Location: (Ethiopia)
Contract: Temporary
Working day: Full time
Sector: NGOs and public sector
Vacancies: 1
Discipline: OtherAyuda en Acción is seeking experienced candidates for the position of Humanitarian Project Officers with particular experience of multi-sectorial emergency, food security, pastoral area development, livelihoods and resilience building to implement the Humanitarian projects in Fanta Rassu/04 zone, Chifra, Gulina and Ewwa woredas of Afar National Regional State. The project is based in the humanitarian needs and priorities of the region, zone and woredas and the respective communities linked with nexus building in multi-sectors such as food security, cash transfer, NFI, Education in Emergency, WASH, livelihoods and resilience building.
Position Description:
The successful candidates will report to Humanitarian Projects Manager based in Semera, Afar National Regional State and provide the overall project implementation and reporting. Specific responsibilities include:
· Report to Ayuda en Accion Afar Humanitarian Project Manager,
· Establish partnerships and relationship with respective government sectors, NGOs, Private Stakeholders and community-based organizations with in Fanta Rassu zone, Chifra, Gulina and Ewwa Woredas.
· Implement, monitor and report 15 months humanitarian project and annual operation plans for the project.
· Supports the Humanitarian project Manager in designing, implementing and monitoring the projects managed directly and by local implementing partners, providing the project manager with all the necessary data to facilitate the planned reports to the AECID donor and other relevant communication products on the intervention.
· Properly manage the Project resources (volunteers, financial and material) as per the direction from the project Manager and senior humanitarian Project manager of the country office.
· Understand and assure the implementation of any system security and safety procedures, protect the completeness, accuracy and integrity of accounting data and information based on AeA policies, procedures, donor regulations, and the law of the land.
· Document all processes, achievements, learning and challenges of the
project to the Ayuda en Accion knowledge-base.
· Documenting and reporting as per the AeA policies, procedures, donor regulations, and the law of the land.
Required Skills & Experience:
· Minimum of Bachelor's degree in disaster and risk management, food security, agriculture, agribusiness, natural resources development, livelihoods or development studies, education, sociology, social work, social anthropology, community mobilization and management.
· A minimum of 4 years work experience in humanitarian and emergency response, DRR, multi-sectorial humanitarian project/s, food security, agriculture, pastoral development, livelihoods and resilience building and protection. Both long and short-term projects/programs development and management, preferably in the NGO sector.
· Good knowledge of humanitarian interventions, protection, pastoral area development in Afar and surrounding regions and zones.
· Practical experience application of humanitarian principle and working in emergency response, DRR, protection, pastoral area development, recovery and resilience building, participatory development approaches and tools.
· Good knowledge and experience of implementing protection, humanitarian standards, principles and reporting donor-funded development projects/programs,
· Ability to understand risks, mitigation means and reporting.
· Demonstrated community mobilization skills, experience, and work with communities and institution at grass root level.
· Good communication skills, computer skills, report writing good written and spoken English and meeting deadlines.
· Able to communicate the respective local languages and know the community culture.
Other requirements and terms of:
Note:
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Interested candidates are advised to send a letter of application specifying the vacancy, duty station, CV with copies of testimonies reference persons and letters (attach in a single document)
