Senior Program Officer
Internal/External Vacancy Announcement #045/2018
GIZ- Qualifications and Employment Opportunities for Refugees and Host Communities in Ethiopia Program (QEP)
Background
The new program on Qualifications and Employment Perspectives for Refugees and Host Communities in Ethiopia (QEP) has been commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in December 2017. The program is part of the German Special Initiative on Displacement and seeks to provide better vocational training and employment perspectives for refugees and host communities in Ethiopia. The program leverages the potentials of TVET for integration. Implementation will take place in Addis Ababa and Jijiga, Aw-Barre and Shedder (Somali Region). A further area for implementation will be determined.
QEP works on three output levels and seeks to (1) increase the quality of technical and vocational training (TVET), (2) broaden the opportunities of TVET available to the target groups and (3) foster entrepreneurship and exchange formats for employment. QEP works together with the public TVET system and tries to extent the standards of the Ethiopian TVET system to TVET opportunities available for refugees and remote host communities. The program works in fragile social and economic contexts. It is therefore crucial that refugees and Ethiopian host communities benefit equally from program interventions. The changing regulatory framework governing inter alia access to education and employment for refugees poses a challenge and an opportunity at the same time. Currently the program is looking for a qualified candidate as per the detail below.
Position: Senior Program Officer
Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Application deadline: March 18, 2018
Required Candidate: One
Within this context, s/he will cooperate closely with the programme coordinator in the following tasks:
Responsibilities and Duties
Tasks
Programme planning and concept development
Designing innovative measures of entrepreneurship support for refugees and
host communities with visible employment effects
Developing Capacity Development Approaches and strategies for the programme
Drafting of a monitoring system and operational plans
Data gathering from implementation sides for eg. PR and reporting duties
Programme activities implementation
Carries out activities within QEP
Contributes to the implementation of a grant agreements (contributes to the content of the grant agreement; oversees implementation of activity packages in Addis Ababa and takes on process management with a respective NGO and TVET college)
Coordination and organisation with TVET colleges (eg. in Jijiga and Addis Ababa regarding general modes of cooperation, teachers training, material supports, organisation of targeted programme activities in TVET colleges, etc. ), federal TVET institutions (such as TI and FTA)
Conceptual planning and drafting of workshops, (capacity development) trainings and other programme related events
Preparation and steering of short-term consultants and experts of the project to fulfil their tasks during their assignment (organises deployment of short term experts, coordinates with relevant stakeholders, eg. TVET colleges, NGOs, institutions of refugee support)
Monitoring and Evaluation
General Duties
Support to the GIZ programme management in reporting procedures
Represents the interests and always acts on behalf of the GIZ-programme
Brings in his/her personal network with relevant stakeholders to foster the success of the programme and achievements of results
Other Duties/Additional Tasks
Contributes to the development of programme related documents (internal and external)
Contributes to public relations activities of the programme by identifying relevant success stories, faces and achievements from the field
The regular duty station is Addis Ababa, however, the position requires duty trips to programme implementation sides as for example Jijiga area (Somali Region), refugee camps and a third area of programme implementation.
Required qualifications, competencies and experiences
The suitable candidate should have strong background in entrepreneurship support, ideally experience in or knowledge about Ethiopian TVET system, experience in the field of migration and/or providing TVET/education opportunities to displaced persons in Ethiopia. In addition ideally, the candidate should know current debates and developments in the policy field of migration/displacement/refugees in Ethiopia.
Relevant Qualifications and Professional experiences
M.A./M.Sc. in political science, public management/policy, economics, or related field of study
Minimum of 5 years relevant occupational experience expertise in the necessary field as Consultant or Program Officer
Experience in multi-stakeholder management
Experience with working in (governmental, inter-governmental or non-governmental) international organizations, ideally in the field of refugees, migration, entrepreneurship, vocational training and/or employment promotion
Experience in designing and conducting entrepreneurship projects with proven successes; knowledge about current debates and approaches in entrepreneurship
Knowledge about the Ethiopian TVET system and/or relevant developments in the field of refugees/migration in Ethiopia, especially in regard of education/training, livelihoods and employment promotion
Good overview and knowledge of relevant stakeholders in the area of vocational training and entrepreneurship (private and public) in the context of displacement
Excellent communication skills and ability to facilitate agreements in complex settings of stakeholders
Experience in M&E, qualitative and quantitative reporting
Other qualifications:
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