Field Officer (3 Positions) -Oromia, Ethiopia

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People in Need is a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded on the ideals of humanism, freedom, equality and solidarity. We consider human dignity and freedom to be fundamental values. We believe that people anywhere in the world should have the right to make decisions about their lives and to share the rights expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The People in Need organization was established in 1992 by a group of Czech war correspondents who were no longer satisfied with merely relaying information about ongoing conflicts and began sending out aid. It gradually became established as a professional humanitarian organization striving to provide aid in troubled regions and support adherence to human rights around the world.

Throughout our over 26 years of its existence, People in Need has become one of the biggest non-profit organizations in Central Europe. In addition to humanitarian aid and human rights, it now also targets education and helps people living in social exclusion.

 We are part of Alliance 2015, a strategic network of seven European non-governmental organizations engaged in humanitarian aid and development projects. This collaboration increases effectiveness, both in working in the target countries and in campaigns aimed at influencing the attitudes of politicians and the general public in Europe. In our over 16 years operation in Ethiopia, has focused on projects in five main areas of interest: Education and Social protection, Environment, Livelihood and Agriculture, Water, sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Emergency programs.

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PIN currently invites qualified applicants for the position of: Field Officer for the “ECHO“ project for Emergency Program

Length of Contract: Definite (6 month with 60 working days probation period)

Requred:3 (Three)

Job Description

Under the general guidance and supervision of the Field coordinator, the field officer will plan, coordinate and follow up grass root level for emergency responses for the project. 

The Field Officer specific tasks are

• Actively participated in beneficiary’s selection criteria setting up process
• Ensure proper selection project beneficiaries done according agreed selection criteria
• Facilitate beneficiary’s verification process with respective kebele disaster reduction committee
• Actively involves in community mobilization for rehabilitation of damaged facilities in key public institution such as schools, health centers and others
• Prepare beneficiaries master files and ensure proper distribution of WASH and shelter NFIs by strictly following up do not do harm principle
• Properly carry out post distribution monitoring after distribution were done and compile lesson learnt regulars
• Collect GPS location and necessary data for water schemes found in project operation area
• Communicates with WASHCO regularly and provide them with the required technical assistance for proper management of water scheme in the project operation areas.
• Coordinate with other partners at kebele level and attend various coordination mechanism meeting at kebele level and share meeting updates and findings with the project coordinator

Project related duties and responsibilities 

• collaborate with Field coordinator in planning, needs assessment/identification, proposal preparation, budgeting, monitoring, reporting
•  assure that all visibility material and events are in accordance with the donor and PIN Guidelines
• meeting all project related deadlines
• Provide Field coordinator with weekly plans and reports of activities achieved. The reports shall be submitted every Thursday morning and will contain a shortlist of activities achieved in the past week and activities planned for the next one
• assist the Field coordinator when a need arises

Team Requirement                                                                                        

• Maintaining good personal relations in the team
• Actively collaborate with PIN’s other ongoing p project team members in the project operation areas
•  The Employer stipulates the right to assign the Employee any other kind of work derived from his specialization. In case of urgent work and such like the Employee may be asked to work overtime as well as during public and other holidays.
• In case that larger number of different tasks is to be fulfilled by the Employee at the same time, the Employee shall accomplish the urgent and more important duties first.

­Accountability and Safeguarding including Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH)

• Carry out the duties in accordance with the PIN Code of Conduct and Key policies.
• Participate in training and awareness raising (CoC and KP, Safeguarding…).
• Ensure that his/her team members attend training and awareness sessions and carry out the duties in accordance with PIN Code of Conduct and Key policies.
• Ensure that due diligence and/or capacity assessments of partners include an assessment of partners’ implementation of key safeguarding and risk policies/ procedure including the prevention of SEAH.
• Create and maintain a fulfilling and protective environment.

Benefit

• Standard work schedule of 40 hours per week from Monday to Friday
• Per diems for working and Accommodation outside of the duty office depending on the location
• Transport Allowance
•  Emergency allowance for the emergency program staffs
• Bank loan facilities
• 20 days of paid annual and after 5 years of work an extra paid day for every year
• Extra days of paid leaves for selected holidays
•  Medical insurance, including spouse and children
• Accident insurance for all injuries during work time based on the law
• Pension contribution of 11 % from PIN
• Paternity leave of extra 2 paid days above the mandatory 3 days
• Maternity leave according to the law and extra financial motherhood support
• Monthly mobile phone hybrid tariff
• PIN supports fast career growth and internal mobility
• International environment with opportunities to learn from other PIN’s country programs
• Extensive Capacity Building program, both internal and external trainings, including the Induction training
• Internal online learning opportunities, such as access to PIN’s e-learning platform and webinars
• Annual staff retreat
• Friendly and fair work environment with small collective where everyone knows each other

• Minimum Bachelor Degree in Project Management, Economics ,Social Science, social studies , Developmental studies , Humanitarian studies , and other relevant field of studies
•  Minimum 2 years’ experience in an emergency sector
• Experience of working in Emergency projects specifically relevant technical expertise and practical experience of applying project management, considerable experience of design and implementation of relief in relevant field in Ethiopia, Experience with USAID/BHA, ECHO, EHF funded project and demonstrated experience in EN/NFI and WASH sectors.
• Good communication and negotiation skills with government and other agencies
• Flexible, reliable, culturally sensitive
• ability to work in teams/ isolated situation and stressful environments and under pressure meeting deadlines
• Planning and report writing skills
• Good command of MS Package (Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook)
• Knowledge of spoken & written Amharic, English
• 3 references (will be crosschecked/contacted)