Organization: ACDI/VOCA
Location: Addis Ababa
Grade: Mid level – Mid level
Occupational Groups:
Economics
Environment
Agriculture and Forestry
Disaster Management (Preparedness, Resilience, Response and Recovery)
Managerial positions
Closing Date: 2025-02-09
Description:
Since 1963, ACDI/VOCA, a worldwide development design and delivery partner, has carried out successful social and economic development projects in almost 150 nations. We use our knowledge of sustainable agriculture, resilience, economic opportunity, financing access, and fairness & inclusion to make a significant, long-lasting difference in people’s lives. In order to encourage inclusive practices and create sustainable supply chains, ACDI/VOCA and its affiliates create and carry out donor-funded initiatives, support impact investment, provide financial services, and collaborate with companies. The Washington Post designated ACDI/VOCA a Top Workplace in 2024, and it was recognized as a 2024 Top Workplaces Culture Excellence for its leadership, work-life balance, innovation, pay and benefits, and mission and values.
Team Lead for Diversified Economic Opportunities (DEO), Ethiopia Activity for Resilience in Pastoral Areas
To support the forthcoming USAID-funded Resilience in Pastoral Areas Activity in Ethiopia, ACDI/VOCA is looking for a Diversified Economic Opportunities (DEO) Team Lead. Across pastoralist communities in Ethiopia’s lowlands, the projected project would improve food security and inclusive economic growth by strengthening the resilience of households, markets, and governance institutions as well as the use of early warning indicators.
At the family and community levels, the DEO Team Lead will create initiatives to empower and increase the economic options for people leaving pastoralism (ToPs). This role will (tentatively) be situated in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the project is expected to begin in 2025.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of strategies and interventions that promote the economic and social empowerment of pastoral households and ToPs, including skills development initiatives and private sector engagement, to facilitate improved access to finance and increased economic opportunities, particularly for women and youth.
- Actively partner with key stakeholders (schools, private sector, government, etc.) to improve conditions for economic opportunities, including improved business enabling environment and ability for entrepreneurial ToPs to create successful businesses and employment opportunities.
- Liaise with other technical specialists to ensure cross-sectoral synergies and impacts across the program.
- Work with the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning team to ensure that economic opportunities approaches are well understood, planned for, and that indicators, data collection methods, and learning is being captured, analyzed, and reported on.
- Work with local organizations to carry out program approaches and interventions, including strengthening the capacity of these organizations to improve service offerings.
- Contribute to the creation of work plans and periodic written program reports, summarizing economic opportunities results as well as progress and evidence of transformative approaches.
- Identify and address capacity building and resource needs for program staff and partners.
Qualifications
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in sociology, economics, business, management, international development, or related field is required.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible experience working on alternative livelihood issues in the pastoral areas, including less-climate dependent economic opportunities, especially associated with ToPs.
- Experience related to improving access to finance for pastoral households and ToPs, including women and youth.
- In-depth knowledge of improving the business enabling environment and ability for entrepreneurial ToPs to create successful businesses and employment opportunities.
- Experience working in Ethiopia is strongly preferred.
- Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
How to apply
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