ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW
FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, civil society, gender, youth, research, and technologyโ creating a unique mix of capabilities to address todayโs interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries, all 50 U.S. states, and all U.S. territories. FHI 360โs Crisis Response team has been responding to the humanitarian emergency in Tigray, Amhara, Afar, Somali Regions through an integrated Health, Nutrition, WASH, and Protection project to meet the critical needs of the conflict-affected population. FHI 360 aims to expand its reach to the Oromia Region, Negele Borena to provide humanitarian response to affected population and will be implementing the program with the Ethiopia-based national organization, Pastoralist Concern (PC).
POSITION OVERVIEW
FHI 360 is seeking a Liaison Assistant to work directly with and strengthen relationships with the Amhara regional, and zonal government stakeholders. Additionally, the Liaison Assistant will coordinate and work directly with area based coordination platforms in the region, community, implementing partners and other line offices.
The Liaison Assistant will coordinate all of the partnership and government interactions for the Integrated Services for Humanitarian Implementation โ Ethiopia III (ISHI-E III) project. The Liaison Assistant will be in charge of working with regional, and zonal government offices โ such as Amhara region, Disaster Risk Management Commission (EDRMC) Regional Technical Bureaus (health, water, women/childrenโs affairs), BOFED/ZOFED, and others โ to develop and approve MOUs and other project agreements. As such, the Liaison Assistant will closely collaborate with the National and Subnational government offices, U.S. State Department supported implementing partners, Non-U.S. implementing partners through active participation in various Technical Working Groups and Humanitarian Clusters so that ISHI-E III project activities are in line with government and donor priorities. The Liaison Assistant will also coordinate and lead report submissions to government partners and the donor. The role is based in Bahirdar, but may require travelling to the project's implementation woredas, zonal capital and etc. The Liaison Assistant will report to the FHI 360 Ethiopia Crisis response and resilience Partnership, grants, reporting and liaison coordinator .
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DELIVERABLES
- Identify, assess, map, and liaise with ISHI-E III government counterparts including ACSO and EDRMC.
- Create a database that catalogues all government partners, outstanding issues, and deliverables.
- Develop and carry out capacity and risk assessments for government partners.
- Supporting positive relations with government counterparts through regular coordination and communication.
- Developing and maintain relationships with government offices to ensure ongoing support for campaigns and initiatives.
- Coordinating with internal departments to ensure that donor and government needs are met effectively.
- Represent Health nutrition, WASH and protection sectors in various regional level cluster meetings and assessments regularly and share the updates for the sector leads.
- Share regular Health and nutrition, WASH and protection sectors updates and reports to regional bureaus like ENCU, regional health Bureau and Amhara Public Health institute regularly.
- Work in collaboration with FHI 360 finance and program staff to develop, streamline, manage, and submit financial reports as required in government MOUs.
- Provide support to the global team and donors visiting the county for effective and efficient coordination of information sharing and messaging.
- Create monitoring tools and follow up on the ISHI-E III progress toward goals and deliverables stipulated in MOUs.
- Conduct and oversee regular monitoring visits with government offices to ensure ISHI-E III is completing the agreed project activities as per the plan and as per the set standard.
- Maintain comprehensive electronic files for ISHI-E III, including government/donor reports, indicator tracking tables, donor/government communications, MOUs and MOU amendments.
- Work with the ISHI-E III team to review/support government MOUs, proposals, and reports.
- Represent ISHI-E III at relevant coordination and cluster meetings. Receive / provide feedback from those meetings to ISHI-E III senior management teams.
- Represent the ISHI-E III team at relevant National and Sub National Technical Working Groups (TWGs).
- Represent ISHI-E III at relevant national and sub-national government offices and meetings.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Associateโs Degree, diploma or its International Equivalent
- Knowledge/Information Services, Communications, Education, Health, Behavioral, Life/Social Sciences International Development.
- 1+ years of work experience, who have experience working with national and subnational government and non-government humanitarian programs and offices.
- Fluent in English, and Amharic languages required.
- Who can understand national and subnational government and humanitarian response structures programs
- Knowledge of humanitarian cluster structure and experience coordinating with UN and OCHA actors.
- Good knowledge of partner relationship management
- Good knowledge and practical experience in project management
- Experience in facilitating reporting, MOU development, proposal review, agreement development, and monitoring.
- Experience in designing and implementing organizational capacity building programs.
- Ability to deal with professionals from programs, operations, and finance backgrounds.
Application Process:
Interested candidates should submit their CV, cover letter, and contact information for three professional references on the FHI 360 portal. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
This job posting summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.
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