<h3>About the company</h3>&nbsp;
<div style="text-align:justify">Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action &mdash; helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future.</div>
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<div style="text-align:justify">Mercy Corps has been operating in Ethiopia since 2004, working in rural, peri-urban and urban areas in five regional states - Somali, Oromia, Afar, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Amahara - and the capital city of Addis Ababa. We engage in both development and humanitarian work, and seek to integrate approaches, programs and geographies as much as possible.&nbsp; Our partners include government, academic institutions, development and private sector actors, civil societies and participating public. &nbsp;</div><h3>Our Mission</h3>To alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. &nbsp;<h3>Why work for us</h3>Mercy Corps is a global team of more than 6,000 humanitarians who works in more than 40 countries around the world working together on the front lines of today&rsquo;s biggest crises to create a future of possibility, where everyone can prosper. We share a steadfast belief that communities are the best agents of their own change, with 9 out of 10 of our team members from the countries where they work. &nbsp;<h3>Team Benefits</h3>Mercy Corps works to build a better world where everyone is treated with dignity and respect, free of exploitation, harassment, and bias. Toward that end, we have made it a global priority to assess &mdash; and where necessary strengthen &mdash; our culture, policies, and procedures related to gender, diversity, and inclusion, as well as sexual misconduct in any form. We are committed to creating an inclusive, psychologically, and physically safe, and accountable work environment where every voice is respected and heard. Getting this right is critical to achieving our vision for transformational change. &nbsp;

Mercy Corps Ethiopia

Description&nbsp;About Mercy CorpsMercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, hardship, and in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action—helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within—now and for the future. Mercy Corps Ethiopia exists to alleviate suffering and poverty by helping people build secure, productive, and sustainable livelihoods. Since 2004, we have worked in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in five regional states - Somali, Oromia, Afar, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Amhara, and the capital city of Addis Ababa. Our mission is to foster populations that are financially stable, healthy, nourished, educated, and informed, within a context where natural resources are accessed, shared, and utilized sustainably, so people can lead productive livelihoods. Driven by local needs, our programs provide individuals, agencies, and businesses with the tools and support they need to transform their lives, businesses, and communities.Our partners include government, academic institutions, development and private sector actors, civil societies, and participating in public. We strive to strengthen all of these institutions in the hope that one day they will become self-reliant. We engage in both development and humanitarian work and seek to integrate approaches, programs, and geographies as much as possible. We employ a systems-strengthening approach to improve human and social capital; and to link, strengthen, and expand systems critical to improving household incomes and resilience at the individual, community, and systems level. We use multiple approaches that; integrate components geographically and programmatically; are cross-cutting and it participates youth, women, and the disabled; are collaborative; and use adaptive management to achieve tangible, scalable, coherent, and consistent positive results. We will continue to deliver and adapt our systems-strengthening approach; to improve skills and increase employment and entrepreneurship, particularly for youth and women; to improve incomes, savings, health, and nutrition; and to ensure the sustainability of the natural resource environments critical to extensive livestock production systems. When humanitarian crises occur, we will continue to employ our systems, thinking to provide and encourage others to provide life-saving responses that also protect development gains. Within our office, we will work to secure funds critical to sustaining our core operations and to provide flexibility for exploring new opportunities.General Position SummaryViolence against women and girls and conflict-related sexual violence VAWG/CRSV Response Officer plays a crucial role at Mercy Corps Ethiopia by implementing a VAWG/CRSV response, Psychosocial support, and case management intervention. This position is responsible for ensuring the technical quality and integration of these activities across humanitarian programs, identifying and addressing related concerns through direct service and referrals. The VAWG/CRSV Response Officer will also contribute to capacity-building training, facilitate curriculum-based Psychosocial support, and discussions and skill building sessions in the Women Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS). Additionally, they will lead the organizational and staff transformation on protection and represent Mercy Corps in relevant coordination forums and platforms at the field office level. &nbsp;The position holder will participate in assessments and concept note writing. They are also responsible for developing effective and timely budget and activity reports. They also develop work plans, managing procurement plans that include prompt initiation of Purchase Requests (PR), overseeing procurement processes, and ensuring timely delivery to the target participants. If necessary, the position holder may travel to other field offices to provide support in similar and related protection roles.Position Description: Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Response OfficerLocation: Gode, Somali regionPosition Status: Full-timeSalary LevelCurrent Team Member&nbsp;Safeguarding Risk Level: 3&nbsp;Essential Job ResponsibilitiesStrategy &amp; Vision<ul><li>Collaborate and engage proactively with all Mercy Corps team members to ensure the effective protection of mainstreaming, social integrity, and VAWG/CRSV concerns across all humanitarian programs.&nbsp;</li><li>Work alongside relevant government and non-governmental actors to effectively address protection, VAWG, and social norm issues, informing project designs and activities.</li></ul>Program Management<ul><li>Directly support VAWG/CRSV Response activities, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the program.</li><li>Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders.</li><li>Facilitate training, PSS sessions, workshops on protection-related issues and VAWG/CRSV for various groups.</li><li>Develop quarterly work plans, monthly work plans, and monitoring plans.</li><li>Provide Case management and Psychosocial support services in collaboration with Women Social Affair office (WSA) and social workers.</li><li>Offer on-the-job training for social and community workers on basic VAWG/CRSV, PSS and related protection topics</li><li>Participate in conducting assessments and community meetings.</li><li>Prepare Activity Concept Notes (ACNs) and Terms of Reference (TORs) based on the proposal.</li><li>Assist in the development of prevention-related Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) and Behavior Change Communication (BCC) materials.</li><li>Support capacity building for community workers to facilitate VAWG/CRSV safety audit activities.</li><li>Monitor VAWG/CRSV response supply needs and submit procurement requests every quarter.</li><li>Compile weekly response reports and submit them to the program manager.</li></ul>Work closely with the Adolescent girl program officer and prevention Officer’s to hold community awareness-raising activities on protection concerns.<ul><li>Collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data on response activities.</li><li>Promote the participation of women, adolescent girls, and girl children in all matters affecting their lives.</li><li>Undertake any other duties and responsibilities assigned by immediate and technical supervisors.</li><li>Sometimes assigned at a government institution to provide technical support on VAWG/CRSV case management and counseling support.</li><li>Work on weekly, monthly, and progress reports.</li><li>Establish community groups and build their capacity on VAWG/CRSV response and prevention.</li><li>Establish partnerships with different actors, including schools, and provide technical support.</li><li>Conduct monthly budget reviews and make appropriate recommendations to the protection specialist and Addi’s humanitarian team as needed.</li><li>Provide case management service, referral and Psychosocial support services to VAWG/CRSV survivors and vulnerable women and girls.</li><li>work with the protection specialist to ensure safe and participatory service provision. And provide VAWG/CRSV and protection mainstreaming interventions in the protection sectors and other sectors as well.</li></ul>Team Management<ul><li>Provide technical guidance for field-level social workers and community volunteers, including on-the-job training.</li><li>Supports and liaises with all project teams and provides capacity building including training and coaching on protection mainstreaming, protection, and VAWG/CRSV, and other related on-the-job training and capacity building.</li><li>Promote accountability, communicate expectations, and provide constructive feedback formally and informally.</li><li>Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.</li></ul>Influence &amp; Representation<ul><li>Make sure to coordinate with government, development, and humanitarian actors to promote participation, protection, risk mitigation, and prevention of VAWG/CRSV.</li><li>Represent Mercy Corps in various platforms, networks, and coordination forums that focus on VAWG/CRSV, and protection.</li><li>Always upholds the image and values of Mercy Corps</li></ul>PROGRAM AND PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT<ul><li>Provide humanitarian teams with technical support, coaching, and capacity building to ensure high-quality, strong, and participatory programs.</li><li>Conduct assessments by collecting data to determine community needs.</li><li>Appropriately document community meeting minutes and GBVIMS data for further use in new initiatives.</li></ul>SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY<ul><li>The protection Specialist will have the responsibility of providing guiding and on-the-job coaching for the VAWG/CRSV response officers.</li><li>The protection specialist is responsible for providing technical support to all project teams to be able to properly cascade the protection related service like Psychosocial support, case management, skill building, WGSS interventions and VAWG/CRSV survivor referrals, and protection mainstreaming concerns during day-to-day activity implementation; as well as responsible to providing capacity-building training.</li></ul>SECURITY<ul><li>Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.</li><li>Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.</li></ul>ACCOUNTABILITY§&nbsp; Reports Directly To: Protection specialist§&nbsp; Technical Reporting line: Protection specialist§&nbsp; Closely work with Humanitarian Programs MEL Manager, protection advisor, Program manager, area program manager, etc.Accountability to Participants and StakeholdersMercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, and other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in designing, monitoring, and evaluating our field projects.

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS (VAWG) RESPONSE OFFICER

Description&nbsp;About Mercy CorpsMercy Corps has been present in Ethiopia since 2004, working to drive bold and transformative ideas, working closely with government, the private sector, and civil society actors to build a more resilient country, ensuring that programs are responsive to and influenced by participants and stakeholders. Our vision is to enhance the resilience of climate and conflict-affected communities through market systems development for improved livelihoods, access to food, and safe and clean water to thrive in the face of crises. Our strategy focuses on the four outcome areas of: 1) Economically marginalized populations have improved and diversified livelihoods, income, and assets; 2) Pastoralists, farmers, and households have access to sustainably produced, safe, nutritious food; 3) Social cohesion and inclusive governance processes are built in crisis-affected communities; and 4) People have equitable, sustained access to clean water and sanitation for domestic and productive use.&nbsp; Currently we operate in the regional states of Afar, Amhara, Gambella, Oromia, Somali, Sidama, Southern Ethiopia, Tigray and Addis Ababa city administration working with a diverse base of donors that includes United States Agency for International Development (USAID), European Union, GAC, Hilton Foundation, United Nations (UN), JOA, Sweden, EKN, and other foundations.Program / Department SummaryMercy Corps Ethiopia currently secured USAID/BHA funded multisectoral response program entitled ‘Humanitarian Assistance for Conflict-Affected Populations (HACAP)' in Oromia, Afar and Somali regions. The goal of the proposed program is to increase access to Life-saving Services for Conflict-affected IDPs, Returnees, and Vulnerable Populations through provision of integrated Multi-Sectoral Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion (WASH), Health, Nutrition, Agriculture, Protection, and Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) support in seven Woredas of the three regions. &nbsp;General Position SummaryMercy Corps takes a participatory approach in engaging with local communities throughout the program design and implementation. A Community Accountability Reporting Mechanism (CARM) is an essential part of Mercy Corps’ commitment to excellence and integrity, by providing individuals, organizations, local groups, and other stakeholders with Mercy Corps, a means of raising concerns about potential staff misconduct or sharing feedback or programmatic activities (positive and negative) with Mercy Corps, independently from program operations. In the context of Ethiopia, rolling out and implementing CARM will ensure that the Ethiopia country team will continue to uphold Mercy Corps’ high accountability standards. She/he will also be responsible for documentation activities, compiling reports (weekly and monthly), and representing Mercy Corps in coordination forums such as Zonal and Woreda-level meetings.ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:Implementation and Program Quality<ul><li>Ensure their program has at least three active, context-appropriate feedback channels informed by community preferences and by following proper procedures.</li><li>Collect feedback received via different feedback available channels, such as through the hotline number, face-to-face (help desk), and suggestion boxes in all intervention sites, and ensure documentation of all feedback in the CARM database.</li><li>Ensure all feedback is logged and graded based on Mercy Corps' standard grading system and that appropriate action is taken based on feedback grade.</li><li>Contact informants who provided non-anonymous feedback seeking additional information – only when necessary – (place, name, details of the case...) to resolve their feedback more appropriately.</li><li>Ensure closure of all feedback cases by following up closely with relevant team members(s).</li><li>Manage all feedback received in a secure and confidential country-level CARM database</li><li>Preparing monthly/bi-monthly reports</li><li>Conduct community engagement, sensitization, and distribute IEC materials across all intervention sites.</li><li>Work closely with MEL colleagues to integrate CARM-related questions within all MEL tools and ensure CARM indicators are incorporated within each MEL Plan for all programs.</li><li>Ensure maintenance of CARM materials and usage in the project implementation areas</li><li>Comply with and ensure compliance with global data protection and privacy standards while confidentially receiving, following up on, and reporting on CARM feedback received.</li></ul>ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING&nbsp;<ul><li>As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient, and relevant to the communities they serve - we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.</li></ul>ACCOUNTABILITY TO BENEFICIARIES<ul><li>Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of our field projects.</li></ul>Reports Directly To:&nbsp;MEL/CARM Specialist Officer and Dotted line with the Humanitarians Programs Monitoring and Evaluation ManagerWorks Directly With:&nbsp;All program team members working on the Humanitarian programs in the field office, field-level Finance, Country MEL Manager, Country Accountability and Safeguarding Advisor, and CARM advisor

CARM Officer

<h3>Description</h3>&nbsp;About Mercy CorpsMercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, hardship, and in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action—helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within—now and for the future. &nbsp;Mercy Corps Ethiopia exists to alleviate suffering and poverty by helping people build secure, productive, and sustainable livelihoods. Since 2004, we have worked in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in five regional states - Somali, Oromia, Afar, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Amhara, and the capital city of Addis Ababa. Our mission is to foster populations that are financially stable, healthy, nourished, educated, and informed, within a context where natural resources are accessed, shared, and utilized sustainably, so people can lead productive livelihoods. Driven by local needs, our programs provide individuals, agencies, and businesses with the tools and support they need to transform their lives, businesses, and communities.Our partners include government, academic institutions, development and private sector actors, civil societies, and participating public. We strive to strengthen all of these institutions in the hopes that one day they will become self-reliant. We engage in both development and humanitarian work and seek to integrate approaches, programs, and geographies as much as possible. We employ a systems-strengthening approach to improve human and social capital; and to link, strengthen, and expand systems critical to improving household incomes and resilience at the individual, community, and systems level. We use multiple approaches that; integrate components geographically and programmatically; are cross-cutting and it participates youth, women, and the disabled; are collaborative; and use adaptive management to achieve tangible, scalable, coherent, and consistent positive results. We will continue to deliver and adapt our systems-strengthening approach; to improve skills and increase employment and entrepreneurship, particularly for youth and women; to improve incomes, savings, health, and nutrition; and to ensure the sustainability of the natural resource environments critical to extensive livestock production systems. When humanitarian crises occur, we will continue to employ our systems thinking to provide and encourage others to provide life-saving responses that also protect development gains. Within our office, we will work to secure funds critical to sustaining our core operations and to provide flexibility for exploring new opportunities.General Position SummaryAdolescent girls program Officer plays a crucial role at Mercy Corps Ethiopia by implementing a strategic, curriculum-based intervention for adolescent girls and their male and female care givers. This position is responsible for ensuring the technical quality and integration of these and addressing related concerns through direct service and referrals. &nbsp;Adolescent girls program officer plays a key role in Mercy Corps Ethiopia by providing a separate privational intervention for adolescent girls. The position holder will ensure these activities technical quality and integration across humanitarian programs and identify and address related concerns through direct service and referral.&nbsp; The Adolescent girls program officer will contribute to providing curriculum-based life skill sessions for adolescent girls, capacity-building training, lead organizational and staff transformation on protection related concerns, and represent Mercy Corps in relevant coordination forums and platforms. &nbsp;Adolescent girls program Officer will also provide to capacity-building training, facilitate curriculum-based Psychosocial support, and discussions and skill building sessions in the Women Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS) for Adolescent girls and their care givers. Additionally, they will lead the organizational and staff transformation on protection and represent Mercy Corps in relevant coordination forums and platforms at the field office level. &nbsp;The position holder will participate in assessments and concept note writing. They are also responsible for developing effective and timely budget and activity reports. They also develop work plans, managing procurement plans that include prompt initiation of Purchase Requests (PR), overseeing procurement processes, and ensuring timely delivery to the target participants. If necessary, the position holder may travel to other field offices to provide support in similar and related protection roles.Position Description:&nbsp; Adolescent girls program officerLocation - Abala (Afar Region) and Gode (Somali region)Position Status Full-timeSalary LevelCurrent Team MemberSafeguarding Risk Level: 3&nbsp;Essential Job Responsibilities Strategy &amp; Vision<ul><li>- Collaborate and engage proactively with all Mercy Corps team members to ensure the effective protection mainstreaming, social integrity, and VAWG/CRSV concerns across all humanitarian programs.</li><li>- Work alongside relevant government and non-governmental actors to effectively address protection, VAWG, and social norm issues, informing project designs and activities.</li></ul>Program Management<ul><li>Engage in assessments and contribute to the intervention strategy based on valuable feedback received from adolescent girls in the program.</li><li>Adhere strictly to VAWG/CRSV guiding principles when interacting with adolescent girls and their parents or caregivers.</li><li>Provide formal and informal supervision and training to mentors to ensure the delivery of high-quality life skills sessions.</li><li>Collaborate with implementing partners and community leaders to develop selection criteria for engaging adolescent girls in life skills curriculum sessions.</li><li>Assist in adapting the Adolescent girls Curriculum to the local community context.</li><li>Conduct capacity-building training related to Adolescent Girls Programming for mentors, community leaders, implementing partners, and parents or caregivers.</li><li>Directly engage with adolescent girls and parents as needed and work with mentors to ensure program quality.</li><li>Coordinate with Women Social Affairs to provide case management services for adolescent girls when necessary.</li><li>Develop monthly and weekly activity plans for mentors.</li><li>Monitor supply and logistical needs of the Adolescent Girls' safe space and on the life skill sessions.</li><li>Enhance relationships with relevant VAWG/CRSV program stakeholders, community leaders, and parents or caregivers to promote communication and collaboration.</li><li>Strengthen coordination by working closely with local actors, including schools, WSA, health, and legal entities.</li><li>Participate in monitoring and evaluation activities, including assessments and surveys.</li></ul>Team Management<ul><li>Provide technical guidance for field-level social workers and community volunteers including on-the-job training.</li><li>Supports and liaises with all project teams and provides capacity building including training and coaching on protection mainstreaming, protection, and VAWG/CRSV, and other related on-the-job training and capacity building.</li><li>Promote accountability, communicate expectations, and provide constructive feedback formally and informally.</li><li>Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.</li></ul>Influence &amp; Representation<ul><li>Make sure to coordinate with government, development, and humanitarian actors to promote participation, protection, risk mitigation, and prevention of VAWG/CRSV.</li><li>Represent Mercy Corps in various platforms, networks, and coordination forums that focus on VAWG/CRSV, and protection.</li><li>Always upholds the image and values of Mercy Corps</li></ul>PROGRAM AND PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT<ul><li>Provide humanitarian teams with technical support, coaching, and capacity building to ensure high-quality, strong, and participatory programs.</li><li>Conduct assessments by collecting data to determine community needs.</li><li>Appropriately document community meeting minutes and GBVIMS data for further use in new initiatives.</li></ul><h4>SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY</h4><ul><li>The protection Specialist will have the responsibility of providing guiding and on job coaching for the VAWG/CRSV response officers.</li><li>The protection specialist is responsible for providing technical support to all project teams to be able to properly cascade the protection related service like Psychosocial support, life skill session on the adolescent girls program, skill building, WGSS interventions and referrals, and protection mainstreaming concerns during day-to-day activity implementation; as well as responsible to providing capacity-building training.</li></ul>SECURITY<ul><li>Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.</li><li>Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.</li></ul><h4>ACCOUNTABILITY</h4><h4>Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders</h4>Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, and other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in designing, monitoring, and evaluating our field projects.<h4>§ Reports Directly To: Protection specialist</h4><h4>§ Technical Reporting line: Protection specialist</h4><h4>§ Closely work with Humanitarian Programs MEL Manager, protection advisor, Program manager, area program manager, etc.</h4>

ADOLESCENT GIRLS PROGRAM OFFICER

<h3>Description</h3>&nbsp;About Mercy CorpsMercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, hardship, and in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action—helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within—now and for the future. &nbsp;Mercy Corps Ethiopia exists to alleviate suffering and poverty by helping people build secure, productive, and sustainable livelihoods. Since 2004, we have worked in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in five regional states - Somali, Oromia, Afar, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Amhara, and the capital city of Addis Ababa. Our mission is to foster populations that are financially stable, healthy, nourished, educated, and informed, within a context where natural resources are accessed, shared, and utilized sustainably, so people can lead productive livelihoods. Driven by local needs, our programs provide individuals, agencies, and businesses with the tools and support they need to transform their lives, businesses, and communities.Our partners include government, academic institutions, development and private sector actors, civil societies, and participating public. We strive to strengthen all of these institutions in the hopes that one day they will become self-reliant. We engage in both development and humanitarian work and seek to integrate approaches, programs, and geographies as much as possible. We employ a systems-strengthening approach to improve human and social capital; and to link, strengthen, and expand systems critical to improving household incomes and resilience at the individual, community, and systems level. We use multiple approaches that; integrate components geographically and programmatically; are cross-cutting and it participates youth, women, and the disabled; are collaborative; and use adaptive management to achieve tangible, scalable, coherent, and consistent positive results. We will continue to deliver and adapt our systems-strengthening approach; to improve skills and increase employment and entrepreneurship, particularly for youth and women; to improve incomes, savings, health, and nutrition; and to ensure the sustainability of the natural resource environments critical to extensive livestock production systems. When humanitarian crises occur, we will continue to employ our systems thinking to provide and encourage others to provide life-saving responses that also protect development gains. Within our office, we will work to secure funds critical to sustaining our core operations and to provide flexibility for exploring new opportunities.General Position SummaryAdolescent girls program Officer plays a crucial role at Mercy Corps Ethiopia by implementing a strategic, curriculum-based intervention for adolescent girls and their male and female care givers. This position is responsible for ensuring the technical quality and integration of these and addressing related concerns through direct service and referrals. &nbsp;Adolescent girls program officer plays a key role in Mercy Corps Ethiopia by providing a separate privational intervention for adolescent girls. The position holder will ensure these activities technical quality and integration across humanitarian programs and identify and address related concerns through direct service and referral.&nbsp; The Adolescent girls program officer will contribute to providing curriculum-based life skill sessions for adolescent girls, capacity-building training, lead organizational and staff transformation on protection related concerns, and represent Mercy Corps in relevant coordination forums and platforms. &nbsp;Adolescent girls program Officer will also provide to capacity-building training, facilitate curriculum-based Psychosocial support, and discussions and skill building sessions in the Women Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS) for Adolescent girls and their care givers. Additionally, they will lead the organizational and staff transformation on protection and represent Mercy Corps in relevant coordination forums and platforms at the field office level. &nbsp;The position holder will participate in assessments and concept note writing. They are also responsible for developing effective and timely budget and activity reports. They also develop work plans, managing procurement plans that include prompt initiation of Purchase Requests (PR), overseeing procurement processes, and ensuring timely delivery to the target participants. If necessary, the position holder may travel to other field offices to provide support in similar and related protection roles.Position Description:&nbsp; Adolescent girls program officerLocation - Gode (Somali region)Position Status Full-timeSalary LevelCurrent Team MemberSafeguarding Risk Level: 3&nbsp;Essential Job Responsibilities Strategy &amp; Vision<ul><li>- Collaborate and engage proactively with all Mercy Corps team members to ensure the effective protection mainstreaming, social integrity, and VAWG/CRSV concerns across all humanitarian programs.</li><li>- Work alongside relevant government and non-governmental actors to effectively address protection, VAWG, and social norm issues, informing project designs and activities.</li></ul>Program Management<ul><li>Engage in assessments and contribute to the intervention strategy based on valuable feedback received from adolescent girls in the program.</li><li>Adhere strictly to VAWG/CRSV guiding principles when interacting with adolescent girls and their parents or caregivers.</li><li>Provide formal and informal supervision and training to mentors to ensure the delivery of high-quality life skills sessions.</li><li>Collaborate with implementing partners and community leaders to develop selection criteria for engaging adolescent girls in life skills curriculum sessions.</li><li>Assist in adapting the Adolescent girls Curriculum to the local community context.</li><li>Conduct capacity-building training related to Adolescent Girls Programming for mentors, community leaders, implementing partners, and parents or caregivers.</li><li>Directly engage with adolescent girls and parents as needed and work with mentors to ensure program quality.</li><li>Coordinate with Women Social Affairs to provide case management services for adolescent girls when necessary.</li><li>Develop monthly and weekly activity plans for mentors.</li><li>Monitor supply and logistical needs of the Adolescent Girls' safe space and on the life skill sessions.</li><li>Enhance relationships with relevant VAWG/CRSV program stakeholders, community leaders, and parents or caregivers to promote communication and collaboration.</li><li>Strengthen coordination by working closely with local actors, including schools, WSA, health, and legal entities.</li><li>Participate in monitoring and evaluation activities, including assessments and surveys.</li></ul>Team Management<ul><li>Provide technical guidance for field-level social workers and community volunteers including on-the-job training.</li><li>Supports and liaises with all project teams and provides capacity building including training and coaching on protection mainstreaming, protection, and VAWG/CRSV, and other related on-the-job training and capacity building.</li><li>Promote accountability, communicate expectations, and provide constructive feedback formally and informally.</li><li>Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.</li></ul>Influence &amp; Representation<ul><li>Make sure to coordinate with government, development, and humanitarian actors to promote participation, protection, risk mitigation, and prevention of VAWG/CRSV.</li><li>Represent Mercy Corps in various platforms, networks, and coordination forums that focus on VAWG/CRSV, and protection.</li><li>Always upholds the image and values of Mercy Corps</li></ul>PROGRAM AND PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT<ul><li>Provide humanitarian teams with technical support, coaching, and capacity building to ensure high-quality, strong, and participatory programs.</li><li>Conduct assessments by collecting data to determine community needs.</li><li>Appropriately document community meeting minutes and GBVIMS data for further use in new initiatives.</li></ul><h4>SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY</h4><ul><li>The protection Specialist will have the responsibility of providing guiding and on job coaching for the VAWG/CRSV response officers.</li><li>The protection specialist is responsible for providing technical support to all project teams to be able to properly cascade the protection related service like Psychosocial support, life skill session on the adolescent girls program, skill building, WGSS interventions and referrals, and protection mainstreaming concerns during day-to-day activity implementation; as well as responsible to providing capacity-building training.</li></ul>SECURITY<ul><li>Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.</li><li>Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.</li></ul><h4>ACCOUNTABILITY</h4><h4>Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders</h4>Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, and other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in designing, monitoring, and evaluating our field projects.<h4>§ Reports Directly To: Protection specialist</h4><h4>§ Technical Reporting line: Protection specialist</h4><h4>§ Closely work with Humanitarian Programs MEL Manager, protection advisor, Program manager, area program manager, etc.</h4>

<h3>Description</h3>&nbsp;<h4>About Mercy Corps</h4>Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, for the future.Mercy Corps has been present in Ethiopia since 2004 working to drive bold and transformative ideas, working closely with government, the private sector and civil society actors to build a more resilient country, ensuring that programs are responsive to and influenced by participants and stakeholders. With the launch of Mercy Corps Global Strategy, Pathway to Possibility, the country office is poised to operationalize its three-year strategy with a vision to enhance the resilience of climate- and conflict-affected communities through market systems development for improved livelihoods, access to food, and safe and clean water to thrive in the face of crises. In Ethiopia, our strategy focuses in the four outcome areas: 1) Economically marginalized populations have improved and diversified livelihoods, income, and assets; 2) Pastoralists, farmers, and households have access to sustainably produced, safe, nutritious food; 3) Social cohesion and inclusive governance processes are built in crisis-affected communities; and 4) People have equitable, sustained access to clean water and sanitation for domestic and productive use. Currently, we operate in Eight regional states – Afar, Sidama, Tigray, Gambella, Oromia, Somali, Amhara and South Ethiopia. Working with a diverse base of donors that includes United States Agency for International Development (USAID), European Union, GAC, Hilton Foundation, United Nations (UN), JOA, Sweden, EKN, and other foundations, Mercy Corps Ethiopia empowers people to recover from crisis, build better lives and transform their communities for good.&nbsp;General Position SummaryUnder the guidance of the Humanitarian Team Leader, the Humanitarian WASH Advisor/Engineer will provide strategic and technical leadership for Mercy Corps Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) interventions in humanitarian settings. The role ensures high-quality and timely implementation of emergency WASH programs, supports proposal development, and ensures technical alignment with global standards (e.g., SPHERE, WHO, UNICEF, and WASH Cluster guidelines). S/he will ensure quality WASH programming by leading, monitoring and evaluating technical aspects of WASH activities in all regions where WASH interventions are managed. S/he will ensure that all WASH activities are done holistically coordinated with other Mercy Corps projects/programs and other stakeholders. In addition, he/she will represent Mercy Corps in WASH cluster and related coordination forums at national level; and establish strong linkage with government, UN agencies, and other key stakeholders.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Position Title: Humanitarian WASH Technical Advisor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Location: Addis Ababa&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Position Status: Full-time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Salary Level: Based on the organization scale&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Current Team Member: New&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Safeguarding Risk Level: 3Essential Job ResponsibilitiesTechnical Leadership &amp; Strategy<ul><li>Lead the design, implementation, and monitoring of emergency WASH responses.</li><li>Provide technical guidance on the Mercy Corps Ethiopia Program's humanitarian WASH interventions</li><li>Define appropriate SoPs, guidelines, and tools for the WASH activities of Mercy Corps in consultation with other field experts and in line with relevant government, Sphere, and WHO guidelines.</li><li>Whenever necessary (highly technical activities) prepare design documents, bill of quantities, and organize a competitive bidding process with the procurement team to select the most qualified and cost-effective contractor.</li><li>Develop and review technical specifications, BoQs, drawings, contract documents, and construction methodologies, and lead the bid evaluation and related contract administration components of the project.</li><li>Ensure climate-resilient and sustainable WASH solutions in humanitarian interventions.</li><li>Carry out regular monitoring visits in conjunction with other staff, ensuring that project objectives are met within the stated timeframes.</li><li>Maintain oversight of the procurement of supplies ordered for the emergency WASH project, supporting the WASH and logistics staff in the coordination and quality control of WASH supplies.</li><li>Ensures all emergency WASH activities are implemented in accordance with the Mercy Corps, donor and government guidelines and policies.</li><li>Ensures application of best practices in the WASH interventions. Ensures a coherent, community-based and engages the private sectors including contractors and suppliers to emergency WASH services</li><li>Document and disseminate success stories and lessons learned to donors and regional and national level stakeholders.</li><li>Guide WASH Coordinators and Specialists and support in Emergency WASH needs assessments to prioritize community priority needs in the program designing process.</li><li>Create and maintain systems ensuring effective and transparent use of financial resources for timely and informative reporting in line with donor and Mercy Corps policies and procedures.</li><li>Work closely with the other emergency technical Advisors at the Country Office to ensure synergy among sectors and support timely implementation.</li></ul>Program Development &amp; Fundraising<ul><li>Contribute to proposal writing and technical annexes for WASH interventions.</li><li>Identify innovative approaches for new funding opportunities for emergency WASH programs.</li><li>Lead technical assessments for new project design.</li></ul>Quality Assurance<ul><li>Ensure program implementation is on time, target and budget, using effective M&amp;E systems to reach desired impacts.</li><li>Conduct WASH needs assessments, feasibility studies, and risk analyses in crisis-affected areas.</li><li>Ensure compliance with national and international WASH standards and donor requirements.</li><li>Monitor construction and rehabilitation work to ensure quality and safety.</li><li>Work closely with the MEL team to design appropriate indicators and data collection systems for WASH programs.</li><li>Integrate community approaches, gender sensitivity and capacity building into all activities as appropriate.</li><li>Ensure all interventions adhere to Mercy Corps’ Gender Policy, Do No Harm principles, and beneficiary accountability standards.</li></ul>Capacity Building &amp; Coordination<ul><li>Provide mentorship and on-the-job technical training to field engineers and WASH staff.</li><li>Support local partners and government stakeholders with capacity strengthening in emergency WASH engineering.</li><li>Represent the organization in WASH Cluster and technical working group meetings.</li><li>Collaborate with logistics, procurement, and finance teams to ensure technical compliance in contracting and material selection.</li></ul>Team Management<ul><li>Assist team members with information, tools and resources to improve performance &amp; reach objectives.</li><li>Promote accountability, communicate expectations and provide constructive feedback informally and formally via regular one on ones and performance reviews.</li><li>Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.</li></ul>Security:<ul><li>Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.</li><li>Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.</li></ul><h2>SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: WASH Coordinators or Specialists</h2>REPORTS DIRECTLY TO: Humanitarian Team LeadWORKS WITH:&nbsp;&nbsp; Mainly with WASH, Health, Nutrition Advisors and Managers and another Humanitarian team in MC Country Office and All MC Humanitarian Operation Offices.

Humanitarian WASH Technical Advisor

<h3>Description</h3>About Mercy CorpsMercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, hardship, and in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action—helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within—now and for the future. Mercy Corps Ethiopia exists to alleviate suffering and poverty by helping people build secure, productive, and sustainable livelihoods. Since 2004, we have worked in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in five regional states - Somali, Oromia, Afar, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Amhara, and the capital city of Addis Ababa. Our mission is to foster populations that are financially stable, healthy, nourished, educated, and informed, within a context where natural resources are accessed, shared, and utilized sustainably, so people can lead productive livelihoods. Driven by local needs, our programs provide individuals, agencies, and businesses with the tools and support they need to transform their lives, businesses, and communities.Our partners include government, academic institutions, development and private sector actors, civil societies, and participating public. We strive to strengthen all of these institutions in the hopes that one day they will become self-reliant. We engage in both development and humanitarian work and seek to integrate approaches, programs, and geographies as much as possible. We employ a systems-strengthening approach to improve human and social capital; and to link, strengthen, and expand systems critical to improving household incomes and resilience at the individual, community, and systems level. We use multiple approaches that; integrate components geographically and programmatically; are cross-cutting and it participates youth, women, and the disabled; are collaborative; and use adaptive management to achieve tangible, scalable, coherent, and consistent positive results. We will continue to deliver and adapt our systems-strengthening approach; to improve skills and increase employment and entrepreneurship, particularly for youth and women; to improve incomes, savings, health, and nutrition; and to ensure the sustainability of the natural resource environments critical to extensive livestock production systems. When humanitarian crises occur, we will continue to employ our systems thinking to provide and encourage others to provide life-saving responses that also protect development gains. Within our office, we will work to secure funds critical to sustaining our core operations and to provide flexibility for exploring new opportunities.General Position SummaryViolence against women and girls and conflict-related sexual violence VAWG/CRSV Prevention Officer plays a crucial role at Mercy Corps Ethiopia by implementing risk mitigation and prevention interventions. This position is responsible for ensuring the technical quality and integration of these activities across humanitarian programs, identifying and addressing related concerns through direct service and referrals.The VAWG/CRSV Prevention Officer will also contribute to capacity-building training, facilitate curriculum-based social dialogues, and raise community awareness and sensitization on protection issues. Additionally, they will lead the organizational and staff transformation on protection and represent Mercy Corps in relevant coordination forums and platforms at the field office level. The position holder will participate in assessments and concept note writing. They are also responsible for developing effective and timely budget and activity reports. They also develop work plans, managing procurement plans that include prompt initiation of Purchase Requests (PR), overseeing procurement processes, and ensuring timely delivery to the target participants. If necessary, the position holder may travel to other field offices to provide support in similar and related protection roles.Location- Afar, Abala and Somali Gode, One per regionPosition Status Full-timeSalary Level:Current Team Member:Safeguarding Risk Level: 3&nbsp;Essential Job Responsibilities Strategy &amp; Vision<ul><li>Collaborate and engage proactively with all Mercy Corps team members to ensure effective protection of mainstreaming, social integrity, and VAWG/CRSV concerns across all humanitarian programs.</li><li>Work alongside relevant government and non-governmental actors to effectively address protection, VAWG, and social norm issues, informing project designs and activities.&nbsp;</li></ul>Program Management<ul><li>Directly support VAWG/CRSV prevention activities, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the program.</li><li>Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders.</li><li>Facilitate training, dialogues, and workshops on protection-related issues and VAWG/CRSV for various groups.</li><li>Develop quarterly work plans, monthly work plans, and monitoring plans.</li><li>Provide prevention and risk mitigation services in collaboration with community workers and social workers.</li><li>Offer on-the-job training for social and community workers on conducting awareness sessions within the community, including door-to-door interventions.</li><li>Participate in conducting assessments and community meetings.</li><li>Prepare Activity Concept Notes (ACNs) and Terms of Reference (TORs) based on the proposal.</li><li>Assist in the development of prevention-related Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) and Behavior Change Communication (BCC) materials.</li><li>Create a quarterly outreach plan based on case trends analysis.</li><li>Ensure the successful implementation of various awareness activities, including updating training materials and supervising community activists.</li><li>Support capacity building for community workers to facilitate VAWG/CRSV safety audit activities.</li><li>Monitor prevention supply needs and submit procurement requests every quarter.</li><li>Compile weekly prevention reports and submit them to the program manager.</li><li>Support the Response Officer's participation in coordination meetings with relevant stakeholders.</li><li>Collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data on prevention activities.</li><li>Promote the participation of women, adolescent girls, and girl children in all matters affecting their lives.</li><li>Undertake any other duties and responsibilities assigned by immediate and technical supervisors.</li></ul>Team Management<ul><li>Offer technical guidance to field-level social workers and community volunteers, including on-the-job training.</li><li>Collaborate with all project teams to enhance capacity through training and coaching on protection, VAWG/CRSV, and related topics, ensuring effective on-the-job training and capacity development.</li><li>Foster accountability by clearly communicating expectations and providing constructive feedback in both formal and informal settings.</li><li>Cultivate a work environment grounded in mutual respect, where team members are motivated to achieve excellence.</li></ul>Influence &amp; Representation<ul><li>Make sure to coordinate with government, development, and humanitarian actors to promote participation, protection, risk mitigation, and prevention of VAWG/CRSV.</li><li>Represent Mercy Corps in various platforms, networks, and coordination forums that focus on VAWG/CRSV, and protection.</li><li>Always upholds the image and values of Mercy Corps</li></ul>PROGRAM AND PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT<ul><li>Provide humanitarian teams with technical support, coaching, and capacity building to ensure high-quality, strong, and participatory programs.</li><li>Conduct assessments by collecting data to determine community needs.</li><li>Appropriately document community meeting minutes and GBVIMS data for further use in new initiatives.</li></ul><h4>SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY</h4><ul><li>The Protection Specialist will have the responsibility of providing guiding and on-the-job coaching for the VAWG/CRSV officers, including the prevention officers.</li><li>The protection specialist is responsible for providing technical support to all project teams to be able to properly cascade the protection related service like community awareness, social dialogues, community group establishment, and protection mainstreaming concerns during day-to-day activity implementation; as well as responsible to provide capacity-building training.</li></ul>SECURITY<ul><li>Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.</li><li>Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.</li></ul><h4>&nbsp;Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders</h4>Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, and other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in designing, monitoring, and evaluating our field projects.<h4>§ Reports Directly To: Protection specialist</h4><h4>§ Technical Reporting line: Protection specialist</h4><h4>§ Closely work with Humanitarian Programs MEL Manager, protection advisor, Program manager, area program manager, etc.</h4>&nbsp;

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS / VAWG/ PREVENTION OFFICER

<h4>About Mercy Corps</h4>Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, for the future.Mercy Corps has been present in Ethiopia since 2004 working to drive bold and transformative ideas, working closely with government, the private sector and civil society actors to build a more resilient country, ensuring that programs are responsive to and influenced by participants and stakeholders. With the launch of Mercy Corps Global Strategy, Pathway to Possibility, the country office is poised to operationalize its three-year strategy with a vision to enhance the resilience of climate- and conflict-affected communities through market systems development for improved livelihoods, access to food, and safe and clean water to thrive in the face of crises. In Ethiopia, our strategy focuses in the four outcome areas: 1) Economically marginalized populations have improved and diversified livelihoods, income, and assets; 2) Pastoralists, farmers, and households have access to sustainably produced, safe, nutritious food; 3) Social cohesion and inclusive governance processes are built in crisis-affected communities; and 4) People have equitable, sustained access to clean water and sanitation for domestic and productive use. Currently, we operate in Eight regional states – Afar, Sidama, Tigray, Gambella, Oromia, Somali, Amhara and South Ethiopia. Working with a diverse base of donors that includes United States Agency for International Development (USAID), European Union, GAC, Hilton Foundation, United Nations (UN), JOA, Sweden, EKN, and other foundations, Mercy Corps Ethiopia empowers people to recover from crisis, build better lives and transform their communities for good.&nbsp;Position Summary:Under the direct supervision of the Agriculture Specialist, the agriculture officer will be responsible for leading timely and quality implementation of Agriculture (Crop and Vegetable) production activities in HACAP program, which is under operation in Kelafo, Adadle, Berano, and Abakorow Woredas of the Somali Region, and in, Goro Dola, Gumi Eldalo and Liben Woredas of the Oromia Region. She/he will work to ensure program achievement and contribute to enhancing agricultural productivity in the areas including crop and vegetable production.Position Title: Agriculture Officer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Location: MC Gode Office&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Position Status: Full-time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Salary Level: Based on the organization scale&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Current Team Member: New&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Safeguarding Risk Level: High&nbsp;Essential Job Responsibilities:<ul><li>Provided technical facilitation support around responsibilities for agriculture activities in crop and vegetable production and productivity activities to ensure the planned activists are implemented timely and with required deliverable quality.</li><li>Facilitate capacity building efforts for market actors (i.e. private, public) on the MSD approaches, identification of the market system opportunities/constraints through conducting continues system analysis and access to agricultural inputs, support the delivery of market feed/fodder, agricultural inputs through market actors to targeted communities.</li><li>Engage in regular field visits to assess the activities of implementation progress, give technical advice/mentor, and provide feedback(s) for further improvement.</li><li>Closely work with supervisor and M&amp;E team during the development of monitoring</li><li>tools/measuring indicators, milestones development, and monitoring/ reporting of output and outcome in his/her area assigned.</li><li>Ensures the program properly captures, documented, and updated relevant information in crop and vegetable production activities of HACAP.</li><li>In collaboration with project teams, work to build and maintain close relationships with key government partners and local implementers.</li><li>Represent Mercy Corps professionally at zonal and woreda level to bring credit and to maintain its humanitarian and development mission.</li><li>Compile and submit regular updates/reports (weekly, monthly, and quarterly); and</li><li>Other duties as assigned.</li></ul>Team Management:<ul><li>Support and liaise with Agriculture Specialist and Livestock officers in managing the agricultural intervention of the HACAP Program.</li><li>Coordinate and work with other HACAP team members, Woreda level stakeholders, and Agricultural experts during the implementation of the program activities.</li></ul>Security:<ul><li>Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.</li><li>Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.</li></ul><h2>SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: None</h2>REPORTS DIRECTLY TO: Agriculture SpecialistWORKS WITH:&nbsp;&nbsp; Mainly with Agriculture and Protection teams and other MC Gode Office support staff.

Agriculture Officer

<h4>About Mercy Corps</h4>Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, for the future.Mercy Corps has been present in Ethiopia since 2004 working to drive bold and transformative ideas, working closely with government, the private sector and civil society actors to build a more resilient country, ensuring that programs are responsive to and influenced by participants and stakeholders. With the launch of Mercy Corps Global Strategy, Pathway to Possibility, the country office is poised to operationalize its three-year strategy with a vision to enhance the resilience of climate- and conflict-affected communities through market systems development for improved livelihoods, access to food, and safe and clean water to thrive in the face of crises. In Ethiopia, our strategy focuses in the four outcome areas: 1) Economically marginalized populations have improved and diversified livelihoods, income, and assets; 2) Pastoralists, farmers, and households have access to sustainably produced, safe, nutritious food; 3) Social cohesion and inclusive governance processes are built in crisis-affected communities; and 4) People have equitable, sustained access to clean water and sanitation for domestic and productive use. Currently, we operate in Eight regional states – Afar, Sidama, Tigray, Gambella, Oromia, Somali, Amhara and South Ethiopia. Working with a diverse base of donors that includes United States Agency for International Development (USAID), European Union, GAC, Hilton Foundation, United Nations (UN), JOA, Sweden, EKN, and other foundations, Mercy Corps Ethiopia empowers people to recover from crisis, build better lives and transform their communities for good.&nbsp;Position Summary:Under the direct supervision of the Agriculture Specialist, the agriculture officer will be responsible for leading timely and quality implementation of Agriculture (Crop and Vegetable) production activities in HACAP program, which is under operation in Goro Dola, Gumi Eldalo and Liben Woredas of the Oromia Region. She/he will work to ensure program achievement and contribute to enhancing agricultural productivity in the areas including crop and vegetable production.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Position Title: Agriculture Officer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Location: MC Negele Office&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Position Status: Full-time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Salary Level: Based on the organization scale&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Current Team Member: New&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Safeguarding Risk Level: HighEssential Job Responsibilities:<ul><li>Provided technical facilitation support around responsibilities for agriculture activities in crop and vegetable production and productivity activities to ensure the planned activists are implemented timely and with required deliverable quality.</li><li>Facilitate capacity building efforts for market actors (i.e. private, public) on the MSD approaches, identification of the market system opportunities/constraints through conducting continues system analysis and access to agricultural inputs, support the delivery of market feed/fodder, agricultural inputs through market actors to targeted communities.</li><li>Engage in regular field visits to assess the activities of implementation progress, give technical advice/mentor, and provide feedback(s) for further improvement.</li><li>Closely work with supervisor and M&amp;E team during the development of monitoring</li><li>tools/measuring indicators, milestones development, and monitoring/ reporting of output and outcome in his/her area assigned.</li><li>Ensures the program properly captures, documented, and updated relevant information in crop and vegetable production activities of HACAP.</li><li>In collaboration with project teams, work to build and maintain close relationships with key government partners and local implementers.</li><li>Represent Mercy Corps professionally at zonal and woreda level to bring credit and to maintain its humanitarian and development mission.</li><li>Compile and submit regular updates/reports (weekly, monthly, and quarterly); and</li><li>Other duties as assigned.</li></ul>Team Management:<ul><li>Support and liaise with Agriculture Specialist and Livestock officers in managing the agricultural intervention of the HACAP Program.</li><li>Coordinate and work with other HACAP team members, Woreda level stakeholders, and Agricultural experts during the implementation of the program activities.</li></ul>Security:<ul><li>Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.</li><li>Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.</li></ul><h2>SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: None</h2>REPORTS DIRECTLY TO: Agriculture SpecialistWORKS WITH:&nbsp;&nbsp; Mainly with Agriculture and Protection teams and other MC Negele Office support staff.

<h3>Description</h3>&nbsp;About Mercy CorpsMercy Corps has been present in Ethiopia since 2004, working to drive bold and transformative ideas, working closely with government, the private sector, and civil society actors to build a more resilient country, ensuring that programs are responsive to and influenced by participants and stakeholders. Our vision is to enhance the resilience of climate and conflict-affected communities through market systems development for improved livelihoods, access to food, and safe and clean water to thrive in the face of crises. Our strategy focuses on the four outcome areas of: 1) Economically marginalized populations have improved and diversified livelihoods, income, and assets; 2) Pastoralists, farmers, and households have access to sustainably produced, safe, nutritious food; 3) Social cohesion and inclusive governance processes are built in crisis-affected communities; and 4) People have equitable, sustained access to clean water and sanitation for domestic and productive use.&nbsp; Currently we operate in the regional states of Afar, Amhara, Gambella, Oromia, Somali, Sidama, Southern Ethiopia, Tigray and Addis Ababa city administration working with a diverse base of donors that includes United States Agency for International Development (USAID), European Union, GAC, Hilton Foundation, United Nations (UN), JOA, Sweden, EKN, and other foundations.Program / Department SummaryMercy Corps Ethiopia currently secured USAID/BHA funded multisectoral response program entitled ‘Humanitarian Assistance for Conflict-Affected Populations (HACAP)' in Oromia, Afar and Somali regions. The goal of the proposed program is to increase access to Life-saving Services for Conflict-affected IDPs, Returnees, and Vulnerable Populations through provision of integrated Multi-Sectoral Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion (WASH), Health, Nutrition, Agriculture, Protection, and Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) support in seven Woredas of the three regions. &nbsp;General Position SummaryMercy Corps takes a participatory approach in engaging with local communities throughout the program design and implementation. A Community Accountability Reporting Mechanism (CARM) is an essential part of Mercy Corps’ commitment to excellence and integrity, by providing individuals, organizations, local groups, and other stakeholders with Mercy Corps, a means of raising concerns about potential staff misconduct or sharing feedback or programmatic activities (positive and negative) with Mercy Corps, independently from program operations. In the context of Ethiopia, rolling out and implementing CARM will ensure that the Ethiopia country team will continue to uphold Mercy Corps’ high accountability standards. She/he will also be responsible for documentation activities, compiling reports (weekly and monthly), and representing Mercy Corps in coordination forums such as Zonal and Woreda-level meetings.Location:&nbsp;Gode, EthiopiaPosition Status:&nbsp;Full TimeSalary Level: Based on the organization's scaleCurrent Team Member: NewSafeguarding Risk Level: HighESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:Implementation and Program Quality<ul><li>Ensure their program has at least three active, context-appropriate feedback channels informed by community preferences and following proper procedures.</li><li>Conduct community engagement, sensitization, and distribution of IEC materials across all intervention sites.</li><li>Collect feedback received via different feedback available channels, such as through the hotline number, face-to-face (help desk), and suggestion boxes in all intervention sites, and ensure documentation of all feedback in the CARM database.</li><li>Ensure all feedback is logged and graded based on Mercy Corps' standard grading system and that appropriate action is taken based on feedback grade.</li><li>Ensure closure of all feedback cases by following up closely with relevant team members(s).</li><li>Manage all feedback received in a secure and confidential country-level CARM database</li><li>Preparing monthly/bi-monthly reports</li><li>Work closely with the MEL/CARM officer to integrate CARM-related questions within all MEL tools and ensure CARM indicators are incorporated within each MEL Plan for all programs.</li><li>Comply with and ensure compliance with global data protection and privacy standards while confidentially receiving, following up on, and reporting on CARM feedback received.</li></ul>ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING&nbsp;<ul><li>As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient, and relevant to the communities they serve - we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.</li></ul>ACCOUNTABILITY TO BENEFICIARIES<ul><li>Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of our field projects.</li></ul>Reports Directly To:&nbsp;MEL/CARM Officer and Dotted line with the Humanitarian Programs Monitoring and Evaluation ManagerWorks Directly With:&nbsp;All program team members working on the Humanitarian programs in the field office, field-level Finance, Country MEL Manager, Country Accountability and Safeguarding Advisor, and CARM advisor

CARM assistance

<h3>Description</h3><h4>About Mercy Corps</h4>Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future.Mercy Corps has been present in Ethiopia since 2004 working to drive bold and transformative ideas, working closely with government, the private sector and civil society actors to build a more resilient country, ensuring that programs are responsive to and influenced by participants and stakeholders. With the launch of Mercy Corps Global Strategy, Pathway to Possibility, the country office is poised to operationalize its three-year strategy with a vision to enhance the resilience of climate- and conflict-affected communities through market systems development for improved livelihoods, access to food, and safe and clean water to thrive in the face of crises. In Ethiopia, our strategy focuses in the four outcome areas: 1) Economically marginalized populations have improved and diversified livelihoods, income, and assets; 2) Pastoralists, farmers, and households have access to sustainably produced, safe, nutritious food; 3) Social cohesion and inclusive governance processes are built in crisis-affected communities; and 4) People have equitable, sustained access to clean water and sanitation for domestic and productive use. Currently, we operate in six regional states – Afar, Gambella, Oromia, Somali, Amhara and South Ethiopia. Working with a diverse base of donors that includes United States Agency for International Development (USAID), European Union, GAC, Hilton Foundation, United Nations (UN), JOA, Sweden, EKN, and other foundations, Mercy Corps Ethiopia empowers people to recover from crisis, build better lives and transform their communities for good.&nbsp;General Position SummaryUnder the guidance of the Health and Nutrition Specialist, the Community Mobilizer will be responsible for conducting community sensitization and mobilization to raise awareness and encourage active participation in CMAM (Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition) and IYCF (Infant and Young Child Feeding) programs. The Community Mobilizer will work closely with community leaders, health workers, local authorities, and Mother-to-Mother support groups to promote optimal infant and young child feeding practices and improve community knowledge of available health and nutrition services. They will facilitate community meetings, focus group discussions, and education sessions, as well as assist in identifying, registering, and verifying project beneficiaries in line with program criteria. Additionally, the Community Mobilizer will assist the MHNT in organizing nutrition education and cooking demonstrations to promote positive behavior change within the target communities.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Position Title: Community Mobilizer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Location: Erebti Woreda, Zone 2, Afar region.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Position Status: Full-time&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Salary Level: Based on the organization scale&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Current Team Member: Existing&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Safeguarding Risk Level: HighEssential Job Responsibilities:Project Implementation:<ul><li>Conduct community sensitization and mobilization activities to raise awareness about CMAM and IYCF programs.</li><li>Work closely with community leaders, health workers, and local authorities to ensure community engagement and support for the nutrition project.</li><li>Facilitate the formation and strengthening of Mother-to-Mother support groups to promote optimal infant and young child feeding practices.</li><li>Organize and participate in community meetings, focus group discussions, and other activities to engage and educate community members about nutrition and health services.</li><li>Support the identification and registration of project beneficiaries, ensuring they meet the selection criteria.</li><li>Assist in the organization and delivery of nutrition education sessions, cooking demonstrations, and health promotion campaigns.</li><li>Work with the project team to ensure the smooth operation of OTP (Outpatient Therapeutic Program) and SFP (Supplementary Feeding Program) distribution points.</li><li>Ensure accurate recording and reporting of beneficiary data and program activities.</li></ul>&nbsp;Collaboration and Coordination:<ul><li>Foster strong relationships with community volunteers, health workers, and local authorities to enhance program effectiveness.</li><li>Collaborate with other project team members to ensure the integration of nutrition activities with other health and livelihood interventions.</li><li>Participate in regular team meetings and provide updates on community mobilization activities.</li></ul>&nbsp;Monitoring and Reporting:<ul><li>Collect and report data on community mobilization activities, including attendance at meetings, participation in support groups, and feedback from community members.</li><li>Assist in monitoring and evaluating the impact of the project on community health and nutrition outcomes.</li><li>Provide regular reports to the project manager on community engagement and mobilization efforts.</li></ul>

Community Mobilizer

<h4>About Mercy Corps</h4>Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future.Mercy Corps has been present in Ethiopia since 2004 working to drive bold and transformative ideas, working closely with government, the private sector and civil society actors to build a more resilient country, ensuring that programs are responsive to and influenced by participants and stakeholders. With the launch of Mercy Corps Global Strategy, Pathway to Possibility, the country office is poised to operationalize its three-year strategy with a vision to enhance the resilience of climate- and conflict-affected communities through market systems development for improved livelihoods, access to food, and safe and clean water to thrive in the face of crises. In Ethiopia, our strategy focuses in the four outcome areas: 1) Economically marginalized populations have improved and diversified livelihoods, income, and assets; 2) Pastoralists, farmers, and households have access to sustainably produced, safe, nutritious food; 3) Social cohesion and inclusive governance processes are built in crisis-affected communities; and 4) People have equitable, sustained access to clean water and sanitation for domestic and productive use. Currently, we operate in six regional states – Afar, Gambella, Oromia, Somali, Amhara and South Ethiopia. Working with a diverse base of donors that includes United States Agency for International Development (USAID), European Union, GAC, Hilton Foundation, United Nations (UN), JOA, Sweden, EKN, and other foundations, Mercy Corps Ethiopia empowers people to recover from crisis, build better lives and transform their communities for good.&nbsp;General Position SummaryUnder the guidance of the Health and Nutrition Specialist, the IYCF Officer is responsible for managing moderate acute malnutrition and preventing further deterioration of the nutrition situation through the provision of IYCF (Infant and Young Child Feeding) counseling, supplementary foods, timely screening, health and nutrition education, capacity building, and technical support to the Woreda Health Office on managing moderate acute malnutrition.Essential Job ResponsibilitiesStrategy &amp; Vision<ul><li>Collaborate with team members to integrate nutrition and health services effectively.</li><li>Work with local authorities and partners to harmonize efforts for better impact and sustainability.</li><li>Continuously update knowledge to adapt to changing situations and contexts.</li></ul>Program Management<ul><li>Plan and organize TSF (Targeted Supplementary Feeding) and IYCF counseling and education at designated distribution sites in collaboration with other nutrition teams.</li><li>Develop action plans for effective TSFP and IYCF implementation in consultation with stakeholders.</li><li>Provide supportive supervision to Health Extension Workers (HEWs) and Food Distribution Agents (FDAs) at TSFP sites.</li><li>Ensure accurate measurement of all children by HEWs and FDAs.</li><li>Ensure all criteria, including admission, discharge, and transfer to and from the OTP (Outpatient Therapeutic Program), are respected and understood by HEWs and HWs.</li><li>Review and ensure the completion, accuracy, and coherence of forms completed by HEWs.</li><li>Ensure HEWs and FDAs follow national protocols.</li><li>Coordinate with logistics to ensure adequate availability and pre-positioning of medical and food supplies.</li><li>Work closely with OTP/SC Nurses to ensure program understanding and appropriate referrals.</li><li>Provide feedback to the Project Coordinator on the quality of supplementary foods.</li><li>Report progress and issues promptly.</li><li>Ensure children not meeting admission criteria return home as soon as possible, with caretakers understanding why.</li><li>Provide effective follow-up of all cases, particularly tracing children who are absent from the program, sick, not gaining weight, or have social problems.</li><li>Provide on-the-job training to HEWs and FDAs on key health and education messages following protocols and guidelines.</li><li>Respond to HEWs and FDAs inquiries regarding technical aspects of program admission and discharge.</li><li>Support Woreda Health Office staff with technical assistance in meetings and answering project-related questions.</li><li>Assist HEWs in compiling statistical data.</li><li>Build good relationships with local authorities and community leaders.</li><li>Facilitate links and meetings with community leaders and different groups.</li><li>Perform other duties as requested by the immediate supervisor.</li><li>Organize and document health education and capacity-building activities.</li><li>Participate in disseminating appropriate hygiene educational materials.</li><li>Support the CMAM Nurse and Project Coordinators in organizing and facilitating CMAM (Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition) training.</li></ul>Team Management<ul><li>Ensure health workers and HEWs follow national protocols.</li><li>Provide technical support to MC mobile and zonal/woreda government health staff on managing moderate acute malnutrition.</li><li>Report on professional issues to the Project Coordinator.</li><li>Provide formal and on-the-job training for health workers, HEWs, MC Nutrition field workers, and community mobilizers.</li></ul>&nbsp;Accountability to Beneficiaries<ul><li>Support efforts toward accountability to program participants and international standards guiding relief and development work.</li><li>Implement the Community Accountability Reporting Mechanism (CARM) effectively.</li><li>Regularly conduct oneself professionally, respecting local laws, customs, and MC policies.</li></ul>&nbsp;Security<ul><li>Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.</li><li>Proactively ensure team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.</li></ul>

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About the CompanyShega is on a mission of elevating decision-making in Africa, starting with Ethiopia, through a data &amp; Intelligence platform that aggregates and contextualizes information, along with a Media &amp; Audience Ecosystem offering high-quality media and analysis driven content. We also provide Insights &amp; Advisory, merging market intelligence with local expertise forstrategic growth and social impact, and Agency Services to help brands and organizations connect with our expanding audience. By combining intelligence, an audience ecosystem, and tailored advisory, Shega partners local and international private and development actors to catalyze innovation and informed growth.Job OverviewShega is seeking a dynamic Commercial and Strategic Partnerships Director/Manager to drive revenue growth and expand our impact across Africa and emerging markets. In this pivotal role, you will monetize Shega’s hybrid platform—combining AI-powered data intelligence, media, and advisory services—by closing high-value B2B deals, scaling subscriptions, and forging strategic alliances with corporates, investors, and development organizations. The ideal candidate brings 5–8 years of experience in commercial leadership, a proven track record of six-figure+ partnerships, and deep networks across Africa’s fintech and innovation ecosystems. You’ll thrive as a strategic thinker, negotiator, and team leader, translating Shega’s mission of data-driven decision-making into scalable revenue streams. Based in Addis Ababa (or remotely), this role offers competitive compensation, flexibility, and the opportunity to shape how businesses and policymakers navigate Africa’s transformation.Responsibility1. Revenue Growth &amp; Commercial Strategy<ul><li>Develop and execute annual/quarterly commercial plans to meet revenue targets (ARR, TCV).</li><li>Design monetization models for Shega’s product lines (media, advisory, SaaS/data subscriptions).</li><li>Own pricing strategy, deal governance, and pipeline forecasting.</li></ul>2. Strategic Partnerships &amp; Alliances<ul><li>Identify, negotiate, and close partnerships with corporates, DFIs, development orgs, and data providers.</li><li>Create bundled solutions (data + content + advisory) to address partner pain points.</li><li>Lead donor-funded multiyear projects and manage partner onboarding/reviews.</li></ul>3. Sales &amp; Business Development<ul><li>Drive enterprise sales for platform subscriptions and agency services.</li><li>Convert high-potential leads into marquee clients (six-figure USD+ deals).</li><li>Leverage Shega’s media channels (newsletters, SEM) for targeted GTM campaigns.</li></ul>4. Team &amp; Process Leadership<ul><li>Build and mentor a high-performing commercial team (sales, account management).</li><li>Implement CRM tools, sales playbooks, and data-driven decision frameworks.</li></ul>5. Market Intelligence &amp; Advocacy<ul><li>Scan emerging trends (fintech, digital economy) to inform product roadmaps.</li><li>Represent Shega at industry events and high-level stakeholder engagements.</li></ul>

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