Internal / External Vacancy Announcement

The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) wants to recruit employees in the following vacant positions the details of which are mentioned bellow.

About the Ethiopian Red Cross Society

The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) was established in 1935 and is one of the oldest and largest humanitarian organizations in Ethiopia. ERCS provides services to communities affected by natural and manmade disasters through the provision of emergency responses, ambulance and first aid, family reunification, essential drugs, water and sanitation, and other humanitarian services. ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. Currently the ERCS has a structure consisting of 12 Regional Offices, 34 Zonal Branches and 131 District/Woreda Branches, 599 Woreda Red Cross Committee and 5871 Kebele Red Cross committees.

ERCS also runs disaster risk reduction programs relating to food security, climate change adaptation, livelihood diversification, and institutional capacity building interventions, with the aim of creating resilience households and communities. ERCS works in partnership with the Ethiopian Government, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), partnering National Societies, members, volunteers and the communities we serve.

Key performance area

 Under the supervision and direction of Program director, the Project Coordinator is responsible to/for:

• Plan, organize, supervise, and manage the overall activity of ACROSS Ethiopia Covid-19 Response Across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus in Ethiopia project
• Develop work plans, budgets, M&E plans, performance frameworks and reports
• Conduct needs assessments, baseline surveys, reviews and evaluations as needed and directed
• Monitor activities at project implementation areas through physical supervision and field reports.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationship with key stakeholders
• Adhere to the administrative policy of ERCS in all courses of action and provide information about the project as per the regulations of the organization,
• Ensure that the systems are in place and implemented to regularly collect data that identifies project progress relative to goals; closely monitor progress towards the desired project
• Produce and submit periodic project performance reports according to the requirements of the donor/PNs and ERCS on Monthly, quarterly, annual, interim and final reports
• Maintain close contact with PNS delegation office and project coordinators at ERCS branches to ensure effective technical, logistical and management support for all aspects of project implementation
• Liaising with relevant stakeholders including Government offices, learning institutions, networks and NGO representatives to identify opportunities, synergies and partnerships for ERCS program.

Reporting to: DRM director/ FSLCCA 

Terms of employment: Contract for 1 year with possibility of renewal 

Job Requirements

Qualification and Professional Experience

• MSc/BSc degree in Environmental health, Public health, Social work, or other related fields
• Minimum of 8 /10 years work experience.  

How to Apply

We invite candidates meeting the required qualifications to fill out the employment application form from the official website of the Ethiopian Red Cross in vacancy menu http://www.redcrosseth.org/get-involved/vacancy and email to ercs-recruitment@redcrosseth.org before the closing date of this announcement on Dec 21, 2021.

Qualified women are strongly recommended to apply!

 Please note that we ONLY consider those who filled in the application for and send us back. We regret to inform that we do not accept CV at this stage.

Note: Use "Project Coordinator for ACROSS Ethiopia" as the subject title of your email!