Vacancy Announcement (External /Internal)

Category: Agriculture

Location: Tigray (Shire field office)

Employment Type: Full Time

Duration: One Year (Possibility of Extension)

Salary: Negotiable, and Attractive

Number of Position: One Person

About the Organization

The Well in Action (TWA) is an Ethiopian Resident Charity Organization. TWA intervention in Ethiopia is to contribute to sustainable improvement of living conditions of the small holder farmers and deprived people. This can be achieved by performing projects which focus on improving agricultural productivity, and stimulating entrepreneurship that are implemented both in rural and urban contexts.

Job Summary

The Cluster Coordinator will drive day-to-day coordination of implementation activities in the MaYEA project. Coordinates planning within the project, including strategic as well as joint operational planning with other on-going activities, ensures strong program management within the project through driving day to day coordination of interventions and reporting, verifies status and progress of interventions, proactively identifies issues and solution options, working with stakeholders to ensure effectively joint problem-solving, ensures upward reporting needs for related Regional and Zonal offices  and other stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the staffs and offices of the organization and other stakeholders in their effort to properly implement the MaYEA program.
• Ensures quality of program delivery and efficacy of the program resources allocated for enterprise development and maintains closer working relationships with relevant program stakeholders at the regional, zonal, cluster and woreda levels.
• Ensures all program resources are effectively and properly utilized.
• Ensure implementation of all activities respects the law of the land and complies with MasterCard Foundation’s and TWA’s rules, regulations, and procedures.
• Nurture and demonstrate team spirit to create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect that motivates program staff.
• Based on the program document, with the support of the program manager, prepare detailed annual implementation plans of the cluster for every fiscal year.
• Ensure records of the cluster coordinator component are well kept; quarterly and annual reports are timely produced and communicated to all concerned.
• Build the capacity of the cluster team.
• Ensure an enabling environment is created and mechanisms are in place in the cluster for effective engagement of young people in the apiculture value chains.
• Coordinate with the other officers of the cluster to plan, implement and follow up by prioritizing youth women.
• Ensure the program’s objectives and standards are well communicated to all stakeholders and program participants in the cluster.
• Ensure that all periodical and informal communications of the cluster coordinator component of the cluster are accurate and timely.
• Make sure every cluster coordinator related activities of the program in the cluster are in line with universally accepted safeguarding principles and TWA’s and MasterCard Foundation’s safeguarding policies and procedures.

Reports to: Program manager

Application Dead Line: 7 days from the date of posting

N.B: TWA requires that all employees take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguard our intended beneficiaries, their communities, and all those with whom we work.  staffs at all levels have responsibilities to support and develop systems that create and maintain an environment that prevents harassment, sexual exploitation, and abuse, safeguards the rights of beneficiaries and community members (especially woman’s, children’s and people with a disability).