Deadline: Jan 07,2024
Job Description
Field Officer – Afar
Dan Church Aid (DCA) is a Denmark-based international NGO registered under certificate # 1083 by the Authority for Civil Society Organizations and working to improve the wellbeing of particularly the rural and pre-urban people in Ethiopia. DCA’s Programme mainly focus on save live, building resilience and fighting inequality targeting highly disaster-prone areas in Oromia, Amhara, Afar, and Gambella regions.
DCA Ethiopia Office is looking for a competent Field Officer.
Vacancy Number: DCA-Eth/VA-054/2023
Post Title: Field Officer
Required number: One
Type of Contract: Two Years with possibility of extension
Duty Station: Berhale town, Afar zone
Reporting to: Food security and livelihood project coordinator based in
Semera
Expected Start Date: As soon as possible
Application Deadline: January 07,2024
Salary Range: As per DCA salary Scale
Over all responsibilities of the Job
The overall responsibility of field officer is to mobilize, organize and capacitate beneficiaries’ communities and committees, beneficiary registration and verification, undertake daily technical supervision and ensure quality of the project activities in Afar region, zone two , Berhale district. Conduct rapid need assessment of the humanitarian situation in the districts regularly and share to the field office and country office. Provide regular technical support to community facilitators, communities and local government to efficiently implement the project deliverables. He/she is also responsible to work with pertinent government office and maintain partnership.
Main Task:
Project implementation and reporting
- Prepare and regularly review the project Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP).
- Ensure DCA Afar , zone two Berhale district Addressing impacts of climate change and displacement and promotion of preparedness and early action at the Horn of Africa activities are implemented in accordance with the operational plan and as per the required standard.
- Participate in the development of clear beneficiary targeting criteria and ensure they are clearly communicated to target beneficiaries, receive feedback and act accordingly in consultation with Afar area office team.
- Actively engage in need assessment in the area on regular bases and share with field office and the program team at country office as deemed as necessary.
- Provide regular technical support to community facilitators and local government in the target locations.
- Produce separate quality reports on project launching workshop, different training, joint monitoring and review meeting with line government counterparts, baseline survey, post distribution monitoring, and end line survey in collaboration with MEAL officer /coordinator and the rest of project team member.
- Generate standard project progress/ Impact level as per the donor requirement and share with the field office on weekly, monthly, quarterly, interim, and annually as per the required quality and timeline.
- Conduct regular monitoring visit to project sites/kebeles and provide technical backstopping to beneficiaries.
- Organize and facilitate various workshops and capacity building training for beneficiaries, community groups and relevant government offices on emergency response activities.
- Collect lessons learned, best practices, case studies and human-interest stories for reporting and promotional purpose and support knowledge management related to humanitarian response/resilience building interventions.
- Ensure the relevant stakeholders including line government offices, and target communities are actively participating in the planning and implementation of project activities.
- Ensure that monthly planned activities are implemented accordance with project plan with the right target beneficiaries and share the report with DCA Bale field office and CO team.
- Regular compliance registration with the DCA compliance registration matrix and report for field office
- Prepare and share weekly working plan with community development facilitators.
- Directly manage community development facilitators.
Representation and coordination
- Attend and present development and humanitarian response technical meetings at District level on the regular meeting.
- Duly represent DCA in humanitarian/resilience building meeting with beneficiaries and beneficiary representatives and with stakeholders at Woreda and kebele level.
- Ensure that good working relations are maintained with beneficiaries committee, local government, and all partners, in the intervention area.
- Create and foster the spirit and culture of teamwork with in DCA team and other partners at all levels of working environment.
Required qualification:
- Minimum of first degree in Agriculture, development studies or other related field.
- More than four years of supervisory experience in the field
- Good knowledge of the agropastoral livelihood, climate adaptions operations in Ethiopia; more specifically in Oromia low land areas.
- Experience of working with INGOs/Humanitarian agencies
- Excellent communication and organization skills, judgment and tact, and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Good report writing skills and computer skills in MS outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of the operational context and local language is advantageous.
How to apply
Interested and qualified applicants should apply for the post via the below link:
https://dca-1.career.emply.com/ad/field-officer-ethiopia-afar/hlgwep
DCA is an equal opportunity employer and all interested candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, race, gender, marital status and religious, political or ethnic affiliation. Please do not mention your religious or ethnic affiliation in your application.
Female candidates with required educational background and experience are highly encouraged to apply.
Please Submit only an application letter and CV.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.