Concern Worldwide Job Positions in Ethiopia

Concern Worldwide Programme Director Job Positions in Ethiopia

Programme Director, Ethiopia

Your purpose: This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to shape the significant growth of Concern’s multi-sectoral development programme.

As Programme Director you will help devise, develop and deliver a comprehensive plan for expanding Concern’s resilience work across the country. You will lead an experienced and hardworking team to and build excellent relationships with donors, partners and the Ethiopian government.

As a member of the Senior Management Team (SMT) you will contribute to the management of the country programme with specific responsibility for managing and coordinating the development programme, ensuring programme quality and the delivery of results in relation to Concern Ethiopia’s country strategic plan and programme strategies.

You will be based in Addis Ababa, with frequent travel to programme sites and report to the Country Director. We offer an attractive and competitive national salary package with benefits.

You will be responsible for:

Leading the process of new programme development and design including preparation of concept notes and proposals.

• Take the lead role in conceptualizing, designing and development of new programmes in line with How Concern Understands Extreme Poverty

• Lead programme teams and various stakeholders in programme and proposal development processes.

• Develop effective linkages with Government, donors, strategic networks and partners to ensure Concern’s programmes are highly relevant to the wider development.

• Ensure organisational approaches such as equality, risk and vulnerability and accountability are addressed in programme design and implementation approaches.

Ensuring a comprehensive funding strategy in place and meet organisational funding targets to effectively support delivery of development programmes. Including, but not limited to:

• Researching and analysing donor funding priorities as well as keeping informed on available funding opportunities in the various sectors and geographical areas of Concern’s programming in Ethiopia.

• Formulation of short, medium and long term funding strategy for programmes in consultation with the Senior Management Team and headquarters.

• Ensuring submission of high quality proposals to meet the funding requirements of development programmes

Providing strategic guidance and management of teams for effective implementation of development programmes

• Ensure that all programme implementation is guided by result based management principles and have effective planning and implementation review processes in place.

• Line manage programme managers ensuring performance objectives are aligned to programme delivery.

• Lead on resource planning for development programmes including assisting in HR planning, recruitment and staff development.

• Coordinate the programme activities across programmes, sectors and approaches; coaching staff and ensuring complementary approaches.

• Manage budgets and resources in line with organisational procedures; this includes, preparation of programme budgets collaboratively with programme and finance staff and tracking programme expenditure through monthly management and quarterly financial review.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

• Ensure programme M&E system is in line with organisational guidelines and programme design.

• Ensure full adoption and roll-out of Digital Data Gathering

• Provide management oversight for the Concern M&E function in Ethiopia.

• Undertake regular monitoring visits to programme areas and provide feedback to programme staff and management.

• Identify areas of learning and good practice, sharing with internal and external stakeholders.

Donor and Grant Management

• Track programme implementation progress, programme context and provide regular updates to Country Director and SMT.

• Coordinate with programme managers, finance and support departments to ensure timely grant utilisation and compliance with donor requirements.

• Develop an annual reporting calendar for development programmes and lead in ensuring that good quality reports are submitted in line with donor requirements.

As a member of the Senior Management Team, provide effective leadership to the organisation. Including, but not limited to:

• Active participation in Senior Management meetings, contributing significantly to decisions on policy and strategic direction.

• Ensuring that the policies and strategies of Concern Worldwide are incorporated in our work as well as proposing, updating and implementing changes to existing policies and strategies within Ethiopia h programme.

Your skills and experience will include:

· Relevant Master’s degree qualification (agriculture, social science, health, economics, rural development etc.)

· A minimum of 5 years senior management level experience with an INGO in development programming with at least two years’ experience overseas.

· Experience in Monitoring and Evaluation techniques, accountability to beneficiaries and mainstreaming

· Excellent management/leadership experience

· Proven record in proposal development and resource mobilisation

· Strong financial management

· Good experience in networking, team building and mentoring

· Strong staff management and development skills including Training, coaching and mentoring skills and ability to motivate and develop skills of others

How to apply:
All applications should be submitted through our website at https://jobs.concern.net by closing date. CV’s should be no more than 4 pages in length. Please state your salary expectations and previous salary in your application.

Due to the urgency of this position, applications will be short listed on a regular basis and we may offer posts before the closing date.

Concern Worldwide is an Irish-based non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.

Concern has a Staff Code of Conduct and a Programme Participant Protection Policy which have 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 organization, and the standards of behaviour expected of them.

In this context staff have a responsibility to the organization to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission.

Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct as an appendix to their contract of employment.

By signing the Programme Participant Protection Policy and the Concern Staff Code of Conduct candidates acknowledge that they have understood the contents of both the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and the Programme Participant Protection Policy and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these two documents.

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Concern Worldwide is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.