Founded in 1961, PCI is an international non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing health, ending hunger, overcoming hardship, and advance women and girls around the world. PCI has been registered and working in Ethiopia since 2005. PCI has five decades of experience and demonstrated impact in long-term development and community health, and 40 years of experience managing large-scale US Government (USG) grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. It manages a portfolio of integrated programming that includes significant projects addressing food, nutrition, and livelihood security; community based DRR, climate change, reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health; HIV/AIDS; other diseases; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and humanitarian assistance/disaster risk reduction programs.
ABOUT THE JOB:
PCI is recruiting for 12 Woreda DRM officers for the new USAID funded five years Pastoral Areas Resilience Activity (PARA), multi-million dollar, US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project in Ethiopia that will improve resilience to enhance food security and inclusive economic growth. This multifaceted activity is expected to be a major component in USAID’s contribution to improving Ethiopia’s ability to withstand major shocks in the pastoral regions, a critical element on the journey to self-reliance. PARA’s core activities will target 250,000 households (approximately 1.5 million people) in 5 Zones. Specifically, the project will tackle the root causes of vulnerability for lowlands households to withstand and recover from climate and conflict related shocks and stresses. These include weak disaster risk management capacity at different levels, limited livelihood diversification options, poor livestock and crop productivity, weak market linkages, and low levels of nutrition. Implementation will focus on systems change, with a strong learning component to ensure interventions are adapted per the latest analysis and research. Partnerships with other implementers, donors, the GoE, and the private sector will be essential to reach the scale needed for real systems change.
The Component 1, Woreda level (DRM) officers will be responsible for overall coordination and management of RIPA`s –component 1 Disaster risk management as well as ensuring Woreda level technical coordination and collaboration across these areas including crises modifier interventions. S/he will work closely with the project leadership team, Zonal area manager and local partners to design and implement DRM systems that are responsive to all programmatic and organization/donor reporting needs. The officer will also support project’s resilience learning agenda in close collaboration with the project and external stakeholders, including the local Government of Ethiopia (GOE), civil society, the private sector, USAID, and other donors and development projects – to disseminate evidence-based learnings and contribute to collective impact
The officers will be based in either RIPA Woredas of Borena, Guji, Liben and Dawa Zone of Somali region and South Omo and will serves as primary point of contact for RIPA project in his/her respective Woreda.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Program Activities
Planning and Reporting
Monitoring and Evaluation
Linking, Networking, coordination at Woreda level
Knowledge and Learning Management
Communications Management
Safety & Security Management
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE: