Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, 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 rural, peri-urban and urban areas in five regional states – Somali, Oromia, Afar, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Amahara – and the capital city of Addis Ababa. We engage in both development and humanitarian 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 collective action towards resiliently responding to seed insecurity in shocks/stress-prone targeted areas.
- Actively participate in annual planning, implementation, monitoring of each intervention, reporting.
- Identifying the existing seed systems, particularly local seed business owners and community-based seed banks, and assessing their strengths, weakness, and areas of their support.
- Participating, facilitating, and coaching region context, and Seed Security Systems (SSS) assessments in collaboration with other humanitarian, and development actors.
- Facilitating and organizing technical 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 potential implementing partners, such as agricultural research centers, BoANR, and Universities.
Knowledge and Experience/ Minimum qualifications
- Should have a minimum of Master of Science in Agronomy, crop production, Seed science and technology, agricultural economics, and other related field of study.
- Should have a minimum of 8 years of working experience mainly 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 humanitarian organizations in shock/stress-sensitive areas is very much preferable.
- Very good knowledge about the Ethiopian farming systems in general and the Seed Systems in particular, such as seed insecurity response in fragile areas due to shocks/stress situations.
- Have a good concept or experience of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus for joint action to achieve collection outcomes, and to ensure resilient 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, analytical skills, critical thinking, proactive to changing environments/situations, capable of shouldering multiple assignments under stress conditions.
Place of work:
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Position 2: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Technical Specialist
Knowledge and Experience/ Minimum qualifications
- Should have minimum of Master of Science in statistics, economics, Project management, and related field of study.
- Should have a minimum of 8 years working experience, and at least 4 years of experience worked as MEAL.
- Experience in NGO, project management, humanitarian organizations, in shocks/stress sensitive areas is preferable.
- Have concept or experience of Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus for joint action to achieve collection outcomes.
- Basic knowledge about the Ethiopian Seed Systems in general, and seed security response in particular.
- Very good experience of MEAL systems in response to re-current shocks/ stress, which enable for adaptive management practices.
- Very good quality of communication skill, analytical skills, proactive to changing environments/situations.
Fluency in English, and Amharic languages. Regional working languages is a Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Ongoing Learning
In support of our belief that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities we serve, we empower all team members to dedicate 5% of their time to learning activities that further their personal 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/ Minimum qualifications
- Should have a minimum of Master of Art/science in agricultural economics, agribusiness management, cooperative 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 years of experience in NGO, project management, and humanitarian organizations in the areas of seed systems and seed marketing systems.
- Very good experience in seed system assessment, seed business plan development, financial management and business governance, and resource mobilization through partnership to ensure joint efforts toward resilient seed insecurity response.
- Very good knowledge about the Ethiopian farming systems in general and the Seed Systems in particular, such as 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 resilient seed marketing systems.
- Have a good concept and experience of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus for joint action to achieve collection outcomes, and to ensure a resilient response to seed insecurity.
- Very good experience in seed actors mapping, analysis, engagement, and management
- Very good experience in organizing multi-stakeholder workshops in areas of assessing seed policy/ proclamation/regulation gaps, and design strategy for a collaborative effort to ensure the enabling environment, particularly in fragile areas.
- Very good quality communication skills, analytical skills, proactive to changing environments/situations, systemic and critical thinking abilities, and capable of shouldering multiple assignments under stressful conditions.
- Fluency in English, and Amharic language. Regional working languages are a plus.
Place of work: Addis Ababa
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Deadline: November 30th 2024