CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3:  the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more) because he/she works at the community level. The role holder should be well acquainted with and act towards ensuring the organization’s Child Safeguarding Policy inclusive of awareness creation for prevention, reporting, and responding.

Scope of Role

Reports to: Regional Coordinator  

Staff Directly Reporting to this Post: None

Duration: One year with Possible extension

Project Overview:

The overall goal of Leadership and Economic Empowerment Project (LEEP) is to create opportunities for young women  in business in semi-urban and urban areas to empower themselves to engage meaningfully in their development, improve their technical and transferable skills and have equal access to, and use of capital, resources and services to achieve economic self-sufficiency and well-being. The young women will receive the resources needed to scale their businesses, support their families and become agents of change, role models and leaders in their communities.

LEEP project will be implemented from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2026 to address 8900 young women in business in Sidama region, SNNPR and AddisAbaba. The project has the below three objectives:

Objective I: Young women access and use assets to develop and grow their businesses

Objective 2: Young women develop capabilities, skills knowledge and attitudes to manage and grow their businesses

Objective 3: Young women live in a healthy, violence-free and supportive environment in their households, communities and society and are part of a collaborative effort to advocate for equal access to resources and services

ROLE PURPOSE:

The senior Livelihood Officer is responsible for the livelihood and economic strengthening component of the project to improve the livelihood and business expansion/diversification of young women at Woreda and community levels.  S/he will also be responsible to facilitate & execution of the existing Academy (YES) service activities to a sustainable social enterprise network.

KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

• Support field level needs assessments; youth led community project identification, and business plan development activities

• Participate in preparation of detail implementation plan in collaboration with other project team particularly on youth economic empowerment activities 

• Establish working relationships and partnerships with government partners, private actors and other stakeholders to enhance structured opportunities on youth economic empowerment.

• Provide capacity building trainings to the coalition leaders and members on different themes, cascade different ToT trainings ensure quality of economic strengthen interventions

• Assist established youth businesses to identify and develop market linkage  for their products

• Support planning, organization and implementation of  events including workshops, awareness-raising campaigns, and experience sharing opportunities of youth economic empowerment   

• Support and facilitate  the implementation of entrepreneurship related activities as per the set work plan and methodologies

• Support the engagement of youth in opportunities from the private sector within the target cities

• Ensure feedbacks are gathered from participants and beneficiaries on the Youth livelihood curriculum, leadership & economic empowerment of women has and overall program activities for further improvement and possible actions.

• Establish wereda/town level linkages and partnerships with private sectors, MFIs, GOs, NGOs, TTIs etc. and maintain existing partnerships in wereda/town level.

• Provide technical backup along with close coaching and mentoring support to enable Life Skills & other women empowerment trainers to work effectively in the implementation woreda & kebele;

• Maintain and create good relationship and collaboration with government offices at Regional/ wereda/town level.

• Coordinate & ensure that the YES centres are equipped and well informed to provide the necessary services and information to business starters and unemployed youths to find jobs.

• Ensure & work towards improved YES service delivery and make YES centres are green, attractive and women friendly.

• Coordinate, participate and contribute for program development and planning meetings

• Facilitate the involvement of volunteers from different sectors to support the program.

• Develop ToR and raise procurement requests (PRs) for any program related purchase in consultation with the program staff.

• Produce wereda level program plans & reports are good quality, regularly updated and timely produced and communicated to all stakeholders.

• Organize periodic (Quarterly, BI-Annually) review meetings involving all relevant SHs (including project staff, support functions and partners) to assess all project management documents and evaluate if project is being implemented on time, achieving results and quality.

• Represent the program and delivery of coaching and training activities under respective woreda with the support from regional coordinator 

• Facilitate and coordinate the components of youth workspace development activities, like facilitate trainings, provide coaching and organized mentorship for young women in business

• Facilitate the active participation of and building trust with communities and other stakeholders and work closely with TVET, youth association, private sectors, youth focused organizations, training institute

• Communicate effectively with program staff and partners to identify needs and develop alternatives business solutions.

• Produce timely and quality of periodic reports to relevant receipts

• Maintain program files and related program inputs are properly documented and available at safer places.

• Carry out other duties as requested by the Regional Coordinator.

Skills And Behaviours (Our Values In Practice)

Accountability:

·      Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

·      Holds suppliers accountable to deliver on their responsibilities

Ambition:

·      Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and takes responsibility for their own personal development

·      Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

·      Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale

Collaboration:

·      Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters

·      Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.

Creativity:

·      Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

·      Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach

Integrity:

·      Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence

·      Displays consistent excellent judgement

Job Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Essential:

• Minimum BA degree in fields such as social work, economics, business management,  and related courses

• 4 years of relevant progressive experience, out of which 2 years in Youth Livelihood program positions

• Experience of working with youth livelihoods development programs in rural and urban setups

• Excellent understanding of the culture of and ways of living of target operational Areas

• Good written and spoken English

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with private sectors, communities, government structure, existing NGOs…etc

• Good team player and open for new ideas and learning

• Good report writing skill, able to collect, document and share program records and information

• Experiences of working in INGOs, Communities at grass root level, local training institutes are advantageous

• Knowledge of computer applications

• Ability and willingness to travel and work in rural areas where the program is implemented, within approved security frameworks

Desired

• Experience conducting trainings, and organizational capacity building especially in life skill, business development and organizing youth in formal and informal groups

• Knowledge and learning ability to integrate gender issues in livelihood interventions

• Strong ability to work collaboratively with various organizations and stakeholders.

• Experience working with private sector, government agencies and beneficiaries on livelihoods programs.

• Ability to travel throughout the focus zone, woredas, kebele and other rural areas as needed.

• Strong results orientation.

• Experience in multi-sectoral coordination.

• Proven project technical field staff management skill with professional certificate in project management is an added advantage.

• Ability to manage complex and demanding workload.

·       Experience in NGO setup.

• Experience working in the region and understanding of local context.

How to Apply

Application Information:

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. 

Use the below link to apply :   CLICK HERE

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.