Duties and Responsibilities:

Conduct high level policy analysis and advocacy initiatives critical for the recovery of businesses in the northern Ethiopia including start-ups.

• Maintain a deep and up-to-date overall understanding of the policy, legal, regulatory, institutional, financing, and operational issues affecting the development of MSMEs in Ethiopia.
• provide specialist advice on a timely basis to UNDP, Government, and other partners on significant policy, regulatory, institutional, financing, and operational to enable the crisis management and recovery effort of MSME development in the northern Ethiopia.
• Provide overall support and facilitation of entrepreneurship and business development services, development of instruments and tools for improved financing of MSMEs, technology adoption/adaptation/diffusion, linkages with TVETs and other training institutions and special measures to expand the role of women as owners and managers of enterprises.
• Contributions to studies, surveys and trainings for project and country office staff and other relevant stakeholders/partners in designing crisis response and recovery interventions to promote peace and stabilization interventions targeting small businesses.
• Support efforts to strengthen capacity of the Government, including for the RRR offices in northern Ethiopia to boosting livelihoods through utilizing businesses to spur the rehabilitation work.
• Support acceleration and re-establishment of trade links between conflict-impacted areas, especially but not only between Tigray and the rest of Ethiopia.
• Ensure adherence of UNDP-supported work to safeguards: HACT, ESS, human rights, ‘leaving no one behind’, and ‘doing no harm’, updates risks and risk mitigation, to inform future plans and progress on implementation.
• Forge close and practical working relationships with the humanitarian cluster system to ensure that HDP nexus issues are addressed on the ground,
• Ensures that approaches to gender equality are integrated into all aspects of planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

Demonstrate technical leadership in programme planning, implementation and evaluation in the area of MSME ecosystem reform and development under the peace support initiative of the region.

• Design and formulate programmes and projects for MSME ecosystem reform and development in
• restarting business activity at-scale, targeting start-up and survival of MSMEs, with a particular focus on women-owned or managed enterprises.
• Facilitate business support and restoration of market infrastructure, at a minimum in towns and larger settlements.
• Manage, support and coordinate timely, transparent and effective implementation of project interventions under window 3: Economic Revival (enterprises and agriculture, demining) collaborating closely with implementing partners and responsible parties at federal and regional levels.
• Conduct field level monitoring of progress in activity implementation, challenges and issues that impact the pace and quality of interventions under window 3.
• Identify specific risks that may threaten achievement of intended results. Identify and monitor risk management actions using a risk log. This includes monitoring measures and plans required as stipulated in the peace support programme.
• Measure performance of the interventions through conducting monitoring and evaluation and capturing the lessons learnt for next level program design.
• Ensure alignment of the MEME development work of the PSP with that of the regular program in the country office such as with Innovative Finance Lab and ensure linkage and synergy is created.
• Minimum Requirements:

  Education:

  • Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in economics, other social sciences, development studies, Business administration or management, project management or related fields of study is required.
  • A first-level university degree in similar fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

  Experience:

  • At least five years (with Bachelor’s) and (seven years with a Master’s) of progressively responsible in the implementation and management of multi-donor and multi-sector post-conflict recovery and development programmes/projects at national or international levels is required.

  Language:

  • Fluency in spoken and written English and local language of the duty station is a requirement