Project Officer | Gondar

Opportunity Qualified Women are highly encouraged to apply

                                                     Project Officer

 ActionAid Ethiopia (AAE) is a Gender justice and poverty eradication organization. In Ethiopia, ActionAid works to challenge gender inequalities and the structural causes of poverty through empowering communities to create critical mass of communities especially Women and Girls living in poverty and exclusion.

ActionAid Ethiopia believes that Gender justice and poverty eradication are achieved through purposeful individual and collective action to bring socio-economic changes from household level to local, national and international levels. Empowerment of people living in poverty and women leadership with the support of their allies is crucial to drive change that will ensure equality and poverty eradication.

ActionAid Ethiopia is currently looking for a vibrant, energetic, ambitious, knowledgeable, experienced, highly capable and motivated professionals and leaders to join its program team in capacity of MEAL Office. If you are looking for an exciting opportunity to work in a new context and be part of a team working to bring about social justice, then look no further.

Position: Project Officer

Type of Contract: Contract

Required Number: One

Duty Base: Guna/Farta Woredas of South Gondar Zone

The successful candidate will be responsible to Engage in the development and effective operation of the ALM FGM program under implementation and ensure programme quality standards by providing programme/project implementation and coordination support, coordinate and manage plans of work, monitors deliverables, and flags areas of concern in a timely manner.

Key Activities:

·  Coordinate Woreda level program development/design

·  Write concept notes and proposals on FGM in coordination with the Program and Fund-Raising Department at Head office.

· Coordinates the planning, budgeting, and reporting of the ALM FGM program activities in the LRP.

· In consultation with the project and Women’s right managers as well as Head of Programs, provide expert advice to programme work in ensuring program activities implementation using the girls’ centered framework and support capacity development, knowledge development, sharing and learning.

·  Provide technical and professional support to ALM FGM program activities in     Guna and Farta Woredas and follow up implementation in the different community levels to coordinate and ensure programme quality standards.

· Coordinate the program quality using the quality standards.

· Engage in other donor fund projects at LRP level.

·  Periodically monitor the ALM FGM programme activities in collaboration with the project manager and MEL officer and provide the necessary support.

· Actively participate in local level participatory poverty analysis, programme design/planning processes as per AAEs’ programme strategic direction in general and the LRP plan in particular

· Support the project manager in identifying and organizing risks and risk matrix, mitigation strategies and updating,

·  Facilitate participatory programme implementation with special focus on targeted girls.

· Participate in participatory monitoring & evaluation, and programme review, reflection, and learning processes in the LRPs.

·  Support the project manager in funding plan, and proposal development for fund raising.

· Prepare and produce monthly, quarterly, and annual reports of the ALM FGM activities in collaboration with the project manager.

·  Take initiatives to document and share learning for adaptations and best practices.

·  Support evidence- based policy and advocacy on FGM issues at Woreda and sub national level and ensure linkage for national level engagement.

• Bachelor and/or master’s degree in law, sociology, or other related social science field, with a minimum of six years with BSc or 4 years for MA with proven experience in the area of social change/WR programs.