Amhara region has seen unprecedented thread of political, socioeconomic, and natural events since 2018. The historic political transition has been accompanied by several violence, COVID-19, locust swarm, and the recent political conflict in the Northern Ethiopia. These incidents are marked by loss of so many lives, large scale displacement, psychological distress, weakened economy and the reign of insecurity. The consequence of the recent conflict, however, has devastated the region with overwhelming destruction of health, education, water, roads, power, telecommunication, tourism, investment, industrial and agricultural facilities. The region has also absorbed influx of IDPs and experienced intense destabilization of livelihoods in and nearby the conflict affected areas. Thus, the situation is feared to throw the already struggling regional economy into deep crises and its people into extreme poverty.

The mitigation of this looming threat urgently needs the reconstruction of basic private and public infrastructures and the rehabilitation and restoration of normal livelihood schemes. In view of that, the regional government has recently adopted a regulation that provides for the establishment of a rehabilitation and reconstruction fund office to lead the rehabilitation and reconstruction process. The office is mandated to carry out various activities as specified hereinunder with a view to realize the reconstruction, rehabilitation, and recovery of conflict affected areas.

Salaries for all the vacancies listed below are funded by the regional government development partners including UNDP, World Bank and BigWin Philanthropy.

The Operations Team Lead coordinates comprehensive operations and implementation support to the ARRF Fund office Execution and Coordination teams, focusing on accelerating and improving the quality of customer-facing services by analyzing gaps and bottlenecks and developing new and better ways of working. The lead will focus primarily on implementation and coordination of ARRF in various streams, economic clusters, social clusters, infrastructure, BCC and other identified priority areas.

The position holder is expected to have strong operational knowledge, result-oriented management, and strong program support credentials, including advanced fund office and risk management and analytical skills. The responsible person should have strong team building, interpersonal and communication skills, be customer focused and able to look at problems from different angles and find creative solutions.

Task description:

• Leads and ensures that the Operations Team acts as an efficient and customer-focused point of contact for program and fund office implementation activities, directs and monitors ARRF requirements.
• Provides authoritative advisory services in the areas of procurement, human resources, program/fund office finance, and fund office risk management in consultation with the appropriate ANRS sector office focal point,
• Allocation of resources coming into the region through various development and humanitarian partners, resource allocation and support to the implementation process leveraging the capacity of the ARRF operations team and the engagement of sector offices at Kebele level.
• Ensure quality guidance on fund office resource management and resource allocation for all ARRF.
• Ensures compliance with fund office and program management measures to ensure they are implemented consistently and in accordance with the corporate client’s standard and ARRF (the standard is set by ANRS partner offices, e.g., the school standard is set by the education office);
• Responsible for mapping office business processes and developing key Standard Operating Procedures (SOP); identifies opportunities to transform business processes into web-based systems to improve efficiency and accountability.
• Performs data analysis of program/fund office implementation to support country office/program positioning in collaboration with other relevant team leaders and fund office managers;
• Develops, implements and oversees processes to monitor the management of partner agreements in close collaboration with relevant colleagues and to develop partnership frameworks,
• Participates in the fund office development process in collaboration with the operations team.
• Organize sector partner offices involved in fund office implementation processes,
• Participate in various ad hoc work in support of higher-level requests from regional governments.

Competencies:

• Organize different resources to implement to achieve fund office-oriented results
• Think innovatively to solve different operational fund office problems
• Take action to bring substantial change on targeted communities
• Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration
• Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity
• Ability to scan and synthesize diverse sets of information to arrive at strategic priorities and positioning recommendations
• Ability to create internal reporting and accountability processes and standards
• Planning, reporting and controlling fund offices under
• Strategic and analytical thinking, Results orientation/Commitment to excellence, Appropriate and transparent decision making.

Required skills and experience:

• Master’s degree in Business Administration or other related educational area.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in operations functions, in managing fund offices implementation referred to in the Terms of Reference.
• Working experience as Operations Manager or Operations Specialist in developmental fund offices or rehabilitation programs will be a distinct advantage.
• Program/fund office experience will be advantageous.
• Demonstrated ability in people management and working with diverse teams in Ethiopia and/or other developing countries.
• Proven ability to identify solutions, deliver under pressure and in short timeframes.
• Working experience with international humanitarian and developmental organizations like UN, GIZ, DFID, … or others.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Amharic and English fluency demanded as a medium of command

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