. S/he will also provide technical assistance to partners in the areas of economic strengthening, enterprise development, microfinance, and income and asset building activities of the project.
Principal Duties
• Leads the development of strategies, approaches, systems and guidelines to ensure that households caring for highly vulnerable children have increased capacity to meet the basic needs of children and supports self reliance;
• Defines and executes economic strengthening models, standards, elaborates steps to meet the standards, and mobilizes support. Defines and executes economic strengthening monitoring systems and development of tools to track progresses,
• Organizes and delivers training courses and/or arranges for the delivery of training programs aimed at partner staff including government and NGO staff in Economic Strengthening strategies, approaches systems; livelihood pathways, IGA, and other related areas;
• Coordinates and consults with Youth Development and Livelihood Advisor of ChildFund International;
• Initiates and leads market assessments, value chain analysis and community led market assessment and other comparative analysis on different economic strengthening models, microfinance institutions operation systems, etc and share results with wider audiences in and outside the program to enhance program quality;
• Keeps up to date with developments in the sector, including best practice examples within the country and internationally;
• Participates in Technical Working Groups under the Project, and assumes leadership for the Economic Strengthening Working Group.
• Develops capacity of partners staff on Economic Strengthening models, EGA selection, planning and management, etc and provide technical assistance to the partners on the rollout;
Minimum Education and Experience
Education:
• Post graduate Degree in Economics, Development Studies, and Enterprise Development, international Development or other closely related field.
• Academic work and published reports on microenterprise development, micro finance, business development, livelihood, value chain and income generating areas in Ethiopia
Experience:
• Ten years of work experience, at least 5 years with NGOs in all or most of the fields of economic strengthening, microenterprise development, value chain, livelihoods. Experience should include that on development 3f strategies, guidelines and approaches; market assessments, conducting surveys; facilitating training, field program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience in both the public sector and NGO programs are advantageous
Required Knowledge, Skills and Personal Attributes
• Productive personality traits and firm belief in teamwork, gender equality, child protection/participation, participatoc’1i approaches,
• Training planning and delivery skills.
• Highly developed computer skills (Word processing, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.);
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English Language,
• Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, building partnership, building commitment, contributing to team success, innovation, pro-active, problem solving, analytical ability, a self starter.
Terms of Employment: One year with a possibility of extension based on proven performance
Salary: Negotiable for all positions
Place of Work: Addis Ababa National Office with 50% travel to the regions and woredas in Ethiopia.
Qualified women are highly encouraged to apply
Qualified candidates can apply in person, via e-mail or by sending non-returnable full CV, copies of supporting documents within 7 days from September 1, 2011
ChildFund Ethiopia
Bole Sub City-Kebele 03 H.No 2310, P.O.Box 5545
Tel.011-6627228
E-Mail address: Office@ethiopia.childfund.org
Addis Ababa
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