Resilience and Livelihood Security Coordinator- 2015

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Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organization which envisions a world where no one lives in poverty, in fear or oppression, where all have access to a decent standard of living and have opportunities and choices essential to a long, healthy and creative life. Concern Worldwide would like to invite dynamic and creative applicants for the following position:

Position: Resilience and Livelihood Security Coordinator

Terms of Employment: Indefinite

Duty Station: Addis Ababa with frequent travel to all programme areas

Responsible for: Urban and rural technical officers

Reports to: Assistant Country Director Programmes- I

Number of post: One

JOB PURPOSE:

• To develop resilience and livelihood security strategy for CWW in Ethiopia based on Concern World Wide, sectoral policies and programme guidelines and in line with Ethiopian government policies and other relevant regional and global standards and protocols.

• The Coordinator, based on Ethiopian government sectoral policies and donor interests and CWW in Ethiopia strategic plan, will develop programme and project proposals on resilience and livelihood security related interventions.

• The coordinator, liaising with health and nutrition sector will design programmes that will help for diversifying funds for CWW in Ethiopia

• The coordinator, ensures proper management of grants and compliance to donor requirements of all resilience and livelihood related programmes and projects..

• Will provide effective technical advice to programme offices in Addis Ababa, Wollo and Wolayita and any future resilience and livelihoods programmes.

• Ensure that cross cutting issues are mainstreamed into resilience and livelihood programmes during design, planning and implementation and monitoring and evaluation

• Ensure timely and quality reporting, documenting learnings and best practices and sharing with all stakeholders of all resilience and livelihood programmes and projects in Concern Ethiopia

• Assist in relevant research and assessments, feed in new thinking and innovations into Concern’s resilience building and livelihood security particularly focusing on strategies on Climate Change and DRR, new approaches to agriculture, and agriculture and nutrition linkage, new technologies and practices and brief SMT on resilience and Livelihood related issues as required

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Programme design and implementation

• The coordinator will organize a complete profile of up to date policy and other relevant information on both rural and urban resilience and livelihoods to help CWW in Ethiopia to initiate new programme ideas and proposals.

• Based on resilience and livelihood security framework and strategy of CWW in Ethiopia, will provide training and technical support to Concern and partner staff and area coordinators on all resilience and livelihood related areas.

• Will provide technical support for designing new resilience and livelihood programmes in a participatory manner including carrying out situational analysis using Concern’s understanding of poverty, PCN and proposal development with relevant stake holders.

• Initiate and maintain strong relationships with field staff and provide the necessary technical advice to enhance the quality of programmes in resilience building and livelihood security.

• Promote new ideas and ways of programming that are tested and are proven to impact the life of the poor positively and are adoptable to the local conditions

• The coordinator will support both emergency and development programmes in all PCM

• Will ensure the inclusion of all mainstreaming issues in resilience and livelihood programming including in emergencies and recovery programmes

Urban resilience and livelihood security;

Monitoring & Evaluation;

• Responsible for providing support, taking technical lead and ensuring that:
M&E plans are developed and included at all levels of designing resilience and livelihood programmes

• Ensure that all resilience and livelihoods project/programme partners have a clear understanding of M&E requirements and incorporate them in their programme design and implementation

• Work with M&E team to provide training to Concern and partner staff on livelihood related M&E methodologies.

• Provide technical support on clarifying guidelines aid policies related to resilience and livelihoods programmes

• Coordinate with M&E to undertake livelihood programme regular monitoring, producing required report and impact assessments
Crosscutting:

• To ensure that policies and guidelines on cross cutting issues ( specifically gender, child protection, accountability, DRR) within CWW are fully understood by Concern and partners staffs and are mainstreamed in CWW resilience and livelihood programmes in Ethiopia.

• Establishing external relationships for networking, advocacy and lobbying purposes on areas of cross cutting issues related to resilience building and livelihood security

HR and Finance:

• Contribute to the planning and preparation of resilience and livelihoods programme budgets and budget revisions

• Assist in the tracking and managing at finances allocated to the programme

• Assist in the monitoring of under and over spending in each resilience budget, compliance, with grant agreement with donors, and CSA regulatory provisions and advice the appropriate staff/PM/AC/ACDP, for timely actions.

• Participate in the recruitment of local resilience and livelihoods staff

• Support in the resilience and livelihoods staff development through training arid capacity building

Reporting and documentation:

• Provide internal monthly reports to ACD Programmes 2 for all resilience and livelihood programmes in the country

• Provide support to the programmes in financial planning and reporting

• Provide support in all resilience and livelihood related reports to the donor, HO and government

• Initiate Case studies and action research in collaboration with field program staffs and documentation and communication department

• Represent Concern at inter-agency and coordination meetings pertaining to resilience and livelihoods programme or when requested by senior management

Qualification aid Experience:

Essential;

• Masters or BA degree in Rural Development Studies, Development Studies, Agricultural Economics, Economic Development, and other related disciplines with a minimum seven and ten years’ experience respectively in National programme management experience or related senior management experience

• Minimum of five years’ experience with reputable INGOs;

• Experience of developing and managing large scale and multi sectoral programmes in a development context;

• Experience of staff management and development including distance management;

• Understanding and proven application of advocacy social protection, participatory planning, monitoring and learning in the context of development programmes;

• Ability to design and/or lead programming so as to address the root causes of poverty and the faders blocking lasting improvements in the lives of the extreme poor with ii government and donor policy requirements

• Practical experience in participatory development approaches, facilitation, working with partners, gender equality programming, and DRR, capacity building and building effective teams to work in poor rural and urban communities;

• Experience in Field research especially in participatory impact assessment for outcome level PM&E

• Fluent spoken & written English

• Report writing ability and good leadership and administration skills

• Computer Literate

Desirable;

• Additional training or qualification in development issues or technical areas such as, strategic planning, programme design and proposal development and management, organizational/ institutional development, participatory approaches

• Ability in flexible programming and working in both emergency and development,

• Special Skills. Aptitude or Personality Requirements

Salary: As per the organization scale

Closing date: 10^th May 2015

Concern has a Staff Code of Conduct and Programme Participant Protection Policy which has been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organizations, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Staff Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment and conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions in these two documents

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