About Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan’s Purse is a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine. Samaritan’s Purse is privileged to be part of the humanitarian effort in Ethiopia and legally registered as foreign charity to work in Ethiopia since October 08, 2018.

Open Position: 22

Duration of Contract:  October 31, 2024

JOB SUMMARY 

The Registration and Targeting Officer will be responsible with organizing and registering vulnerable households, and facilitating and ensuring transparency and accountability for community appeals.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Classify households according to their level of vulnerability and ensure that food assistance is targeted to households based on their vulnerability.

• Involved in Community-based preliminary registration.

• Establish community registration or targeting committee and ensure are good representative for the community

• Establish a Community registration/targeting committee based on the village context and also establish primary, secondary and exclusion criteria.

• Facilitate the creation and functioning of appeals committee

• Analysis of feedback mechanism from Appeals committee

• Ensure all the processes are duly recorded and publicly announced to all households within the community

• Training of community targeting committee on how to use targeting criteria.

• Provide the registration format/forms to establish the draft registration master list

• Perform any other duties as assigned

Job Requirements

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

·       BA in Social Studies or relevant field; further training will be a plus

·       At least 2 years’ experience in similar role with other NGO or Private Organization

LANGUAGE

·       Amharic and English (spoken and written required)

·       Somali regional languages strongly desired

SKILLS REQUIRED

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be willing to abide by Samaritan’s Purse’s code of conduct and understand the principals of Samaritan’s Purse’s Statement of Faith, as well as be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

In addition, the following skills are required

·       Strong organizational skills and community relational skills

·       Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

·       Computer literate (word, excel, power point)

·       Strong organizational skills

·       Ability to work simultaneously with multiple tasks,

·       Willingness and ability to work efficiently with a wide diverse group of people

·       Working ability with tight deadlines and in a fast-growing program environment

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral diagram, or schedule form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit.  The employee frequently is required to stand; walk and run; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

·       The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be exposed to loud noises around the maintenance and construction workshops.

·       May travel in country with exposure to communicable diseases, hot and humid weather conditions.

·       Work in a security context that is fluid

SAFEGUARDING COMMITMENT

The employee is required to carry out his/her duties in accordance with Samaritan’s Purse Safeguarding policy and Code of conduct.

Employee should remain alert and responsive to any child and adult safeguarding risks, acquire relevant knowledge and skills, which will enable him/her to promote strong safeguarding practices, understand the child and adult safeguarding policy and procedures, and conduct his/herself in a manner consistent with the Safeguarding Policy.

How to Apply

All interested candidates are encouraged to apply for the position advertised by submitting their CV/Resume (maximum of 2 pages) and application letter (one Page only) no later than August 24, 2023 to hrspe@samaritan.org. Please write the position title you are applying for in the email subject line, " WFP GFD Registration and Targeting Officer ”

Only candidates that are short-listed will be contacted.