Internal / External Vacancy Announcement
The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) wants to hire employees in the following vacant positions the details of which are mentioned bellow.
About the Ethiopian Red Cross Society
The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) was established in 1935 and is one of the oldest and largest humanitarian organizations in Ethiopia. ERCS provides services to communities affected by natural and manmade disasters through the provision of emergency responses, ambulance and first aid, family reunification, essential drugs, water and sanitation, and other humanitarian services. ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. Currently the ERCS has a structure consisting of 12 Regional Offices, 34 Zonal Branches and 131 District/Woreda Branches, 599 Woreda Red Cross Committee and 5871 Kebele Red Cross committees.
ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs relating to food security, climate change adaptation, livelihood diversification, and institutional capacity building interventions, with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. ERCS works in partnership with the Ethiopian Government, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), partnering National Societies, members, volunteers and the communities we serve.
Job Summary
The project officer supports the project management in Benishangul Gumuz, under the DG ECHO (Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations) funded ECHO HIP 2023 project (Multi-sectorial Project). His/her tasks include contributing to planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, timely and quality reporting as per the provided formats and standards. He/she also facilitates partnership building with relevant stakeholders (mainly zonal and woreda level government counterparts). The Project Officer is directly accountable in following up project activities in Metekel and ensuring their completion within the timeline set, allocated budget as per the project document, with standard quality and in relation to the MoU between the Netherlands Red Cross (NLRC) and Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS). Details on the ECHO project to be implemented in Metekel are outlined below:
The ECHO multisectoral project (WASH, Health and Disaster Risk Reduction) which is implemented in consortium between Ethiopian Red Cross, Netherlands Red Cross (lead partner), Danish Red Cross, German Red Cross and Austrian Red Cross. The WASH activities are to be implemented in Benishangul-Gumuz, Amhara and Tigray regions. This includes WASH hardware and software activities, namely rehabilitation of water supply and sanitation systems, hygiene promotion activities and providing technical trainings to volunteers and community members.
The two projects are implemented in the same geographic areas - Amhara, Tigray and Benishangul-Gumuz - and implementation should be closely aligned and should ensure that protection mainstreaming is integrated in all the activities.
Key Performance Areas
Support Project Management
Work Unit : Benishangul Gumuz- ERCS branch – Metekel office
Reports to:- ECHO Senior Project Officer (Assossa Based)
Terms of employment: Nine month
Place of Work: ERCS, Benishangul Gumuz branch – Metekel zonal office
Salary: 28,416.00
Qualification Requirements:
Key competencies