Economic Strengthening Officer 55 views

Organizational and Program highlights

Integrated Service on Health and Development Organization (ISHDO) is registered non-governmental organization. ISHDO is funded by USAID as prime under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to implement a three years Family-focused HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment activity in Oromia Region. The Activity will be implemented in partnership with other sub local implementing partners. The activity aims to accelerate and sustain HIV epidemic control in Ethiopia through the delivery of high impact Family-focused HIV prevention, care, and Treatment Activity in selected 41 woredas of Oromia regional state.

The purpose of this award is to strengthen local HIV epidemic control to achieve the goal of 95 percent of individuals living with HIV know their status, 95 percent of persons living with HIV initiated  antiretroviral therapy and 95 percent of on antiretroviral therapy achieve viral load suppression by 2030. HIV mitigation services for vulnerable children will focus on case finding  and linkage to HIV treatment among undiagnosed children living with HIV, on achieving better health outcomes through HIV viral load suppression and establishing interpersonal, family and community norms to achieve HIV and violence prevention (9 to 14-year-old children).

Job Summary

Under the supervision of Project Coordinator, the Economic Strengthening Officer will be responsible to provide technical assistance (train, coach, mentor and monitor) the beneficiaries of the project. It includes the cascading the contextualization of strategies, guidelines and manuals, and rolling out of these to ensure that community members and economically vulnerable households have increased and ongoing capacity to meet their basic needs.  This position will also provide technical assistance to partners in the areas of economic strengthening, enterprise development, microfinance, income and asset building activities of the USAID ISHDO’s Family Focused HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment activity in ISHDO 12 implementation towns. .

He/she will also responsible to provide support and assistance  to ES  animators to  identify enterprises or businesses that are appropriate ,conduct a market assessment, and share to ES participants and continue to provide follow up and technical support to get a loan access from local micro finance institutions.

Reports to

• Project Coordinator

Required education and experiences

• MA/BA in commerce, economics, business management and administration or related field of study
• 3/5 years of  experience managing the design, implementation, reporting and evaluation of evidence-based economic/livelihood activities targeting vulnerable groups preferably 2 years’ experience in PEPFAR OVC or USG supported  ES activities in NGO setting
• Experience and knowledge of best practice interventions and approaches designed to improve household economic status and expand livelihoods options and opportunities
• Excellent knowledge of household finance education / capacity-building approaches;
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, for-profit private sector entities, local community organizations, donors and other stakeholders, particularly at the sub-national level;

Personal skills

• Demonstrated skills in knowledge management
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and positive professional attitude
• Good command of English and local language knowledge of Oromiffa.
• Ability and great interest to work in team and be good team player.
•  Skills in MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications, information management systems,