Intern - Program Officer

I Job Summary

The female-only internship program is a one-year program with the primary objectives of empowering young female graduates and impacting the organization's gender parity that provides emerging female talents an opportunity to apply knowledge and enhance skills through mentoring and coaching, expanding their professional network, working on value-added projects, gaining hands-on experience, and getting acquainted with the oriental difference.

The program officer intern is required to assist in the implementation of uplift her project activities. Specifically, she is expected to support the program manager and the field technical teams to effectively implement the project and HER unit program implementation. UPLIFT HER is a seven-year project that will be implemented in the West and East Hararghe zones of Oromia and Afar regions of Ethiopia. The Project aims to improve the provision of comprehensive and inclusive gender and adolescent responsive primary SRHN services.

II. Responsibilities

• Support the project staff in reviews meeting, reporting, manual preparation trainings and other project-initiated workshops 
• Prepare ToRs for project imitated trainings, meetings and provide event report after these events. 
• Work on documentation of projects lessons learned, best practices and filing 
• Liese the unit with finance, procurement, HR and admin on transaction that the unit will be engaged. 
• Support the field office project team in liaising to procurement, HR, finance, and program/admin support
• Assist in the learning brief, technical brief, and project best practices preparation.
• Assist in the collection of case stories and MSC, and write up
• Engage in field visit, preparation visit report and keep clear records of travel documents.
• Assist in documenting all program-related files on the organization’s shared file
• Assist the project to track financial performance and budget expenditures variance in consultation with the sr. grant specialist and program manager
• Provide technical and logistic assistance to unit staff and other counterparts as needed to lead the implementation of HER programs at the community level. 
• Participate in capacity building trainings, for the project staffs and government partners.
• Facilitate and ensure availability inputs required for the implementation project led workshop, meetings and trainings. 
• Prepares minutes of regular project management team meetings and ensures regular follow-up on recommendations with project and other relevant staff.
• Manages printing of necessary projects resources for the project and implementation team (field office and head office teams) 
• Follow the implementation of adolescent SRH and life skill manual development and implementation guide.
• Technically support in scaling up of the lesson and learning on adolescent SRH, nutrition and economy and life skill intervention 
• Work with project staff to facilitate and ensure availability tools for project result and learning capturing. 
• Produce infographics on project performance quarterly

III Gender 

• Understanding and demonstrated commitment to the importance of gender, youth and social inclusion issues.
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and PSEAH (safeguarding), as evidenced in previous positions / programming.

Monthly Stipend - 216$

IV Qualifications 

• BA sociology/social works, public health, nutrition/food security/livelihoods, gender, and related field_

• Female Fresh graduates of 2023- 2024 

• Zero years of work experience 

Desired Technical Skills

• Good written and verbal Amharic, English language skills
• Good computer proficiency (i.e., Ms. Word, Excel,)
• Firm belief in gender equality and sensitivity to vulnerable groups
• Team player, flexible, and able to work in the multi-cultural working setting
• Quick learning ability, communication, and strong interpersonal skills. 

How To Apply

If you are interested to be part of our dynamic team, exciting work environment and contribute to CARE Ethiopia’s mission and vision, please send your CV (not more than 3 pages) and cover letter (not more than one page) through Ethiojob.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Passionate and dedicated candidates who meet the requirement are strongly encouraged to apply, especially women!

CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

CARE Ethiopia is committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework. CARE Ethiopia has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives, or partners.

CARE Ethiopia reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.

By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that s/he has no objection to CARE Ethiopia requesting the information specified above. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks