About CRS
Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding. For nearly 60 years, CRS has taken the lead in responding to natural and man-made disasters affecting Ethiopia's most vulnerable communities. Moving beyond emergency response, CRS' disaster mitigation and recovery projects in drought and flood-prone areas have rebuilt individual and community assets through non-food aid in the form of agriculture, livestock, health, nutrition, and water and sanitation assistance. CRS's humanitarian work in Ethiopia also provides livelihoods support to farmers and entrepreneurs, promotes equality and inclusion, and mitigates the impact of COVID-19.
As part of CRS family, you will join the more than 5000 strong and vibrant individuals working globally to accomplish the mission of CRS. CRS/Ethiopia invites you, the qualified candidate, to apply for the following position.
Job Title: Senior Project Officer - Communications
Band: VIII
Required number: One
Employment Term: Definite term i.e. up to September 7, 2026
Reports To: Technical Advisor II – Collaboration, Learning and Adapting (CLA)
Country/Location: CRS Ethiopia/Addis Abba
Job Summary:
As a member of the CRS Ethiopia RFSA team, you will lead development and implementation of a comprehensive communication strategy and tools. You will contribute to reporting on all RFSA activities in support of Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work serving the poor and vulnerable. Your thorough and service-oriented approach will ensure that the project document and share its impact and encourage dissemination and application of best practices. You will work closely with the Country program, regional and HQ teams to create content and to ensure strategic alignment of communications, consistent messaging and a strong brand identity within the RFSA. You will create content and uses effective communications channels to reach different audiences and help increase RFSA’s reach priority stakeholders in the most effective way. This includes writing humanitarian stories, providing content for the CP newsletter, developing multimedia products and communication reports as required, as well as ensuring CRS’ compliance with USAID-BHA branding and marketing requirements.
Job Responsibilities:
Typical Background, Experience & Requirements:
Education and Experience
Personal Skills
Required/Desired Foreign Language
Travel Required (50%)
Key Working Relationships:
Supervisory: Reports to CLA Technical Advisor and works very closely with SPO Knowledge Management and Learning.
Internal: CoP, DCoP Programming, MEAL, and Youth/Gender, ELRP Technical Managers, RFSA MEAL Team. Also works with CP and Regional Communications team.
External: Implementing partner organizations, government staff managing accountability programmes, other organizations working in accountability.
Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff):
These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.
Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.