Application Deadline: May 21, 2022

The Amhara National Regional State Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Fund for People in Conflict Affected Area (ARRF):

Background

Amhara region has seen unprecedented thread of political, socioeconomic, and natural events since 2018. The historic political transition has been accompanied by several violence, COVID-19, locust swarm, and the recent political conflict in the Northern Ethiopia. These incidents are marked by loss of so many lives, large scale displacement, psychological distress, weakened economy and the reign of insecurity. The consequence of the recent conflict, however, has devastated the region with overwhelming destruction of health, education, water, roads, power, telecommunication, tourism, investment, industrial and agricultural facilities. The region has also absorbed influx of IDPs and experienced intense destabilization of livelihoods in and nearby the conflict affected areas. Thus, the situation is feared to throw the already struggling regional economy into deep crises and its people into extreme poverty.

The mitigation of this looming threat urgently needs the reconstruction of basic private and public infrastructures and the rehabilitation and restoration of normal livelihood schemes. In view of that, the regional government has recently adopted a regulation that provides for the establishment of a rehabilitation and reconstruction fund office to lead the rehabilitation and reconstruction process. The office is mandated to carry out various activities as specified hereinunder with a view to realize the reconstruction, rehabilitation, and recovery of conflict affected areas.

Salaries for all the vacancies listed below are funded by the regional government development partners including UNDP, World Bank and BigWin Philanthropy.Task Description

• Create a linkage with the war affected zone, woredas and kebeles
• Awareness creation to the economic cluster bureaus (Agriculture, investment, urban development, mining and tourism) about the ARRF and how it operates its fund offices,
• Integrate the economic cluster bureaus resources (manpower, expertise, and others)
• Identify and capacitate bureau level ARRF coordinators,
• Cascade ARRF implementation plan ground level by organizing team for each fund office in the targeted areas
• Recruit implementing personnel or fund office team in targeted area and give detail fund office implementation plan training
• Engage in the fund office implementation plan preparation and assign implementing actors for each deliverable
• Support the fund office developing team by updating ground level costs, link updated data base and research using woreda and kebele level capacity
• Engage in the annual planning team and contribute all the fund office learnings to be consider in the plans.
• Develop communication strategy, which support the team to have smooth communication from regional bureau up to war affected woredas administration 

Competencies

• Understand the regional government structure and administrative culture
• Strategic fund office implementation follow-up capacity
• Ability to coordinate more than one fund offices at a time
• Team player: motivate, support, and energize the fund office specific implementation team
• Communicate with all levels of personnel in an understandable manner
• Write report in a weekly and biweekly, in an organized manner 

The Position is 1 year contract base, which has the possibility of renewal. 

Job Requirements

Required Skill and expertise

• MA public administration, governance, or related social science field
• More than 5 years’ experience in fund office management, coordination
• Coordinating, presenting, controlling skills demanded

How to Apply

Please send your cover letter and resume on arrfjobs@gmail.com, email address within 10 days since this post released. Please contact the Amhara Region President Bureau for further detail: +251583207433

Note: Use " Economy Cluster Fund Office Coordinator " as the subject line of your email !