Job Description

Internal / External Vacancy

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.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage such activities as analyzing and mapping risks, capacities of targeted communities across regional branch, devising and implementing disaster risk mitigating mechanisms building disaster responding capacities, at branch and community levels, and undertaking other appropriate food security interventions, climate change management, disaster preparedness and response course of action in accordance with the policies and procedures in place for the purpose by the Society.

• Ensures that the program and project activities of then regional branch are executed in accordance with pertinent policy and procedure requirements of the National Secretariat and the Regional Branch as well as commitments made with funding agents.

• Ensure that social development and community empowerment is properly addressed.

• Undertakes data processing to establish supporting information for identifying vulnerabilities in the Regional Branch and prioritizing for intervention in terms of likelihood, magnitude, frequency and in accordance with other pre-set selection criteria;

• Facilitate and assist on any capacity building programs carried out by Head quarter and ensure its sustainability.

• Coordinate project proposals development and fund solicitation.

• Follow the progress of formulated projects/program proposals which are forwarded to national office to ensure solicited to potential donors.

• Refers identified vulnerabilities that require large scale intervention to the national Secretariat.

• Ensure that appropriate intervention schemes are designed and effectively implemented.

• Cooperates with all concerned in the prevention of diseases, the promotion of public health services, the training of personnel and the improvements of standards of health in general, including the development and implementation of primary health care services in the Regional Branch;

• Ensure Disaster Risk Management systems functioning properly.

• Expedites and facilitates the procurement process and distribution of ambulances to zonal and woreda branches;

• Ensures and follows up that standard ambulance services are adequately provided to the public in the selected intervention communities;

• Ensure administration of ambulances in zonal and woreda branch offices and Works out detailed studies and plans the timely disposal and replacement of ambulances and ensures its implementation as approved; keeps records of the number and type of ambulances that operate in the respective branches; makes available database on ambulance matters for decision matters;

• Ensure Volunteer and branch development programs are integrated in project design and getting required fund for capacity building.

• Ensure volunteer and branch development programs are functioned properly and according to the guidelines and policies.

• Facilitates matters that help to meet the human, material and financial resource requirements of branches and manages budget accordingly;

• Facilitates the budget release to implementers of projects/programs as per schedule and demand; monitors performance progress and budget utilization of program/project activities;

• Support branches in rehabilitating victims of manmade and natural calamities to ensure undertakings are carried out in accordance with policies and standard procedures.

• Provide technical support to ensure integration of the activities of providing relief supplies, developing or rehabilitating infrastructures to disaster victims in the aftermaths of disasters in the Regional Branch;

• Ensure that as many vulnerable community members as possible are reached out by the DRM interventions.

• Ensure that health, food security, save water supply, environmental rehabilitations, Disaster response and preparedness, Migration and RFL program activities of the society are bringing about the intended results of Vulnerable and affected communities.

• Ensure that migration and RFL issues are addresses and implemented as standard.

• Prepares and submits quarterly , bi-annual and annual progress consolidated and project-specific reports on the activities of programs/projects underway in the Regional Branch for review and finalization by immediate supervisor;

• Performs other activities related to the job as assigned by the Head of the regional Branch. 

Work Unit: -Office of Regional Branch

Reporting to: - Regional branch head

Terms of employment: - Permanent  

Job Requirements

Qualification

• Second/First Degree in Disaster Risk Management/ Management/ Economics/ Development or Agriculture Economics/ Rural & Local Development Studies/ Public Health/ Environmental Health/ Environmental Science/ Social Work/ Sociology/ Social Anthropology/ Food Security and Livelihood and

• 8/10 years related work experience, out of which 2/4 years in senior managerial position(s).

Special Skills & Competencies

• Trainings in program management; Project Management

• Basic training in disaster risk management;

• Ability to analyze information and evaluate options including of program planning, monitoring and Evaluation

• Skills in developing monitoring tools, leading the process and reporting

• Proficient in computer skills and use of relevant software and other applications

• statistical analysis skills, project management knowledge, monitoring & evaluation system design, capacity development, results based management, and reporting, stakeholder management and engagement, planning and organizing, excellent communication skills 

How to Apply

We invite candidates meeting the required qualifications to fill out online employment application form with the indicated link https://ee.humanitarianresponse.info/x/IyUTlyf1 before the closing date of this announcement on July 18, 2022.

Qualified women are strongly recommended to apply!

Please note that we ONLY consider those who filled online application form. We regret to inform that we do not accept CV at this stage.