Introduction

• HelpAge International is recruiting for the post of Country Director to lead the HelpAge Ethiopia program towards achievement of our vision of a world in which all older people can lead dignified, healthy and secure lives.

Key areas for impact, influence and responsibility

• As part of a team, you will have overall responsibility for the strategic vision and leadership of the country program through the forthcoming transition period, with the primary purpose of ensuring that older persons lead dignified, healthy and secure lives.
•  You will be responsible for the delivery of quality programs and policy work, maintaining and expanding donor, government and other key stakeholder relations, fund raising, human resource management, partnership and operations management of the country Program.
•  In collaboration with your colleagues, you will be able to shape and design specific activities that are relevant at any point in time. We want you to work creatively to deliver impact and respond to relevant opportunities in a timely fashion. With your colleagues you will develop your team workplans to drive initiatives, develop ideas, as well ensure there is space for cross organizational working. From this you will devise your individual workplan that will form the basis of your day-to-day activities and your performance reviews.

Job Context/ Key Tasks

• Lead the strategic direction and leadership of the Ethiopia Country Program through an organizational change process to take place over the coming period
• Ensure program quality and learning
• Develop and strengthen partnerships and approaches with other national and international organizations
• Facilitate fundraising efforts and build a sustainable resource base for local actors to advance the rights of older persons.
• Drive operational excellence, stewardship and operations management
• Facilitate staff performance management and development Model and promote HelpAge’s core values, as they shape the way we work and organizational culture
• Actively participate in various global meetings/ forums to discuss wider global and regional issues for the organization; both external and internal and represent and manage in country relations with government ministries, donors, media, UN as well as local and international organizations.
• Accountable to lead in all safeguarding initiatives, working and operational culture where people can speak up securely and confidentially about concerns through a variety of channels.

Additional Responsibilities:

• At HelpAge International, we believe in the importance of empowering our people to be change makers and leaders at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our values, challenging themselves every day to identify issues that are most important to older persons and their communities, and to make an impact that matters. In addition, as an HelpAge employee you are expected to:
• Work collaboratively, building mutual trust and respect, with external organizations and partners to achieve our strategic aims and objectives; being accountable for the work you do together.
• Adapt to new directions or opportunities arising within the organization and in your work area; being flexible in your role, constantly using the feedback to learn more and evolve further.
• Lead behavioral and cultural change through embracing a supportive, collaborative and highly inclusive environment where everybody feels supported, respected and engaged
• Extend HelpAge’s reach and impact, by creating and identifying new business development opportunities and building relationships with new partners.
• Lead and promote a culture of including the voices of older people across our support, convening and thought leadership roles, in a way that is transformative, empowering and highly inclusive of those marginalized by gender, economic status, disability and other factors of discrimination.

You can get full job description from the link below 

Country Director ETH advert.docx

Job Requirements

Let’s talk about you

You will be someone with:

• Master’s Degree in Social sciences, Development Management or related field or equivalent experience
• Substantial experience in all aspects of Project Cycle Management and at least 10 years’ experience of program management or leadership at a senior level in a national or an International INGO
• Demonstrable experience in strategic planning, program development and management of complex, multi-stakeholder interventions, including humanitarian response and recovery.
• Commitment to local leadership in the aid and development sector and experience of leading an organizational change process.
• Commitment and ability to foster and support capacity building in own staff and of national partners, including experience of managing teams across different sites.
• Demonstrable experience in establishing networks with governments, private and public sector entities and civil society.
• Fluent written and spoken English and the ability to write clear reports for a wide range of audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, communicate and negotiate with a wide range of people and organizations at all levels with tact, diplomacy and sensitivity to cultural differences.
• Ability to prepare and monitor budgets and accounts.
• Ability to undertake necessary travel in country.
• An appreciation of project appraisal, assessment, monitoring and evaluation methodologies.
• Demonstrable experience in resource mobilization from a range of donors.
• Knowledge of one or more local languages.

How to Apply

To apply for a job at HelpAge, please submit the following documents:

•  A cover letter, setting out how you meet the requirements in the ‘Let’s talk about you’ section of the job profile. Please use bold headings for each requirement and provide examples.
•  Your current curriculum vitae (3 pages maximum)
• Three referees, including your most recent employer

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 To be considered, please email your application to helpAge-hr@helpage.org before the closing date.

Due to the high volumes of applications, kindly note that we shall only able to contact those candidates that have been shortlisted for an interview.

 If you have any queries regarding any vacancies, please hr.eth@hepage.org

Important Message: Please ensure that you remove personal information including your date of birth, age, gender and marital status from your CV. Please do not include any photographs.

Closing date: Friday June 4, 2021 at 24:00 (GMT+1)