Junior Program Officer
Internal/External Vacancy Announcement #046/2018
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: Junior Program Officer
Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Required Candidate: One
The employee will support general day to day program implementation and works closely with the program coordinator. Her/his main areas of work include workshop organization and conduct, contribution to drafting and designing of PR materials, support to M&E, contribution to reporting duties, and other areas where need may arise.
Tasks to be performed include
Independently organize logistics of workshops, trainings and other program related events
Cooperate closely with administrative staff regarding settlement of workshops, trainings, etc. expenses including per diems
Compile basic data on participation in workshops, trainings and other events and keep data base up-to-date
Compile program implementation related data (output indicators related, impact related, people reached related, etc.) in a data base; make sure that data base is kept up-to-date and available to produce aggregated numbers for reporting and PR purposes
Contribute to the organization of the program’s knowledge management system
Organize and contribute to a program newsletter
General content of the position
Compile and draft documentation of success stories
Contribute (designing, drafting) to other program related documents for internal and external use
Organizational and planning related tasks as well as other tasks related to the daily office routine
Requirements
Minimum Bachelor degree in social sciences (eg. political science, public management/policy, development studies, communications or related fields)
Excellent communication and organizational skills
Excellent language skills in English and Amharic (writing, speaking, listening)
Experience in event organization
Experience in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as well as data management
Excellent skills in Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel
Experience in writing short, informative texts in English and Amharic (eg. for PR purposes)
Ideally experience in design of PR materials (fact sheets, flyers, power point presentations etc.) with widely used graphic programs (eg. InDesign)
Theoretical and/or practical experience in the fields of TVET, entrepreneurship and the context of migration in Ethiopia is an advantage
Flexibility and preparedness to perform a changing array of duties according to the needs of the program