DRM Regional Manager – SNNPR Region – USAID DRM Activity

RTI is seeking a DRM Regional Manager, SNNPR for the USAID Ethiopia DRM Activity. The DRM Regional Manager, SNNPR will be responsible for leading the implementation and coordination of all technical activities at the SNNPR regional level while providing oversight to day-to-day project operations. RTI has established a regional field office in SNNPR that will be overseen by a DRM Regional Manager who will maintain local relationships and make locally focused programmatic decisions.

This position will be based in the SNNPR region of Ethiopia, anticipated to be in Arbaminch, and will report to the Deputy Chief of Party–Technical.

Responsibilities

• Overall coordination and manage DRM activities in the SNNPR region.
• Support and coordinate with DRM technical teams in nutrition, food and agriculture systems, and market systems to ensure technical quality of core activities to ensure scale and impact across sectors.
• Develop and maintain relationships with private sector actors, national non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations, within the region, engaging them as grantees, learning partners, and stakeholders.
• Engage with other donors and/or donor-funded activities by including them as active participants in learning agendas and events, to ensure that learnings are shared, and successes are amplified and replicated.
• Coordinate and work closely with regional government and district (woreda) level government technical implementation of DRM activities.
• Oversee and coordinate local partners, sub-contracts, and grantee’s implementation and reporting.
• Oversee all activities including grant, procurement, logistics, HR, and IT functions for the regional office.
• Responsible for data collection and submission to the main office.  Ensures that regional support needs are identified to the head office.
• Supervise and support technical and operational staff in the field, including coordination in the preparation process of work plan development and activities implementation, monitoring of activities and progress made using partners’ data platform, and identification of needs for technical.
• Continually monitor field travel and day-to-day risk assessments in the region.