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 MANDATORY SCREENING QUESTIONS and submit your 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?
Under the supervision of the Location Program Director, the PSCP Coordinator is responsible to effectively coordinate the planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of the project He/she will be responsible in coordinating and implementing the project activities in the intervention area and the donor compliances and coordinating with all partners and stakeholders engaged in the project and collaborating with joint partners.
The incumbent will represent SOS CVE at external forums/meetings at the field office level as required in consultation with the Location Program Director and functional supervisors at National office level.
The incumbent is required to carry out his/her duties following the SOS CV Safeguarding policies and regulations, the Code of Conduct, the values-based competency frame “Living our Values” and any further international and local regulation that influences safeguarding at SOS CV.’
Priority Task and Responsiblity
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT (SYSTEM DESIGN/PLANNING)
- Design strategies and approaches that ensure effective and integrated implementation of project interventions across child protection, health, livelihood, and education.
- Develop detailed work plans and budgets that align with donor requirements, organizational standards, and community needs.
- Continuously collect, analyze, and share updates on program progress, challenges, and contextual developments.
- Contribute to the development of sustainability strategies, including exit plans and linkage with government systems.
Project Implementation
- Lead, coordinate, and oversee the implementation of project activities, ensuring quality, timeliness, and achievement of agreed targets.
- Coordinate and supervise the work of implementing partners and field teams to ensure harmonized and efficient delivery of services.
- Facilitate regular meetings with technical committees and field stakeholders to review performance, share learning, and resolve challenges.
- Build the capacity of relevant stakeholders (community groups, government offices, schools, health posts, CBO,cooperatives, etc.) to improve education outcomes, child and family health, and livelihood opportunities.
- Promote active participation of grassroots institutions, faith-based organizations, and community leaders to strengthen ownership and sustainability.
- Oversee grassroots community dialogues and conversations on child protection, education, skills development, and health promotion.
- Manage project resources effectively, ensuring budget utilization is in line with planned activities and donor compliance.
- Identify risks to project success, develop mitigation strategies, and update risk management plans.
Monitoring, Reporting, and Coordination
- Conduct regular monitoring visits to kebeles and woredas, providing technical backstopping and ensuring adherence to work plans.
- Collect quantitative and qualitative data, including case studies, human interest stories, and best practices to demonstrate impact.
- Generate evidence and learning to inform adaptive management and scale-up opportunities.
- Produce accurate, timely reports (monthly, quarterly, annual) for donors, government offices, and the National Office.
- Work closely with the MEAL Coordinator to ensure high-quality monitoring systems, partner reporting, and evaluation processes.
- Actively participate in coordination platforms, technical working groups, and inter-agency forums at zonal and woreda levels.
Budget and Resource Management
- Prepare, manage, and monitor the project budget in collaboration with the finance team, ensuring effective and efficient use of resources.
- Track project expenditures against approved budgets and ensure compliance with donor and organizational financial guidelines.
- Review and authorize project-related expenses, ensuring accountability and transparency.
- Provide periodic financial updates to the Program Director and finance department, highlighting variances and recommending corrective measures.
- Support partners and field staff in financial planning, forecasting, and budget utilization to strengthen financial accountability.
- Contribute to budget planning for new proposals and sustainability strategies.
Stakeholder Engagement and Capacity Building
- Work closely with Key Implementation Partners (KIPs) from the community and relevant government sectors to ensure effective delivery of project interventions in both existing and newly targeted kebeles within the sub-city.
- Facilitate structured collaboration with the partners focusing on complementary service provision and joint programming to maximize collective impact.
- Strengthen coordination mechanisms with local authorities, schools, health centers, women’s associations, and youth groups to enhance community ownership and sustainability.
- Mobilize and leverage community assets and contributions to support project implementation and build local resilience.
- Support the capacity development of partners and community structures through training, mentoring, and technical assistance, ensuring alignment with project objectives and government priorities.
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with community leaders, elders, religious figures, women’s and youth groups, and local government structures.
- Ensure alignment of project activities with government priorities and strategies, fostering government ownership and policy linkages.
- Represent the project in joint planning, review, and coordination forums, advocating for synergy, resource-sharing, and policy linkage.
Staff Management
- Provides regular support and supervision to staff under direct line management. This includes the formulation of individual work plans (with agreed indicators of achievement) based on project work plans and/or job descriptions. It also includes regularly scheduled supervision and performance management meetings.
- Ensures performance goals of human resources in the department are discussed, documented and aligned to the overall requirements and results of the program.
- Ensure effective performance management is in place through continuous communication, planning, monitoring and objective performance evaluation to elevate employee performance and overall results
- Ensure that staff have the skills to meet current and emerging needs by creating learning maps and training activities appropriate for the team.
- Responsible for Gathering zonal level security information from zonal security office and keep on updating the field staff
Documentation and Knowledge Management
- Document lessons learned, good practices, and innovations, and disseminate them within the organization and with partners.
- Support the preparation and facilitation of program review sessions, learning events, and donor monitoring visits.
- Ensure field officers and partner staff systematically document project results and share evidence-based learning.
- Maintain compliance with SOS CV’s Code of Conduct, and safeguarding policy
Additional Responsibilities
- Carry out other responsibilities and duties as assigned by the Line Manager.
- Stay informed on national and global trends in child protection, education, health, and livelihood programming to enhance project quality and relevance.
Safeguarding (child, young people, adult and asset) and gender Equality
- Ensure that safeguarding and child protection mainstreaming are integrated into all Emergency response frameworks through measurable output and outcome indicators.
- Ensure that safeguarding measures are in place within area his/her responsibility and that staff, associates and other key stakeholders are aware of safeguarding principles and measures.
- Ensure and support the process of mainstreaming and integrating safeguarding in all program frameworks through measurable output and outcome indicators;
- Lead /Support the process of piloting and scaling up local-level beneficiary complaints’ mechanisms concerning co-workers‘conduct, with an emphasis on the safeguarding policies and measures to prevent sexual exploitation of women and children;
- Responsible for reporting any safeguarding suspicion, concern, allegation, or incident immediately, following the safeguarding reporting procedures. Safeguarding reports should be made to the safeguarding team at the program level and/or to the respective line manager and incident management team
- Responsible for ensuring behaviours and all relationships are based on safeguarding and in line with the Code of Conduct and adhering to it in every situation.
- Conduct themselves per the Code of Conduct, Safeguarding and Local/Country Policies and Procedures;
- 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
Job Requirements
Up for the challenge?
Then check out our criteria’s:
Must Criteria
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Disaster Management or Development Studies, Social Sciences, International Relations or equivalent working experience
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in managing multi-sectoral development (child protection, health, livelihoods, and education).
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating, implementing, monitoring and multi-sectoral development projects
- Demonstrated experience in managing project budgets, financial tracking, and ensuring cost-effective use of resources.
- Strong experience working with government sectors, community structures, and NGOs in collaborative programming.
- Skilled in training, mentoring, and strengthening the capacity of local actors and partners.
- Experience in developing M&E framework, tracking indicators and generating evidence-based reports
- Demonstrated experience in report writing, documentation and presentation skill
- Willing to travel frequently to the project site
- Ability to speak the local language relevant to the project intervention areas.
Desired Criteria
- Education: Masters in Disaster Management or Development Studies, Social Sciences, International Relations or equivalent working experience
- Experience: Minimum 6-7 years of experience in humanitarian aid and/or development work in multi-cluster INGOs
- Experience collaborating with local NGO’s and community-based organization to deliver interventions.
- Experience in program management, data collection and reporting system
- Experience documenting lessons learned, good practices, and facilitating learning events.
- Experience integrating community participation and government linkages to ensure long-term program impact.
- Experience and advanced in data analysis tools such Excel, Power Bi
Competencies – Knowledge, Skills, 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.
- Project Management: Demonstrated ability to effectively develop project plans and budgets and ensure timely delivery of results.
- Sector Knowledge: Strong understanding of development issues in child protection, education, health, and livelihoods,
- Analytical Skill Proven analytical skills and ability to think strategically, implement and excellent organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Community Mobilization: Skills to engage communities, build local ownership, and leverage community assets for sustainable program outcomes.
- People development: driven to improve others; proven track record in coaching & mentoring staff, giving feedback, and identifying development opportunities for co-workers.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communications skills and the ability to relate to people from all backgrounds.
- Cultural Difference: Politically and culturally sensitive with qualities of patience, tact and diplomacy
- Leadership: competent to work with significant levels of autonomy and as a team player and the ability to take the initiative and proven ability to work creatively, innovatively and effectively to make decisions with limited direct supervision.
- Capacity Building: Ability to design and deliver training, mentoring, and technical support to staff, partners, and community stakeholders.
- Collaboration: Ability to operate effectively across organizational boundaries and ability to establish and maintain effective working relations with people in a multi-cultural environment.
- Stakeholder Management: Ability to effectively influence and liaise with key stakeholders on behalf of and in line with organisational beliefs.
- Flexibility: Demonstrated ability at being flexible and adapt to changing situations.
- Problem-Solving & Decision-Making: Ability to analyze complex situations, develop solutions, and make sound decisions under pressure.
- Safety and Security: Operating safely and securely in a humanitarian response, proven experience in risk management and implementing security policy/protocols.
Value based competencies
The following set of value-based competencies are behaviors that are expected from everyone who works for or on behalf of SOS Children’s Villages to achieve a culture of safeguarding.
Lead Competencies
- Role Model: Act as a role model for the organization, living our values and inspiring and learning from others
- Collaboration: Remove barriers to participation, share decision making and build partnerships
- Empowerment: Promote inclusion and equitable sharing of power
- Strategic Thinking: Live the values and mission, setting realistic goals and translating them into actionable plans
Core competency
- 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
Excited to take on a new Challenge?
MAKE SURE YOU CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE MANDATORY 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.
