The International Solidarity Foundation (ISF) is a Finnish development organization, founded in 1970. ISF development programme 2022-25 aims to prevent harmful practices and violence against women and girls (VAWG) and improve women’s livelihood resilience in Kenya, Somaliland, Puntland, and the Somali region in Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is a new programme country for ISF. The ISF Ethiopia team consists of a Country Director and a Finance and Admin Coordinator based in Addis Ababa, and two thematic field coordinators.

ISF is now recruiting a Field Coordinator/Gender-Based Violence and a Field Coordinator/Livelihood, to be based in the Somali region, Ethiopia. The Field Coordinators support the planning, implementation and monitoring of the ISF programme in their area of responsibility.

Job Title: Thematic Field Coordinator – GBV
Location: Somali region of Ethiopia
Reporting to: Country Director

Job Purpose 

Thematic Field Coordinator supports the planning, implementation and monitoring of the ISF programme in her/his area of responsibility (prevention of harmful practices and violence against women and girls), as outlined below.

Core Functions: 

• Support partners in project planning, budgeting and implementation, including preparation of project documents, problem solving, testing of new ideas, capacity development and networking.  

• Monitor project implementation, including analysis of project reports, activities and results.    

Main Duties/Programme management 

Planning: 

• Support project planning at the country level, including preparation of project agreements, project plans, and annual and quarterly country/project plans and budgets

• Support ISF programme planning at the country level, including preparation of country programme documents and participation in selecting local implementing partners 

Monitoring and evaluation:

• Do regular follow-up with partners and field visits to monitor and analyze project activities and project results, and report to Country Director any problems in the project performance

• Support partners in using monitoring data in learning and development 

• Support financial monitoring 

• Support project and programme internal and external evaluations

Reporting:

• Support reporting at the country level, including the preparation of country and donor reports.

• Prepare monthly reports about the general achievement and challenge in the areas of intervention; these will include changes and challenges.

• Review and analyze quarterly project reports and ensure that narrative and finance reports are coherent. Provide feedback to partners and ISF staff. 

• Support reporting to Government 

Main Duties/Programme development

• Support testing of new ideas in collaboration with partners and other stakeholders.

• Identify best practices and lessons learned locally. 

• Support ISF partners’ networking with relevant actors in their respective projects

• Support capacity development of partners, including facilitation of the assessment of capacity development needs, contacts to trainers and in organizing trainings 

• Participate in the due diligence assessment to the potential partners and play a vital role in identifying the potential risk that might face on the project implementation

• Collect and conduct initial review of partner narrative and financial reports

Other Duties

• Support ISF HQ Communications and fundraising initiatives, including organizing media visits, arranging interviews and photo/video opportunities, and identifying interesting stories.  

• Any other tasks assigned by the supervisor

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Appropriate Master’s Degree 

Professional experience: 

• At least 5 years’ experience in prevention of harmful practices and violence against women and girls, preferably from NGOs

• At least 5 years’ experience in project management including planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting      

• Experience in community mobilization and working with communities

• Knowledge of relevant national and local policies, actors and networks in the country of employment 

• Ability to facilitate discussion, learning, and innovation

• Ability to work independently and work well in a team

• Good planning and organizational skills

• Good skills in Office software packages, especially Microsoft Office (MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams etc.)

Language Requirements:

• Excellent written and oral English 

• Somali working language 

Travel: 

The selected person is expected to regularly travel inside the country of employment.

How to apply:

• For more information on ISF, detailed job descriptions and instructions on how to apply, please visit ISF web page CLICK HERE. Interested candidates should submit their application at the latest on June 18th, 2023 Helsinki time (EET). Female candidates will be prioritized. 

• Interested candidates should submit their application at the latest on June 18th, 2023 Helsinki time (EET). Female candidates will be prioritized. 

• Register using the following link CLICK HERE

In the application form, section 'Tell about yourself', field 'Your message to us', pls provide your expected monthly gross salary. CV is a mandatory attachment.