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Mercy Corps Off-Farm Enterprise Technical Specialist Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.
Mercy Corps Ethiopia looking for “Off-Farm Enterprise Technical Specialist”.
Applicants with a BA Degree may apply on or before 10th March, 2024.
Mercy Corps is a global non-governmental, humanitarian aid organization operating in transitional contexts that have undergone, or have been undergoing, various forms of economic, environmental, social and political instabilities. The organization claims to have assisted more than 220 million people survive humanitarian conflicts, seek improvements in livelihoods, and deliver durable development to their communities.
The Mercy Corps has published a job vacancy announcement on 02nd March, 2024 for qualified Ethiopia’s to fill in the vacant post of Off-Farm Enterprise Technical Specialist to be based in Mekele, Ethiopia.
Mercy Corps Job Vacancy 2024
Essential Responsibilities:
- Enhance strategic partnership with stakeholders and partners to advocate, promote and advance organizational issues, priorities, interests and competencies for a successful programme and program delivery.
- Collaborate with clients, partners, and stakeholders to link and harmonize approaches and to promote common interests and achievement of results.
- Support the development of work plan, activities, targets, budget, standards for measuring progress and results and determine the processes, tools, and methodologies to be used to ensure effective and efficient program implementation and operations.
- Conduct high quality market system assessments in financial services, providing the foundation for program design.
- Design interventions Concept notes for MSD programs, using tools such as Results Chains and ‘Who Does, Who Pays?’ matrices.
- Supports the expansion of the high potential markets for off-farm activities in target areas that could enhance the livelihood of PSNP households.
- Facilitate capacity building interventions for community based economic organizations in organizational management and governance, business skills, IGA, climate adaptation, graduation and others as required;
- Identify and support establish/strengthen new/existing Business Development Services providers.
- Collaborate with TVETs and other potential training centers to introduce market driven, appropriate and contextualized training programs.
- Capacity building of the key institutions in labor market assessment, work preparation and placement
- Ensure gender integration and mainstreaming are incorporated into off-farm interventions.
- Monitor progress and identify risks for timely action and early resolution.
- Responsible for the full compliance with Mercy Corps rules and regulations and policies on financial activities, financial recording/reporting system and follow-up on audit recommendations.
- Actively support knowledge building, sharing, and applying in the program.
- Submission of high-quality program reports to the Livelihoods Team Lead and other relevant Mercy Corps Ethiopia team members.
- Ability to plan own work, manage conflicting priorities and work under pressure of tight and conflicting deadlines.
- Work closely with team members and partners, to support capacity-building and gender integration into the programs.
- Very good interpersonal skills and ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships and working relations.
- Very strong leadership capacities to guide a multicultural team in difficult circumstances.
- Support the identification of program issues, challenges and risks, appropriate recommendations and implements them.
Position in Organization:
- Position Title: Off-Farm Enterprise Technical Specialist
- Job category: Programming
- Requisition number: OFFFA004723
- Posted: 01 March 2024
- Full-time
- Location: Mekele, Ethiopia
- Deadline: 10th March, 2024
Minimum Requirement:
Education:
- BA degree in Economics, Business Administration, Marketing Agricultural Economics, or related Social Science fields.
Experience:
- At least 4 years work experience in agricultural value chain development, agricultural marketing, local economic development, business development and entrepreneurship interventions/programs.
- Experience on increasing off-farm productivity including collaborating with private sector national and international actors to achieve sustainable and scalable solutions for hard-to-reach communities (preferably experience in working with the PSNP program).
Language:
- Fluency in the local language is required.
How to Apply Mercy Corps Off-Farm Enterprise Technical Specialist Jobs 2024
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/MER1024MERCY/JobBoard/7de55979-49d4-4f59-b61b-9c7d0e38d500/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=0ee8839e-c8ab-42b8-85ec-614f58c400b8
The Closing Date: 10th March, 2024.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
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