VBT Technical coordinator

FH Culture 

All we do, and how we do it, seeks to promote God’s beauty, goodness, and truth in a broken world. As such, we are defined by our ability to make people’s lives measurably better; our ability to deliver impact is the measure of our collective success. For we know that we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God has already prepared in advance for us to do. At Food for the Hungry, we operate under a set of values called Heartbeat Values. FH Ethiopia has an internal/external vacancy for the following position:

Position:                               VBT Technical coordinator 

Duty Station:                        Addis Ababa

Duration of Contract:        One-year contract, renewable (with 60 working days of Probation)

Closing date:                      January 11, 2025

Job Summary

As a Vulnerability Based Targeting (VBT) Technical Coordinator, you will be responsible for coordinating and providing technical support for the timely and effective implementation of VBT, ensuring adherence to the relevant donor guidelines and tools. This includes conducting training, coaching, and feedback, as well as facilitating VBT data cleaning and analysis workshops. The position holder will capture lessons learned, document best practices, and identify challenges and recommendations. Additionally, the role supports field staff in estimating needs from the VBT exercise and prepares comprehensive reports for the donors, and the organization, in accordance with established standards.

Principal Responsibilities

Key Result #1 – Implementation and Coordination

• Act as the technical coordinator for JEOP’s vulnerability-based targeting and its intersections with other sectors including but not restricted to food commodities and cash, early warning, monitoring evaluation accountability and learning (MEAL), gender, safeguarding, disability inclusion and protection mainstreaming.
• Provide technical coordination and support for linking with country programs on JEOP’s engagement in the development and rollout of VBT strategies for multi-sectoral programming. Prepare the JEOP VBT action plan and provide recommendations to Senior Management on VBT-related issues concerning JEOP
• Coordinate and provide technical support for the implementation of the JEOP VBT program’s planned activities in collaboration with regional and woreda-level EW and VBT staff, as well as other JEOP sectors in the Amhara and Tigray Regions.
• Support woredas to implement VBT in a timely, effective, and participatory manner, using the VBT guideline and tools, and provide training, coaching, and feedback as needed.
• Represent the organization in regional and national level geographic and household targeting meetings, and advocate for the needs and interests of the food insecure and vulnerable populations.
• Contribute to the national targeting harmonization processes, by sharing JEOP experience and expertise on VBT, and by collaborating with other actors to develop common standards and guidelines.
• Support and contribute to the revision of the VBT guideline whenever there is a need or a change in the context or the project design,
• Ensure that VBT contributes to the geographic prioritization and determination of needy people, by using relevant data sources and indicators, applying transparent and inclusive criteria, and involving the communities in the decision-making process.
• Provide training on VBT for regional Government counterparts and other stakeholder when needs there be.

Key Result #2 –Monitoring, Reporting and partnership/networking

• Capture and document lessons learned, best practices, challenges, and recommendations from the VBT process, and disseminate them to relevant stakeholders and audiences.
• Work closely with JEOP’s regional-level staff, such as EW coordinators, MEAL officers, program managers, field coordinators, and technical specialists, to coordinate and monitor the VBT activities and outcomes.
• Ensure VBT documentation for assigned activities is complete with all required documents and is filed per agency and donor requirements. Assist with preparation of trends analysis reports and documentation of case studies and promising practices.
• Ensure practical application of a Do No Harm lens, incorporating adaptive accountability to affected population
• Facilitate the formulation of relevant strategies and interventions, promote initiatives, and support the adaptation, and implementation for improving the targeting system.
• Champion learning – analyze and evaluate activity performance data, proactively identify issues and concerns, using participatory processes which value diverse ideas to overcome implementation obstacles.
• Ensure that any new and existing programming approaches consider protection mainstreaming, gender and safeguarding assessments and principles, and that women, men, boys, and girls are consulted in design.
• Support woreda VBT leads to link VBT with the master beneficiary list registration and payroll, and ensure that the beneficiary data is updated, verified, and validated regularly.
• Ensure the implementation of the digitized JEOP registration process, using appropriate technologies and platforms, and that the data quality and security are maintained.
• Support and guide woredas to conduct VBT whenever it is deemed necessary, such as when a disaster occurs or when new geographic locations are added to the project.