Company Background
IOCC was established in 1992 as the official humanitarian organization of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA). IOCC’s global operations are managed from its headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland with field offices in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and East Africa. IOCC has extensive experience implementing programs in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM), as well as European and other international donors. In its nearly thirty years of operation, IOCC has amassed considerable experience worldwide in emergency and development settings and across a range of sectors, including food security, WASH, micro-credit lending, health, nutrition, agriculture, shelter, infrastructure, education, livelihoods, capacity building and civil society development through programs that support communities lifting themselves out of poverty and achieve economic sustainability.
IOCC began its work in Ethiopia in 2003, partnering closely with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Development and Inter-church Aid Commission (EOC-DICAC). In its 18 years operating in Ethiopia, IOCC has worked in cooperation with EOC-DICAC, international and local NGOs, and various ministries, including the ministries of Health, Education, and Agriculture, and provided humanitarian and development assistance to communities throughout the country. IOCC projects have improved the lives of Ethiopians and refugees from neighboring Somalia and South Sudan by helping improve the quality of healthcare, creating access to food and education, clean water, improved sanitation facilities, agriculture, livelihoods and jobs.
Project Description
The primary purpose of Food Security and Livelihood Program Manager position is to lead the planning and implementation of a funded food security and livelihoods intervention in Amhara region, Ethiopia. The Manager will also work to identify additional funding opportunities in the Food Security and Livelihood sector and develop relevant proposals. The project’s overall goal is to contribute to Ethiopian communities’ recovery from the desert locust invasion and their resilience to shocks and crises. The project will combine humanitarian interventions that mitigate risks and vulnerability to help target families overcome the immediate negative effects of the desert locust invasion with development interventions aimed at building target families’ adaptive capacity to withstand similar crises in the future. The identified project will focus on cash and voucher assistance, food access, WASH, natural resource management, and livelihood diversification. Communities will be at the centre of this approach and the Program Manager with support from two project officers will play a facilitation role, providing inputs, facilitating unconditional cash intervention, building capacity and supporting the establishment of community groups and institutions that help families overcome the immediate effects of the desert locust as well as building their preparedness and adaptive capacity for future shocks. The Program Manager will also be responsible for identifying new partnerships, design and development of the food security and livelihood program.
Duties and Responsibilities
Program Management (80%)
Business Development (20%)