ACTION AGAINST HUNGER NGO Job Vacancy in Ethiopia 2024

ACTION AGAINST HUNGER NGO Job Vacancy in Ethiopia 2024

About the Action Against Hunger Program

Action Against Hunger is an international, non-governmental humanitarian organization that aggressively addresses the causes and consequences of hunger by implementing relief and development projects in many nations around the globe.

Established in 1979, Action Against Hunger has led the worldwide fight against hunger for almost 40 years in over 50 countries, saving the lives of children and working with communities before and after disasters to enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow strong, and build prosperous communities. Working in such a humanitarian setting, we understand that our activities send teams interacting with vulnerable individuals and children who could be especially in danger of injury and abuse.

Regarding the Ethiopian Country Program

Established in 1985 in response to a severe drought and later famine, Action Against Hunger's Ethiopia country office carried out relief and development initiatives in Tigray, Amhara, and Oromia areas. Operating in six areas of Ethiopia (Amhara, Benishangul Gumuz, Gambella, Somali, Oromia, and Tigray) as well as in Addis Ababa city administration responding to various crises and building people's resilience using a multi-sectoral strategy where nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH, and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support activities are integrated to have a meaningful impact on people's resilience.

Last year, we assisted 28 million children and their families in 55 nations with over 8,900+ staff members spread across more than 50 countries. Our country team consists of more than 900 people spread throughout 17 regional and satellite offices. BHA, ECHO, EU RESET, UNHCR, UNICEF, GAC, GFFO, BPRM, SIDA, EHF, FAO, WFP, CIAA, Dutch Government and others are our primary donors in Ethiopia in 2023–24.

Synopsis of the posture  

To ensure alignment with the strategic goals of the organization and increase program efficacy, we are looking for an experienced Consortium MEAL and Knowledge Management Manager to oversee and enhance the systems for gathering, organizing, and distributing knowledge across the SIDA triple nexus project. Our perfect applicant is a master in designing systems that let both implicit and explicit information be used and exchanged effectively. The MEAL and Knowledge Manager's ultimate responsibility is to make sure the company's knowledge base is efficiently applied to maximize operational performance and support innovation.

Leading the MEAL activities and Knowledge management component of the multi-donor funded and HDP nexus oriented multiyear project named "Improving Food and Nutrition Security and Climate Resilience of Disaster affected Households and Communities" across the operational areas will be the responsibility of the post holder. He/She will coordinate with the MEAL focus throughout the consortium member companies and assist in planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the MEAL activities over the project.

aims

Moreover, to oversee the creation and use of an efficient MEAL and knowledge management system across all consortium projects, ensuring that learning is incorporated into program decision-making and communicated properly with both internal and external stakeholders.

• He/She will be the main point of contact for MEAL and Knowledge Management activities of the project and accountable for gathering, preparing, and distributing the consolidated update/reports with the Consortium Lead and MEAL HoD in compliance with the approved reporting schedule, timeframe and in quality.

• He or she will be in charge of organizing and setting up the MEAL Working Group for the consortium, compiling and presenting salient points of interest during the working group meeting.

Through developing and preserving an efficient MEAL learning and knowledge management system all consortium projects help to contribute to the development of the country's learning and knowledge management system towards its strategic goals in coordination with the MEAL HoD and ACF knowledge and learning manager.

• To assist with planning and review under coordination with the consortium Lead and MEAL HoD as well as the rest of the MEAL team to lead the development or adoption of tools for consortium projects, and create conditions so that learning is fed into decision-making to enable learning, teach back and adaptive management.

• Help to shape the MEAL and mission plan for learning of Action Against Hunger.

Story banks, techniques, and approaches of learning and knowledge management will help to arrange internal and external learning events for the SIDA triple nexus project, thereby enabling systems of documenting learnings and best practices.

• Timely identify, capture, and communicate important learning from the SIDA project implementation to promote adaptive management and action in response to learning within the consortium and other projects

Involving

• The post holder is expected to ensure the integration of MEAL-related components of the HDP Nexus approaches reflected in the Nutrition Centric-Humanitarian, Development and Peace Triple Nexus (NC-HDPTN) Operational Guide (OG) and Implementation Roadmap (IR) with due emphasis on the establishment of the Nexus Governance and Coordination Structure at respective level, execution of the Periodic Situational Assessment and Need Analysis during the project period and setting of the collective outcome for the actors as appropriate.

• With the direct reporting line with the Consortium Lead and functional reporting line with the MEAL HoD the post holder will work in close coordination with other thematic working groups and technical leads; and support teams to ensure the MEAL and Knowledge management aspects of the project are well integrated at each thematic areas and implemented in the harmonized approach.

Interior

• ACF project Manager, heads of theme and support functions: hierarchical relationship + information exchange MEAL HoD: functional relationship + technical support and other MEAL team members-working relationship.

Outward

Local authorities: exchange of information, participation in regular M&E activities Local representatives of international aid organizations: exchange of information; implementing partner, consortium member thematic leads and local governmental and non-governmental partners: coordination, training, supervision, influence on the choice of technical options

Transmission

The Post holder will be a technical lead in the creation of MEAL Packages/tools, SoP, and Knowledge Management platforms/systems for the project; and guarantee that the content is compliant with best practices in the industry.

• He/she collaborates with the Consortium member's MEAL focus, produces and assembles significant learnings from the project implementation, and informs the Consortium Led to help in ensuring that the evidence obtained from implementation is used to enhance work plan creation for follow-up years.

• He/She will be in close cooperation with the Consortium member's MEAL focal responsible for guaranteeing high-quality reporting and information sharing among the consortium members.

• He/She is in charge of gathering, evaluating, and compiling the progress updates, reports, accomplishments, annual work plans, and lessons learned across the consortium members and sent to the Consortium Lead per donor requirement, in quality, and per the settled timeline, and conduct data quality audits per ACF DQA guideline adopted to the consortium.

• Under close contact with the MEAL Working Group, he/she will be in charge of creating the project performance trackers and guaranteeing their use among the consortium members in line with the ACF MEAL HoD and Consortium Lead.

• Call meetings of the consortium MEAL Working Group to exchange best practices and acquired knowledge.

Led and coordinated with MEAL Working Group, Consortium Lead, and MEAL HoD for the creation of required ToRs for project events, and assessments/surveys including baseline, intermediate, end line, and project end-line evaluation.

• Verify that the project monitoring is conducted using the agreed-upon tools, checklists, and data or results from this event and acted upon with the corresponding units—including CFRM data.

• Plan "learning dissemination events/workshops" to be generated from the regular project monitoring visits, assessments/surveys, evaluations, etc. coordinate with applicable persons and stakeholders.

Learning and Knowledge Management: Important Goal

• Lead the creation and application of a thorough knowledge management system for consortium projects thereby guaranteeing efficient methods for knowledge generation, storage, and distribution.

• Support initiatives in identifying learning objectives and agendas, filling in evidence gaps, and enabling the documenting and distribution of lessons learned, best practices, and success stories.

• Oversaw the application of learning from assessments, monitoring, and data dive sessions to improve program enhancements and decision-making and manage systems for tracking and assessing the efficacy of knowledge management projects.

• Most importantly change story, meta-analysis, research/evaluation summary reports, etc. aid in developing, storing, and distributing information near the program team.

• Verify the application and use of knowledge acquired in decision-making and program enhancement (keep current consortium action tracker under review).

• Review sessions at the field level between ACF and partners, therefore facilitating shared experience.

Create a mechanism for compiling, arranging, recording, and distributing best practices and knowledge.

• Creating success stories for educational purposes and enhancement of program execution.

• Using media outlets, web sharing, and other channels within the mission, document and share best practices and learnings.

• Along with the program staff, partners help with yearly data reviews and reflection meetings to monitor development and decide on remedial action.

Create and apply plans for efficient data analysis and reporting to guarantee their applicability throughout the several bases and consortium initiatives.

• Verify that knowledge management tools are accurate, timely, and relevant; then, provide areas for development.

• Organize training courses to teach staff members knowledge management systems, tools, and techniques, including MEAL.

• Identify and solve knowledge gaps in line with the results of the ISP3 midterm evaluation, therefore supporting the strategic goals of the ACF and pointing out areas needing national office attention.

• Map important knowledge areas of the company, including every base, and assist the base MEAL managers in knowledge management and learning-related activities.

• Work with the MEAL teams and program to pinpoint main consortium learning priorities. Verify their distribution and guarantee the efficient collection of facts and evidence connected to these objectives. Based on the results, help knowledge exchange and learning inside the project and company.

Following CLA's ideas, helps the project and partner companies establish a knowledge-sharing culture to guarantee both implicit and tacit information is adequately documented and acted upon regular basis.

Work with several departments to compile and distribute knowledge.

• Track and document the success of knowledge management programs of consortium projects; follow for appropriate execution of MEAL activities for the consortia under great cooperation with the consortia working groups and other pertinent entities.

Authority Responsibilities

• N/A

Gender Equity Assurances 

• Create surroundings that uphold men's and women's ideals as well as equal information access.

• Create a workplace in which men's and women's performance will determine their evaluation and promotion criteria.

Whether gender, sexual orientation, handicap, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status, respect the women, men, and children (boys and girls).

Respect and value every culture.

Financial Stewardship

• Not mentioned specifically

Physical Objectives

Under the context of a moderately noisy office with many interruptions, the employee is expected to sit for long periods and concentrate on work, including typing, and turn out accurate volumes of work under short time frames under stressful conditions. Must be able to proofread own work precisely so that, on rare occasions, only little modifications are required.

The physical requirements listed below are typical of those an employee must be able to fulfill to effectively carry out the main responsibilities of this profession. Reasonable adjustments can be made to let those with impairments carry out their necessary tasks.

Travel, Working Conditions, and surroundings

The responsibilities of the work call for consistent attendance minimum of five days a week. Must be accessible in conformity with Labor Law and beyond regular office hours or on the weekends as mandated.

Needs to be able to travel as needed for both regular domestic and foreign business. While working in the field, the worker could come into contact with contagious illnesses, unstable environments under high-security concerns, and/or extremely basic living circumstances and outdoor weather conditions.

Essential Skills and Professional Experience

• Master's degree in a related discipline such as knowledge management, data science, communication, public health, social sciences, or international development. Instead of the master's degree, a bachelor's degree with notable relevant experience may also be accepted.

• At least 5–7 years of knowledge management, monitoring, and evaluation (MEAL), or a comparable job in a humanitarian or development environment for master's degree holders; 7–9 years of equivalent experience for BA holders

• Demonstrated knowledge management and learning-oriented expertise working inside consortia or multi-stakeholder initiatives.

• Experience building and applying knowledge management systems including systems for knowledge-generating, storage, and dissemination.

• Having worked on CLA and adaptive management in multi-don financed projects, shown expertise as a Knowledge Manager or comparable function

• Experience creating and putting knowledge management systems into use.

• Strong awareness of ideas related to knowledge management.

• Superior leadership, time management, and organizing abilities.

Required Competencies & Skills

Crucial

Professional, driven, honest, creative, mature, conscientious, adaptable, culturally aware

• Experience with CLA (Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting): Knowledge management methods are improved using CLA concepts understanding and application

• First-rate analytical ability, writing, and communication.

• Verified capacity to convert assessed outcomes into educational plans

• Experience tracking and assessing supported donor (i.e. ECHO, SIDA, PRM, EHF) sponsored projects

Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word: Microsoft Office Skills

• Experience in humanitarian M&E

• Experience guiding and designing both internal and outside assessments

• Experience leading and planning capacity building for national teams.

• Knowledge of GIS, Management Information Systems (Databases),

• Project cycle management knowledge

• Dedication to ACF purpose, values, and policies

• Very good interpersonal skills and communication.

• Competent in IT systems and essential tools for campaigning and communication.

• A critical thinker equipped to address problems.

• Knowledgable in consortia MEAL and/or knowledge management

• English fluency—spoken as well as written abilities

• One must be conversational in the local tongue.

Referral

• Previous knowledge of food security, WASH, nutrition, and livelihoods programs.

• Past knowledge of resilience and cash-based interventions—that is, cash for work, cash transfers, or cash vouchers.

• Knowledge of Management Information Systems—Databases

• English, fluent

• Desirable knowledge of local language