About us

Info Mind Solutions Plc. (IMS) the parent company of Ethiojobs.net and Dereja.com is the leading digital human resource solution provider in Ethiopia. We specialize in e-recruitment platforms, Ethiojobs.net and Dereja.com, as well as recruitment, executive search, assessment center, payroll management, training, and consultancy. Over the last 23 years, IMS has served more than 3,000 international and national organizations in ensuring their Human Capital needs are met.

Currently, Dereja is undertaking projects in tackling the issue of youth unemployment with various partners. Dereja is a pioneer in establishing Career Center services in Higher Education Institutions, organizing regional and national job fairs, designing and delivering employability skills training for fresh graduates as well as working on various additional interventions toward building the youth’s employability skills. Thus, IMS is looking for a Candidate Engagement and Partnership Manager who will be responsible to lead the partnership management and candidate engagement of projects in Dereja.

Job Summary

Candidate Engagement and Partnership Manager will report to the Program Manager and will be responsible to devise strategy and manage overall engagement of candidates and partnership between Info Mind Solutions/Dereja and several partner organizations. He/she will work with partner governmental and non-governmental organizations, higher academic institutions, social enterprises, associations and private companies. He/she shall be responsible to devise tailored engagement and partnership modalities and strategies. He/she shall put in place a working system for candidate engagement and partnership management. He/she will ensure effectiveness, efficiency and functionality of engagement and partnership strategies and modalities.

Detailed descriptions of the responsibilities are stated as follows:

Partnership Management 

• Strengthening existing successful partnership practices and retain prevailing partners

• Explore the potential for new partners and expand the partnership base

• Devise partnership management strategy customized towards the nature of the partners

• Establish a functional and sustainable partnership system

• Ensure functionality and effectiveness level of partnership management

• Follow up and managing partnership status, communication flow, compliances responded, and frequent demands addressed along with the team members

• Ensure partners database to be up to date, usable and increase from time to time in collaboration with the team members

• Proactively identify issues with partners and monitor any risks for quick and strategic remedial actions

• Develop functional partnership agreements with the concerned partners as per their need and nature

Candidate Engagement

• Candidate engagement team building and setting clear roles and responsibilities

• Establish candidate data sourcing, collection, cleaning, using and monitoring system

• Mapping and exploring candidate data sourcing pool and expand candidate data base

• Ensure timely access of disaggregated candidate data with all the important variables in response to the demand from all concerned partners

• Follow the proper and timely candidate data provision to employers for employment opportunities

• Monitor and ensure the employment status of the candidates in collaboration with the team members

Team Leadership

• Leading and manage all team members consisting of candidates’ engagement and partnership management  

• Establish leadership and guidance for team members consisting of candidates’ engagement and partnership management  

• Hold regular team meetings, identify routine and strategic issues, devise mitigation measures and communicate to Program Manager

• Lead and inspire team members consisting of candidates’ engagement and partnership management  

• Establish values-based team dynamics and personnel skills to team members consisting of candidates’ engagement and partnership management  

• Regularly provide both informal and formal coaching and feedback to consisting of candidates’ engagement and partnership management team members

• Actively seek feedback on own performance and effectiveness from both Program Manager and IMS leadership

• Hold in-person supervision sessions with the team members consisting of candidates’ engagement and partnership management

Organization: Info Mind Solutions PLC

Place of posting: Ethiopia

Duration of Employment: One-year 

Job Requirements

Qualification

• BA, preferably MA in Management, Economics and related fields

• Excellent comprehension, facilitation, professional writing and communications skills

• 5 years of experience in partnership and project management

• 3 years of experience in team management

• Proficient in problem solving, detail-oriented, organization and management skills

• Proficiency in English and Amharic languages

• Working experience with diverse pool of partners such as governmental and non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, social enterprises, private companies, and so forth   

• Good knowledge of team building, team leading, team working  

• Passionate about youth employment and development

How to Apply

Interested and Qualified applicants can apply using THIS LINK by making your subject line "Candidate Engagement and Partnership Manager"