Social Development Advisor
GIZ- Internal/External Vacancy Announcement #86/2017
GIZ- SLM
As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its development-policy objectives. GIZ promotes complex reforms and change processes.
In Ethiopia, GIZ has been working for more than 40 years in bilateral cooperation on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and on the commission of the Ethiopian government and international donors.
Ethiopia is one of the Sub-Saharan African countries most seriously affected by environmental problems such as land degradation. In order to reduce these impacts, the Government of Ethiopia (GoE), in collaboration with its development partners, has been implementing the Sustainable Land Management Program (SLMP) since 2009. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusam-menarbeit (GIZ) is currently supporting the Ethiopian Government’s efforts with the Sustainable Land Management Program (GIZ-SLM) operating in the country’s highland regions and with the Strengthening Drought Resilience Program (GIZ-SDR) which focuses on pastoralist lowland areas. In early 2016, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the European Union (EU) agreed to launch a new support program to SLMP under the title “EU Support to the Sustainable Land Management Program” (EU Support to SLMP). The action is fully harmonized with the Government of Ethiopia’s SLMP results framework and builds on the ongoing SLMP and the aforementioned GIZ programs.
Against this background, GIZ is currently recruiting an advisor (social development and income generating activities) for EU Support to SLMP (duty station: Addis Ababa, with frequent duty missions to Yayu and Bale eco-regions), matching the following profile;
Position: Social Development Advisor
Remuneration: As per the GIZ scale
Application deadline: September 2, 2017
Place of Work: (duty station: Addis Ababa, with frequent duty missions to Yayu and Bale eco-regions)
Responsibilities:
B1 General Tasks:
B2 Specific Subject Matter Specialist Tasks:
Competences:
· Excellent technical knowledge of social development measures, community organisation and income generating activities
· Proven track record as trainer in social development projects
· Professional experience as an advisor in rural development
· Experience in livestock topics and issues will be considered as an asset
· Basic knowledge on project cycle management, especially monitoring and evaluation of outcomes and impacts
· Excellent communication skills to handle stakeholders with different interests, practice active listening as core principle of advice, capability of concise and coherent reporting along standard formats
· Good English language skills, both written and oral
· Excellent knowledge of regional language is required
· Excellent computer skills, esp. Microsoft Office
· Good communication, interpersonal skills and team spirit
· High degree of initiative, integrity and accountability
· Knowledge and understanding of SLMP guiding documents (PIM, CBPWDG, etc.) will be considered as an asset
Qualifications and Experience:
· MSc or BSc in sociology or social anthropology or related field
· Minimum of five years of experience in the area of participatory planning, community organization and mobilization, byelaw formulation, design of income generation schemes and implementation of income generating activities
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