Mercy Corps Ethiopia Vacancy
Mercy Corps Ethiopia
Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disasters and hardships in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action—helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within—now and for the future.
Mercy Corps has been operating in Ethiopia since 2004, working in pastoral, peri-urban, and civic areas in five indigenous states – Somali, Oromia, Afar, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Amahara – and the capital city of Addis Ababa. We engage in both development and philanthropic work and seek to integrate approaches, programs, and geographies as much as possible. Our partners include government, academic institutions, development and private sector actors, civil societies, and participating public.
Position 1: Regional Seed System Coordinator
Essential Job Responsibilities
• Mapping key stakeholders, including humanitarian and development partners who directly support food security, engagements for collaborative action towards resiliently responding to seed insecurity in shocks and stress-prone targeted areas.
• Actively participate in periodic planning, implementation, monitoring of each intervention, and reporting.
• Identifying the existing seed systems, particularly original seed business owners and community-based seed banks, and assessing their strengths, weaknesses, and areas of their support.
• Participating, facilitating, and coaching region context, and Seed Security Systems( SSS) assessments in collaboration with other philanthropic, and development actors.
• Facilitating and organizing specialized capacity training, workshops, evaluation events, field days, seed fairs, experience-sharing events, quick assessments, etc.
• Conducting/ supporting, and facilitating the demonstration of participatory variety selections, and variety deployments through crowdsourcing/ tricot approaches in collaboration with implicit implementing partners, similar to agrarian research centers, BoANR, and Universities.
Knowledge and Experience/ minimal qualifications
• Should have a minimum of Master of Science in Agronomy, crop production, Seed science and technology, agrarian economics, and other related field of study.
• Should have a minimum of 8 years of working experience substantially related to research( e.g. participatory variety selection), of which at least 3 years in humanitarian and development work experiences.
• Experience in NGO, project management, and philanthropic organizations in shock/ stress-sensitive areas is very important preferable.
• veritably good knowledge about the Ethiopian farming systems in general and the Seed Systems in particular, similar to seed insecurity response in fragile areas due to shocks and stress situations.
• Have a good concept or experience of the philanthropic- Development- Peace( HDP) Nexus for common action to achieve collection outcomes, and to ensure flexible response to seed insecurity response through enhancing effective coordination.
• Very good experience in stakeholder mapping, analysis, engagement, and management
• Very good quality of communication skills, logical skills, critical thinking, visionary to changing environments situations, able to shoulder multiple assignments under stressful conditions.
Place of work
Mekele APPLICATION LINK
, Afar APPLICATION LINK
Position 2: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning( MEAL) Specialized Specialist
Knowledge and Experience/ minimal qualifications
• Should have a minimum of Master of Science in statistics, economics, Project management, and related field of study.
• Should have a minimum of 8 years of working experience, and at least 4 years of experience working as MEAL.
• Experience in NGO, design operation, and philanthropic organizations, in shocks stress sensitive areas is preferable.
• Have conception or experience of philanthropic- Development- Peace( HDP) Nexus for common action to achieve collection issues.
• introductory knowledge about the Ethiopian Seed Systems in general, and seed security response in particular.
• veritably good experience with mess systems in response to tore-current shock stress, which enables adaptive operation practices.
• veritably good quality communication skills, logical chops, visionary to changing surroundings situations.
Ignorance in English, and Amharic languages. Regional working languages are the Responsibility of Actors and Stakeholders.
Mercy Corps team members are anticipated to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, and other stakeholders, and to transnational standards guiding transnational relief and development work. We're committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of our field systems.
Ongoing Learning
In support of our belief that learning associations are more effective, effective, and applicable to the communities we serve, we empower all platoon members to dedicate 5 of their time to learning activities that further their particular and/ or professional growth and development.
Place of work Addis Ababa
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Position 3: Technical Advisor seed sector system in fragile context
Knowledge and Experience/ minimal qualifications
• Should have a minimum of Master of Art/ science in agrarian economics, agribusiness management, collaborative and business/ financial management, and business management.
• Should have a minimum of 8 years of working experience mainly related to seed systems in general and seed marketing systems in particular.
• At least 4 times of experience in NGO, project management, and philanthropic associations in the areas of seed systems and seed marketing systems.
• Very good experience in seed system assessment, seed business plan development, fiscal management and business governance, and resource mobilization through partnership to ensure common efforts toward flexible seed insecurity response.
• Very good knowledge about the Ethiopian farming systems in general and the Seed Systems in particular, similar to seed insecurity response in fragile areas
• Very good experience on last mile seed distribution model for both seed emergency aid and seed producers to ensure flexible seed marketing systems.
• Have a good concept and experience of the philanthropic- Development- Peace( HDP) Nexus for common action to achieve collection outcomes, and to ensure a flexible response to seed instability.
• Very good experience in seed actors mapping, analysis, engagement, and operation
• Very good experience in organizing multi-stakeholder workshops in areas of assessing seed policy/ proclamation/ regulation gaps, and designing strategies for a cooperative effort to ensure the enabling environment, particularly in fragile areas.
• Very good quality communication skills, logical skills, visionary to changing surroundings situations, systemic and critical thinking abilities, and ability to shoulder multiple assignments under stressful conditions.
• Fluency in English, and Amharic language. Regional working languages are a plus.
Place of work Addis Ababa
