Development Alternative Inc Technical Lead Jobs in Ethiopia
Development Alternative Inc Technical Lead Jobs in Ethiopia
Assignment ObjectivesThe Technical Lead is responsible for the technical direction of SHARPE, in close coordination with the Team Leader.
S/he will ensure the quality and relevance of SHARPE’s overarching Portfolio Strategy, and oversee the identification, development, design and delivery of all SHARPE interventions.
S/he will provide technical support and guidance to the SHARPE team, ensuring they have the right mix of skills and tools to achieve their goals, including the identification of additional human resource requirements.
S/he will identify the need for specialist technical support and recruit and manage short-term technical advisors on an as-needs basis.
S/he will also ensure all SHARPE programmatic frameworks are fully integrated into the portfolio - Monitoring, Results Measurement and Learning (MRL); Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI); Resilience and Value for Money (VfM).
The role will coordinate closely with the SHARPE Senior Management Team to ensure that the portfolio, learning and research are delivering against, and support, the logframe indicators and targets.
Key Responsibilities
Provides technical leadership and oversight of programme development and delivery.
Advises the Team Leader on all technical aspects of SHARPE and leads on all SHARPE technical deliverables ensuring quality, relevance and impact.
Leads on the continual development and oversight of SHARPE’s portfolio, in close coordination with the Portfolio Lead, to ensure the portfolio of interventions meets the overall objectives and priorities by sector, location, and target group – including identifying any additional interventions needed or adjusting interventions as appropriate.
Supports the teams on the design, analysis and oversight of all interventions and partnerships.
Ensures all new partnerships under development are appropriate and meet inclusion criteria. Support, guide and coach during the design of interventions, partnerships, deal notes and intervention plans – provide feedback and critique to the technical teams to ensure quality of process and outcome.
Oversees the delivery of all interventions – develop appropriate monitoring tools, in coordination with the MRL team, to enable efficient, systematic analysis of the progress of interventions; when needed identify when and how to adjust interventions
Ensure SHARPE’s strategic framworks are in place, and being used to inform
the technical design and delivery of all interventions including updating the frameworks as needed and providing ongoing training to the team to ensure their appropriate integration to delivery.
Ensure the SHARPE technical team understands, and is able to incorporate, SHARPE’s inclusion agenda appropriately into interventions; where needed providing additional expertise (directly or identifying appropriate STTA) to enhance this as needed
When needed, identify, recruit and mobilise additional technical staff as needed including the design of terms of reference and engagement in recruitment processes for technical staff.
Manage STTA and their inputs and deliverables ensuring all TA is briefed on expectations and their contributions are in line with the project’s requirements
Ensures continual professional development and training on MSD methodology for the technical team through the stages of programme delivery.
Other duties
The Technical Lead is a member of the SHARPE Senior Management Team. S/he is therefore expected to input into all aspects of SHARPE management.
S/he is expected to play a significant role in work-planning, annual review and reporting and in other project management processes, providing technical and management inputs as required.
Regular travel is expected to the refugee hosting regions where SHARPE operates.
Job Requirements
Requirements
Significant experience leading Market Systems Development in high-risk environments, providing technical expertise, quality assurance, advice and guidance.
Senior management and leadership experience, ideally in multi-cultural, complex environments. Significant experience building up a collaborative team structure.
Practical experience identifying opportunities, negotiating public-private partnerships ensuring both commercial viability and development/inclusion relevance; being able to point at a successful implementation track record.
Proven ability to lead teams in the field assessing the performance of markets and partners; able to implement an adaptive management process.
Strong understanding and experience ensuring interventions are inclusive, support the economic empowerment of women, build resilience and are conflict sensitive.
Experience of working with DfID funded projects preferable
Strong communication and writing skills essential
Some knowledge and experience in a humanitarian setting is desirable
Experience in both the public and private sectors is desirable
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