CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality, and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.
I JOB SUMMARY:
The Empowerment and BDS Provider will play a key role in the AWE Phase II project, focusing on the empowerment of women engaged in micro and small enterprises. She/he is responsible for the actual implementations, and monitoring of project activities on the ground and ensuring qualities and standards.
This position involves implementing targeted strategies for beneficiary selection, delivering business and life skills training, facilitating digital and financial literacy training, supporting Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) groups, establishing financial linkages with formal financial and lease institutions, and leading Social Analysis and Action (SAA) and male engagement dialogues. The Empowerment and BDS Provider will also actively engage in coaching and mentoring businesswomen and contribute to regular report writing.
The ideal candidate will possess a solid educational background, experience in business development services, and a commitment to empowering women in micro and small enterprises. Strong communication and facilitation skills, coupled with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders, are essential for success in this dynamic role. The Empowerment and BDS Provider will contribute significantly to the success of the AWE Phase II project by fostering positive change in the lives of women entrepreneurs.
II RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:
Job Responsibility #1: Facilitate beneficiary targeting and verification.
Facilitates and leads beneficiary targeting and verification process with the active participation of the Woreda key stakeholders and community representatives.
Ensure that the targeting process is transparent by sharing the targeting criteria, posting the final beneficiary list, and properly handling any complaints.
Ensure the final beneficiary list is approved by the relevant government offices.
% of Time: 10%
Job Responsibility #2: Facilitate Planning and implementation of project activities.
Participate in the development of Project detailed implementation plans, ensuring alignment with project goals and timelines.
Develop and deliver impactful business and life skills training programs for project beneficiaries.
Conduct training sessions to enhance the digital and financial literacy of project beneficiaries.
Organize and provide ongoing support to Village Savings and Loan Association groups, fostering a culture of savings and financial inclusion.
Establish and maintain linkages between project beneficiaries and formal financial and lease institutions to enhance access to financial services.
Establishes and strengthens Social Action and Analysis (SAA) and leads constructive dialogue sessions.
Facilitate business idea competition and monitor and report on the award fund usage.
In collaboration with community-based agents mobilize project targets for training, BDS support, saving, and different project activities.
Ensures that Advancing Women Enterprise project on-the-ground implementation is guided by CARE’s core programming approaches and principles, and gender equity.
Facilitates dissemination of relevant information and ensures that the information is accessed and understood by the project targets.
Provide continuous follow-up and technical support to the businesses of target groups.
Meets regularly with Woreda stakeholders to discuss project progress updates, exchange information, discuss challenges, and share tasks accordingly.
% of Time: 40%
Job Responsibility #3: Mentoring and Coaching of Project Clients.
Provide individualized and group coaching and mentoring support to women entrepreneurs, offering guidance on business development and personal growth.
Provide individual and group-based business development support.
Incorporate the coaching and mentoring support in the regular project reports.
% of Time: 30%
Job Responsibility #4: Strengthen partnership, institutional linkages, and working relationships.
% of Time: 5%
Job Responsibility #5: Reporting and monitoring
Conduct regular monitoring visits to the women's businesses and provide monitoring reports.
Prepares weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports on project activities, and submits these to her/his supervisor in the appropriate formats.
Undertakes professional development initiatives identified with his/her supervisor.
% of Time: 5%
Job Responsibility #6: Learning and Documentation of Lessons
Facilitate documentation of project success stories and lessons learned through short videos, pictures, and case studies.
Collects basic information, best practices, case studies, and lessons and reports to her/his supervisor.
Include lessons learned in the regular report
% of Time: 5%
Job Responsibility #7: Perform other duties as assigned, % of Time: 5%
III PROBLEM SOLVING (Thinking Environment)
IV GENDER EQUALITY
Understanding and demonstrated commitment to the importance of gender, youth and social inclusion issues.
Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and PSEAH (safeguarding), as evidenced in previous positions / programming
Job Requirements
IIV QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW-HOW)
A Education/training
Required:
Desired
B Experience
Required:
C) Technical skills
Required:
Knowledge of local language.
Communication skills, good human relations
Firm belief in teamwork and gender equality, and sensitivity to HIV/AIDS
Conceptual understanding of participatory approach and sustainable development.
D Competencies:
Respect, accountability, courage, excellence, stress tolerance, information monitoring, team building, interpersonal skills, coaching, problem-solving, planning, and organizing.
V CONTACTS/KEY RELATIONSHIPS
The Empowerment and BDS Provider is expected to establish an open relationship with the community, government counterparts, and community-based organizations, as well as with supervisors, program managers, and other staff.
VI WORKING CONDITIONS:
How to Apply
If you are interested to be part of our dynamic team, exciting work environment and contribute to CARE Ethiopia’s mission and vision, please send your CV (not more than 3 pages) and cover letter (not more than one page) through THIS LINK
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Passionate and dedicated candidates who meet the requirement are strongly encouraged to apply, especially women!
CARE seeks to improve the lives of the most marginalized, particularly women and girls. Our diversity is our strength. We encourage people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.
CARE Ethiopia is committed to preventing all unwanted behavior at work. This includes sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, and child abuse. We expect everyone who works for us to share this commitment by understanding and working within the CARE Safeguarding Policy and related framework. CARE Ethiopia has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable adult or child by any of our staff, representatives, or partners.
CARE Ethiopia reserves the right to seek information from job applicants’ current and/or previous employers about incidents of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment the applicant may have been found guilty to have committed or about which an investigation was in the process of being carried out at the time of the termination of the applicant’s employment with that employer.
By submitting the application, the job applicant confirms that s/he has no objection to CARE Ethiopia requesting the information specified above. All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks
