Project Manager, Ethiopia

POSITION: Project Manager, Ethiopia
WHERE: Reach for Change Ethiopia
COMMITMENT: Full time
DURATION: 18 months
REMUNERATION: Basic salary of $1560 monthly equivalent in ETB
APPLICATION PROCESS: Interested candidates should apply directly to our career site here DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
START DATE: as soon as possible
Are you an experienced project manager and want to be part of a smart, brave and passionate team leading the strategic perspective, development, coordination and delivery of our project in partnership with IOM. This project will facilitate off-farm livelihood diversification for women and youth among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in selected zones in Oromia and Somali region in Ethiopia.


Who we are & What we can offer Reach for Change is an international non-profit founded in Sweden. Our vision is a world where all children and youth reach their full potential. We're working towards this vision by unleashing the power of local social entrepreneurs and enabling them to go from ideas to innovative solutions and sustainable organizations. We were co-founded by successful entrepreneurs in the non-profit and business sectors in 2010, and since then we have supported more than 2,000 Change Leaders who in their turn have reached 4,7 million children and youth in 18 countries across three continents. We believe all children have the right to grow up in a world without poverty, inequality and climate change, and to reach these goals we need to invest in the people living closest to the challenges at hand. Together with foundations, institutional and corporate partners, we develop tailored projects and initiatives supporting local social entrepreneurs across several countries in Europe and Africa. Working with RfC, you will be part of a smart, brave and passionate national and international team and offer a variety of both hard and soft benefits such as flexible working hours and hybrid ways of working. You will be offered flexible and paid vacation days, health insurance and covered telecommunication services. The HR team focuses on work life balance, well being, learning and growth opportunities as well as opportunities to take part in events organized by RfC and partners etc. Read more about us at reachforchange.org/en About the role: As the Project Manager you will play a crucial part in continuing our partnership with IOM with the aim of Facilitating off-farm livelihood diversification for women and youth among Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in selected zones in Oromia and Somali region. You will be part of a local and global team and reporting directly to our Country Manager in Ethiopia. You will be responsible for providing leadership to the project team, coordination with internal and external stakeholders, delivery of the project in line with agreed timeline and high quality and reporting. The work will include leading and developing the project team and managing the partnership with IOM.
Your main responsibilities include: Overall responsibility of the project planning, implementation, reporting and closeout of the project.
Donor engagement and compliance: lead on the contact with the donor, including responsibility of all aspects of donor reporting. Accountable for ensuring donor compliance across all elements of the project.
With the support of the Country Manager, Ethiopia and global Head of Programs, manage quality assurance by adapting proven RfC methodologies, tools and processes of supporting social entrepreneurs or program participants
Work together with the country team and Central Program team to develop innovative and relevant ways of supporting social entrepreneurs and run programs, and share ideas, methods and insights from the program implementation.
Work together with the Impact team to monitor, report and evaluate the outcomes of the pilot to ensure continuous improvements and to maximizes the impact.
Plan, run, and evaluate strategies and activities for the project in accordance with global OKRs with the aim of improving the lives of children, youth, disadvantaged and vulnerable groups in Ethiopia.
Ensure that social entrepreneurs or program participants are trained, coached, and get relevant support to achieve the required results in line with the project objectives
Plan, implement, track, evaluate, capture and utilize learnings for continuous improvement, strategic decision makings and future programming purposes
Line and budget management: Line management and supervision of Project Officers and interns, including recruitment of such.
Budgetary responsibility for all actively running projects under your supervision including setting budget, monthly forecast and actuals update, annual reporting, and final reporting.
Manage the overall program operations within budget and in line with financial policies.
Provide monthly forecast updates to the Finance Manager to ensure that programs are delivered efficiently in order to maximize the impact created through our program spending.
Be responsible for the wellbeing and performance of your direct report.
Shared team responsibilities include: If necessary, and under periods of intense workload; help and support the rest of the organization to achieve team and organizational objectives.
Contribute to efforts to share best practice, ideas and experience on successful implementation of the programs externally and across the markets.
Continue to build the sense of 'One Reach for Change' by promoting a collaborative culture and efficient sharing of resources across all Reach for Change teams.
Responsibility to build and retrain your own knowledge about the field of social entrepreneurship and innovation.
Share knowledge internally across functions and markets contributing to RfC continued development as a learning organization and externally supporting RfC strategy on thought leadership and ecosystem development.
Competencies & skills we are looking for: Ability to:
analyze, interpret and evaluate complex information arriving at logical deductions and conclusions.
produce text in a well- organized, well-structured and grammatically correct manner.
receive and convey information from and between different target groups.
network externally and build relationships, both with existing and potential partners.
leverage different forms of communication to clearly convey messages in a manner well adapted to the receiver and for different target groups.
project manage and drive processes with multiple stakeholders.
work sensitively with diverse people, cultures, and communities.
show passion or interest in social entrepreneurship and innovation.
approach work with a collaborative "can do" attitude and a desire for continuous improvement.
Willingness and ability to travel within the country from time to time in particular to the project implementation areas in Oromia and Somalia regions.
Education & experience: Minimum 5 years relevant experience from a similar project manager position in international development organization
Proven strategic and leadership skills.
A Master degree in a relevant field.
Experience from work within the philanthropic/non-profit or business sector in the project specific regions.
Qualified experiences in business training and coaching preferably for MSMEs and understanding of the financing landscape.
Experience in implementing projects in disaster affected and IDPs situations or familiarity with the implementation areas
Excellent training capacity and report writing skills.
Excellent command of English and Amharic languages
Local language understanding Oromigna and/or Somaligna
Experience of working with M&E in projects where the IDPS and disaster affected communities
Very good proficiency in project management tools, and digital solutions.
Understanding of project management methodologies and best practices.
Experienced user of Microsoft Office/Google Suite and ability to quickly understand and use web based applications and platforms.
Reach for Change recognizes that creating the change we want to see around us starts with ourselves, in our own organization. That is why it is important for us to strive to represent the change we want to see in the world. As a team, we strive to be diverse along many dimensions such as ethnicity, gender, language, age, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, beliefs, socio-economic status, physical and mental ability, thinking styles, experience, and education. We believe that the wide array of perspectives results from such diversity and promotes innovation and success. We therefore invite every candidate to bring their unique individual strengths.

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