Anticipated Start Date:
Work Location: Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
Other Possible Locations:
Expected Travel:
Language Requirement:
Employee Duration: Active Full-Time
Type of Post: Accompanied - Family
Funding: Approved
Description
CARE Ethiopia is seeking a Program Quality Advisor (PQA) to
build the country office local staff capacity for program design and quality
support functions. S/he also ensures that CARE’s development and humanitarian
programs and policy engagement in Ethiopia is fully in line with organizational
policies and priorities, consistently meeting/surpassing international
humanitarian standards, and increasingly and effectively integrated with its
efforts in recovery and development. The PQA is expected to help CARE become a
recognized and reliable leader in the integration and promotion of
gender-specific analysis, design and implementation, ensuring that the specific
vulnerabilities of women and girls are understood and addressed. The PQA will
provide focused and targeted coaching and mentoring to members of the PQL and
emergency unit as required to ensure the Country Office program design and
technical assistance initiatives are in accordance with CARE Ethiopia’s
mission, strategic objectives and program approaches, and program/ project
design tools and principles. S/he supports program teams in the design of new
programs and preparation of proposals. The incumbent will be an integral
member of CARE Ethiopia’s Program Quality and Learning (PQL) team, reporting to
the unit’s coordinator and serving as the principal architect of organizational
policy positions in the humanitarian arena, the principal guardian of
humanitarian standards in its emergency interventions and the principal
conceptual bridge-builder between/across CARE Ethiopia’s emergency and
developmental programming portfolios.
Specific responsibilities include:
Program design and integration
Learning and Networking
Capacity Building
Requirements include:
- Master’s
Degree in appropriate discipline—international affairs, public policy,
law, development studies, etc., or equivalent combination of education and
work experience
- At
least six years’ experience in international humanitarian policy and
development programming, with at least three in Africa
- Demonstrated
ability to build capacity in cross-cultural contexts, including training
experience
- Project
design skill
- Research,
analysis and writing skills of high standard.
- Design
and implementation of Monitoring and Evaluation systems
- Firm
belief in and commitment to promoting teamwork, gender equality
- English
language fluency;
- Excellent
communication and presentation skills
- Proven
training and facilitation skills
Please be aware that there may be job advertisements and
offers that falsely state that they are from CARE. CARE does not charge a fee
at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting,
processing, training, or any other such fees).
