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Programme Director

Tearfund Horn of Africa Regional Office

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Social Science

Project Management

Addis Ababa

5 years

1 Position

2025-03-07

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2025-03-19

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Fields of study

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Job Description

The Programme Director is to be based in Addis Ababa and responsible for managing the Programme Team for Tearfund in Ethiopia. S/he assists the Country Director in the leadership and management of a team of staff and project work. S/he has an oversight role for successful design, resourcing, implementation and monitoring of projects in support of the delivery of Tearfund's Ethiopia country strategy whilst ensuring projects reflect Tearfund Quality Standard commitments. The Program Director (PD) has delegated responsibility for security management and external representation of Tearfund.

 Demonstration of interest and involvement in issues of church envisioning, justice, gender, poverty alleviation, advocacy, diversity and inclusion

The position is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with frequent travel to our various field locations. 

Applicants must be committed to Tearfund's Christian beliefs. The recruitment process will include specific checks related to safeguarding issues. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter terror-terror measure.

Contract Type: Fixed term 

For more information, please refer this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tmoak5oyoleBteuZvvL9eHzTgiF564_3/view?usp=sharing

Job Requirements

Do you have previous Experience

  • Proven management of emergency and development programmes/ projects experience 

  • Minimum 5 years of experience 

  • Proven security management experience

  • Proven people's leadership experience

  • Proven Financial management experience

  • Proven working experience in Humanitarian and insecure settings

  • Proven application of good practice standards: SPHERE, Core Humanitarian Standard and Red Cross Codes of Conduct.

  • Proven Donor working relationship and grant management experience

  • Proven strategic thinking and planning experience 

  • Proven consortium development and management experience

  • Strong working experience with organizational support services 

  • Recent experience of working in Ethiopia and regional context

Do you have a Masters degree and/or equivalent qualification in?

  • Strategic management, Rural sociology, project management, humanitarian, and development related disciplines

  • Thematic expertise in one of the following WASH, Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition.

  • Relevant post-graduate qualification

  • Security Training

Do you have the below skills/Abilities required?

  • Good command of spoken and written English language communication skills

  • People's Leadership and organizational management skills

  • Training, Coaching, and mentoring skills

  • Analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Funding Concept Note, Proposal and report writing skills 

  • Negotiation & representation skills

  • Computer literacy skills.

Personal qualities required

  • Committed to Tearfund's Mission, Values and Beliefs

  • Emotionally and spiritually mature

  • Reliable and flexible Team player

  • Understanding and sensitivity to cross-cultural issues

  • Commitment to accountability and transparency to beneficiaries, showing dignity and respect, and demonstrating listening and understanding

  • Ability to remain calm under pressure

  • Willingness to travel and live in basic conditions

  • Commitment to prayerfully apply biblical principles in all aspects of life

How to Apply

 If the above describes you then please have a look at the attached Job Description and Apply by using THIS LINK

Fields Of Study

Project Management

Skills Required

develop program ideas

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