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I. JOB SUMMARY:

The purpose of the Adolescent and youth livelihood advisor is to provide technical assistance and capacity buildingfor the Supporting adolescent girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), nutrition, and economic empowerment in Ethiopia project (Uplift Her) implemented by CARE and funded by Global Affairs Canada. The position holder will assist in refining the program design and implementation of all components of the program related to the intersection between adolescence and youth livelihood issues with women’s empowerment, social accountability sexual and reproductive health, and nutrition in the target communities. The position holder will coordinate adolescent and youth livelihood study and training materials/guidelines development. The Advisor will inform the formative research in adolescent and youth livelihood areas to identify key issues, social norms, and barriers and to make recommendations on how to address gender and government responsiveness-related concerns and challenges. The adolescent and youth livelihood Advisor is also expected to ensure effective design, implementation learning extraction and dissemination of a program. The incumbent is also responsible for extracting, document and share good practices within the organization, stakeholders, and its partners. The adolescent and youth livelihood Advisor will work closely with other technical advisors and program staff to ensure program quality and impact in line with the goals and objectives of the program. The position holder will also support report preparation and budget management related to livelihood interventions. This position will be supervised by program manager of Uplift Her.

II. RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:

Job Responsibility #1: Strategy design, planning, monitoring and implementation (35%)

• Provide overall technical assistance, implementation strategies, methods and guidelines for sustainable livelihoods program interventions, food safety and preparation, climate smart agricultural activities, and access to finance.
• Leads the development and implementation of evidence based, realistic and effective adolescent and youth engagement strategies across the technical sectors of the Uplift Her program including livelihood, sexual reproductive health, nutrition, gender, social accountability, WASH and community mobilisation.

• Inputs into problem identification, causal and problem analysis and activity development, i.e. focusing on adolescents and youth engagement aspects of the Uplift Her program;
• Together with colleagues, design the adolescent and youth friendly livelihood manual (including VSLA, IGA, home gardening etc…) manual,
• Technically assist CARE and partners’ field staff in implementing the livelihood approach of the Uplift Her program;
• Work with CARE Financial Services Advisor and livelihood advisors to design strategies to increase youths in uplift Her target areas to access to finance;
• Participates in Uplift her detailed implementation planning (DIP) preparation, and annual reviews, to ensure adolescent and Youth responsive program planning processes are implemented throughout the life of the program;
• Ensure the Uplift Her result framework has put properly embracedadolescent and youth indicators-access to resource, control, leadership status within community and etc;
• Responds to the results of research and regular monitoring data with effective measures that can be implemented to produce results within the lifetime of the program;
• Liaise with other likeminded NGOs, relevant Government agencies, and other livelihood projects in Uplift Her implementation areas to ensure programmatic layering and sequencing and share lessons and approaches for maximizing impact;
• Monitor progress and provide ongoing feedback and recommendations to the project management;
• Lead preparation of report in the thematic area that s/he is assigned to lead;

Job Responsibility #2: Training, Capacity Building and Technical Assistance (30%)

• Establishes staff and key partner’s induction and ongoing training processes on adolescent and youth livelihood program quality;
• Develops and implements follow-up coaching plans to sustain staff expertise and commitment to apply new skills;
• Conducts capacity assessment and based on the results, prepares plans and advises partners on key learning competency and skill requirements in staff and partners pertinent to adolescent and youth livelihood.
• Leads the development and facilitation of trainings for partners and staff development on livelihood specific initiatives;
• Continuously updates staff and partners on emerging adolescent and youth livelihood issues to enhance and sustain conceptual clarity and awareness of partners and others’ best practices;
• Works with the relevant government structures to facilitate adolescent and youth livelihood activities and monitoring in the operational areas;
• Develops and facilitates the adoption and translation of training curriculum/manuals, modules and technical assistance methodologies.
• Documents and shares lessons/results of adolescent and youth livelihood interventions and strategies in program operational areas.
• Provides ongoing backstopping and technical support to staff.

Job Responsibility #3: Monitoring, evaluation, assessment, learning and reporting (10%)

• Technical support establishing Up lift Her baseline; Closely collaborate with LDM manager, PQL and partners to develop a monitoring system to collect periodic data for tracking progressive changes;
• Ensure that proposals, implementation, evaluations, and monitoring reports make explicit reference to approaches used to address Adolescent and youth livelihoods issues.
• Collaborate with measurement team in developing progress monitoring and learning extraction tool in adolescent and youth livelihood interventions;
• Identify/extract good practices and learning related to adolescent and youth livelihood interventions for further program quality improvement;
• Record and document lessons from program processes and achievements;
• Share good practices and learning with CARE staff, stakeholders and partners with regard to Adolescent and youth livelihood issues.
• Disseminates on a regular basis information regarding the sub awarded local NGO’s adolescent and youth livelihood accomplishments among stakeholders, including the government;
• Organize forums and experience sharing visits to extract/share success stories and challenges;
• Identify partners with good and relevant practices for potential experience sharing;
• Prepare reports as deemed necessary.

Job Responsibility #4: Partnership, and Networking (time: 10%)

• Establish and maintain productive relationships with partner organizations working with CARE;
• Establish and maintain productive relationships with government offices, non-government organizations, and expert institutions and draw different experiences to be shared with project staff;
• Liaises with relevant government institutions and authorities to keep updated information on new or improved policies, strategies, guidelines, related with the program to inform project strategies and activities accordingly.
• Provides linkage support to networks with other organizations working on Adolescent and Youth livelihood;
• Identifies, establishes and maintains productive relationships with like-minded non-government organizations;
• Work to progressively improve CARE’s engagement in Adolescent and youth livelihood programming;
• Actively participate in adolescent and youth livelihood, and nutrition sensitive forums to facilitate learning and scaling up of good practices;
• Ensures the communication of new developments in the area, strategies, concepts and approaches within the organization, with partners and other stakeholders.

Job Responsibility #5: Leadership and Representation (10%)

• Contribute to transparent and participatory management and decision making;
• Coach the field level staff to build their technical and function capacity in adolescent and youth livelihood;
• Actively participate and support programmatic coordination and synergy;
• Contribute to healthy work environment;
• Promote transparent and accountable system;
• Participate in project management meetings and be a team player and team builder;
• Represent CARE/Uplift Her program and contribute on adolescent and youth livelihood-related forums and discussions at different levels;
• Exhibit model behaviours consistent with principles, values, vision and mission of the organization;
• Bring issues and feedback to the attention of the project management;
• Implement decisions made by the project management.
• Represent CARE professionally when delegated/authorized;

Job Responsibility #6: Perform other duties as assigned (5%)

• Perform other duties, as assigned.
• The duties and responsibilities described above are subject to change, depending on CARE Ethiopian funding or programming.

IV. QUALIFICATIONS (KNOW HOW

A) EDUCATION/TRAINING

Required:

• BA degree in business, economics or social sciences, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Desired:

• MBA or Masters in development field related to rural and economic development.

B) EXPERIENCE:

Required:

• 5 years’ relevant experience with first degree and 4 years of relevant experience plus post graduate degree in development and livelihood related areas,
• Work experience in youth livelihood areas.

Desired:

• NGO experience.
• Previous experience with WASH, food safety and preparation, climate smart agricultural activities, home gardening interventions, disaster risk reduction, conservation, environmental protection, climate change adaptation, and access to finance.

C) TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Required:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies;
• Analytical, training/facilitation skills;
• Sensitivity to different aspects of diversity (cultural, religious, disability), firm belief in teamwork and sensitivity to HIV/AIDS
• Computer skills (word, Excel);
• Basic Managerial Skills,
• Technical and Reporting skills

Desired:

• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills.
• Proven training and facilitation skills

E) COMPETENCIES

• CARE core values (respect, accountability, courage, and excellence), building partnerships, and managing performance for success, initiating action, interpersonal skills, contributing to team success, pro-active problem solving and organizing.
• Firm belief in and demonstrated commitment to gender equality, diversity and inclusion

D) PROBLEM SOLVING (THINKING ENVIRONMENT):

All the three levels of problem solving apply to the incumbent. But category number two and three is most applicable to this position because, the incumbent must use interpersonal skills to pick and choose the right strategy to address a given problem and also has to deal with variable solutions, which need analysis, problem definition and development of alternative solutions.

V. Contacts/Key Relationships:

The incumbent is expected to establish and maintain good relations with all staff and partners at all levels. S/he will also be expected to have productive and professional relations with various technical and operation staff in the organization and with sub awarded local NGO.

VI. Working Conditions and Level of Travel Required.

This position is based in Addis Ababa, CARE Ethiopia office and requires 30 – 40% of his/her time for travel to program operational areas in the country including to sub awarded local NGO implementation areas.