INTERNAL/EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

Team Leader

CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.

Date: October 8, 2020

Vacancy No.  048/20

Position: Team Leader

Grade: 7C

Salary: USD 992

No of positions; (One)  

Type of Employment- Definite

Duty base and Position:   North Program Office (Debretabour)

Dead Line:  10 days from the date of announcement

I.  JOB SUMMARY:

The purpose of the Project Team Leader (PTL) position is to provide overall leadership, coordination and supervision of developmental interventions and staff in the FO. S/he ensures CARE’s project implementation; monitoring, evaluation guidelines and plans are followed in the FO to effectively contribute to the achievement of project results and CARE's strategic objectives to address underlying causes of poverty and food insecurity, and gender inequality. S/he will be responsible for following-up on operational planning, targeting, resource mobilization, gender mainstreaming, data managing, community-based action planning, and preparedness. .   

RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

Planning and Implementation of Program Activities (25%)

§  Facilitates and ensures that the plan at woreda/PA/village level is prepared with full participation of the community and partners;

§  Ensures that planning and implementation of the project activities are in accordance with the program principles, approaches, and procedures of the organization;

§  Ensures targeting for project beneficiaries are made in participatory manner;

§  Ensure disability inclusion mainstreamed into the project cycle management.

§  Works closely with woreda partners in planning, implementing and monitoring and evaluation of the project activities;

§  Makes sure that  Project officers have their plans broken down to annual, quarterly and monthly basis and same is done by  other staff members;

§  Supports the development of Woreda and PA level plan including the activities of WASH, nutrition and food security projects as being the integral part of the overall plan at Woreda and PA level;

§   Supports and facilitates the woreda plan to include CARE's projects plan and thoroughly understood and be accountable for the overall implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the projects;

§  Ensures that the project activities are implemented according to the technical specification set together with partners and time schedule and also within the limit of the planned budget;

 Monitoring and Supervision and Capacity Building  

·       woreda partners, PA and village level community institutions, for the capacity building in relation to the projects implementation strategies, methodologies, and activities;

§  Organizes and facilitates joint participatory monitoring programs with the woreda partners, Kebele steering committee members and community groups, both technical and management bodies, document lessons and provide feedback to the project office;

§  Facilitates and encourages regular review meetings and project review schedules at woreda level and help different institutions have to have  institutionalized commitment;

§  Supports and build the capacity of the front line staffs to have deeper understanding of the different technical areas of the projects, participatory monitoring and evaluation, cross cutting issues and including community empowerment, program approach and  as well as  good governance;

§   Facilitate and Conducts regular review meetings with the project staff and record lessons and provide feedback to the participants and to the project;

§  Together with the project staffs and partners sets project quality standards and action steps and monitor the performance accordingly;

Learning, Design and Measurement (LDM)

§  Design, develop and continuously update project monitoring and evaluation tools and systems;

§  Establish and maintain monitoring and evaluation system to measure the overall performances of projects;

§  Maintains the M&E systems, collects, compiles and analyzes routine project data;

§  Facilitate the preparations of Detailed Implementation Plans (DIP) including monitoring and evaluation plan for projects;

§  Ensures that detailed implementation, monitoring and evaluation plans are prepared on timely basis;

§  Develop and maintain monitoring and evaluation information management system for the Projects;

§  Ensures the timely collection, analysis and utilization of program related information;

§  Regularly maintains project LDM information using appropriate database management system and makes accessible to FO and CO staffs;

§  Works with LDM Advisor to promote learning within the program and across different program.

 Reporting

§  Develops appropriate reporting formats together with the LDM and other relevant technical staffs;

§  Collects monthly and quarterly performance reports from Concerned offices and relevant project staffs;

§  Checks and confirm the correctness of the reported activities;

§  Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reports of the projects as well as assist on Project Manager on preparing narrative donor reports. The report has to include the detail descriptions, challenges, problems faced and lessons learned in the reporting period.

 :  Staff Supervision, Coaching and Team Building:

§  Supervises project officers, give technical and management support;

§  Support the development of high performing teams at the woreda and ensures that appropriate procedures and policies are followed.

QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW HOW)

A)    EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

§  B.A/B.Scs. on Health Science, public health,  Sociology, Psychology, social science or other related fields

B) EXPERIENCE:

Required:

§  5 years experience in community participatory project implementation preferably on HTP, disability mainstreaming or related activities.

C) TECHNICAL SKILLS

Required:

§  Supervisory skill;

§  Computer proficiency;

§  Good communication and report writing skill;

§  Knowledge of local Language;

§  Data base management and interpretation knowledge as well as skill

D)    COMPETENCIES

Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, building partnerships, stress tolerance, building commitment, coaching, interpersonal skill, operational decision-making, planning and organizing, information monitoring.