Head of Program Development and Quality Assurance - ActionAid Ethiopia

Vacancy Announcement
Qualified women are highly encouraged to apply

ActionAid Ethiopia (AAE) is an international non-governmental organization working in partnership with multiple development actors, poor communities and their agencies to facilitate processes that eradicate poverty and improve the lives of poor communities and women and girls. It envisions poverty free Ethiopia where men, women and girls realize their potential and live in dignity. ActionAid Ethiopia is currently looking for a vibrant, energetic, ambitious, knowledgeable, experienced, highly capable and motivated professional and leader for its overall programme.

Post:            Head of Program Development and Quality Assurance Reports to: Country Director

Duty base: Addis Ababa, with frequent in country travel

Job Summary: Provides strategic leadership to all program and partnership development, and quality assurance through an application of programme minimum standard, Monitoring & Evaluation, knowledge management (knowledge generation, documentation and sharing) and oversight of ActionAid theory of change. The position holder supports disaster response, preparedness and resilience interventions as well as overall fund raising of the country program.

Key responsibilities

x Responsible to provide strategic leadership, coordination and management to the Programme Development and Quality Assurance team.

x The position holder will specifically be responsible to play lead role in producing and instituting AAE’s programme development and partnership directions, strategies and policies.

x Lead AAE’s national level programme, research and knowledge generation works in the area of Women Development, Education, Food Security, Partnership and Capacity Building; link national level programme works with ActionAid international initiatives; and ensure programme linkage with AAE’s grassroots work.

x Lead technical team to provide diversified support to grass root development areas (DAs) including in the development of concept notes and project proposals for fundraising, lead the programme review, evaluations and impact assessment processes.

x Lead the programme quality and focusing initiatives, coordinate and lead the national level planning, budgeting and reporting programme communication and documentation and shared learning processes.

x Play lead role in the development of Country strategy and country level review processes.

x As Senior Management Team (SMT) member S/he is expected to take part in the deliberation and decision making of major organizational matters.

Required Competencies

The successful candidate must possess a minimum of a Masters Degree in Development Studies or related field; a minimum of 8 years experience with at least 3 years in programme development and quality assurance work at senior leadership level; strategic programming and partnership development and processes; solid knowledge of the countries national frameworks and strategies; proven ability to lead multiple technical teams; good experience in research; strong interpersonal, team work and proven people management skills; excellent analytical and conceptual thinking; solid understanding of organizational programme approach and strategies.

Salary: Competitive salary as per the organizational scale Application Procedures:

Interested applicants should submit their application letter along with recent CV no later than 3rd May, 2014 to:
ActionAid Ethiopia P.O. Box 1261

Addis Ababa

Or

E-mail it to: hrod.ethiopia@actionaid.org

We highly encourage CVs to be submitted via the above email address. Only short listed applicants will be contacted. Note that applications received after the dead line shall not be considered.