Background

Association of Pastoralist Community for Change (APCfC) is a local Non-Governmental Organization registered with Oromia Attorney General Bureau (OAGB) in accordance with the Oromia Regional State proclamation for Civil Society Organizations with a certificate No WB/03/0099.

APCfC is currently implementing five years (2023-2027) nexus project funded by CST-Ethiopia in Dire and Moyale Woredas, in Borana zone. The project is implemented with the overall aim to promote women and older adolescent girls have sustainable lives including diverse food sources and economic well-being, increased safety, psychosocial wellbeing, and meaningful participation and leadership; and Women and men affected by crisis can meet their basic needs, transition from reliance on relief assistance towards meeting and/or protecting their food and livelihoods needs independently.

To meet its project objectives APCfC calls for interested and competent professionals to apply for the following vacant positions. 

Job position summary:

Under direct supervision of APCfC Field Project Coordinator, the overall role of the MSD and NRM Officer is to facilitate smooth implementation of the MSD oriented community-based protection of the natural resources and for the project program participants to experience sustainable economic well-being. Providing support to the field team in terms of Market System Development, identification of potential local market actors, participating in intervention designing and work with private sector actors for sustainable business linkage creation is also key roles of the MSD officer.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and implement activities related to value chain development and market system development

• Support and lead implementation of Natural Resource Management (NRM) and DRM activities of the project.

• Support the facilitation of NRM and DRM approaches, trainings, and community-based dialogues and events for the project participants, to support sound implementation of NRM/DRM activities.

• Support linking and harmonization of NRM activities with other components of the Project activities, particularly those related to Humanitarian Response, Women Economic Empowerment and Market system Development.

• Provide regular reports and on-going feedback on livelihood activities, NRM and DRM activities to the Field Project Coordinator as appropriate.

• Ensures the program captures and responds to up-to-date information about NRM/DRM within the local operational context.

• Contributes to the development of Project Level work plans, reflecting the larger work plan and approaches for strengthening facilitation of NRM/ DRM activities.

• Support and ensure that activities of the Project are implemented in compliance with the Market System Development Approach and principles.

• Support assessment of the potential of the project area and make feasibility assessments to assist through market linkage and facilitation role

• Support communities to actively engage in protecting natural resources and the environment with the application of co-investment model.

• Facilitate for the program participants and target communities to have financial and material capacities for management of rangelands, soil conservation initiatives and water schemes.

• Support Self-help group members have access and improved participation to market and market related intervention and have improved knowledge and skills on viable, sustainable and inclusive livelihood options and value chains.

• Ensure that program participants have improved access to input, services and products, improved access to new market price information on the selected value chain

• Coordinate local value chain market actors to have access to functional value chain market coordination platform

• Ensure a data base is developed and its performance and functionality are monitored periodically.

• Provide entrepreneurship and small business management coaching together with assigned local resource persons.

• Supervise, coach and mentor the assigned local Market Development consultants.

• Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports and share with the field project coordinator.

• Perform additional activities assigned by the supervisor

Required number: 1 (one)

Duty Station:   Mega-Dire with frequent travel to project sites in Dire and Moyale Woredas

Terms of Employment: One year (with the possibility of extension), Full time

Basic Salary: Birr 24,822.70(Twenty-four thousand eight hundred twenty-two & seventy cents) plus 30% hardship Allowance. 

Job Requirements

Education and Work Experience Required:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Agricultural Economics, Business Administrations, Marketing, Agricultural Economics, Economics, Disaster Risk Management, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Science and Climate Change.

• Minimum of 3-year experience working on Market System Development, Natural Resource Management and DRM and value-Chain Projects.

• NGO experience is an asset.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience in the areas of value chain is required, basic knowledge and skill in areas of feasibility studies, business plan preparation; value chain marketing, market system development and report writing is advantageous,

• Understanding of NRM, DRM and NRM tools and approaches including understanding of opportunities and challenges in pastoralist context

• Have practical experience on adaptive management

• Knowledge and understanding about major barriers of women in business activities.

• Flexibility, adaptability, and ability and willingness to operate independently in remote and potentially risky environments for protracted periods, involving physical hardship

• Command of MS Package (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook); Strong writing, reporting and communication skills;

• Good command of English, and Afan Oromo, both written and spoken.

• Good interpersonal relationships and team work skills in a multi-cultural environment

• Excellent networking skills with the ability to establish good relationships, confident in engaging with colleagues, partners and stakeholders.

• Readiness to work outside of the framed job description.

• Experience in working with enterprises/private sector actors, labor market, financial market actors and good understanding of Market system development in fragile and pastoralist settings of the Country.

How to Apply

Qualified female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.

Our Recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to child protection and safeguarding.

Only short-listed applicants will be invited to participate in an interview and for written exam. 

Interested applicants should submit a Motivational Letter with details of how they meet the ‘job requirements’ outlined above, including description of past professional experience; non-returnable updated CV with at least three references; and non-returnable soft copies of credentials with the subject “the name of position they are Appling for” to either of the following addresses:

Email address: apcfc23@gmail.com  or submit non-returnable hardcopies at Association of Pastoralist Community for Change (APCfC) Head Office, Addis Ababa, at Association of Pastoralist Community for Change (APCfC) Head Office, Addis Ababa, Kirkos Sub city, Woreda 07, An Business Centre on 4rth  Floor, around  Ethiopian Red Cross Society HQ. or

submit non-returnable hardcopies at Association of Pastoralist Community for Change (APCfC) Dire or Moyale Field Offices in Borana zone located in Mega and Moyale Towns.

If you need further clarifications, please use phone number +251 118 96 02 32 during working hours (9:00 am-5:00pm) before the deadline.