Nuru International Ethiopia (NIE) is a US-based international NGO working to end extreme poverty in remote rural communities in Ethiopia. NIE is registered in Ethiopia as an International NGO with Charities and Societies Agency with Registration Number 2832. Nuru’s first integrated development project in Ethiopia began in 2013 in Boreda Woreda, Gamo Gofa Zone, and SNNPR. Nuru currently works in four integrated intervention areas/programs: Agriculture, Financial Inclusion, Healthcare and Education. All four programs work through Rural Cooperatives. Currently, Nuru Ethiopia employs approximately 85+ staff based both at headquarters and field offices in Gamo Gofa Zone of SNNPRS.
More information on our intervention programs and impact can be found from our website on: http://www.nuruinternational.org/what-we-do/ethiopia.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Nuru Cooperative Field Officer is responsible for carrying out the overall program goals and objectives for the Cooperative program facilitating original training modules cooperative procedure and management, supervising Primary Cooperative Managers, developing financially sustainable grain marketing/Multipurpose primary cooperatives, and collecting and report all monitoring data. They must also understand and carry out the Nuru model.
Further, s/he will foster organizational development, promote Nuru’s values and servant leadership culture, promote accountability and high performance, and encourage innovation. S/he will ensure all cooperatives are progressing Nuru’s goal of enabling rural communities to realize meaningful choices to lift themselves out of extreme poverty in a sustainable way.
Establishing multipurpose primary Cooperatives
Training Cooperative Managers and Management Committees
Strengthening Cooperatives
Report to Cooperative Development Program Manager (CDPM)
Qualification Requirements: