CVDA has been re-registered and licensed by the Ethiopian Ministry of Justice, Charities and Societies Agency, on November 30, 2009 as an Ethiopian Residents charity in accordance with the Charities and Societies proclamation No. 621/2009 with registration No. 0588. As per 1113/2019 proclamation also re-registered on July 30, 2019. 

CVDA has permission to work at the national level however so far operates marginal parts of Benshangule Gumuz Region, Sidama region, South Ethiopia Region, Central Ethiopia region, South west Ethiopia region, Oromiya region, Afar region and Addis Ababa City administration.

It is member of Consortium of Reproductive Health Association (CORHA), Union of Ethiopian Women Charitable Association (UEWCA), Ethiopian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative/EEITI/, Ethiopia Civil Society Coalition for Scaling up Nutrition/ECSC-SUN/ and Afar Region Health Partner Forum. 

The following are CVDA’s vision, mission, goals, principles and values: 

Vision

 CVDA envisions a poverty-free Ethiopia where equity and equality are ensured.

Mission:

CVDA’s mission is to enhance socioeconomic development in health, education, agriculture, environment, livelihood, and WaSH, humanitarian responses, community-based peace-building, and good governance through holistic approaches and working with the community to contribute towards sustainable development and an improved standard of living in Ethiopia.

Overall goal: 

CVDA’s goal is to contribute to poverty alleviation through community-based approaches by implementing programs for development, good governance, and humanitarian responses in different regions of the country.

CORE VALUES

CVDA and its operations enshrine the following values.

• Integrity: Upholding the principles of honesty and responsibility and maintaining the highest ethical standards possible.

• Courage of conviction: CVDA’s pledge is to fight against poverty and hunger and always take sides with the poorest and most disadvantaged groups and help them bring about positive changes in their lives.

• Accountability: This espouses CVDA’s ongoing commitment to be accountable for its actions and to respond periodically to questions concerning its activities or answer to those who will be affected by our decisions or actions.

• Transparency: CVDA takes decisions and implements them in a manner that follows the rules and regulations. Moreover, CVDA shall provide key stakeholders with reliable, relevant, and timely information on matters that concern them.

• Sensitivity: CVDA is sensitive to conflict, gender, resources, culture, and social values in all of its program design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting and hence it wishes to be impartial and equitable in all its actions and activities

PRINCIPLES  

CVDA adheres to the following principles:

• Real-time and change-oriented performance

• Belief that results can be achieved if the process is sound and suitable

• Trustworthiness

• Team spirit

• Ownership 

• Volunteerism

• Compliance and commitment

• Do no harm

• Value for money

• Sustainability

PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

1, Reproductive and Primary Health Program 

2. Water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Program 

3. Food Security, Livelihood Diversification and Natural Resource Conservation Program 

4, Education Program 

5, Emergency and Relief Program 

Duration of employment: one year with high possibility of extension based on performance and availability of fund. 

Salary:  As per the scale of the organization 

Main duty and Responsibility

Gender, Safeguarding & Inclusion Advisor will have the following duty and responsibility but not limted to listed below:

• Ensure that gender, safeguarding, and social inclusion are well integrated and mainstreamed across all aspects of the project, including design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, staffing, training, and partnership strategies.

• Provide guidance on technical approaches and innovations to enhance impact on women-led businesses, women in leadership, and women’s participation in decision-making at all levels.

• Provide technical input to ensure project performance indicators reflect progress on gender equality, women’s economic empowerment, and inclusive outcomes.

• Conduct gender, safeguarding, and social inclusion assessments, reviews, and audits to identify areas of improvement and strategies to increase the involvement of women, youth, and marginalized populations in project activities.

• Provide strategic technical guidance on gender and inclusion integration to project staff, government stakeholders, and local institutions.

• Develop staff capacity to integrate gender and social inclusion into programmatic and government-led initiatives and represent CVDA as a thought leader in inclusive programming in Ethiopia.

• Work closely with the monitoring, evaluation, and learning team to ensure inclusive data collection, gender-disaggregated analysis, and reporting against inclusion indicators.

• Identify and document successful practices that advance gender and inclusion outcomes for use in publications, communication materials, and knowledge-sharing forums.

• Support the implementation and continuous improvement of organizational policies, procedures, and response mechanisms related to gender, safeguarding, and inclusion.

• Coordinate with other technical advisors (e.g., Business Development) to ensure inclusive design and implementation of interventions across the economic empowerment strategy.

Job Requirements

Required qualification

• At least four (4) years with master’s degree or six (6) years of experience with first degree in public health, sociology, gender studies, social and behavioral science or other relevant disciplines.

• Demonstrated capacity to lead the collection, analysis, and utilization of information from a broad range of sources.

• Proven technical expertise in addressing harmful gender norms, preventing, and responding to gender-based violence, reducing vulnerability of adolescent girls and young women, and constructive engagement of men and boys, as applied to very poor and highly vulnerable settings.

• Familiarity with safeguarding standards and experience overseeing incident response protocols is an asset.

• Experience providing technical coaching and mentorship to colleagues.

• Ability to write, compile and/or edit quality learning documents

• Proficient in English and Amharic, and somali language both written and verbal communication Willingness to travel within project areas.

How To Apply

N.B Applicants should complete summary table listed below and should clearly state minimum salary expectation even the organization has its own salary scale. . Applicants who did not comply this instruction will not considered for further selection

Application procedure: applicants should submit only application letter and CV through email: hr@cvdaethiopia.org CC to habetamubirhanu12@gmail.com and cvda2005hr@gmail.com . and Write on subject of the email; position & also attach summary sheet 

Registration place: submit summary of your profile as per format below, copy of application letter, C.V stating 3 work related reference & minimum salary expectation and other confidential: Head office;   Bekele Eshte Tower, which is along Torhailoch Total road 5th floor, Room No.504  For further information contact +251113691051/66

You can deliver in hand or submit through email up to July 21,2025 from the date  of the vacancy announcement day. 

Format for Summary sheet of Application: Please fill this form and attach when you apply.

Name of applicant Position applied Qualification  Field of study Year of graduation Year of Work experienceTitle of women economic empowerment  project managed Salary expectation (required to put the amount)

Working experience in Somali region

Yes/No

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