Job Description

As part of DFID Ethiopia’s Senior Management Team, this post will:

• Lead a team of 12 staff, with direct line management of one senior adviser and four advisers. Currently the team comprises one Senior Health Adviser (seconded to Ministry of Health), 5 advisers (Social Development, Health, Education and WaSH), 1 Economist, 1 Deputy Programme Manager, 3 Programme Officers and 1 Assistant Programme Officer.
• Provide direction and strategic leadership to the Human Capital Development Team.
• Ensure proactive and adaptive programming, financial and risk management of the team’s portfolio (annual expenditure of approximately £100 million). The portfolio includes some of DFID’s largest programmes, considered to be at the cutting edge of basic services delivery, including working directly through GoE systems.
• Provide support to Senior Responsible Owners (SROs) of different programmes on policy influencing, including: demographic dividend, gender/equity, safeguarding, domestic financing, budget allocation formulae, and quality.
• Lead, as appropriate, work on strategy and direction to ensure that DFID Ethiopia’s programme reflects evidence, builds understanding and shared narrative across the British government of what works in human capital development, as well as the challenges, risks and opportunities.
• Play an active role in the office’s Senior Management Team to ensure that the office runs effectively, with good people management, strong cross-office collaboration and sound decision-making on the future trajectory of DFID Ethiopia.
• Work closely with other colleagues across the British Embassy, developing, delivering and reviewing aspects of DFID’s programme in support of the wider British government strategy in Ethiopia.

Job Requirement

Person Specification:

•  A proven track record of policy, programme delivery and stakeholder engagement with well-developed political skills.
• Ability to lead in a complex and changing environment, with an adaptable style that drives engagement, inclusion and performance.
• Communication and influencing skills, and ability to build credibility and authority with external stakeholders at senior/Ministerial levels (in GoE, UN agencies, World Bank, other bilaterals and the UK).
• Experience in setting strategic direction and taking a team through a period of change or transition.
• Strong people management skills, both in terms of managing international teams and building team cohesion and resilience.
• Significant experience of managing programme resources and principles to maximise accountability and impact.
• A strong grasp of basic service delivery policies, principles, challenges, opportunities and programming.
• The post is open to generalists. However, knowledge and experience in either education, health, social development or governance with appropriate management skills would be an advantage.

Core UK civil service behaviours:

Candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate in their application examples of the

following Civil Service Behaviours:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leading and Communicating
• Collaborating and Partnering
• Building Capability for All
• Managing a Quality Service

Salary range: 119,186.58 – 155,911.75 Br/Month starting salary depending on qualifications and experience.

Details of the above HM Government Success Profiles (Civil Service Behaviours) are available by clicking this link.

International Competences

Engaging Internationally

Please review the International Competencies by clicking this link

Technical Competences

DFID Technical Competences for Generalists, Education, Health, Social Development, Governance

Please review the Technical Competencies by clicking this link

DFID is committed to equal opportunities in its staffing policy and does not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation or disability. Selection will be on merit.

How to Apply

The full Job Description, Application Form and Civil Service Behaviors can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/dfid-ethiopia/about/recruitment

Important

• The candidate must complete and send the application form to [email protected] with a copy of their most recent CV. The subject line MUST read “ETH0120”.
• Failure to follow the outlined procedure might result in the application not being considered. The closing date for the vacancy is COP on 08 March 2020. If no response has been received after 2 weeks from the closing date, consider the application as unsuccessful.