Responsibilities:

• Support project staff to effectively undertake their roles and responsibilities.
• Complete all CARE performance management activities including performance planning, monitoring, and semi- annual and annual performance appraisals for direct reports.
• Collaborate with HRM and Human Resources (HR) to take appropriate personnel actions to address problems.
• Ensure that the project employs appropriate programmatic approaches based on project EPMTs, M&E frameworks and CARE’s programing principles and relevant guidelines
• Identify technical assistance requirements and work with the Humanitarian program managers and officers/supervisors to ensure the project receives the specific technical support it requires
• Utilize appropriate management and technical tools in order to achieve intended impact of Agriculture + cash project
• Ensure the implementation of planned project activities per the proposal and in accordance with donor and CARE rules and regulations through monthly reviews of both financial and activity reports against work plans.
• Develop a detailed implementation plan (DIP) in accordance with the project proposal
• Conduct monthly field trips, and undertake periodic reviews to follow up on the status of project implementation against DIP
• Support project staff in the timely identification of implementation challenges and their resolutions with appropriate strategies
• Collaborate with the Field Office Operations departments (procurement, human resources, finance, and administration) to facilitate efficient and quality support to the project as well as the timely resolution of challenges and identify when additional or specific support is required from Head Office.
• Assist HRM to facilitate appropriate budget management and utilization in compliance with donor and CARE rules and regulations.
• Support staff in the management and utilization of budgets per the proposal and in accordance with donor and CARE rules and regulations
• Assist HRM in monthly monitoring of burn rates and identification of appropriate corrective action to address low/high burn rates.
• Support staff in identifying, documenting, replicating, and disseminating good practices and/or lessons learnt.
• Promote peer review processes with other CARE Ethiopia development projects
• Collaborate with the LDM Manager and HPMs to assess current project challenges and ensure that lessons learned are documented and fed into forward design and planning processes.
• Ensure the preparation of project reports and documents per donor and/or CARE reporting schedules and formats.
• Facilitate the timely and quality submission of field reports to Head Office.

• Minimum Requirement:

  Qualification:

  • BA Degree in Disaster Management or International Development or related field of study.

  Experience:

  • 4 years of relevant experience with the first degree or 3 years of relevant experience plus post graduate degree in emergency programming, disaster management, rural livehood programs, food security interventions, agriculture and/ or cash and program management.

  Language:

  • Proficiency in verbal and written English, proposal development, strategic and operational planning, budget planning and management, monitoring and evaluation, report writing.