INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Trainee: Communications & knowledge management 

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis.  These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world.  Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe.  Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.

Date of Announcement:                       24/12/19

Vacancy No.:                            100/19

Position:                                  Trainee: Communications & knowledge management

Grade:                                      NA

Salary:                                     USD 180

No of positions:                       1

Duration of Employment:      Definite until September 30, 2020

Unit/Program:                          Livelihoods for Resilience Activity        

Duty Base:                               Head Office/Addis Ababa

Closing Date:                           10 calendar days from the date of advertisement

 DESCRIPTION

CARE Ethiopia has established a professional Training Program exclusively aimed at Female Fresh Graduates as part of its development work. The purpose of this program is to attract and support bright and qualified Female recent university graduates interested in learning about development and humanitarian work, and provide them with first-hand experience on the challenges and approaches to fight and overcome poverty in Ethiopia. The training program will give female fresh graduates the opportunity to acquire direct exposure to CARE Ethiopia’s work. The program promotes female graduates by providing them with learning and growth opportunities and professional work experience, and prepares them for their future career prospects.

Duties and Responsibilities for Program Trainees

Assignments/tasks will vary in terms of content in that interns will have sector/unit specific tasks/focus area. The duties given below are therefore generic and may vary from one sector to the other. However, every attempt will be made to match the interests of the Intern with the needs of the organization. Trainees will be assigned a direct supervisor and will be given specific term of reference which clearly defines tasks related to their area of study, in line with the requesting unit/section requirements and objectives.

·         Assist in data collection, refining, and analysis

·         Assist in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation CARE Ethiopia programs and projects

·         Provide substantive and technical assistance in different meetings, fact-finding through field visits and other technical activities in support of CARE Ethiopia Program and Support unit activities

·         Undertake research, analysis of the findings and prepare briefing notes, TORs, and reports on assigned subject areas of interest to CARE Ethiopia and also develop lesson learned and share with the appropriate body

·         Support in documentation 

·         Assist the unit in preparing detailed quarterly activity reports and other updates as and when required

·         Assist in event organizing (trainings, workshops, seminars, etc) and draft/edit reports of the same

·         Undertake day-to-day programme, organizational, and administrative tasks as required.

Eligibility Criteria

Candidates for the Internship Program will be selected on a competitive basis and must meet the following criteria;

1.       EDUCATION: BA Degree on Journalism and Communication, public relations, Language and Literature, or any social sciences.

2.       WORK EXPERIENCE: 0-1 year maximum

3.       TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Required:

·                 Good written and verbal, Amharic and English language skills

·                 Skills in story writing, photography, videography and graphics design is advantageous 

·                 Firm belief in gender equality and team work

·                 Good time management skill

·                 Strong planning skill and Task oriented

·                 Team player, flexible and ability to work under  multi-cultural working setting

·                 Basic computer proficiency (i.e. Ms. Word, excel, power point)

·                 Quick learning/adaption and strong interpersonal skills

4.       Competencies

Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, building partnership, analytical ability, stress tolerance, initiating action, customer focus, interpersonal skill and planning and organizing,

5.       Only Ethiopian Female applicants are eligible

 Contractual Terms and Conditions

·         Financial Support: CARE Ethiopia shall only pay some fixed stipend as per the organizations’ policy for interns. 

·         Employment Prospects: CARE Ethiopia Internship Program is not connected with employment and there is no expectancy of such but interns can apply for internal/external job vacancies advertised at CARE Ethiopia during or after the period of the internship.

·         Insurance Coverage:  CARE Ethiopia accepts no responsibility for costs or fatality arising from illness or accidents incurred during the internship,