Economic Strengthening Specialist

The Opportunity 

The position exists to design and coordinate pilot intervention on economic strengthening, VSLA, livelihoods and microfinance activities to serve the populations surrounding the WWA intervention Industrial Parks viz., Adama, Bahirdar, Hawassa, and Kombolcha. The incumbent provides technical support to all stakeholders, specially surrounding communities and newly arrived workers to the Industrial Park.  to ensure the implementation of the USAID WWA economic strengthening activities. She/he will also work very closely with the CoP, the Technical coordinators in each Operational Areas and local WWA technical staff and will function as an integral part of the team managing economic strengthening activities. The incumbent will actively participate in program planning, implementation support and follow up of the progress of economic strengthening activities under the project.

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Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed in accordance with the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understands their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day to day work.
• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in international development or a related field preferred;

• At minimum of 5 years of work experience in economic strengthening/empowerment programming;

• Good experience and knowledge on enterprise development (specially SMEs)

• Previous work experience with USAID, preferred

• Ability to initiate and organize work while establishing priorities in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment to meet deadlines with attention to detail;

How To Apply

The closing date for the application is July 24, 2024. Qualified candidates should submit their application with the links provided below.

• Internal Applicants: Link
• External Applicants: Link

This position is only open to Ethiopian Nationals, who must be eligible to live and work in Ethiopia.

Please note that: 

• Only Shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• We are not accepting CVs that are not sent through the indicated links.
• Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Female candidates are highly encouraged to Apply

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