SNV

Position: Deputy Project Manager and Youth Enterprise Development Advisor

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Contract

Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Posted date: 50 minutes ago

Application Deadline: Mar, 20/2022 (10 days left)

Company Description

SNV’s mission is to support people to pursue their own sustainable development, where we leave no one behind. To do so sustainably, we need to address systemic issues that trap people into poverty and marginalization. Using a systems perspective means we seek to find ways of changing the underlying structures and dynamics to sustain access to services and income generation over time and grow them further. Attention to systems change, including power dynamics and mental models, can increase the quality, depth, and sustainability of results as well as their continued growth.

In its new Strategic Plan period (2019 – 2022), SNV will more explicitly aim for systems change during project preparation and implementation - by strengthening institutions and kick-starting markets that help many more to escape poverty beyond our projects. We will continue to position ourselves as a premium organization and invest in making knowledge flow to and from the frontline.

SNV, Netherlands Development Organization, is operating in Ethiopia since the 1970s. Currently, SNV is working in eight regional states and the two city administrations of Ethiopia, providing technical assistance and program implementation in Agriculture, WASH, and Energy Sectors. SNV is an open and learning organization that focuses on improving the lives of Ethiopians through a market-based approach inclusive of women and youth. In its new Strategic Plan period (2019 – 2022), SNV will more explicitly aim for systems change including strengthening institutions and kick-starting markets that help many more to escape poverty beyond our projects.

For more information on SNV, visit our website: www.snv.org

Context and Purpose of the job:

The Deputy Project Manager and Youth Enterprise Development Advisor will be part of the RAYEE Project team with a responsibility to play a managerial role to coordinate the overall operation and technical support of clusters to be assigned in RAYEE operational areas and to play a lead role in the development of guidelines, manuals, approaches, and strategies for the selection of value chains and agribusinesses that have potential to create employment for young women and men. In addition, will actively participate in capacity building of the project staff and stakeholders and the establishment of backward and forward market linkages with the objective to strengthen and grow the business of youth-led MSEs.

Job Description

Deputy Project Manager responsibilities:

• Ensure effective management of the RAYEE project operations and executions in Amhara, Tigray, Oromia, and Dire Dawa regions/clusters (this could be changed as needed).
• Facilitate establishing of RAYEE partnership with relevant government/public and private stakeholders at various levels to promote an enabling and participative environment for RAYEE project implementation.
• Guide the project set-up, including developing of work and respective budget plans of the assigned regions/clusters.
• Initiate team building and participatory working culture among cluster teams as well as national technical staff.
• Lead and coordinate the team to standardize the provision of training and training materials preparation and distribution.
• Work closely with the Project manager and MEL advisor in monitoring performance of the field activities to ensure all milestones set in the annual work plan are met, develop mitigation plans to reduce risks, and take corrective actions to remedy any deviation from the work plans.
• Guide knowledge development, documentation, and communication in close collaboration with the PM and SMEL Advisor for the assigned regions /clusters;
• Ensure timely submission of regional annual plan and quarterly reports to the respective regional and other level government offices
• Line-manage the project team at region and cluster levels (in Amhara, Oromia, Tigray Regions as well as Dire Dawa Administration) according to SNV procedures and regulations. This includes performance review (PAR) and objective setting (PRDP), approval of team members’ travel plans, timesheets, provision for annual and compensation leave, and other organizational line-management requirements.
• Review and approve travels and activities expenses of cluster staff within the approval limit.

Youth Enterprise Development responsibilities:

• Lead and advise on the overall business opportunities, value chain, and agribusiness activities of RAYEE project that will create employment for young women and men.
• Closely work (plan and execute) with the Senior Youth Enterprise Development Advisor
• Lead the identification of potential value chains and agribusinesses and mainly in the agriculture sector and analyze respective opportunities for youth employment
• Develop strategies/approaches for identification and analysis of potential value chains and agribusinesses in the targeted clusters/woredas/towns that will generate large employment opportunities for young women and men.
• Develop capacity-building manual and guidelines and be involved in building the project staff and partners' capacity in youth-led Micro and Small Enterprise development approaches (VC and agribusiness selection and development, how to facilitate market linkage platforms, etc.)
• Facilitate effective linkage/partnership to SNV projects in the three sectors to leverage youth employment
• Facilitate private sector/market linkage to ensure the sustainability of the MSEs engaged in the selected agribusinesses
• Work with the wage employment team members to identify possibilities for establishing out-grower schemes/micro franchising opportunities for MSEs with the private sector in the agro-industrial parks.
• Identify opportunities and challenges for women engagement in the selected Agribusinesses and develop a strategy for maximizing young women's participation and benefit (in collaboration with the gender advisor and other team members.
• Facilitate the strengthening of value chains with the potential to create employment opportunities for a large number of youths.

Other assignments:

• As the project management team member ensure the quality and implementation of the project effectively and efficiently.
• Accomplish other activities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent and documented education and training in relevant disciplines – such as agribusiness, marketing, value chain development, Economics, Agricultural Economics, organizational development, business development, labor markets, or a related field of study - appropriate for a market-based approach to employment and gender in different social contexts.'

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Additional Information

Contract Type: National

Expected start date: As soon as possible

Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Contract Duration: One year with the possibility of extension based on performance and budget availability.

Working at SNV

SNV offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package; for internationals, we offer an international benefits package and to Ethiopian nationals, we offer a competitive national package. We also offer a challenging work environment, opportunities to lead and innovate, and a commitment to growing your skills in a fulfilling and diverse working environment. Our staff benefit from, and contribute to, an internal global network of experts. 

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