Re-advertised Internal / External Vacancy Announcement

The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) wants to recruit employees in the following vacant positions the details of which are mentioned bellow.

About the Ethiopian Red Cross Society

The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) was established in 1935 and is one of the oldest and largest humanitarian organizations in Ethiopia. ERCS provides services to communities affected by natural and manmade disasters through the provision of emergency responses, ambulance and first aid, family reunification, essential drugs, water and sanitation, and other humanitarian services. ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. Currently the ERCS has a structure consisting of 12 Regional Offices, 34 Zonal Branches and 131 District/Woreda Branches, 599 Woreda Red Cross Committee and 5871 Kebele Red Cross committees.

ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs relating to food security, climate change adaptation, livelihood diversification, and institutional capacity building interventions, with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. ERCS works in partnership with the Ethiopian Government, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), partnering National Societies, members, volunteers and the communities we serve.

Brief summary of Duties and Responsibilities

• Key responsibilities for this position include regularly track donor, potential donor, and umbrella websites for Requests for Applications (RFAs) and proposal submission opportunities for both ERCS, core competency areas and the geographic areas in which ERCS has a presence, assessing ERCS’s competitiveness and strategic positioning in light of these opportunities, and producing completive proposals for submission to potential donor agencies and foundations.

Work Unit: DSG sector    

Reports to: Director, DRM

Term of Employment: Permanent after probation period.

Job Requirements

Educational Requirement

• Second or First Degree in Management, Disaster Risk Management, Sociology, Development Studies, Project planning and management, Regional & Local Development Studies, Economics

Experience

• 8/10 years related work experience, out of which 2/3 years’ experience in proposal writing, 

How to Apply

We invite candidates meeting the required qualifications to fill out the employment application form from the official website of the Ethiopian Red Cross in vacancy menu and email to ercs-recruitment@redcrosseth.org before the closing date of this announcement on Jan 28, 2022.

Qualified women are strongly recommended to apply. ONLY consider those who filled in the application form and send us back.