Catholic Relief Services Technical Advisor Jobs in Ethiopia

Catholic Relief Services Technical Advisor Jobs in Ethiopia

Job Description

About CRS:

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality.

CRS’ relief and development work are accomplished through programs of emergency response, health, agriculture, education, microfinance, and peacebuilding. For nearly 60 years, CRS has taken the lead in responding to natural and man-made disasters affecting Ethiopia's most vulnerable communities.

As part of CRS family, you will join the more than 5000 strong and vibrant individuals working globally to accomplish the mission of CRS. CRS/Ethiopia invites you, the qualified candidate, to apply for the following position.

Position: Technical Advisor - Inclusion

Duty Station: CRS Ethiopia/Addis Ababa

Employment Term: Indefinite term contingent on funding of the program

Report to: Deputy Chief of Party – Program Quality (JEOP)

Background:

The Joint Emergency Operation (JEOP) is an emergency food assistance program targeting transitory food insecure households through a project participant targeting process led by the Government of Ethiopia’s (GoE) Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management Commission (EDRMC).

JEOP provides emergency assistance to protect their lives and livelihood where recurrent drought affected in significant harvest loss, livestock death and price increase of essentials.

Job Summary:

As a member of JEOP technical team, you will provide technical advice and support to a range of program design and implementation issues in disability, youth, gender integration and protection principles in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to CRS and JEOP consortium members to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable.

Job Responsibilities:

Support development and contribute to implementation of JEOP-wide disability, youth, gender and protection-sensitive engagement strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in youth programming that effectively engage partners, USAID, and GOE. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating disability inclusion, gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction, with close collaboration with the CRS’ USAID-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA).

Closely work with CRS Social Behavioral Change team to develop comprehensive behavioral change strategies and plans around youth engagement on JEOP with a Do No Harm lens.

Provide technical support to JEOP’s partner teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and learning (MEAL), helping to ensure high-quality implementation.

Support JEOP’s MEAL team to include a disability, youth and gender perspective in research, mid-term and end line evaluations and mainstream sex, age and disability disaggregated sensitive indicators into the MEAL framework.

Contribute to developing indicators, milestones and plans, and lead reporting on all indicators for youth integration, and program progress.

Provide dynamic support and team coordination to JEOP’s wider inclusion activities, including support in integration and empowerment and build knowledge and technical capacity to implement and monitor youth engagement programming.

Support capacity strengthening initiatives in inclusive humanitarian action for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training agendas, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching.

Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contribute to a youth learning agenda.

Participate in internal and external forums for inclusion, collect and share best practices and promote JEOP/CRS’ work.

Act as the main focal person for JEOP with inclusion partners. Establish, coordinate, and oversee working relationships with all local project stakeholders, including organizations of persons with disabilities, disability service providers, and disability-related government authorities.

Ensure learning properly accompanies disability and youth inclusion activities throughout the project cycle. Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities and guiding partners in their efforts to reflect on project experiences.

Analyze implementation challenges and report any inconsistencies and/or gaps to inform adjustments to plans and

implementation schedules.

Ensure project documentation for inclusive approaches, outcomes, and lessons learned is complete with all required documents and is filed per agency and donor requirements.

Assist with preparation of trend analysis reports and documentation of case studies and promising practices

Job Requirements

Required Education and Experience

BA/MA Degree in Degree in Special Education, Social Work, Public Health or in the field of disability inclusion would be a plus.

At least three to five years of experience, including three years of relevant field-based inclusion programming experience with an NGO in development or humanitarian response with progressive responsibilities.

Strong command of technical principles and concepts in disability, youth, and gender inclusion.

Knowledge of partner capacity strengthening best practices and ability to conduct assessments.

Experience with participatory methods.

Demonstrated capacity building experience.
Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.

Ability to draft high-quality reports, communications materials, detailed implementation plans.

Demonstrated commitment to accountability to affected populations, and experience working with and meaningfully engaging diverse populations, including pregnant and lactating mothers, persons with disabilities, older adults, and IDPs

Demonstrated commitment to and application of gender responsive programming and positive action measures towards gender equality, including the participation and leadership of women

Demonstrated knowledge of and commitment to safeguarding, including the protection of program participants, community members and staff from all forms of abuse and harm

Desired Education and Experience

Experience working with an international NGO in a conflict setting.

General knowledge of other related disciplines to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.

Experience in working in large scale complex programs, in challenging environments, with strong emphasis on poor and vulnerable populations, pastoralist cultures, and agriculture.

Experience with program monitoring and evaluation and analysis.

Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based and civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles.

Experienced trainer/teacher of adults and multi-cultural groups

Demonstrated ability to develop strategy, write technical papers, develop training materials, and developing monitoring and evaluation tools.

Knowledge of USAID policies around disability inclusion. Prior technical experience on USAID funded programs; knowledge of Title II policies and procedures preferred.

Personal Skills

Inclusive approach, able to elevate the voices of underrepresented groups.

Strong relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings.

Good strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment.

Inclusive approach, able to elevate the voices of underrepresented groups.

Flexibility, persistence, and ability to work well with people and cross-cultural skills Strong relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings

Analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment

Strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills

Ability to work independently but also coordinate effectively as part of a team.

Good technical writing, presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills.

Proactive, resourceful and results oriented.

Required/Desired Foreign Language: Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Amharic. Other Ethiopian national languages a plus.


How to Apply

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