Position Title- Institutional Development Advisor
Location- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Length of Employment- Open
Salary & benefits- Highly attractive and negotiable
Posting Date- April 27, 2016
Closing Date- May 08, 2016
Vacancy Code- 01/394
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. The IRC has been working in Ethiopia for over 15 years implementing direct programming in the areas of WASH, education, livelihoods, reproductive health, gender-based violence, and child and youth protection and development. Today, we provide services to approximately 405,200 refugees in 20 camps and more than one million vulnerable Ethiopians in seven regions.
Position Summary:
IRC is seeking for an Institutional Development Advisor for the five-year, $24 million USAID-funded TRANSFORM: WASH activity. This project will encompass a set of innovative and strategic interventions targeting actions at different scales, with an overall goal of reducing under-five mortality, through increased use of WASH products and services to be achieved via the four interrelated objectives: 1) Increased WASH governance and management capacity at the sub-national level; 2) Increased demand for low-cost quality WASH products and services, with a focus on sanitation; 3) Increased supply for low-cost quality WASH products and services, with a focus on sanitation; 4) Increased knowledge base to bring WASH innovations to scale.
The Institutional Development Advisor will work under the direction of the COP and will be responsible for managing the governance strengthening activities at the woreda and regional levels.
This position is contingent on the IRC being awarded funding and is anticipated to begin in September 2016.
Required Qualifications and Experience:
· Have at least a Master’s Degree in Environmental Health, Water Engineering and other relevant field
· Have at least ten years of experience in the water and sanitation sector, especially related to current Ethiopian local government context.
· Proven experience in undertaking activities aimed at capacity building of government to effectively construct, manage and maintain WASH services.
· Strong English communication skills, both interpersonal and written.
· Working experience in developing countries; experience in Ethiopia preferred.
Skills required.