Capacity Building Coordinator

Job Description

CARE Ethiopia is a non-political, non-religious and independent humanitarian organization working in collaboration with various stakeholders to fight’ poverty and support vulnerable community groups. Its interventions primarily focus on three distinct impact groups: chronically food insecure rural women, pastoralist school-aged girls, and resource-poor urban female youth. CARE Ethiopia runs initiatives in the areas of WaSH, Food security and climate change, sexual and reproductive health, emergency response, and women’s empowerment in four regions of the country.

Vacancy No. 073//15

Position: Capacity Building Coordinator

Salary: : Negotiable

Place of Work: Addis Ababa

Closing Date: December 08, 2015

Number of vacant posts: 1 (One)

Term of employment: Regular.

Duty starting date: Immediately

Role Profile

The purpose of the Capacity Building Coordinator is to serves both as project manager and as coach/follow-up for the CARE and partner staff in terms of capacity building under the NEKI project. As manager of the project the incumbent is responsible for overall planning, preparing budget, ensuring quality implementation and coordination of the project. S/he will also coordinate the capacity building activities amongst CARE Ethiopia projects, partners and government institutions to make them better responsive to gender equality. To this effect, the incumbent directs and coordinates the capacity need assessment, development of capacity building strategies and plan and provides technical support to the implementation team. SI he works in close partnership with thematic leaders and specialists, taskforce members, community groups as necessary, and other partners to identify capacity building needs, and plays lead role in developing and executing capacity building activities to targeted community, civil society and government institutions; and contributes to builds CARE Ethiopia’s capacity to gender responsive programming. S/he also participates and contributes in regular Neki and FSF Plus project technical and management meetings and evaluation/assessment activities, research and documentation. Likewise, the incumbent also works with project staff and partners to ensure common approaches and best practices are applied in all components of the project.

Duties and Responsibilities;

• Ensuring proper project planning and budgeting, guide implementation of activities and monitor the same.


• Ensure reporting both narrative and financial in line with the IPIA.


• Ensure M&E systems are developed and implemented (impact data gathered, analyzed, used for advocacy and reporting)


• Ensures that learning products are developed in coordination with relevant cross-country thematic advisor, or develops them his/ herself


• Contracting, contract management with consultants, operative aspects of activities, etc.


• Ensure coordination with existing projects and mainstreaming, since this should not be a stand-alone program.


• Collect, document and share lessons/results of the implementation of capacity building processes;


• Ensure that the lessons documented from the project are disseminated within CARE, partners’ structure and other relevant bodies;-


• Organize and facilitate the knowledge sharing forums on capacity building;


• Contribute to the preparation of communication products on capacity building interventions and impacts;


• Keep up to date with best practices and knowledge and ensure those knowledge/learning are integrated in the ongoing programme implementation;


• Contribute to the development/improvement of monitoring and evaluation as well as documentation and sharing of lessons across projects and/with other partners;


• Work with monitoring and evaluation staff to establish and ensure a functional monitoring and evaluation system


• Develop and execution the M&E plan on capacity building activities;


• In collaboration with the M&E team, promote a system that enhances quality engagement of beneficiaries in M&E exercises;

Qualifications (Know how)

EDUCATION

Required: B.A. Degree in Social Sciences, Management, governance, Development Studies, or related.

Desired: M.A. in Development studies, Business management, governance, M&E, sociology, or related field

EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• Experience in training design and facilitation, and capacity building


• Desired: Some background in the key result areas of the program design, e.g. organizational capacity development, women’s empowerment


• Ability to think strategically about capacity and institutional building as a process, about strategic development of

COMPETENCIES

Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, building partnership, building commitment, contributing to team success, innovation, proactive problem solving, analytical ability.

Closing date: Dec 08, 2015

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How to Apply

Please read the following and this job post on its entirety before you apply. If you are not paying due attention to the following requirements/guidelines, your application would be automatically disqualified.

Interested applicants who meet the MINIMUM requirements should submit:

A, CV (not more than 3 pages) b) A cover letter (not more than one page)

A one page table summarizing your educational background, work experience, technical skills and competencies to facilitate the screening process. Please refer the vacancy announcement while doing this.

Please DO NOT SUBMIT copies of transcripts, academic degrees or recommendation letters with the application. You will provide them upon request.

Please submit your application to the following address:

CARE Ethiopia; P.O. Box 4710; Addis Ababa or online HR.ETHJobs@care.org

Or drop at the gate of our Head Office, Located on Haile Gebreselsie Road Opposite to Zerihun Buildin, at the back of Lex Plaza Building, Yeka Sub-Cit, Woreda 7 house no. 671.

Only short listed applicants will be contacted.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Please do not apply online if other application instructions are stated.Please do not accept payment requests at any of the recruitment phases!

Job Categories: Economics Jobs. Job Types: Full-Time. Job expires in 30 days.

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