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Millennium DPI PartnersVacancy AnnouncementPosition: Legal Education & Legal Aid Senior Expert General Description of Position:• The Legal Education and Legal Aid Senior Expert (hereafter the “Employee”) will support and coordinate Feteh’s legal education and legal aid related activities. S/he will be responsible for liaising between Feteh and the Ethiopian institutions involved in Legal Education and Legal Aid in the planning and follow up of all related project activities.Specific Tasks and Responsibilities:The Employee will undertake work in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for Millennium DPI in support of the Feteh Activity pursuant to MDPI’s contract with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) and reporting jointly to the Chief of Party (COP) and DCOP, the Employee shall assume the following specific responsibilities for the length of his/her employment with Millennium DPI:• Support legal academic institutions in conducting research to promote law reform advocacy;• Support the establishment and operation of the National Association of Law Schools to enhance standardization of legal education and strengthen legal aid centers improving access to justice;• Support and organize conferences on rule of law and access to justice;• Support and follow-up any other activities aimed at ensuring quality of legal education. promotion of practical skills and training of law students;• Support the publication of research works in support of legal reform, legal aid and legal education reform initiatives;• Coordinate with relevant counterparts in organizing and conducting public consultations, workshops, training programs, etc.;• Participate in the development of terms of reference, scopes of work, memoranda of understanding, manuals, and other technical documents;• Support local and international consultants engaged by Feteh;• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with partners and stakeholders and nurture effective strategic partnerships to identify changes in priorities, new reform initiatives and strategies to effectively implement Feteh’s activities;• Collaborate with the Communications and Public Outreach Coordinator in gathering information for Feteh’s social media and in drafting Feteh’s success stories;• Read and understand clearly Feteh’s work plan and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Plan, and work closely with the MEL Coordinator to ensure that all legal education and legal aid activities are carefully measured and clearly communicated to USAID;• Be ultimately responsible for the success of Feteh in executing all legal education and legal aid activities in each annual work plan;• Actively participate in meetings and contribute to the development and implementation of annual work plans and decisions by the management to achieve the objectives of the Activity;• Produce written material on a monthly basis or on request of the COP/DCOP to ensure that Feteh’s quarterly and annual reports contain a clear description of all details of legal education and legal aid activities with the Ethiopian institutions;• Manage and coordinate any staff under his/her supervision;• Perform other duties as assigned by the COP/DCOP.

Millennium DPI PartnersVacancy AnnouncementPosition: Democratic Institutions Support Senior Expert General Description of the Position:• The Democratic Institutions Support Senior Expert (hereafter the “Employee”) will be Feteh’s focal person for all project activities regarding the protection and promotion of human rights in Ethiopia. S/he will be responsible for liaising between Feteh and national partners such as the Human Rights Commission (HRC), the Ethiopian Institution of the Ombudsman (EIO) and others in the planning and follow up of all project activities supporting these institutions.Specific Tasks and Responsibilities:The Employee will undertake work in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for Millennium DPI in support of the Feteh Activity pursuant to MDPI’s contract with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) and reporting jointly to the Chief of Party (COP) and DCOP, the Employee shall assume the following specific responsibilities for the length of his/her employment with Millennium DPI:• Support the HRC in its human rights protection and promotion related activities;• Support capacity building efforts of the HRC including putting in place systems and procedures to help the HRC effectively carry out its functions;• Support the EIO, in particular by: building its capacity to conduct oversight activities and investigate mal-administration complaints, undertaking studies and research that will help in curbing mal-administration, making recommendations for the revision of laws as well as the enactments of new laws and policies to improve good governance;• Provide necessary support to the reform activities to be conducted by the HRC, EIO and other institutions involved in the protection and promotion of human rights at the federal and regional levels;• Coordinate with relevant counterparts in organizing and conducting public consultations, workshops, training programs, etc.;• Participate in the development of terms of reference, scopes of work, memoranda of understanding, manuals, and other technical documents;• Support local and international consultants engaged by Feteh.• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with partners and stakeholders and nurture effective strategic partnerships to identify changes in priorities, new reform initiatives and strategies to effectively implement Feteh’s activities;• Collaborate with the Communications and Public Outreach Coordinator in gathering information for Feteh’s social media and in drafting Feteh’s success stories;• Read and understand clearly Feteh’s work plan and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Plan, and work closely with the MEL Coordinator to ensure that all human rights related activities are carefully measured and clearly communicated to USAID;• Be ultimately responsible for the success of Feteh in executing all human rights related activities in each annual work plan;• Actively participate in meetings and contribute to the development and implementation of annual work plans and decisions by the management to achieve the objectives of the Activity;• Produce written material on a monthly basis or on request of the COP/DCOP to ensure that Feteh’s quarterly and annual reports contain a clear description of all details of human rights related activities with the Ethiopian institutions;• Manage and coordinate any staff under his/her supervision;• Perform other duties as assigned by the COP/DCOP.

Millennium DPI PartnersVacancy AnnouncementPosition: Regional Coordinator General Description of Position:• The Regional Coordinator (hereafter the “Employee”) will be in charge of coordinating Feteh’s support activities to Regional Attorney General’s Offices and Regional Supreme Courts in liaison with Feteh’s regional offices.Specific Tasks and Responsibilities:The Employee will undertake work based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for Millennium DPI in support of the Feteh Activity pursuant to MDPI’s contract with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) and reporting jointly to the Chief of Party (COP) and DCOP, the Employee shall assume the following specific responsibilities for the length of his/her employment with Millennium DPI:• Provide support to and follow up of ongoing legal and judicial reforms and initiatives undertaken by the Attorney General’s Offices and Supreme Courts in the Regional States where Feteh is active, and in all other Regional States where it will decide to start activities;• Assist in the identification and implementation of additional priority legislative and judicial reforms to support the Regional Attorney General’s Offices and Regional Supreme Courts;• Support the Regional Attorney General’s Offices and Regional Supreme Courts in building their capacity in accordance with Feteh’s annual work plan;• Administer the compilation and publication of reform documents and reports;• Facilitate and follow up on the translation of key legal documents;• Ensure the follow up of all administrative procedures with Feteh’s main office for the implementation of the various regional activities under the work plan;• Supervise technical staff in the regions and support staff affected to the decentralized support.• Conduct regular field visits, and ensure collaboration and synergies with other areas of the Feteh Activity.• Support, monitor and coordinate with regional counterparts in organizing and conducting public consultations, workshops, training programs and other programmatic events;• Supervise and assist in the development of terms of reference, memoranda of understanding, manuals and other technical documents;• Support local and international consultants engaged by Feteh;• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with regional partners and stakeholders and nurture effective strategic partnerships to identify changes in priorities, new reform initiatives and strategies to effectively implement Feteh’s activities;• Collaborate with the Communications and Public Outreach Coordinator in gathering information for Feteh’s social media and in drafting Feteh’s success stories in the regions;• Read and understand clearly Feteh’s work plan and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Plan, and work closely with the MEL Coordinator to ensure that all regional activities are carefully measured and clearly communicated to USAID;• Be ultimately responsible for the success of Feteh in executing all regional activities in each annual work plan;• Actively participate in meetings and contribute to the development and implementation of annual work plans and decisions by the management to achieve the objectives of the Activity in the regions;• Produce written material on a monthly basis or on request of the COP/DCOP to ensure that Feteh’s quarterly and annual reports contain a clear description of all details of regional activities;• Perform other activities as requested by the COP/DCOP.