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About CRS

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding. 

For nearly 60 years, CRS has taken the lead in responding to natural and man-made disasters affecting Ethiopia's most vulnerable communities. Moving beyond emergency response, CRS' disaster mitigation and recovery projects in drought and flood-prone areas have rebuilt individual and community assets through non-food aid in the form of agriculture, livestock, health, nutrition, and water and sanitation assistance. CRS's humanitarian work in Ethiopia also provides livelihoods support to farmers and entrepreneurs, promotes gender equality, mobilizes for immunization and mitigates the impact of COVID-19.

As part of CRS family, you will join the more than 5000 strong and vibrant individuals working globally to accomplish the mission of CRS.

CRS/Ethiopia invites you, the qualified candidate, to apply for the following different positions for an indefinite term contract that is contingent upon funding of the JEOP program: 

Position Title: Technical Advisor I Gender and Protection

Duty Station: Addis Ababa

Employment Term: Indefinite Term contingent upon funding of JEOP program

Reports to: Deputy Chief of Party Program Quality

Application Deadline: January 09, 2021

 JEOP Background

The Joint Emergency Operation (JEOP) is an emergency food assistance program targeting transitory or acute food insecure households through a project participant targeting process led by the Government of Ethiopia’s (GoE) National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC). JEOP provides emergency assistance to protect their lives and livelihood where recurrent drought affected in significant harvest loss, livestock death and price increase of essentials. JEOP consortium is led by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and includes consortium partners, CARE, Food for the Hungry, Relief Society of Tigray (REST), World Vision and Organization for Relief and Development in Amhara (ORDA) and local Catholic Church partners, Meki and Hararghe Catholic Secretariats (MCS and HCS)). 

Job Summary: 

As a member of JEOP, you will provide technical advice and support to a range of program design and implementation issues in the area of gender integration and protection principles in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to Country Program teams to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable. Your advice, knowledge, and support will contribute to support the mainstreaming of protection and gender, thereby improving the safety, access and dignity of our humanitarian programming is across Ethiopia.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support development and contribute to implementation of CRS agency-wide, and JEOP specific strategies, standards, tools and best practices in gender and protection mainstreaming that effectively engage partners, donors, and local government counterparts. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender and disaster risk reduction.
• Support development, updating, and maintenance of tools and guidance, as well as ensure proper use of tools, on gender and protection mainstreaming (including PSEA) in coordination with PMWG, CRS Ethiopia gender and protection units, EARO technical leads, HRD team members and JEOP partner counterparts.
• Provide technical solutions to JEOP staff (CRS and partners) across workstreams (programming, operations, compliance, supply chain and others) and advocate the importance of gender and protection mainstreaming in emergencies, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and MEAL, helping to ensure high-quality implementation.  
• Carry out technical review of Pipeline and Resource Estimate Proposal (PREP), concept notes and new project proposals. Provide feedback in line with CRS guidance on gender and protection mainstreaming, and industry best practices. Utilize the gender marker in the redesign and include gender sensitive indicator and mainstreaming plan.
• Support capacity strengthening initiatives in gender and protection mainstreaming in humanitarian programming for staff and partner through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching. Design and develop tailored trainings on protection mainstreaming to address contextual challenges and make use of local capacity. Support active signposting to external training and awareness opportunities.
• Collect and analyze program data, particularly regarding the JEOP gender action plan, capture, and share lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contribute to protection mainstreaming learning and good practice.
• Contribute to maintaining relationships with donors, consortium members, peer organizations, research, and other institutions, participate in forums, and represent HRD in internal working groups in the area of protection mainstreaming to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work. Participate in the gender and protection clusters with peer organizations. 
• Lead gender working groups / action plan task force at CRS and JEOP partner level, providing momentum, technical support, and guidance to staff seeking to put the plan into action. Proactively capitalizes on consortium members technical experience in gender and protection
• Lead implementation and revision of the gender action plan, including regular monitoring and practical support to ensure implementation of actions. 
• Support diversity of hiring – reviewing job descriptions, scopes of work, written tests and interview questionnaires from a gender and protection lens.
• Participate / co-lead a gender assessment of the JEOP in collaboration with CRS regional technical teams, including implementation of actions in response to key findings. 
• Collaborate closely with peers from other technical units to ensure complementarity, leveraging and layering of crosscutting themes, particularly disability inclusion, safeguarding and environmental impact. Act as a key resource person in different workstreams in gender mainstreaming and gap-filling and taking on growth responsibilities, as needed.
• Participates actively in HQ roll out of revised partnership safeguarding assessment tools and include partners in gender audit
• Set hiring targets for recruitment, review JDs to make more accessible to underrepresented groups. Ensure that gender and protection questions are included in ALL interviews.
• Support diverse representation in handling complaint and feedback; review JAM communication channels for inclusivity and accessibility; ensure Community Help Desk membership is representative; creation of database for CHD – phone numbers and share out; initiate discussions on the CP level regarding the telephone hotline and diversity of staff on the line; and ensure a safe reporting environment for staff and project participants.
• Enhance knowledge and skills of field staff and local government leaders on accountability & protection; conduct mapping and identify referral pathways.
• Review and test compliance tools to include questions on protection and gender. 
• Help identify, assess and strengthen partnerships relevant to Gender Program, applying appropriate application of partnership concepts, tools and approaches.

Job Requirements

Typical Background, Experience & Requirements:

Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in Social Sciences, International Development, or another related field.
• At least three to five years of experience, including three years of relevant field-based experience in development or humanitarian response settings, preferably in a conflict setting.
• Experience with participatory approaches to protection and/or gender mainstreaming.
• Good knowledge of concepts, approaches, and application of gender marker, PSEA policies and best practices.
• Demonstrated understanding of international protection and gender standards.
• Experienced trainer/teacher of adults and multi-cultural groups
• Demonstrated ability to conduct assessments, develop strategy, write technical papers, develop training materials, and developing monitoring and evaluation tools.
• Experience with capacity strengthening and partnership building.
• Experience contributing to the development of technical proposals.
• MEAL skills and experience is advantageous.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems.

Women applicants are highly encouraged.

Personal Skills

• Good technical writing skills
• Presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
• Strong relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings
• Ability to work independently but also coordinate effectively as part of a team
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented
• Good strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment
• Ability to lead a multi-cultural team with a high level of respect for local culture

 Required/Desired Foreign Language: English and Amharic. Additional Ethiopian languages a plus

 Travel Required (include percentage of required travel, if applicable)

 Key Working Relationships:

 Supervisory: None,

Internal: JEOP staff, CRS Ethiopia country program gender unit, CRS regional gender technical advisor

External: JEOP partners, Gender TWGs and gender networks, relevant line ministries

 Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff):

These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

• Integrity  
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation 
• Builds Relationships  
• Develops Talent 
• Strategic Mindset 
• Accountability & Stewardship 

 Disclaimer: This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.

 How to Apply

You should fill the application form through this link; CLICK HERE  and attach your up-to-date CV on / before the application deadline January 09, 2021.

You will be contacted only if selected for written exam/interview. Phone solicitations will not be accepted. These job opportunities are open to Ethiopian nationals only. CRS requires its staff to treat all people with dignity and respect and to actively prevent harassment, abuse, exploitation, and human trafficking.  Qualified women are highly encouraged to apply**