Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia
Internal/External Vacancy Announcement
Organizational Overview
Driven by the vision that everyone needs a decent place to live, Habitat for Humanity began in 1976 as a grassroots effort on a community farm in southern Georgia. The organization has since grown to become a leading global nonprofit working in nearly 1,400 communities throughout the U.S. and in nearly 70 countries. Families and individuals in need of a hand up partner with Habitat for Humanity to build or improve a place they can call home. Through financial support, volunteering or adding a voice to support affordable housing, everyone can help families achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves.
Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia (HFHE) started operations in 1993 as a branch of Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI). HFHE has provided simple, affordable shelter for families in Ethiopia while also working to improve Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene and empower Vulnerable Groups in the country.
JOB SUMMARY
The Project Assistant plays a crucial role in supporting the S4HL project in administrative planning, documentation, reporting and data collection, execution, and monitoring of project activities. Responsible for assisting in project management, the Project Assistant ensures that assigned tasks are carried out efficiently and in alignment with project goals.
Under the guidance of the S4HL Project Manager, the role involves collaborating with various teams, stakeholders, and partners to facilitate the smooth implementation of the S4HL project. The Project Assistant assists in the development of project plans, budgets, and reports, while actively participating in tracking progress and making recommendations for adjustments as needed. Additionally, the Project Assistant may be involved in supporting communication efforts, building relationships with stakeholders, and contributing to business development initiatives. The Project Assistant contributes to the realization of women's land rights campaign activities in Ethiopia, as well as the global S4HL campaign. To this end, she/he will assist in organizing discussion platforms with S4HL coalition members and implementing sub-grantees of the project and relevant stakeholders. S/he also actively contributes to the documentation and reporting of project achievements and knowledge sharing. S/he ensures appropriate information sharing and coordination among HFHEs operations, program, finance, technical, and M&E teams.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Support in Project Planning, Administration, Finance and Operations
- Support the development of project work plans, trackers, and activity matrixes.
- Support the development of project activity budgets in collaboration with technical, finance, and M&E teams.
- Support the process of developing scopes of work, budgets, and other information required to develop the project and other technical contracts, including ToRs, consultant agreements, MOUs, technical service contracts, etc.
- Work with S4HL coalition members on a common agenda of women's land rights issues to create a movement among grassroots women and advocate for Women Land Rights.
- Support the facilitation of capacity-building training organized by S4HL project for coalition members.
- Arranging and assisting of scheduling workshop, assessments, training sessions and other events; contribute to the design and preparation of training materials; attendance list, etc.
- Support scheduling project meetings with partners as well as the development and maintenance of project plans, timelines, and budgets.
- Facilitating effective communication between Country Coalition members and project stakeholders, and providing administrative support as needed.
- Facilitate and follow up the settlement of outstanding project finances, follow up the status of procurement of goods and services.
- Support in compilation of periodic (monthly, quarterly, and annual) reports.
- Support in facilitating regular meetings among Coalition Steering Committee members.
- Performs any other job-related tasks assigned by S4HL Project Manager. This could include, among others, the preparation of ad-hoc reports to be submitted to donors or other stakeholders.
- Participate in interdepartmental Program, Finance and Operation team meetings to internalize and facilitate efficient operations and project management, Documentation &Knowledge Management
Documentation, Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation
- Document stories of change and best practices of the project.
- Provide support in the development of project reports, including collecting required report inputs, drafting or editing reports, and developing additional documentation required such as stories of change, etc.
- Work closely with the S4HL project team to ensure that all project documents, reports, technical resources, training packages, etc are branded and systematically filed and made easily accessible to the relevant staff. Also, assist in posting relevant documents on the HFHE websites.
- Assist in tracking of project activity progress and provide regular update to Project Manager.
- Collaborate with HFHE MEAL team to track S4HL project progress, spending against budgets and make recommendations for adjustments as needed.
Communication and Business Development
- Support in the development and maintenance of excellent relationships with S4HL Coalition Members and other partner organizations and stakeholders.
- Contribute to the preparation of submissions for new or additional funding for the relevant program area. Support the preparation of proposals as needed (gathering intelligence, collecting support documents, etc...)
- Assist the project in advocacy and communication works in developing and disseminating S4HL project-related communication and advocacy materials.
- Contribute to efforts to share best practice, ideas and experience regarding successful partner collaborations.
Duration of the contract: 1-year contract, renewable based on budget availability & Performance.
Required number: - 1
Female candidates are highly encouraged.