Regional Coordinator

About the Organization

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, South Ethiopia Region, Central Ethiopia region, South west Ethiopia region, Oromiya region, Afar region and Addis Ababa City administration.

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.

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.

Core Values

• Integrity: Upholding the principles of honesty and responsibility and maintaining the highest ethical standards possible.
• Courage of conviction: CVDA’s pledge is to fight against poverty and hunger and always take sides with the poorest and most disadvantaged groups and help them bring about positive changes in their lives.
• Accountability: This espouses CVDA’s ongoing commitment to be accountable for its actions and to respond periodically to questions concerning its activities or answer to those who will be affected by our decisions or actions.
• Transparency: CVDA takes decisions and implements them in a manner that follows the rules and regulations. Moreover, CVDA shall provide key stakeholders with reliable, relevant, and timely information on matters that concern them.
• Sensitivity: CVDA is sensitive to conflict, gender, resources, culture, and social values in all of its program design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting and hence it wishes to be impartial and equitable in all its actions and activities.

Principles

• Real-time and change-oriented performance
• Belief that results can be achieved if the process is sound and suitable
• Trustworthiness
• Team spirit
• Ownership
• Volunteerism
• Compliance and commitment
• Do no harm
• Value for money
• Sustainability

Programs and Activities

• Reproductive and Primary Health Program
• Water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Program
• Food Security, Livelihood Diversification and Natural Resource Conservation Program
• Education Program
• Emergency and Relief Program

Job Summary

Common Vision for Development Association (CVDA) is on the process of starting project focuses livelihood called HOME-GROWN SCHOOL FEEDING & CLIMATE-RESILIENT LIVELIHOODS PROJECT which implemented in Bena Tsemay, Malle and Dasenech Woredas, South Ethiopia. So we want to hire project staff for this project mentioned below.

• Duty station: Jinka – Regional Project Coordination Office
• Reporting line: Reports to: CVDA Programme/Executive Management; works closely with WFP and regional government counterparts.
• Supervision: Directly supervises project technical officers and coordinates woreda-level implementation teams.
• Job purpose: Provide overall technical, operational and partnership leadership for the project, ensuring timely, quality and compliant delivery of climate-smart livelihoods, post-harvest management, school garden/nutrition and HGSF market-linkage interventions.
• Minimum qualifications & experience: MSc in Agronomy, Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development, Agribusiness or a closely related field; preferably 8+ years of progressively responsible experience managing climate-smart livelihood/agriculture programmes in lowland and highland Ethiopia; experience with donor-funded projects and government coordination; strong planning, reporting and team-management skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead implementation planning, budgeting, coordination and performance management across the three target woredas.
• Ensure delivery against the project objectives and targets, including 3,000 farmers, 30 Farmer/Pastoralist Field Schools, 108 school gardens, post-harvest infrastructure and HGSF market linkages.
• Coordinate with WFP, Southern Ethiopia Bureaus of Agriculture and Education, woreda administrations and other partners.
• Provide technical oversight to climate-smart agriculture, input distribution, poultry, post-harvest, school garden and market-linkage activities.
• Review monthly, quarterly and annual technical reports and ensure timely submission in line with WFP requirements.
• Lead joint supportive supervision, review meetings, risk management and corrective action tracking.
• Ensure gender, protection, PSEA, safeguarding, accountability and conflict-sensitive programming are integrated throughout implementation.
• Oversee sustainability, government capacity strengthening, asset handover and project exit arrangements.
• Represent CVDA in relevant coordination and technical forums and maintain constructive stakeholder relationships.

Key Deliverables / Performance Areas

Approved workplans; coordinated implementation; timely donor reports; supervision records; stakeholder meeting outputs; risk/action trackers; sustainability and handover plan.

Required Skills and Competencies

Core Competencies

• Teamwork and coordination
• Integrity and accountability
• Communication and facilitation
• Results orientation
• Problem solving
• Respect for communities
• Gender and social inclusion
• PSEA/safeguarding awareness
• Conflict sensitivity
• Commitment to CVDA policies and donor requirements

Required Skills

• Project Management Support
• Agroforestry, Natural Resource Management, Watershed Management, Natural Resource Economics

Safeguarding and Compliance

All staff are expected to comply with CVDA policies and applicable WFP requirements, including PSEA, Code of Conduct, safeguarding, protection, prevention of fraud and corruption, confidentiality, beneficiary accountability and non-discrimination. Staff must report concerns through established mechanisms.

How to Apply

N.B Applicants should complete summary table in the link below and should clearly state minimum salary expectation even the organization has its own salary scale. Applicants who did not comply this instruction will not be considered for further selection.

Please fill the following form: CVDA WFP project Vacancy summary screening sheet 1.docx – Google Docs (https://docs.google.com/document/d/14MJZaFyaJ93o9sRV4wao1BsTQQBtZ4YN/edit)

Applicants should submit only application letter and CV through email: hr@cvdaethiopia.org CC to: cvda2005hr@gmail.com and habetamubirhanu12@gmail.com and Write on subject of the email; position & also attach summary sheet.

Registration place: submit summary of your profile as per format below, copy of application letter, C.V stating 3 work related reference & minimum salary expectation and other confidential: Head office; Bekele Eshte Tower, which is along Torhailoch Total road 5th floor, Room No.504. For further information contact 0113691051/66.

You can deliver in hand or submit through email within 10 working Days of the vacancy announcement day.