Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity 

The position exists to design and coordinate pilot intervention on economic strengthening, VSLA, livelihoods and microfinance activities to serve the populations surrounding the WWA intervention Industrial Parks viz., Adama, Bahirdar, Hawassa, and Kombolcha. The incumbent provides technical support to all stakeholders, specially surrounding communities and newly arrived workers to the Industrial Park.  to ensure the implementation of the USAID WWA economic strengthening activities. She/he will also work very closely with the CoP, the Technical coordinators in each Operational Areas and local WWA technical staff and will function as an integral part of the team managing economic strengthening activities. The incumbent will actively participate in program planning, implementation support and follow up of the progress of economic strengthening activities under the project.

The Individual

Education: – Bachelor’s Degree or higher in international development or a related field preferred;

Experiance: – At minimum of 5 years of work experience in economic strengthening/empowerment programming;

Expertise in and sensitivity to the socio-cultural barriers facing intended beneficiaries for this program.

Previous experience working on economic strengthening activities.