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Danish Refugee Council (DRC)Vacancy AnnouncementPosition: Program Officer- Location: Addis Ababa- Employment Category: H2- Reporting To: Project Manager- Start of Contract & Duration: 12 Months OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:• The Officer will be responsible for supporting the set up and implementation of EMP’s activities in Addis Ababa targeting Eritrean Refugees. The Officer will work with Assistants and supervise outreach workers to ensure the delivery of refugee youth resilience building activities as well as the operation of an information hub. Further, the Officer will provide support to project cycle management, program development and reporting with specific contributions in the area of urban refugee outreach.RESPONSIBILITIES• Collaborate closely with the Coordinator to operate information hubs for refugees in Addis Ababa, as well as coordinate a refugee youth mentorship program. Responsibilities include designing and rolling out of needs assessments and community outreach ensuring adequate monitoring, documentation and reporting of activities against relevant indicators.• Contribute to the design, planning and implementation of EMP activities with a particular emphasis on youth resilience building and access to justice, education, information and services.• With guidance from the Program Coordinator and support teams, contribute to budget and procurement planning and implementation.• Plan and oversee outreach workers and activities, producing detailed work and activity plans for the day to day operation of EMP activities.• Under the direction of the Coordinator, assist in activity reporting for both internal and donor purposes. This will include providing regular reports with accurate and comprehensive files of activities, outputs, materials, and other relevant or supporting documentation.• Monitor and report on contextual developments affecting implementation, raising and escalating issues related to the program risks, protection risks among the target population and ensuring accountability to beneficiaries.• Develop and maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders by actively participating in coordination meetings, working groups and any other meetings as requested.

Danish Refugee Council (DRC)Vacancy AnnouncementPosition: Program Specialist- Location: Shire- Reports to: Area Manager- Grade-G2- Start of Contract & Duration: Ten monthsDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES1. Management of DRC humanitarian portfolio in Shire Area• Oversee program quality of current and proposed projects.• Ensure compliance of current & proposed projects within scope of DRC program department• Ensure positions are staffed and projects are on track• Develop clear lines of communication between project staff and partners• Develop tools and processes to capture, share and incorporate lessons learned and best practices to inform and enhance quality of programming.• Actively participate in the SWOT analysis and stakeholders mapping for the development of area strategy for the Shire Area Office.2. Technical Management• Ensure high quality day-to-day technical management of all program activities to ensure strict adherence with international best practice protections standards, including the identification of protection risks and vulnerabilities with acute awareness of issues related to gender, age and diversity.• Take lead in coordinating the design and implementation of relevant and responsive, rights-based activities that build upon the existing assets of the targeted refugee communities. Activities will emphasize protection-related refugee outreach and engagement, with a particular emphasis on access to justice, education information and services.• Ensure quality monitoring and evaluation of projects and interventions, working with relevant MEAL staff to coordinate and roll out MEAL systems, including baseline needs assessments and ensuring adequate monitoring, documentation and reporting of activities against all indicators.• Maintain accurate and comprehensive files of activities, outputs, materials, and other relevant documentation.• Contribute to new project development, including both narratives and budgets, leading in the design and development of a program development strategy for DRC in Tigray Regional State, including designing and leading baseline needs assessments, community outreach in the selected refugee communities.• Support staff to integrate protection concerns and awareness in other sectors as relevant.3. Project Management• Lead and coordinate the development of budgets for new projects, detailed tracking of program related spending and actively participate in budget review (BFU) meetings.• Collaborate with support staff in planning procurement of program related goods and services, taking responsibility for quality assurance, and ensuring follow up.• Ensure regular program reporting for both internal and donor purposes are completed to a high standard and in a timely manner. This will include providing monthly internal reports supported by key evidence.• Ensure regular beneficiary tracking and feedback on services provided.• Further, work with focal persons in grants and finance to support timely financial reporting to donor.4. Advocacy, coordination and representation• Develop and maintain working relationships with key stakeholders, including community members and representatives, local government authorities, ARRA, UN agencies, and other stakeholders.• Represent DRC by actively participating in coordination meetings, working groups• Coordinate DRC's program response with the food, shelter/NFI, health and WASH sectors.• Coordinate with local community structure in the assessment of gaps and beneficiary feedback.

Danish Refugee Council (DRC)Vacancy AnnouncementPosition: Chief of Party (Maternity Cover)Responsibilities:Representation, Leaderships and Management:• Be responsible for the oversight, management and technical leadership for the delivery of all outputs throughout the life of the programme, consistent with the contract objectives and delivered to a high quality with full accountability to the DFID and DRC.• Lead the overall technical and financial performance of the programme, including programme planning, resource allocation and financial management.• Assume the lead in management of the DFID contract, ensuring robust compliance with DFID and contract requirements. This will involve close collaboration with DRC Headquarters, Country and Region Offices to ensure that DRC’s operational policies and procedures meet donor requirements and commercial contracts business landscape to develop actions to improve value for money.• Assume full responsibility over the programme team, with direct line management of the Deputy Chief of Party (Programme), Technical Programme Manager, MEAL Manager, Support Services Manager and Operations Consultants. Manage all team members and support respectful and positive working relationships which allow for the effective implementation of all activities. This is to be achieved through leadership, team building, day-to-day support, capacity-building and strong knowledge in all of DRC’s core sectors, including protection and migration.• Assume the lead in management of programme subcontractors, ensuring all subcontractors are engaged in the programme, have a shared understanding of the programme direction and priorities, and are delivering on time and on budget.• Ensure Value for Money is mainstreamed across the program, supporting its incorporation into decision-making, programme planning and review processes.• Identify and effectively manage all key risks related to the programme, including compliance with DFID, UK’s International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) and due diligence requirements.• Manage the program's relationship with local government authorities and other stakeholders, including representing the programme in local, national, and international meetings and events as appropriate.• Demonstrate high levels of commitment to the DRC and its vision, mission and values in order to ensure the objectives of your role and the country program are met.Programming and Technical Support:• Provide and maintain a single programmatic and technical approach, ensuring a strong shared vision of the programme within EMP, robust coordination mechanisms with DRC and subcontractors, and an ongoing process for workplanning and implementation analysis.• Provide technical oversight of all programming in all field locations, ensuring achievement according targets, on time, within budget, with the expected high level of program quality and in compliance with core protection principles and best practices, and DRC and donor regulations• Ensure the EMP programme team (Programme Management Unit) is appropriately staffed across DRC and subcontractors, and the appropriate coordination mechanisms are in place between EMP, DRC and subcontractors.• Ensure that the field teams have the needed programmatic and technical resources to plan, deliver and oversee quality programming and activities, and ensure robust coordination with other DRC and subcontractor programming in the field locations.Support Services:• Assume full responsibility as the primary budget holder for the program, overseeing financial management and accountability of all contract deliverables.• Ensure operational systems (financial, logistics and procurement, human resources and administration) are in place and are being fully implemented, including regular planning, reporting and review. These systems are expected to be fully compliant with DFID guidelines and business practices.• Ensure robust, regular and organized coordination between programme support services teams, DRC Country and Area offices and subcontractors.• Ensure the EMP Safety and Security Plan (inc. MoU with subcontractors) is being fully implemented and reviewed/adapted as conditions demand.• Collaborate with the DRC Senior Management Team to make decisions and manage security incidents at a local level.• Promote professional development by identifying training and capacity building opportunities and ensure staff are well versed in core protection concepts, DRC's code of conduct, accountability, respectful dialogue with the refugee population, and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.• Contract length: 7 months• Level: Management - E• Designation of Duty Station: Addis Ababa, with travel to the field Unaccompained Duty Station• Start date: 1 July 2020• Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Expatriates; please refer to drc.ngo under Vacancies. For questions regarding the vacancy please contact [contact person].

Danish Refugee Council (DRC)Vacancy AnnouncementPosition: Protection Monitoring SpecialistLocation: Addis AbabaDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES• Participate in coordination fora at the national and regional levels as requested by the Protection Manager.• Lead and oversee the technical design and implementation of all protection monitoring activities in Ethiopia and Djibouti in compliance with global protection principles and best practices, and DRC Standard operating procedures.• Lead in the design and contextualization of all protection monitoring strategies, methodologies, standard operation procedures and tools, ensuring technical rigor and consistent application.• Promote improved understanding of protection issues among DRC staff and relevant stakeholders to support the observance of international protection and humanitarian law standards. To achieve this, and in line with DRC’s anticipated protection activities to be implemented over the course of 2020, the Protection Specialist will play a key role in developing and facilitating trainings and mentoring DRC’s protection monitoring teams.• Ensure that ethical and statistically-sound data collection and protection-related information management systems are in place and used for analysis, planning, evaluation, and advocacy.• Lead technical components of protection needs assessments, including developing appropriate tools to inform program design as well as to identify risks and vulnerabilities, including those related to gender, age and diversity. • Contribute to the strategic direction of Ethiopia’s protection programming through active and ongoing participation in and contribution to strategic planning meetings and development of strategic documents.• Ensure the timely and quality delivery of all protection monitoring-related reports and staff contributions to organizational monitoring and evaluation requirements to ensure project quality, relevance and accountability to DRC's beneficiary populations.• Collaborate with the Area Managers and the Addis Ababa-based Protection Manager to ensure field-based protection monitoring records and documentation are properly managed and compliant with DRC requirements and best practices.• Support staff to integrate protection concerns and awareness in other sectors.• Support recruitment processes for DRC’s protection monitoring teams, and ensure that relevant staffing structures are in place and are reflective of appropriate gender balance.• Promote professional development by identifying training and capacity building opportunities and ensure protection staff are well versed in core protection concepts, DRC's code of conduct, accountability, respectful dialogue with the refugee population, and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse.How to Apply• Interested candidates who meet the required qualifications and experience are invited to submit updated CV and cover letter explaining their motivation and why they are suited for the post.• We only accept applications sent via our online-application form on www.drc.ngo under Vacancies.• Please note that we receive applications up to May 17, 2020.For general information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult www.drc.ngo