Duties and Responsibilities:

• Actively take part in all humanitarian situations need assessment that might occur due to natural or manmade crises in refuges, IDPs, hosting community setups and conducting other studies as input for concept note and proposal development.
• Regularly assess humanitarian situations and trends as well as new and innovative working strategies.
• Provide technical support in baseline and end-line surveys focusing on humanitarian project indicators or measurements.
• Support and organize and deliver need-based training for DCA and partners staff on voucher cash programmes, and humanitarian intervention.
• Provide technical support to put in place a realistic M&E system for each humanitarian project across DCA operation areas.
• Participate technical discussions and meetings at national-level with relevant humanitarian technical working groups (like cash working groups) and consortium partners.
• Provide technical backstopping and training for the coordinators and field officers and market facilitators and closely follow up on the implementation of the humanitarian projects in DCA’s operational areas.
• Conduct regular project technical visits and provide technical support for frontline staff for the effective implementation of projects in accordance with DIP.
• Support and ensure all humanitarian projects are implemented in accordance with donor requirements and as per the quality standard and agreed upon in the detailed implementation plan.
• Minimum Requirements:
  • MSC/First degree in a relevant discipline (Development Studies, Disaster Risk Management, Food Security, Livelihood and Rural Development, Agriculture Science and related Field) from a recognized university. MSc is preferable.
  • 6/8 years practical experience in MSC/BSC respectively at the field and country office level in designing humanitarian projects proposal and reporting writing, capacity building and implementation of key donors BPRM, ECHO, Danida, BHA/OHA, OCHA/EHF, etc
  • Understanding of the Humanitarian system and of emergencies and refugee crises in Ethiopia.
  • Knowledge of humanitarian standards and cross-cutting issue in humanitarian principles
  • Adequate working knowledge of requirements and guidelines of donors, including EU/ECHO/USAID/BHA/BPRM
  • Strong skills in monitoring program performance (both activities and finances) and able to advise, support and adjust to reach set goals, and strategic objectives.
  • Good knowledge of project cycle management.
  • Excellent communication, networking and persuasion skills, very good mentoring, and capacity-building experience.
  • NGO experience is highly desirable.