The Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK’s work to end extreme poverty, deliver the Global Goals, and tackle global challenges in line with the government’s UK Aid Strategy. Our aid budget is spent on tackling the great global challenges – from the root causes of mass migration and disease, to the threat of terrorism and global climate change – all of which also directly threaten British interests. We are ending the need for aid by building peaceful and stable societies, creating jobs and strong economies, fighting corruption, unlocking the potential of girls and women, tackling climate change and helping to save lives when humanitarian emergencies hit. We are doing this because it is both the right thing to do and firmly in Britain’s national interest.
DFID works in partnership across Whitehall and with governments, civil society, the private sector and multilateral institutions, including the World Bank, United Nations agencies, and the European Commission.
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Purpose of Job
DFID Ethiopia is looking for a humanitarian advisor to join the Livelihoods and Humanitarian Team (a team of 12) to lead advice to DFID Ethiopia on humanitarian programming, including response to the challenges of internal forced displacement, and on how development programming can better prepare for acute needs. The vision that you will be helping to deliver is ‘Government of Ethiopia is able to lead and deliver an effective, more self-financed and accountable response to climate and humanitarian shocks’ whilst ensuring that emergency needs are met in the most effective manner. This means that your role in DFID is working on the shortterm response to acute need and supporting a programme working to build capacity so that Government of Ethiopia basic services are able to flex to shocks.
The Humanitarian Advisor will be the lead technical expert on the £262 million, 2017-2022, Building Resilience in Ethiopia programme. The programme has four key strands: Providing technical assistance to the Government of Ethiopia to lead and deliver an effective and accountable humanitarian response, delivering food and cash to people in humanitarian need in the most effective way, respond to emergency humanitarian needs in the most effective way and monitoring, evaluation and learning to strengthen humanitarian delivery in Ethiopia. The Humanitarian Adviser will also provide analysis and advice to DFID Ethiopia on the humanitarian context in Ethiopia.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities
Deliver high quality technical advice to ensure effective delivery of DFID Ethiopia humanitarian programmes and results.
Deliver high quality humanitarian advice to support UK government policy engagement and advocacy:
Learning and Cross Cutting Engagement in DFID
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Core UK civil service behaviours:
Candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate in their application examples of the following Civil Service Behaviours:
Applicants will be assessed on their behaviours against the level/band or grade comparison indicated in the Civil Service Behaviours Framework (page 5.) for example:
LEVEL / BAND | Civil Service | DFID EQUIVALENT |
Level 3 | SEO | A2L |
Level 4 | Grade7 | A2 |
Details of the above HM Government Success Profiles (Civil Service Behaviors) are available by clicking this link.
Technical Competencies
Candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate in their application examples of the following Technical competencies:
The specialist technical proficiencies (as per the job profile) should come through in the examples that are provided and within the applicant’s work experience. These may be tested in the interview stage.
International Competencies
Candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate in their application examples of the following Technical competencies: