Who we are
SOS Children’s Villages Ethiopia is an International Non-governmental organization and a member of SOS Children’s Villages International Federation. We started our humanitarian work in Ethiopia with the opening of our first Village in Mekelle, Northern part of Ethiopia in 1974. Since then, we have expanded our programs to different regions where there are significant needs for intervention and where we believe we can work in partnership with all relevant actors to bring sustainable positive outcomes for children’s and young people.
Today, we have grown significantly to meet the persistent challenges that confront Ethiopian children who have lost parental care and those that are at risk of losing their parental care. Working in close collaboration with international donors, local government and community-based organizations
across seven program locations; we aspire that every child grows up with love, respect and security.
Why we need you?
We’re building a pool of great candidates for upcoming roles- come join the roster!
Your application will only be considered if you complete these MANADATORY SCREENING QUESTIONS and submit resume through this portal.
Incomplete applications will be automatically rejected.
What we provide?
An amazing work environment that promotes personal growth through providing professional space to grow and advance your career!
Your role?
As the FSCP Officer is repsonsible to support the design, implementation, and monitoring of development programs aimed at enhancing the livelihoods, employability, and self-reliance of vulnerable households, youth, and caregivers. This role will strengthen community-based organizations (CBOs), savings cooperatives (SACCOs), and youth centers to ensure sustainable service delivery and capacity building.
Project Implementation
- Provide technical support to ensure effective implementation of livelihood and youth empowerment activities according to the approved plan of action.
- Support households and youth to acquire skills, knowledge, and resources for entrepreneurship, employability, and income generation.
- Provide targeted technical, financial, and material assistance to caregivers and youth to engage in sustainable livelihood and income-generating activities (IGAs).
- Facilitate linkage between caregivers and youth with partners (e.g., TVETs, outreach programs, CBOs) to ensure continuity of services and smooth exit from project support.
- Support caregivers’ and youth’s self-reliance and graduation from project interventions.
Community Engagement and Empowerment
- Strengthen new and existing CBOs through provision of resources, financial and technical support, governance strengthening, and implementation of exit plans.
- Support relevant government offices and forums to improve childcare and safeguarding mechanisms, including establishing or enhancing child abuse complaint and feedback systems.
- Provide technical support to sustain existing youth centers and document lessons learned for effective administration and management.
- Strengthen SACCOs to deliver financial services to caregivers and youth, promote women’s leadership, conduct audits, and facilitate knowledge-sharing forums.
Partner Management:
- To ensure that all activities related to livelihood are implemented in a coordinated and harmonized manner.
- Works closely with government, partners and community-level institutions to promote livelihood interventions with targeted households.
- Coordinate and facilitate quarterly review meetings with government stakeholders, partners, and relevant institutions to track progress and address challenges.
- Participate in livelihood assessments, analysis, and planning within project operational areas to inform program strategies.
- Actively engage in sectoral coordination forums and working groups at woreda and regional levels to align activities and share learning.
- Liaise with private sector actors and service providers to strengthen linkages, support entrepreneurship, and improve income-generating opportunities for beneficiaries.
Capacity Strengthening:
- Conduct training needs assessments and provide capacity building for caregivers, youth, field staff, CBOs, and government partners.
- Deliver training on entrepreneurship, market-driven skills, employability, financial literacy, and business management.
- Support planning, facilitation, and follow-up for training sessions, workshops, and community events.
- Strengthen group dynamics, leadership, and governance skills among community groups and cooperatives.
MEAL
- Monitor progress of livelihood, youth, and household empowerment activities, providing feedback and recommendations to the Project Coordinator.
- Conduct supportive supervision of field-level activities to ensure compliance with quality standards, budgets, and organizational policies.
- Maintain robust M&E systems to track outputs, outcomes, and impacts of livelihood and youth interventions.
- Integrate community feedback mechanisms to improve relevance and responsiveness of services.
- Contribute to assessments, midline and endline evaluations, and learning reviews.
Reporting and documentation.
- Document lessons learned, best practices, and success stories for program improvement and knowledge sharing.
- Keep updated on developments in livelihood, youth empowerment, entrepreneurship, and CBO strengthening practices.
- Prepare and submit timely monthly, quarterly, and annual progress reports to the Project Coordinator.
- Support donor reporting and proposal development by providing technical and contextual inputs.
- Coordinate and facilitate quarterly review and planning meetings with partners, SACCOs, and stakeholders
Other Duties
- Perform other related tasks as assigned by the supervisor or program management.
SAFEGUARDING
- Ensure adherence to SOS CV policies such as the Code of Conduct, Safeguarding Standards and others as well as the minimum standards of development program
- Ensure that all support is provided in the best interest of the child.
- Responsible for taking part in awareness-raising sessions and capacity building training in relation to Safeguarding and Code of Conduct and to protect children and young people from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination
- Support children, young people and program participants to make them understand the Safeguarding risks and protection mechanisms
- Ensure proper safeguarding procedures and policies are in place to protect programme participant children, young persons, adults and other stakeholders.
- Be vigilant about any possible form of abuse/harm, neglect, harassment, or exploitation against, children, youth and adults in personal and professional lives;
- Report any Incident Management Team or concern within 24 hours to the Incident Management Team, focal person or concerned party through the defined channels for reporting the allegation
Up for the challenge...
Then check out our criteria’s:
Must Criteria
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Development Studies, Economics, , Community Development, or related field.
- Experience: Minimum of 3–5 years of professional experience in development programs focusing on livelihoods, youth empowerment, entrepreneurship, or community-based initiatives.
- Proven ability to plan, implement, monitor, and report on multi-sectoral development programs.
- Experience in working with SACCOs, savings groups, or microfinance structures, including understanding financial management and reporting requirements.
- Ability to work collaboratively with government offices, partners, community institutions, and private sector actors.
- Awareness and application of child protection policies, safeguarding standards, and ethical principles in program delivery.
- Ability to speak the local language relevant to the program areas.
- Willingness to travel frequently to project sites (kebeles/woredas).
Desired Criteria
- Education: Master’s degree in development studies, Social Work, Community Development, or related fields.
- Experience: More than 5 years of professional experience in development programs focusing on livelihoods, youth empowerment, entrepreneurship, or community-based initiatives.
- Specialized knowledge in child protection, youth empowerment, livelihoods, entrepreneurship, or financial inclusion.
- Experience working with multiple partners, consortiums, or community-based organizations in development programs.
- Experience engaging in government coordination forums, policy dialogues, or sectoral working groups.
- Experience integrating strategies for self-reliance, income generation, and program sustainability.
Competencies-Knowledge, Skill and Abilities
- Understanding the organization and commitment to its vision and mission: able to clearly communicate SOS Children’s Villages Who We Are (Vision, Mission & Values), “Living our Values” policies and strategies in all areas
- Child rights & child development: Working knowledge in all areas of child rights, child protection, child development, family & community development, and rights-based programming in a developing country.
- Livelihoods Programming: Experience integrating strategies for self-reliance, income generation, and program sustainability.
- Entrepreneurship & Livelihood Support: Ability to assess market-driven skills needs, support vocational training, and promote sustainable income-generating activities.
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting: experience in preparing structured reports and using evidence to support the program
- Capacity Building & Training: Skills to design and deliver training sessions, workshops, and mentorship for staff, partners, CBOs, caregivers, and youth.
- Community Engagement: ability to build and maintain partnership with stakeholders such as schools, community and government stakeholders.
- Networking and Relationships Building: ability to build, maintain and leverage networks with local government, NGO communities’ leaders and other relevant stakeholders.
- Accountability and Result Orientation: ensure the ownership of task and meets deadlines effectively and monitor progress and communicate concerns proactively.
- Collaboration: driven to work with others, able to build partnerships and teamwork internally and externally.
- Training & Facilitation: Skills in delivering training to community volunteers, partners, and stakeholders, using participatory and adult-learning methods.
- Partnership Management: Effective coordination, communication, and relationship-building with implementing partners and community leaders.
- Integrity: able to state views openly and act in line with beliefs, maintain the organization’s values, maintain deadlines and commitments; have ethical standards, ability to gain the trust of co-workers, and desire to be of service.
- Communication: high-level written and verbal communication/presentation skills; ability to interact effectively with partners and staff at all levels; ability to represent the organization externally; exceptional ability to communicate consistently, clearly, and effectively with a range of stakeholders.
- Software: - Computer literacy (MS Office and MS Project, and other statistical softer wares such as STATA, and SPSS)
Core Competency (these competencies are relevant for every co-worker):
- Kindness: Act with empathy towards everyone he/she works with.
- Continuous Learning: Make an effort to learn, understand and grow as a person, admitting your own mistakes.
- Inclusiveness: In any actions show respect and care for others.
- Initiative: speak up when things are not right, do not hesitate to act, and adapt to change when necessary.
- Results Orientation: look for solutions and focus on desired results.
How to Apply
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MAKE SURE YOU CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE MANADATORY SCREENING QUESTIONS
Then send us your application (application letter, detailed CV containing contact details of their references) electronically through SOS Children Villages Application portal (ICIMS)
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Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conduct of sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection, and hiring decisions will give due emphasis to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, and police clearance reference check processes.
SOS Children's Villages in Ethiopia provides equal employment opportunities to all co-workers & qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or class.
