Regional Project Coordinator

Internal/External Vacancy Announcement

 DISTINCT FUTURE OF CVDA

 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 (Hawassa, Boricha, Dara, Dara Olticho, Bilate zuria, Derara, Hawassa Zuriya, Yirgalem, , Yergachefe, Aletawondo, Wondo Genet, Chuko & Boricha )  SNNPR Gedio zone ( Dilla, Bule, and Gedeb)  Gurage zone( Gumer and Cheha)  Silite zone (MirabAzernet & Alicho)    Oromia Region West Showa Zone(Muger), Borena Zone (Hageremaireyam, Yabello & Moyale), Guji Zone( Adola, Shakiso & Borena Negele), West Arsi Zone (Shashemene, Arsi Negele, Adaba, Nensebo, Kokosa, Shala, Siraro, and Kore woredas) Afar Region;  Zone 5; Delifage, Dewe, Telalek, Hadele Ele and Sumu Robi  Zone 3; Gewane and Gelalo  and City Government of Addis Ababa; Gulele and Kolfe Keraniyo sub city.

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 and goals

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.

PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

• Health and Nutrition
• Education:
• Environment and Agriculture:
• WaSH: Improve access and quality of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene.
• Emergency Responses:
• Enhance Peacebuilding, democracy, and good Governance

Description of the Vacancy

Led by FHID360, CVDA  is planning to implement Feed the Future Ethiopia Community Nutrition Activity that aims to improve the nutritional status of women and children through increased and sustained improvements in nine high-impact behaviors that have proven highly effective in reducing malnutrition. These objectives will be realized through enhanced individual and community agency and demand for services, improved access to quality nutrition services at the community level, and improved capacity and coordination among nutrition stakeholders across sectors. CVDA implements the project in 10 woredas of East Shoa and West Arsi zones in Oromia region and wants to hire the following professional for the project.

Main duty and Responsibility

• Regional Project Coordinator will have the following duty and responsibility but not limted to listed below:
• Coordinate planned SBC and Community engagement trainings.
• Disseminate and report SBC materials.
• Support with pretesting of SBC materials
• Coordinate the nutrition catchment-based mentorship assessment at PHCU level.
• Ensure the availability of necessary nutrition commodities and supplies (VAS, IFA Deworming and so on ) at each respective woredas and facilities.
• Support in Food Nutrition assessments and surveys in target woredas and kebele
• Conduct participatory exercise to develop action plans to address multisectoral coordination gaps in target woredas.
• Provide logistical and other support for woreda-level advocacy meetings on establishment of FN structure and manpower in food and nutrition strategy (FNS) implementing sectors at Woreda and Kebele levels
• Coordinate the overall multisectoral coordination related activities of in the target Woreda.
• Monitor the activities of Project Health Officers.
• Document and share success and case stories.
• Coordinator and the development of assessment tools, compilation and sharing of  monthly and quarterly reporting format at all levels,
• Work with Community Nutrition and LIP MEL/Nutrition officers’ team to document community, facility and woreda level activities and report according to standard procedure
• Document best practices, minutes of performance review meetings and JSS and share the findings to regional managers and country manager.
•  coordinate LME activities of the project including data collection, analysis and reporting of data, support all assessments designed in different woredas, Coordinate and conduct DQAs at the woreda level and health facilities, coordinate HMIS and eCHIS related training in different woredas
• Coordinate GYSI Activities including mapping and collaborating youth networks.
• Ensure the Implementation of Community Nutrition GYSI integration strategy..
•  Represent community Nutrition at Regional, Zonal and Woreda forums.
•  Provide need based technical assistance to woreda health offices.
•  Document and update the woreda profile
• Experience of managing budget and staffs.
• Experience of managing project budget, coordinating reviewing project budget versus actual spending.
• Identifying and monitoring project implementation risk.

Reports to: Program Director

Required Number : 01

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

Qualification:  

• MSc/MA/BSc/BA in Health science, Nutrition, Public Health, Agricultural economics, Plant Sciences and related studies

Experience: 

• A minimum of 3 years for MSc and MA  and 5Years for BA/BSC experience in coordinating and managing projects and out of which four years in Health and Nutrition.

Skills Required, Attitudes and Attributes:

• Good communication and report writing skill
• Experience in Community Nutrition
• Training certification in attending Health and nutrition.
• Creativity and the ability to work with limited resources.
• Respect, accountability, excellence, adaptability, innovation, building partnership, communicating with impact, coaching, facilitating change, information monitoring, planning and organizing, leading through vision and value.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the local context and language (oromifaa Language) and experience coordinating similar project(s)
• Knowledge and experience managing community nutrition project, coordinating similar projects.

Female applicants are encouraged to apply