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Job Position: Senior Strategic Learning Advisor 

Location: Addis Ababa 

Company Name: Care Ethiopia

Deadline: Dec 20, 2021

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.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the development of the project’s project monitoring plan, including data collection tools and formats and orientation for all partners.
• Lead routine data collection, analysis, documentation, and dissemination of project findings as per the project’s PMP and results framework.
• Provide real-time data analysis for decision-making purposes.
• Partner closely with all staff to ensure principles of collaboration, learning and adapting (CLA) are recognized and acted on as core elements of the project operations, including leading the Activity’s adaptive management approach.
• Ensure the project’s activity includes active, intentional, and adaptive learning within and across its multi-sectoral interventions. This includes but is not limited to USG and key PSNP V actors. 
• Improve/facilitate community engagement, peer-to-peer learning, knowledge sharing and application, activity-based capacity strengthening, and evidence and data utilization in support of adaptive management.
• In partnership with the COP and technical staff, ensure appropriate and continued collaboration, coordination and joint-planning with USAID and other donor activities (specifically the USAID food security and resilience portfolio), host-government initiatives (such as the PSNP V) and relevant private sector actors. (Given the significant number of humanitarian and resilience activities planned and ongoing in the targeted geographic area, USAID expects significant time and expertise to be dedicated to the coordination of activities.)  

Job Requirements

• Master’s degree or PhD in a relevant field plus a minimum of 8 years of work experience or ad a minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience required for PHD holders.
• Demonstrated experience in organizational and peer-to-peer learning, capacity strengthening, collaborative learning and adaptation, and adaptive management especially in fragile, shifting contexts.
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating learning and knowledge sharing processes, in establishing and managing dynamic feedback systems to capture experiential learning and unintended consequences, and fostering collaboration across teams or organizations is required.
• Experience working on a USAID-funded program or bi-lateral donor agency projects is an advantage but not a requirement. 
• Technical expertise in one or more of the following is an advantage: market systems development, on and off-farm livelihoods, financial inclusion, gender, youth, and climate resilience.
• Experience working in low-resource settings is required.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain partnerships and productive working relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders, including NGO partners, host-country government agencies, and the private sector
• Ability to travel to program areas as may be required and as the security situation allows
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and PSEAH (safeguarding) as evidenced in previous management positions and programming.
• Ability to translate complex and complicated ideas into easily accessible and understandable concepts and/or messages
• Excellent, high-level, demonstrated written and oral communications skills in English is required

How to Apply

CARE Ethiopia is committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework. CARE Ethiopia has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives or partners.

CARE Ethiopia reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.

By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that s/he has no objection to CARE Ethiopia requesting the information specified above. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks.

If you are interested to be part of our dynamic team, exciting work environment and contributing to CARE Ethiopia’s mission and vision, please send your CV (not more than 3 pages) and cover letter (not more than one page) through CLICK HERE

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Passionate and dedicated candidates who meet the requirement are strongly encouraged to apply, especially women.

CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.