As a member of JEOP technical team, you will provide technical advice and support to a range of program design and implementation issues in disability, youth, gender integration and protection principles in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to CRS and JEOP consortium members 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 JEOP-wide disability, youth, gender and protection-sensitive engagement strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in youth programming that effectively engage partners, USAID, and GOE. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating disability inclusion, gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction, with close collaboration with the CRS’ USAID-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA).

• Closely work with CRS Social Behavioral Change team to develop comprehensive behavioral change strategies and plans around youth engagement on JEOP with a Do No Harm lens.

• Provide technical support to JEOP’s partner teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools and monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and learning (MEAL), helping to ensure high-quality implementation.

• Support JEOP’s MEAL team to include a disability, youth and gender perspective in research, mid-term and end line evaluations and mainstream sex, age and disability disaggregated sensitive indicators into the MEAL framework. Contribute to developing indicators, milestones and plans, and lead reporting on all indicators for youth integration, and program progress.

• Provide dynamic support and team coordination to JEOP’s wider inclusion activities, including support in integration and empowerment and build knowledge and technical capacity to implement and monitor youth engagement programming.

• Support capacity strengthening initiatives in inclusive humanitarian action for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training agendas, conducting trainings and workshops, and coaching.

• Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contribute to a youth learning agenda.

• Participate in internal and external forums for inclusion, collect and share best practices and promote JEOP/CRS’ work.

• Act as the main focal person for JEOP with inclusion partners. Establish, coordinate, and oversee working relationships with all local project stakeholders, including organizations of persons with disabilities, disability service providers, and disability-related government authorities. Serve as the liaison between them and the project team to mobilize local actors; advocate and facilitate access to services for children with disabilities and their families.

• Implement and coordinate disability and youth inclusion capacity building and technical support activities such as training, coaching, and materials review/adaptation to ensure assigned project activities are implemented per project guidelines and standards.

• Ensure learning properly accompanies disability and youth inclusion activities throughout the project cycle. Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities and guiding partners in their efforts to reflect on project experiences. Analyze implementation challenges and report any inconsistencies and/or gaps to inform adjustments to plans and implementation schedules.

• Ensure project documentation for inclusive approaches, outcomes, and lessons learned is complete with all required documents and is filed per agency and donor requirements. Assist with preparation of trend analysis reports and documentation of case studies and promising practices

Job Requirements

Typical Background, Experience & Requirements:

 Required Education and Experience

• BA/MA Degree in Degree in Special Education, Social Work, Public Health or in the field of disability inclusion would be a plus.

• At least 3 to5 years of experience, including three years of relevant field-based inclusion programming experience with an NGO in development or humanitarian response with progressive responsibilities.

• Strong command of technical principles and concepts in disability, youth, and gender inclusion.

• Knowledge of partner capacity strengthening best practices and ability to conduct assessments.

• Experience with participatory methods. Demonstrated capacity building experience.

• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.

• Ability to draft high-quality reports, communications materials, detailed implementation plans.

• Demonstrated commitment to accountability to affected populations, and experience working with and meaningfully engaging diverse populations, including pregnant and lactating mothers, persons with disabilities, older adults, and IDPs

• Demonstrated commitment to and application of gender responsive programming and positive action measures towards gender equality, including the participation and leadership of women

• Demonstrated knowledge of and commitment to safeguarding, including the protection of program participants, community members and staff from all forms of abuse and harm

 Desired Education and Experience

• Experience working with an international NGO in a conflict setting.

• General knowledge of other related disciplines to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.

• Experience in working in large scale complex programs, in challenging environments, with strong emphasis on poor and vulnerable populations, pastoralist cultures, and agriculture.

• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation and analysis.

• Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based and civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles.

• Experienced trainer/teacher of adults and multi-cultural groups

• Demonstrated ability to develop strategy, write technical papers, develop training materials, and developing monitoring and evaluation tools.

• Knowledge of USAID policies around disability inclusion. Prior technical experience on USAID funded programs; knowledge of Title II policies and procedures preferred.

 Personal Skills

• Inclusive approach, able to elevate the voices of underrepresented groups.

• 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.

• Good strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment.

• Inclusive approach, able to elevate the voices of underrepresented groups.

• Flexibility, persistence, and ability to work well with people and cross-cultural 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

• Analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment

• Strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills

• Ability to work independently but also coordinate effectively as part of a team.

• Good technical writing, presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills.

• Proactive, resourceful and results oriented.

Required/Desired Foreign Language: Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Amharic. Other Ethiopian national languages a plus.

 Travel Required: 25-50% by road and air across Amhara, Oromia, SNNPR, Sidama, Dire Dawa City Administration and Tigray (subject to need and flexible to family commitments)

 Key Working Relationships:

Supervisory: potential for supervisory responsibilities over a senior project officer

Internal: JEOP Chief of Party and Senior Management Team; JEOP technical team leads; CRS Ethiopia Country Program staff; Regional Technical Advisors.

External:  JEOP Consortium members, local government stakeholders and communities, peer organizations and, representatives from for-profit and other non-profit organizations, operating in JEOP woredas.

 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.

• Serves with Integrity

• Models Stewardship

• Cultivates Constructive Relationships

• Promotes Learning

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

How to Apply

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