VACANCY Ref No.: HAI/Prog/022/18
Background
HelpAge International (www.helpage.org) is the secretariat to the HelpAge Global Network, which brings together a wide range of organisations and individuals working together to ensure that older people lead dignified, active, healthy and secure lives. HelpAge International’s secretariat is based in London, UK but works in 41 countries across the world.
HelpAge has been operating in Ethiopia since 1992 and has been engaged on thematic sectors including social protection, health and wellbeing, emergency response and capacity building of partners. HelpAge International is responding to the needs of south Sudanese refugees’ influx with special focus on specific needs of older people and PWDs in Gambella region. The integrated refugee response intervention includes Health, Nutrition, Livelihoods, protection of older people and person with disabilities and capacity building of humanitarian actors to ensure inclusion of older people and their specific needs in the overall refugee response and essential service delivery interventions. The specific projects are implemented with full engagement of older people and other persons with specific needs in refugee camps and in close consultation and coordination with ARRA, UNHCR, RaDO and other humanitarian actors currently involved in various sectors of refugee responses.
HelpAge Ethiopia Country Office is currently seeking a vibrant, dedicated senior leader and manger who has the passion to drive HelpAge’s mission in Ethiopia and strategically lead the programme team for an enhanced impact on older people through designing and implementing high quality programmes in the priority thematic sectors.If you are a servant leader who is ready to challenge the status quo, deliver your responsibility generously without the need for prompting from others and looking for a place where you can unleash your creativity, leverage your experience and that of those around you, we invite you to join us. Qualified female candidates are highly encouraged to apply. This is a new position and we expect to fill this role by November/December 2018.
Overall Purpose of the Job:
The Assistant Country Director-programmes will be part of the Ethiopia SMT and responsible for the delivery of organizational strategy, offer high quality strategic guidance and management the programme team, Institutionalize learning outcomes from programmes and proactively contribute in strategic and long-term fund raising to sustain and grow impact.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
Contract Length: 1 year (with possibility of extension)
REPORTING TO: Country Director
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