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Ethiopian Red Cross Society (RECS)Vacancy AnnouncementPosition: Head, Regional Branch II - Place of Work: Afar Region- Salary: As per the organization salary scaleJob SummaryKey Performance Areas• Plans, organizes, directs, coordinates and controls the overall activities of the Regional Branch of the Society; Ensures that general guidelines and criteria that are used to guide opening, structuring, defining duties and responsibilities, monitoring and evaluating performances, rewarding/punishing, developing and mobilizing resources and regulating the overall activities of branches are effectively implemented in the Regional Branch• Ensures that the provisions of the charter and bylaws derived thereof, decisions made by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies as well as general assemblies and boards of the National Secretariat and the Regional Board, principles, policies, procedures and the overall statutory framework of the Society are consistently and properly enforced in the Regional Branch• Channels work instructions, directives, policies and procedures initiated by the National Secretariat and the Regional Branch itself to zonal and woreda branches for implementation and ensures effective and proper enforcement thereof,• Coordinates, monitors, and evaluates the overall activities of the branches under the Regional Branch; follows up and facilitates the timely preparation and submission of regular and exceptional reports by zonal branches; consolidates and communicates reports of national concern to the National Secretariat• Organizes, oversees, coordinates and follows up vulnerability assessment activities, intervention prioritization and project formulation activities on program areas of the Society in the Regional Branch; solicits local financing sources of program and project activities and effects intervention accordingly;• Ensures that the operation and support functional units of the Regional Branch are properly coordinated, synchronized and synergized in their activities; Ensures that the zonal and woreda branches of the Regional Branch are delegated with adequate authority and responsibility and ensures enforcement accordingly;• Enhances the capacity of the Regional Branch in sharing and disseminating values and principles of the Movement and International Humanitarian Laws to humanity, documenting and efficiently sharing/ disseminating best and promising practices in humanitarian work and organization• Represents the branch in bilateral dealings with other components of the Society, public organs, nongovernmental organizations and other partners in humanitarian work in the Regional Branch;• Prepares the agendas of Board meetings, in consultation with the chairperson of the Regional Board, and distributes same to board members together with relevant documents;

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)Vacancy Announcement Position: Local Planning Expert- Remuneration: As per the GIZ scale- Application deadline: November 13, 2018- Required Candidate: One- Place of Work: Afar (Chifra / Gullina) Responsibilities:• The key responsibility of the local planning (junior) expert, will be to support public service providers (Development Agents, DA) and communities in the development of local activity plans for natural resource management, which feed into planning processes at Woreda level.• The expert will support participatory processes and further introduce Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools on the local level with the communities.• Through the facilitation and support of the planning process, the expert will promote the rehabilitation of degraded soils and prevent further erosion by supporting User Agreements for resources and identifying suitable measures.• The expert will strengthen resource mapping exercises to support site selection for technical interventions under the responsibility of PADO and SDR.• The expert will identify with the public service providers and the community options for land use as well as complementary vegetative measures before and after the physical rehabilitation to secure rehabilitation structures and spread the effects.• The activity plans will entail maintenance by the community, e.g. through user groups, which shall derive benefits from the structures.• The expert will support coordination of the activity plans between the responsible Kebele and Woreda officials to feed them into their development planning processes.• The expert will coordinate with the SDR land use planning team, in order to integrate bottom up / local activity planning with landscape planning processes at Woreda and regional levels.Tasks:• Support to community sensitization activities (in coordination with community facilitators)• Support implementation of PRA tools which have proven useful in the pastoral context• Support data collection on production systems, traditional land use patterns, socio-economic baseline data etc. during the community discussions• Support to data collection for land use planning and transfer of data to next higher administration level• Facilitation of community meetings and development of community activity plans regarding natural resource use and protection• Discuss and support development of by-laws with the communities on land use options for sustainable natural resource usage• Support implementation in coordination with GIZ technical teams (livelihoods, engineering) according to community activity plansHow to Apply• Interested and qualified candidates shall submit their application letter along with their non-returnable recent CV to the following address:Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)Email: hreth@giz.deORP.O. Box 100009Addis Ababa, EthiopiaNote: -The name of the position for which the application is made should be clearly marked on the envelope or on the fax applications. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.Applications from qualified women are encouraged

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)Vacancy Announcement Position: Junior Local Planning Expert- Remuneration: As per the GIZ scale- Application deadline: November 13, 2018- Required Candidate: One- Place of Work: Afar (Chifra / Gullina) Responsibilities:• The key responsibility of the local planning (junior) expert, will be to support public service providers (Development Agents, DA) and communities in the development of local activity plans for natural resource management, which feed into planning processes at Woreda level.• The expert will support participatory processes and further introduce Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools on the local level with the communities.• Through the facilitation and support of the planning process, the expert will promote the rehabilitation of degraded soils and prevent further erosion by supporting User Agreements for resources and identifying suitable measures.• The expert will strengthen resource mapping exercises to support site selection for technical interventions under the responsibility of PADO and SDR.• The expert will identify with the public service providers and the community options for land use as well as complementary vegetative measures before and after the physical rehabilitation to secure rehabilitation structures and spread the effects.• The activity plans will entail maintenance by the community, e.g. through user groups, which shall derive benefits from the structures.• The expert will support coordination of the activity plans between the responsible Kebele and Woreda officials to feed them into their development planning processes.• The expert will coordinate with the SDR land use planning team, in order to integrate bottom up / local activity planning with landscape planning processes at Woreda and regional levels.Tasks:• Support to community sensitization activities (in coordination with community facilitators)• Support implementation of PRA tools which have proven useful in the pastoral context• Support data collection on production systems, traditional land use patterns, socio-economic baseline data etc. during the community discussions• Support to data collection for land use planning and transfer of data to next higher administration level• Facilitation of community meetings and development of community activity plans regarding natural resource use and protection• Discuss and support development of by-laws with the communities on land use options for sustainable natural resource usage• Support implementation in coordination with GIZ technical teams (livelihoods, engineering) according to community activity plansHow to Apply• Interested and qualified candidates shall submit their application letter along with their non-returnable recent CV to the following address:Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)Email: hreth@giz.deORP.O. Box 100009Addis Ababa, EthiopiaNote: -The name of the position for which the application is made should be clearly marked on the envelope or on the fax applications. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.Applications from qualified women are encouraged

Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS)Internal/ External Vacancy AnnouncementJob Title: Head, Regional Branch II- Reporting to: Regional Board II/SG- Grade: 14- Term of Employment: Permanent after probationary period- Required Number: 1- Place of Work: Afar Region- Salary: As per the organization salary scale- Application Deadline: October 15, 2018Key Performance Areas• Plans, organizes, directs, coordinates and controls the overall activities of the Regional Branch of the Society; Ensures that general guidelines and criteria that are used to guide opening, structuring, defining duties and responsibilities, monitoring and evaluating performances, rewarding/punishing, developing and mobilizing resources and regulating the overall activities of branches are effectively implemented in the Regional Branch• Ensures that the provisions of the charter and bylaws derived thereof, decisions made by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies as well as general assemblies and boards of the National Secretariat and the Regional Board, principles, policies, procedures and the overall statutory framework of the Society are consistently and properly enforced in the Regional Branch• Channels work instructions, directives, policies and procedures initiated by the National Secretariat and the Regional Branch itself to zonal and woreda branches for implementation and ensures effective and proper enforcement thereof,• Coordinates, monitors, and evaluates the overall activities of the branches under the Regional Branch; follows up and facilitates the timely preparation and submission of regular and exceptional reports by zonal branches; consolidates and communicates reports of national concern to the National Secretariat• Organizes, oversees, coordinates and follows up vulnerability assessment activities, intervention prioritization and project formulation activities on program areas of the Society in the Regional Branch; solicits local financing sources of program and project activities and effects intervention accordingly;• Ensures that the operation and support functional units of the Regional Branch are properly coordinated, synchronized and synergized in their activities; Ensures that the zonal and woreda branches of the Regional Branch are delegated with adequate authority and responsibility and ensures enforcement accordingly;• Enhances the capacity of the Regional Branch in sharing and disseminating values and principles of the Movement and International Humanitarian Laws to humanity, documenting and efficiently sharing/ disseminating best and promising practices in humanitarian work and organization• Represents the branch in bilateral dealings with other components of the Society, public organs, nongovernmental organizations and other partners in humanitarian work in the Regional Branch;• Prepares the agendas of Board meetings, in consultation with the chairperson of the Regional Board, and distributes same to board members together with relevant documents;

Purpose of the post

Health Officer provides professional technical assistance and support for programme/project design, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and administration of programme/project activities, including data analysis, progress reporting, knowledge networking and capacity building, in support of achievement of planned objectives of the work plan, aligned with Health programme goals and strategy

Major Duties and Responsibilities of this post include:

Within the delegated authority and under the given organizational set-up, the incumbent may be assigned the primary, shared, or contributory accountabilities for all or part of the following areas of major duties and key end-results.

• Accurate information, data analysis, and documentation are timely made available to contribute to situation analysis, sectoral input and reporting.    Assists the preparation and periodic update of the Situation Analysis by compiling Health data, analysing and evaluating relevant information and providing the technical input in a timely and accurate manner.
• Technical assistance is provided in the implementation of integrated Health approaches through participation and collaboration with internal and external partners.
• Work plan and objectives are effectively implemented and planned results are timely delivered through technical    support and coordination         
• Project efficiency and effectiveness are enhanced through effective implementation follow-up.
• Project implementation progress is monitored for adjustment and improvement of program delivery and sustainability.
• Gender sex aggregated data and inputs provided relevant to the Health programme
• Transparency is ensured for supply and non-supply assistance and disbursement of programme funds for Health.
• Effective partnership and working relationships are maintained for advocacy, technical coordination, information sharing and knowledge networking.
• Keeps close contacts with external counterparts, including those of the UN and national partners, in order to improve the ability to collect and disseminate relevant data, exchange information on programme/project development and implementation. Shares knowledge, information, experience and lessons learned.
• Up-to-date programme information is kept available and reports prepared to support the Health programme by the effective implementation of integrated monitoring system.
• Emergency preparedness is maintained, and in emergencies, emergency responses are effectively provided.
• Performs any other duties and responsibilities assigned as appropriate to the purpose of this post, and delivers the results as    required.