International Rescue Committee – IRC is looking for qualified applicants for the following open position.
Job Title:Cash Transfer Programming Officer
Ethiopia
Sector: Economic Recovery & Livelihood
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Ethiopia
Job Description
Background: The International Rescue Committee, one of the world’s largest humanitarian international NGOs, provides relief, rehabilitation and development support to vulnerable people and communities over 30 countries. We began work in Ethiopia in 2000 in response to severe drought in Ethiopia’s Somali region and are currently providing assistance to Ethiopians and refugees in six regions in Ethiopia, implementing emergency and development programs in health, water and sanitation, economic recovery, and development (ERD), women’s protection and empowerment, education, child protection, and multi-sectoral emergency response.
Job Overview: Under the direct supervision of the Senior ERR…
International Rescue Committee – IRC is looking for qualified applicants for the following open position.
Job Title:Safety and Security Manager
Sector: Safety & Security
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Job Description
Background
The International Rescue Committee, one of the world’s largest humanitarian international NGOs, provides relief, rehabilitation and development support to vulnerable people and communities over 30 countries. We began work in Ethiopia in 2000 in response to severe drought in Ethiopia’s Somali region and are currently providing assistance to Ethiopians and refugees in six regions in Ethiopia, implementing emergency and development programs in health, water and sanitation, economic recovery and development (ERD), women’s protection and empowerment, education, child protection, and multi-sectoral emergency response.
Job description Under the direct supervision of the Safety and Security Coordinator (SSC),…
New York, NY, December 10, 2020 — The IRC regrets to confirm the killing of a staff member in Hitsats Refugee Camp in Shire, Ethiopia. We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague; our in-country staff are the very heart of our work and are key in our ability to provide support and assistance to our clients. Communication with the area is extremely difficult and we are still working to gather and confirm the details surrounding the events that led to the death of our colleague.
Ethiopia’s Tigray region has been experiencing an intense bout of conflict since early November, which has forced almost 50,000 people to seek refuge in Sudan. The IRC is working in Tigray to support 96,000 refugees in four camps with a range of services, including clean water, sanitation, and education.
We call on all parties to the conflict to agree to an immediate ceasefire and ensure civilians, including refugees, are protected and able to continue to access life saving services.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. IRC has been working in Ethiopia since 1999 and is implementing integrated, community-managed programs aimed at improving the quality of lives and recover of livelihood of disaster-affected population’s through promoting individual participation, strengthening institutions and emergency response.
Position: Light Vehicle Driver Duty Station: Adama, with frequent travel to field sites Salary & Benefits: 4,358 ETB per month plus 15% transportation allowance
Job Overview:
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The Driver main responsibilities includes safe transportation of IRC personnel and IRC materials and care and maintenance of IRC vehicles and their accessories.
Under the supervision of the Supply Chain Manager, the Driver provide transport services for IRC business under Adama field office project sites.
Key Responsibilities:
Strict adhere to the IRC’s vehicle policies and procedures, including the use of seatbelts by all passengers.
Daily and pre-long distance vehicle checks. Accurate upkeep of the vehicle’s log sheet.
Maintaining the vehicle clean, fueled and mechanically sound.
Inspecting and maintaining all vehicle accessories.
Advising the SC manager of pending inspections, insurance renewal or any defects or problems.
Documents all fuel and other expenditure regularly and properly.
Reports promptly to the Supply Chain officer losses, malfunctions or accidents in writing immediately events occur.
Keeps vehicles clean and make minor mechanical services as required.
Any other duty as assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications
TVET Diploma or High School graduate with 3rd Grade Valid Driving License.
Minimum driving experiences of 3 years for TVET Diploma and 4 years for High School graduate.
NGO experience is a plus.
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to communicate in English, Amharic, and Afaan Oromo languages.
Thorough knowledge of road rules and regulations.
Skills in routine vehicle maintenance and minor repair.
Good team spirit, attitude, behavior, and problem-solving abilities.
Able to carry out limited, un-supervised tasks.
Preference will be given to qualified female candidates.
Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols, and other supportive benefits and allowances
Equal Opportunity Employer: IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Professional Standards: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons
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International Rescue Committee is looking for qualified applicants for the following open positions: Hygiene Promotion Assistant Requisition ID: req9862 Job Title: Hygiene Promotion Assistant (Re-advertisement)
Sector: Emergency Response
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Oromia, Ethiopia
Job Description
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. IRC has been working in Ethiopia since 1999 and is implementing integrated, community-managed programs aimed at improving the quality of lives and recover of livelihood of disaster-affected population’s through promoting individual participation, strengthening institutions and emergency response.
Duty Station: Mada Walabu, Bale Contract Duration: Until December 2020 with possibility of extension
Job Summary: Hygiene Promotion Assistant is responsible to support the implementation of rapid emergency response of hygiene and sanitation promotion and water supply activities by using appropriate hygiene promotion approaches, with required standard and principles, and level of participation. The position holder is also responsible for beneficiary selection & verification, community mobilization, proper management resources under the project and reporting periodically to Emergency Rapid Response Officer.
Major Responsibilities:
Conduct different hygiene & sanitation promotion and health educations on different community meetings by using different hygiene promotion approaches
Ensure the proper dissemination of hygiene and sanitation messages to the community at grass root level.
Organize community level hygiene awareness campaigns and prevention of transmitted disease.
Organize training for community representatives on Hygiene and sanitation and transmitted disease.
Assist the preparation of IEC Materials and monitor the distribution of IEC materials to be used at community level.
Work on building of the capacity of woreda partners and HEWs on WASH emergency promotion, NFI distributions and other health educations.
Ensure the proper distribution of Non Food Items and IEC Materials.
Conduct regular post distribution monitoring and periodic post distribution survey of the NFI at house hold level.
Produces activity progress reports as per the preset reporting schedule and submit to the supervisor.
Prepare brief emergency related monthly updates and submit to the supervisor.
Closely work with kebele HEWs and woreda water offices for basic emergency hygiene promotion activities
Conduct different review meetings with woreda partners, HEWs and community representatives on progress of the hygiene promotion activities and beneficiary compliance and feedback management systems.
Assists detail Hygiene and Sanitation need assessments.
Works closely with Woreda Water and Health Offices towards efficient and effective implementation of the response and emergency hygiene promotion activities
Works in collaboration with other IRC staff, government partners & key stakeholder.
Takes additional works as assigned by supervisor.
Qualifications
Education: BSc Degree/Diploma in Environmental Health..
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Work Experience: Minimum experience of 1 year experience for BSc holders and 3 years’ experience for Diploma holders. NGO experience is plus.
Skills and Competencies:
Hygiene promotion experience in local community and emergency context.
Experience of community mobilization and NFI distribution.
Good communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work as part of a team as well as to work autonomously when required.
Good command spoken and written English, Amharic and Afaan Oromo.
Basic computer knowledge (word, excel).
Preference will be given to qualified female candidates.
Professional Standards: The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.
Gender Equality: IRC is committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols, and other supportive benefits and allowances.
Equal Opportunity Employer: IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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International Rescue Committee is looking for qualified applicants for the following open positions: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Assistant Requisition ID: req9785 Job Title: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Assistant
Sector: Monitoring & Evaluation
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Ethiopia
Job Description
Background
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. IRC has been working in Ethiopia since 1999 and is implementing integrated, community-managed programs aimed at improving the quality of lives and recovery of livelihood of the disaster-affected population’s through promoting individual participation, strengthening institutions, and emergency response.
Position overview
The MEAL Assistant is part of the M&E department and will work closely with the field based M&E Officer and CR Officer based in Addis Ababa. The MEAL Assistant will be responsible for ensuring the implementation of robust client feedback channels at their respective locations. These may include design and administration of surveys, focus group discussions, proactive and reactive feedback mechanisms. The MEAL Assistant will be responsible for aggregating client feedback, identifying key themes and challenges or opportunities to respond to, and presenting these to the management team for a decision on how to respond. The MEAL Assistant will also be responsible for recording and monitoring feedback, and for ensuring that the loop is closed, an clients are informed of decisions taken.
Specific Responsibilities:
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Feedback Planning and Implementation:
• Collect client feedback through various channels that IRC installs including community meetings, surveys, discussions, phone lines, suggestion boxes, SMS among others.
• Regularly update the excel based Feedback Registry on every day basis and raise cases including breach of IRC code of conduct, allegations of child abuse or sexual exploitation and other major programmatic complaints.
• Receive, record and classify complaints for attention by the MEAL Officer and refer to the respective sectors.
• Collect response from the program staff on the feedback and communicate back to client
• Facilitate the preparation of CRA logistics before field visits e.g. paper based data collection tools, promotional materials etc.
• Ensure accurate and confidential filing of CRA reporting forms such as client feedback form, Feedback Registry, surveys, interview, minutes from community meetings, reports, datasets among others
• Generate reports on the implementation and use of feedback channels, per sector, including limitations and challenges.
Feedback Monitoring, Reporting, and Response:
• Aggregate and dis-aggregate client feedback (according to gender, age, status, sector, risk-level and other client appropriate dis-aggregation).
• Present statistics on feedback received and feedback content in clear formats to highlight feedback trends to the program team, as well as synthesize qualitative feedback in ways which provide the detail that the program team will need to design an appropriate response.
• Analyze key themes, challenges, and opportunities for program improvement.
Others
Provide support to the M&E Office to conduct ongoing monitoring and evaluation activities.
Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to enable and develop IRC programs
Qualifications
Requirements:
BA degree or Diploma/Level IV in social science and other relevant field of studies
1 year work experience for BA Degree and 3 years work experience for Diploma holders
Analyze and communicate data in a way that facilitates effective decision making
Proactively engage with clients and community members, acting as a community liaison focal point
Driven and able to balance multiple task, commitments, and to work flexibly in a team
Creativity, curiosity and enthusiasm, and the ability to develop and test new ways of working and solutions to problems
Strong oral and written communications in local language and Amharic is required.
Desirable:
Working experience with refugees and/or IDPs, and an understanding of the feedback channels preferred by displaced people
Experience in implementing feedback channels. These may include surveys, FGD, hot lines, suggestions boxes, open feedback etc.
Written and verbal communication in English is an added advantage.
Passionate about humanitarian work and assistance.
Reporting lines:
The MEAL Assistant will report to the M&E Officer on issues related to day to day activities. On technical issues related to Client Responsiveness the MEAL Assistant will be receive technical support by the CR Officer in Addis.
Time frame
The length of the posting is for one year initially but could be extended, contingent upon satisfactory performance evaluation and funding.
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International Rescue Committee is looking for qualified applicants for the following open positions: Education Officer
Requisition ID: req9818
Job Title: Education Officer
Sector: Education
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Assosa, Ethiopia
Job Description
ORGANIZATIONAL DESCRIPTION:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the largest humanitarian agencies in the world, providing relief, rehabilitation and post-conflict reconstruction support to victims of oppression and violent conflict. IRC works to address both the immediate, life-saving needs of conflict affected people in an emergency and the reconstruction needs in post conflict societies. IRC is committed to a culture of bold leadership, innovation in all aspects of our work, creative partnerships and thorough accountability to those we serve.
Scope:
Working under the supervision and mentorship of the Child and Youth Protection and Development (CYPD) Manager, the education officer will provide day-to-day project oversight in refugee camp. This position will ensure adequate participation, appropriate delivery, and sustained impact of all education interventions by supporting all aspects of technical design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the project activities; development of implementation strategy/approaches and guidelines including providing feedback to clients to get program impact. He/she will lead internal capacity building activities, design activities such as internal technical trainings for ECCD facilitators and events and; implement, monitor and evaluate education project activities. The Education officer will lead with other significant actors (such as UN, government counterparts, and other national and international NGOs), and participate in local-level coordination forums, as needed.
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Responsibilities:
Visit IRC field offices and emergency sites on a regular basis. Conduct risk assessments at the offices according to current and potential situations,
Ensures the quality day-to-day implementation of the education activities.
Keeps the record of number of clients in the target refugee camp.
Work closely and coordinate with IRC supply chain, finance and grant staff to ensure timely and compliant program activities and expenditures; including active participation in procurement, supply chain, grant and other meetings and ensuring timely and consistent spending tracking and budget management.
Works with the PTSAs to ensure that children are enrolled and maintained in the ECCD centers.
Conducts in-service teachers/facilitators trainings based on teachers training needs.
Ensures that the teaching and learning process is going on based on the curriculum.
Develops activity and spending plan once the budget is released.
Ensures effective budget management based on existing tools (PR tracking and BvA) to avoid under or over-spending. Tracks the PR on regular basis to ensure the quality budget management.
Communicates on regular basis to both the field office and/or Addis team on progresses and any challenges.
Represents the IRC in any coordination meetings at the local level.
Drafts monthly reports based on the IRC template and quarterly reports on the donor template.
Qualifications
MA/BA/BED in Education, Education Planning and Management or other fields related to the position.
Minimum of 2 years working experience for MA and 3 years for BA/BED
NGO experience is a plus
Experience in managing emergency projects
Good technical and report writing skill
Good communication and interpersonal skills
Proficient in spoken and written English
Ability to work under pressure
Computer literate with MS Word, advanced Excel and Outlook
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International Rescue Committee is looking for qualified applicants for the following open positions: HR/Admin Officer
Job Title: HR/Admin Officer
Sector: Human Resources
Employment Category: Regular
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Ethiopia
Job Description
Summary of Duties and Responsibilities:
Under the supervision of HR/Admin Manager, the HR Admin Officer provides general administrative, and human resources management including communication supports for the field office. The position is a senior level management support with key responsibility on human resources management and administrative activities. The position holder is also expected to have versed representation skills and consistent communication with IRC staffs, partners and other clients of organization. He/ She will be responsible for the supervision and support of local recruitment processes, travel arrangement, filling & documentation systems, workshop/meetings organization and maintaining updated staff tracking. The position reports to field office based HR/Admin Manager and technically to HR/ Admin unit in Addis.
Detailed Responsibilities and Tasks-
Human Resource Management
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Maintain a thorough knowledge of personnel policies and respond to questions for staff.
Ensures that Employee Data is kept confidential and reports are handled securely in accordance with HR policy.
Maintains up-to-date tracking of staff database and report to Addis on a monthly basis.
Assists the HR/Admin manager to organize a workforce planning session with sector heads annually and facilitate the
implementation of the strategic recruiting throughout the recruitment and selection process.
Post vacancy announcements both internally and externally as required.Identify additional posting places locally.
Organize interview panel and assist in selection of staff recruitment at field level.Maintain interview notes and interview tracking sheet for each position interviewed.
Checks references for selected applicants.
Prepares Employment Contract for local hires (national and incentive) employees and make sure that any new staff has signed all the mandatory reporting policies.
Completes all personnel forms required and opens files with all the necessary documents for newly-employed staff.Send copies of all personnel documents to Addis HR focal person.
Organize orientation for staff and make sure on boarding is given on time. Maintain records of orientations provided for each staff.
Maintains up-to-date evaluation tracking of all staff (national and incentive). Follow up the timely evaluation of staff with supervisors and Field Coordinator.
Maintain records of trainings conducted at field level including trainings conducted for incentive staff and shares with the
Field Manager, in close coordination with the field staffs.
Participates on the review of orientation manual/book
Provides trainings on performance management and assist employees in setting performance objectives
Follows up of individual staff performance issues and advice supervisors to take the required measures- report to Field
Manager and HR/Admin Coordinator for follow up.
Advice supervisors in disciplinary regulations and policies, assist in drafting warning letters.
Coach and guide the HR/Admin Assistant on daily activities and follow on the progress Administrative Work
Make sure personnel files are updated and maintained according to the personnel file check list
Maintains up-to-date records of all kinds of leave for the National Staff. Maintain tracking all kinds of leave and report on a monthly basis.
Prepares monthly payroll and OT summary sheet and submit to Finance for review.Send field level approved payroll and OT summary sheet to Addis.
Follow up on the HR/Admin Assistant for collection of time and effort sheet reporting in the field and send to Addis according to the schedule.
Ensures the submission of medical expense claims of National Staff to the IRC Addis and follows up on the collection of timely refunds.
Prepares severance payment for terminated staff and send to Addis for review
Prepares back payments and payroll adjustments at the beginning of the month and sends to Addis for review.
Ensures that the IRC contact sheet is being updated quarterly and submitted to Addis.
Provide HR and administrative support on regular basis to the field staffs
Performs any additional tasks as designated by his/her supervisors.Key Working Relationships
Internal: Field Coordinator, Program, Logistics and Finance Departments and all IRC field staff.
External:Relevant Government, Non-Government organizations and partners.
Qualifications
Post graduate or first degree in Human Resource Management, Management, or Public Administration
Two and Three years proven work experience respectively,
NGO experience is a plus,
Supervisory/basic managerial skills.
Computer literate especially word and excel.
Fluent spoken and written English.
Good communication and interpersonal skill is a must.
Knowledge of how to use Web based HRM/ Workday and different applications.
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