Company Profile

 The Network of Ethiopian Women’s Associations (NEWA) is established in 2003 registered under FDRE Agency for Civil Society Organization with certificate number 1481 as a national network of Ethiopian societies who share the goal of advancing women’s rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment in Ethiopia. NEWA is committed to sustaining the transformational struggle for the improvement of women’s lives and status in Ethiopia through creating synergy among its member organizations and being a common voice for gender equality in the country.

Key responsibilities include but not limited to:

Job Requirements

• Develop, monitor, evaluate and document new and ongoing programs and projects.
• Prepare long and short term (annual quarter, monthly) planning activities (program Plan & Budget preparation) of the organization together with the program team.
• Organize, manage and conduct various trainings activities and mentoring activities for local institutions in different parts of the country
• Liaise and collaborate with partner organization (donors, CSOs, government agencies and offices at different levels)
• Provide coordination and leadership for the compilation of program reports, liaising closely with technical team leaders and M&E Team including editing and formatting of report document, success stories and other program and technical deliverables.
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with colleagues, donors and other partner organizations.
• Work with the, Communication Officer to coordinate or lead the process of developing programmatic documents, briefs, etc. This includes performing or facilitating the translation of documents as needed from Amharic to English or English to Amharic and other major Ethiopian languages if applicable.
• Coordinate and ensure that trip reports from all activities and trips are submitted, appropriately reviewed and disseminated with program stakeholders, and filed.
• Ensure that appropriate travel approvals are received in line with donor and organizational policies.
• Ensure compliance with organizational and donor policies, rules and regulations
• Develop TOR for professional/ consultancy services.
• Ensure appropriate information sharing within the technical and program teams, and with the M&E and Finance and Administration teams. 
• Support M&E team to track indicators for relevant program area as well as progress against meeting deliverables and targets.
• Support Program team in the preparation of proposals as needed (gathering intelligence, collecting support documents, editing, etc).
• Ensure that M&E activities for relevant program area are properly budgeted.

Minimum Requirements /Qualifications:

• BA degree in Business Administration or related field
• Five/5 years or more experience in related field.
• At least  3 years in program management of NGO’s/ preferably with USAID projects 
• Strong team leader and player
• Familiar with national and international donor agencies
• Proposal writing and fund raising
• Excellent networking skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Possess excellent computer skills, including MS Word, Excel, MS PowerPoint, and internet.