Senior Project Officer - Youth

Job Summary:

As a lead for youth integration in JEOP, you will facilitate the achievement of project objectives through coordinating and reporting on all project activities and providing technical guidance and advice to staff and implementing partner(s) advancing Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work serving the poor and vulnerable.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the development and contribute to the implementation of JEOP-wide youth engagement strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in youth programming that effectively engage partners, USAID, and the Government of Ethiopia. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction, with close collaboration with the CRS’ USAID-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA).
• Closely work with RFSA’s Social Behavioral Change team to develop comprehensive behavioral change strategies and plans around youth engagement on JEOP.
• Provide technical support to JEOP’s partner teams, remotely and on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and M&E, helping to ensure high-quality implementation.
• Support JEOP’s MEAL team to include youth perspective in research, mid-term and end-line evaluations, and mainstream sex and age disaggregated and youth-sensitive indicators into the overall MEAL framework. Contribute to developing indicators, milestones, and plans, and lead reporting on all indicators for youth integration, and program progress.
• Provide dynamic leadership, technical support, and team coordination to JEOP’s youth activities, including ongoing technical support in integration and empowerment and build knowledge and technical capacity to implement and monitor youth engagement programming.
• Support capacity strengthening initiatives in youth programming for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums, conducting training and workshops, and coaching.
• Collect and analyze program data, capture and share lessons learned and best practices for specific projects to facilitate improvements in decision-making and contribute to the Youth learning agenda.
• Contribute to maintaining relationships with USAID, peer organizations, research, and other institutions, participate in forums in the area of youth programming collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.

Job Requirements

Typical Background, Experience & Requirements:

Education and Experience

• Master's Degree in Youth programs, community development, or related field.
• Minimum of three years of relevant work experience in Youth programming with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO.
• Knowledge of technical principles and concepts in Youth. General knowledge of other related disciplines to ensure a proper cross-sectoral approach.
• Experience in working in large-scale complex programs, in challenging environments, with a strong emphasis on poor and vulnerable populations, pastoralist cultures, and agriculture.
• Knowledge of capacity strengthening best practices.
• Experience with participatory methods. Demonstrated capacity and experience with the institutional strengthening of local civil society and government agencies.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation and analysis.
• Experience and skills in networking and relations with donors, peer organizations, and faith-based and civil society partners. Understanding of partnership principles.
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information and budget management systems, knowledge-sharing networks.

Personal Skills

• Strong relationship management skills with the ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings
• Good strategic, analytical, problem-solving, and systems thinking skills with the capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment
• Good technical writing skills in English and Amharic.
• Strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
• Proactive, resourceful, and results-oriented

 Required/Desired Foreign Language

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Amharic; ability to draft reports, communications materials, detailed implementation plans.
• Strong written and verbal skills in Afan Oromo, Somali, and Tigrinya are a plus

 Travel Required: 50%

 Key Working Relationships:

Supervisory: N/a

Internal: JEOP Chief of Party and Senior Management Team; Gender, JEOP technical team leads; CRS Ethiopia Country Program staff; Regional and Headquarters Youth Technical Advisors.

External:  JEOP Consortium members, local government stakeholders and communities, peer organizations and, representatives from for-profit and other non-profit organizations, operating in JEOP woredas.

Agency-wide Competencies (for all CRS Staff):

These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

• Serves with Integrity
• Models Stewardship
• Cultivates Constructive Relationships
• Promotes Learning

Disclaimer:  This job description is not an exhaustive list of the skill, effort, duties, and responsibilities associated with the position.

How to Apply

You should fill the application form through this link: https://form.jotform.com/213632178976567 and attach your up-to-date CV on / before the application deadline January 09, 2021.

You will be contacted only if selected for a written exam/interview. Phone solicitations will not be accepted. These job opportunities are open to Ethiopian nationals only.

CRS requires its staff to treat all people with dignity and respect and to actively prevent harassment, abuse, exploitation, and human trafficking.

Qualified women are highly encouraged to apply