Development and Project Management

Research Triangle Institute (RTI) has over 30 years’ experience assisting governments, communities, and the private sector. As a not-for-profit, independent research institute based in North Carolina, USA, RTI has roughly 6,000 employees with global experience implementing international development projects. RTI's Sustainable Growth &amp; Resilience (SG&amp;R) technical unit within the International Development Group brings together RTI experts and capabilities across food security, agriculture, energy, environment, water, governance, and economic opportunity. SG&amp;R will leverage RTI's experience designing and delivering multisectoral programming and technical solutions to respond to climate change, build resilience, and promote economic growth around the world.&nbsp;SG&amp;R’s Global Food Security and Agriculture portfolio is working to strengthen agricultural markets, engage youth and women as critical leaders in the workforce, address climate change, and tackle the dual burden of malnutrition around the globe. RTI’s work is helping foster stronger food systems, build resilience to climate and man-made shock, and engage the next generation of local leaders. RTI is currently partnering on nearly 30 projects in East Africa, including activities focused on private sector-driven agricultural growth in Rwanda and market systems development in Kenya and Ethiopia.&nbsp; The purpose of the USAID/Ethiopia Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Activity is to enable timely anticipatory and early action to preempt crises and reduce the impact of shocks in Ethiopia by strengthening disaster risk management (DRM) planning and preparedness, improving DRM coordination, and enhancing resource mobilization and management. The activity will also strengthen gender in emergencies (GiE) capacity, increase private sector engagement in DRM, and expand local organizations' capacity to engage in DRM.&nbsp;

USAID/Ethiopia Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Activity

<h4>Position Description</h4>RTI is seeking a DRM Regional Manager, Amhara for the USAID Ethiopia DRM Activity. The DRM Regional Manager, Amhara will be responsible for leading the implementation and coordination of all technical activities at the Amhara regional level while providing oversight to day-to-day project operations. RTI has established a regional field office in Amhara that will be overseen by a DRM Regional Manager who will maintain local relationships and make locally focused programmatic decisions.&nbsp;This position will be based in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, anticipated to be in Bahir Dar, and will report to the Deputy Chief of Party–Technical.<h4>Responsibilities</h4><ul><li>Overall coordination and manage DRM activities in the Amhara region.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Support and coordinate with DRM technical teams in nutrition, food and agriculture systems,&nbsp;and market systems to ensure technical quality of core activities to ensure scale and impact across sectors.&nbsp;</li><li>Develop and maintain relationships with private sector actors, national non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations, within the region, engaging them as grantees, learning partners, and stakeholders.</li><li>Engage with other donors and/or donor-funded activities by including them as active participants in learning agendas and events, to ensure that learnings are&nbsp;shared,&nbsp;and successes are amplified and replicated.&nbsp;</li><li>Coordinate and work closely with regional government and district (woreda) level government technical implementation of DRM activities.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Oversee and coordinate local partners, sub-contracts, and grantee's implementation and reporting.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Oversee all activities&nbsp;including grant, procurement, logistics, HR, and IT functions for the regional&nbsp;office.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Responsible for data collection and submission to the main office.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ensures that regional&nbsp;support needs are identified to the head office.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Supervise and support technical and operational staff in the field, including coordination in the preparation process of work plan development and activities implementation, monitoring of activities and progress made using partners’ data platform, and identification of needs for technical.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Continually monitor field travel and day-to-day risk assessments in the region.&nbsp;</li></ul>

DRM Regional Manager - Amhara Region - USAID DRM Activity

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