About Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is an International Humanitarian organization operating Water and Sanitation, Economic Development, Livelihoods, Capacity Building, Emergency Response, Health and Nutrition, and similar sectors in the regions of SNNPR, Somali, Oromia, Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. Mercy Corps works with communities, public and private sectors to implement appropriate relief, recovery and development interventions. Mercy Corps Ethiopia invites motivated and qualified candidates to apply for the following vacant position.
Position Title: Market System Specialist - WFP
Duty Station: Gode, Somali region
Post Position: one
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Market Systems Specialist will lead market system related activities of the project through its second phase, from assessment validation and activities selection and planning to implementation of activities to providing recommendations to represent Mercy Corps and WFP in scaling up and rolling out activities even further. This position requires key skills in M4P; relationship management within the team, with partner organizations stakeholders, and community members; and project management.
The Market Systems Specialist will also be a member of the MC Economic and Markets Development (EMD) Team, which uses market systems development to stimulate economic growth to create wealth and jobs for the poorest while maximizing investment from the private and public sectors. As a member of the EMD team, the Market Systems Specialist will contribute analytical thinking and innovative approaches and will support integration and harmony of approaches across all Mercy Corps Ethiopia market-driven programming. The EMD team is also expected to contribute up to 20% of its collective time towards new program development.
The Market Systems Specialist Mercy Corps staff solely dedicated to the program and will be expected to represent Mercy Corps in programmatic excellence, leadership, vision and core values. S/he will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary and multi-location team delivering all project activities in Mercy Corps geographies (Shabelle and Korehay Zone); for taking technical advisor of market systems strengthening in all project areas. S/he will support overall project management and planning, donor reporting, coordination of inputs from knowledge partners, and other stakeholders. He/she will be responsible for M&E, financial and operational management, and project management of the Mercy Corps team.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
· The Market Systems Specialist is responsible for the implementation of MC’s thematic areas of financial systems development. Key job functions include the following:
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