Ethiopia: Community Well being Initiative (CWI) Manager (RE POSTED)

SCOPE/JOB PURPOSE:

With a line management from the Field Coordinator and Technical support from the CWI Coordinator in Addis, the CWI manager will be responsible for the management of CWI programs- response and prevention in Assosa Field Office. He/she will provide program leadership and technical back stopping to CWI staff in Sherkole, Bambasi, Tongo, Tsore, and Gure Shembola Refugee Camps. S/he will ensure the goals and objectives of the program are met by providing technical oversight to all CWI staff in the field office including camp based officers with emphasis on coaching staff and strengthening their skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Provide ongoing supervision, leadership, training and technical support and guidance to all CWI staffs. Leading staffs’ capacity building activity to ensure a sustainable transfer of skills in which all staffs practices follow best-practice and principles when working with beneficiary especially with women and girls and that all staffs use participatory approaches to working with the community in addressing beliefs and practices that condone or perpetuate psychosocial and physical harm against women and girls, an ongoing support include structured-meeting and site visits.
2. Oversee the implementation of Assosa CWI programming to ensure the program is implemented according to well- plan schedule annual, quarterly, month work plan and budgets-spending plan, and that program objectives are well-met.
3. Provide consistency technical guidance, oversight and support to the response team in provision of quality case management and psychosocial support services to ensure that; timely and quality services are provided, training and consistently supervising and mentoring Response Officer, Ensure safe referrals to health care services, protection/safety services and others as needed through regular auditing of case files and providing feedback to Response Officer.
4. Lead in the update/establish of a functional referral system, Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs), maintain good coordination mechanism with other actors to ensure comprehensive response intervention, risk mitigation and psychosocial and physical harm against women and girls services provision.
5. Lead in prevention program activity design of effective community outreach and engagement strategies to strengthen the protective environment for women and girls and maximize the community impact including engaging men and boys.
6. Contextualize, conduct, lead and supervise trainings on psychosocial and physical harm against women and girls case management training, referral pathways, psychosocial and physical harm against women and girls Guiding Principles for working with survivors, basic counseling, Clinical Care for Sexual Assault Survivors, Clinical Care for Child Survivors, Information Management System and other response related trainings for CWI staffs and IPs for ethic and quality of services.
7. Lead/oversee CWI trainings/workshops on psychosocial and physical harm against women and girls related-prevention issue for CWI staffs, IPs, community members, community leaders, religious leaders, youth groups and women’s group.
8. Direct responsible for psychosocial and physical harm against women and girls ethical and accuracy data collection and information management systems (IMS) are accurately collected, entered with data protection and confidentiality - for analysis, planning, evaluation, and coordinate with other stakeholders, accordingly to Data Sharing Protocol (DSP) once after the National rolled out and to informed CWI future programming in Assosa with timely internal and external monthly submission (as agreed by the DSP once after the National rolled out) and participate quarterly IMS data analysis and interpretation meeting with signatories/Gov/agreed partners.
9. Oversee women’s safe spaces and activities to ensure women and girls access to information and group/psychosocial activities in a safe, secure and dignified manner, including lead in the design and with the Response Officer to implement age appropriate psychosocial activities at the safe space and other specific safe-space interventions to meet the needs of adolescent girls.
10. Oversee psychosocial and physical harm against women and girls safety audit activity and ensure consistency of its implementation, and ensure the recommendation are followed and effective through coordination mechanism and community solution.
11. Lead in overall quality of CWI program assessment, assessment tools design/contextualize, methodology and final quality assessment report.
12. Direct responsible for CWI program timely and quality monitoring and evaluation, ensure good project monitoring and evaluation tools are in place/update, and evident based documentation is in practices to demonstrate quality project progress, impact, learning and recommendation.
13. Direct responsible for all Assosa CWI grants, in collaboration with field/camp team; develop and maintain work plans, spending and procurement plans. Participate in all grant opening, and closing meetings, tracking expenditures and ensure they are allowable and allocable according to IRC and donor compliance and regulations; review monthly BvA and bring any over/under expenditure, miss-charge or double charging issues etc to the attention of the Field Coordinator/Finance team in a timely manner and jointly develop corrective plans.
14. Timely, informative and quality inputs to funding proposals, including writing, logframes, and budgeting; and timely, and quality inputs to project reports this include the completion of all section required CWI inputs.
15. Lead in effective working relationships with all stakeholders at all level in best representation of IRC/CWI Program with Government of the Ethiopia, ARRA, community leaders, IPS, Ops, LNGO, UN Agencies, Community Based Organizations to enhance multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination, ensure that relevant information from coordination meetings is shared internally with the CWI Assosa team, other IRC sectors and Field Management team.
16. Support the Ethiopia Country SAP implementation at Assosa level coordinate with other IRC actors particularly WASH, Health, CYPD, ERR (if applicable) and Operational Department to achieve the IRC strategy outcome with support of the Field management and CWI Coordinator.
17. Mentor and support staff’s capacity needs and their professional development and foster a positive team spirit to encourage innovative and quality programming include a concrete formal and informal capacity planning and training for staff once every quarter.
18. Any other duties and responsibilities that can be given by immediate and technical supervisors

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• MA in social sciences or MPH with 4 years of relevant experience, BA/S in social science, sociology, social work or other related degree with 6 years of relevant experience
• Previous experience supervising and managing a multi-disciplinary team.
• Previous experience in project management in conflict or post-conflict situation.
• Experience in grant/budget management.
• Thorough understanding of working with vulnerable women and girls.
• Demonstrated experience in capacity building and mentoring.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, and facilitation skills.
• Good coordination and networking skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills and flexibility.
• Knowledge, skills and experience in participatory methods of community development and mobilization.
• Excellent computer skills: MS Word, Excel, Power point.
• Ability to live in a remote environment.

Preferred

· At least 2 years’ experience in direct service provision for survivors of psychosocial and physical harm

· Proven experience in developing competency-based training modules.

· Experience in proposal writing.

· Internal Applicants are desired.

How to apply:

· Please send your CV, application letter and copies of credentials to the following address:

IRC, P.O.BOX 249, Assosa. Or Ethiojobs.net

· Please include 3 references from current and former employers.

· Applications will not be returned. IRC discourages phone calls or personal visits.

· Only applicants meeting the minimum qualification will be short listed and contacted.

Your application letter/cover letter must include the following information.

· Name of the position you have applied for

· Date of application

· Summary of your qualifications and experience

· Motivation/objective of why you have applied for the job

· Permanent Address and present address (if different form permanent) and telephone number

· Disclose any family relationships with existing IRC employees.

Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.

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