Background:
The International Rescue Committee, one of the world’s largest humanitarian international NGOs, provides relief, rehabilitation and development support to vulnerable people and communities over 40 countries. We began work in Ethiopia in 2000 in response to severe drought in Ethiopia’s Somali region and are currently providing assistance to Ethiopians and refugees in nine regions in Ethiopia, implementing emergency and development programs in health, water and sanitation, economic recovery, and development (ERD), women’s protection and empowerment, education, child protection, and multi-sectoral emergency response.
The post holder will support and strengthen the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of livelihood project in shedder, Aware and Kebribeyah Camps. They will collaborate closely with other project staff within IRC and government staff; and among partner agencies, government, private sector, and community groups. They will give support to the program to ensure technically sound and complementary programming. The senior officer will ensure successful support for refugee livelihoods programming which includes entrepreneurship, enterprise development, and employment initiatives, financial inclusion/savings, micro-franchising, and other related activities.
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