JOB OVERVIEW
SALARY :- As per company scale
DATE POSTED :- April 1,2025
DEADLINE DATE :- April 9,2025
JOB POSITION & REQUIREMENTS
Dan Church Aid (DCA) is a Denmark-based international NGO registered under certificate # 1083 by the Authority for Civil Society Organizations and working to improve the wellbeing of particularly the rural and pre-urban people in Ethiopia. DCA’s Programme mainly focus on save live, building resilience and fighting inequality targeting highly disaster-prone areas in Oromia, Amhara, Afar, South Omo and Gambella regions.
Position1: Community Development Facilitator
Currently, the DCA Ethiopia Office is looking for a competent Community Development Facilitator
Overall responsibility
The overall responsibility of the community development facilitator is to organize and mobilize MPCA (Multipurpose cash) target beneficiaries in project locations and kebele level support for implementation of ECHO funded/DCA’s projects in Amhara region. The Community Development Facilitator is expected to manage and contribute to beneficiary selection and supporting complaint handling and response mechanisms, community mobilization and awareness creation on humanitarian cash utilization, protection and MEA ( Meaningful access) issues integrated for the multipurpose cash assistance project implemented by DCA.
Main Task
- Facilitate project activity planning and community discussion at Kebele community level through organizing FGDs and other tools.
- Collect relevant information to project planning processes directly from the beneficaries and community representatives.
- Manage MPCA distribution process at project sites in collaboration with DCA team and FSP.
- Prepare project activity reports at Woreda/Kebele level to share the update to immediate supervisor on essential updates and actions
- Provide project inputs to the planning process and ensure community level issues and concerns are included in concept notes and proposals.
- Actively engage in mobilization, beneficiary awareness creation and verification process for MPCA project in Amhara region
- Proactively engage in establishing community-based targeting and complaint committees in collaboration with the project stakeholders
- Facilitate technical training on humanitarian response action like MPCA, CbEWS, conflict sensitivity and protection to community representation and beneficiaries at grass root level
- Participate in post distribution monitoring activities in collaboration with MEAL team and share updates reports to line manager.
Reports and representation
- Collect and report daily progress and updates to the field office regarding the implementation of the project.
- Regularly collect and report on challenges and community feedback and working change context.
- Represent DCA in community-based initiatives, Woreda/Keble level humanitarian meeting and promote the values of DCA.
Vacancy Number: DCA-Eth/VA-006/2025
Required number: Three
Type of Contract: Subject to Donor approval, One year with possibility of Extension.
Duty Station: Wollo (Lalibella) and Waghimira (Gazgibila and Sehala) districts
Job Requirements
- First degree in DRR, agriculture, development studies and any other related field and two years’ experience in similar area or context.
- Has direct field experience preferably in emergency settings with NGOs/humanitarian actors.
- Good Knowledge of the emergency operations in Ethiopia
- Good report writing skills and computer skills in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of the operational context is advantageous.
- Fluency in written and oral English is a must.
Interested and qualified applicants should apply for the post via the below link.
Position2: Senior Emergency Officer
Currently, the DCA Ethiopia Office is looking for a competent Senior Emergency Officer.
Overall responsibility
The overall responsibility of the senior emergency project officer is to mobilize, organize and select beneficiaries and organize committees, beneficiary registration and verification, undertake daily technical supervision and ensure the implementation of timely and effective humanitarian cash intervention activities mainly the multipurpose cash assistance (MPCA) in the respective project locations/districts. He/she is responsible to conduct rapid need assessment of the humanitarian situation, project progress updates and share it with the Amhara field office and Country office. He/she is also responsible to work with pertinent government offices and maintain partnerships. The Senior Emergency Project Officer will act as a team leader to lead and coordinate the DCA humanitarian teams based in North Wollo (Libella and Bugna districts) working under his/her supervision.
Main Task
- Follow up on the day-to-day humanitarian cash/ MPCA activities of ECHO-funded project implementation in Lalibela and Bugna districts.
- Prepare and regularly review the project’s Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) for ECHO cash-based interventions.
- Ensure DCA ECHO Amhara/North Wollo humanitarian response activities are implemented in accordance with the operational plan and as per required the donor standard and requirements.
- Participate in the development of clear beneficiary targeting criteria and ensure that beneficiaries are adequately communicated about project activities and plans, including cash distribution date and conditions required for setting up of compliant mechanisms.
- Actively engage in humanitarian need assessment in the project locations on regular basis and share with the Waghimira field office and humanitarian team at the country office as required.
- Prepare and share humanitarian context situation reports on a regular basis for the field office and humanitarian team at the country office as deemed as required.
- Based on the need assessment and humanitarian context in the region, develop quality concept note/project proposal and share with Waghimira/Amhara field office and country office humanitarian team
- Produce quality reports on project progress and achievement including launching workshops, different training, joint monitoring and review meeting with line government counterparts, baseline survey, post-distribution monitoring, and end-line survey in collaboration with MEAL department and Waghimira field office team.
- Generate standard project progress/ impact level as per the donor requirement and share with the field office weekly, monthly, quarterly, interim, and annually as per the required quality and timeline.
- Conduct regular monitoring visits to project sites and provide technical backstopping to community development facilitators and beneficiaries.
- Organize and facilitate various workshops and capacity-building training for beneficiaries, community groups and relevant government offices on emergency response activities.
- Collect lessons learned, best practices, case studies and human-interest stories for reporting and promotional purposes and support knowledge management related to humanitarian response interventions focusing on MPCA.
- Ensure the relevant stakeholders including line government offices and target communities are actively participating in the planning and implementation of emergency response project activities.
Reports and representation
- Attend and present humanitarian and/or emergency response technical meetings at District and Zonal level regularly such as Amhara Sub National Cash Working Groups/taskforces and others
- Duly represent DCA in humanitarian meetings with beneficiaries, community representatives and humanitarian stakeholders at the Zonal, Woreda and Kebele levels in North Wollo operations.
- Ensure that good working relations are maintained with the beneficiaries committee, local government, and all partners including consortium members at the project location at the grassroots level.
- Create and foster the spirit and culture of teamwork within DCA staff and other partners at all levels of the working environment.
Vacancy Number: DCA-Eth/VA-007/2025
Required number: One
Type of Contract: Subject to Donor approval, One year with possibility of Extension.
Duty Station: Lalibella districts
Job Requirements
- Master of Science (MSC) with 2 years or Bachelor of Science Degree (BSC) with 5 years of experience having education background in Disaster Risk Management, Agriculture, Food Security, Rural Livelihoods, Economics, and related disciplines
- Experienced in Emergency response and DRM project management of IDPs and hosting community context understanding and familiar with ECHO funded project implementations
- Good Knowledge of Ethiopian humanitarian operations and emergency recovery interventions
- Good knowledge on SPHERE and other humanitarian protocols and standards
- Experience working with INGOs and/or humanitarian agencies
- Excellent communication and organization skills
- Ability to work both independently and in a team
- Excellent technical skill in humanitarian needs assessment, analysis, monitoring and evaluation techniques
- Good report writing skills in English and computer skills in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Interested and qualified applicants should apply for the post via the below link.
How To Apply
DCA is an equal opportunity employer, and all interested candidates are encouraged to apply regardless of age, race, gender, marital status and religious, political or ethnic affiliation. Please don’t mention your religious or ethnic affiliation in your application.
Please Submit only an application letter and CV.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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