Tearfund Ethiopia is looking for a Project Coordinator for its Joint Initiative for Strategic Religious Action (JISRA) project. JISRA is a partnership of 50 civil society organisations based in Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda, the United Kingdom, Belgium and The Netherlands. The programme is aimed at promoting peaceful and just societies where all enjoy Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB). JISRA works with a great variety of local faith-based actors, partners, networks, youth and women’s organisations to support, capacitate and amplify inclusive voices and policies. In Ethiopia, It is being implemented by eleven local partners together with two international consortium partners;Tearfund and Faith to Action Network. The JISRA partnership in Ethiopia includes mainstream religions: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Islamic organisations, Catholic, Protestant, Interreligious, and Faith-based local partners.

The JISRA Project Coordinator (JPC) will coordinate, lead, and ensure the effective implementation and management of the Tearfund Ethiopia component of the JISRA project. The JPC will provide technical, coordination, M&E and reporting support to Tearfund JISRA local implementing partners. Also, the JPC is expected to work closely with the consortium local implementing partners and take lead initiatives on joint consortium activities and will provide support to JISRA Country Consortium Coordinator.

Job Requirements

We are looking for candidates with:

• Degree and/or equivalent qualification in a humanitarian, program management, development or management related discipline

• 3 or more years’ experience in project coordination, project management and budget management, in large-scale donor funded programming.

• Experience in program monitoring and evaluation including designing and evaluating projects

• Experience working with and through multiple local partners

• Experience with partner and donor reporting and facilitating reporting and M&E

• Proven experience in training and capacity building with partner organisations

• Conversant with Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB) emerging issues, trends, and policies

• proven experiences in the application of digital platforms for execution of projects

The successful applicant will also have:

• Excellent leadership and management skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills including sensitivity in cross cultural communications.

• Excellent situational awareness and conflict sensitivity skills

• Training, learning, facilitation, mentoring and presentation skills

• Fluency (written and spoken) in English and Amharic

For more and detailed information please find the attached linked document: JISRA Project Coordinator JD

How to Apply

 Do you have the required skills and experience?

If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Interested and qualified applicants can apply through the link JISRA Project Coordinator 

This role will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and it requires fluency (written and spoken) in English and Amharic, therefore Ethiopian nationals will be given preference for this role.

The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding.

In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a watch list database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.