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Local applicants only.
Last checked: 2 hours ago
Closing date: Thursday, 9 July 2026
Country: Ethiopia
Duty station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Contract type: Full time
Grade: Not specified
Applicant eligibility: Local / national only
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With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
Employee Contract Type:
Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)
Job Description:
· Provide overall strategic and technical leadership for the design, implementation, monitoring, and adaptation of all project sectors including Education in Emergencies, Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Shelter/NFI, MPCA, Emergency Agriculture, and Humanitarian Information Management.
· Lead the development and periodic review of the project's integrated technical strategy, ensuring coherence, complementarity, and synergy across sectors.
· Ensure all sector interventions are aligned with humanitarian principles, Sphere Standards, Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), INEE Minimum Standards, cluster guidance, government policies, and donor requirements.
· Lead technical design and review of implementation approaches, tools, guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and sector-specific technical packages.
· Ensure effective integration of protection mainstreaming, safeguarding, PSEA, disability inclusion, gender equality, conflict sensitivity, social cohesion, climate resilience, and accountability to affected populations (AAP) across all sectors.
· Establish systems for regular technical performance reviews and quality audits to identify implementation gaps and drive continuous improvement.
· Lead technical decision-making during emergency escalations, population displacement, disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and access constraints, ensuring timely adaptation of interventions.
· Guide the integration of anticipatory action, disaster risk reduction, resilience building, and early recovery approaches within emergency response interventions.
· Provide technical oversight for localization initiatives and ensure meaningful engagement and capacity strengthening of local partners.
· Lead technical risk analysis and mitigation planning related to program quality, operational access, security, safeguarding, fiduciary risks, and implementation challenges.
· Review and approve technical components of annual, biannual quarter work plans, budgets, procurement plans, technical specifications, bills of quantities, training curricula, and implementation schedules.
· Ensure quality and appropriateness of activity interventions across different emergency project locations.
· Provide strategic leadership for innovation and adoption of best practices and digital solutions that improve program effectiveness and efficiency.
· Ensure integrated response models for overall child wellbeing and social cohesion outcomes.
· Serve as the principal technical advisor to the Project Director on all program quality, technical risk, and strategic implementation matters.
· Ensure donor commitments, technical deliverables, milestone targets, and sector performance indicators are achieved within agreed timelines and quality standards.
· Ensure evidence-based programming by promoting the use of assessments, monitoring data, community feedback, research findings, and lessons learned in program design and implementation.
· Promote a culture of learning, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement across the project team and partner organizations.
· Develop and maintain an integrated quality assurance framework to ensure technical excellence, consistency, and accountability across all project locations.
· Provide strategic guidance on multi-sector needs assessments, response analysis, targeting methodologies, vulnerability criteria, and prioritization of interventions.
Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or
Certification
Required Professional Experience
· Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in humanitarian and development programming.
· At least 5 years in senior technical leadership or program management roles.
· Demonstrated experience managing large, multi-sector emergency response programs.
· Proven experience supervising multidisciplinary technical teams.
· Experience working with institutional donors such as FCDO, ECHO, USAID/BHA, UNICEF, ECW, Sida, UN agencies, and other humanitarian donors.
· Experience in fragile, conflict-affected, and displacement contexts.
· Strong understanding of localization and partnership approaches.
· Strong knowledge of humanitarian principles, Sphere Standards, CHS, INEE Standards, Protection Principles, and Cluster Systems.
· Strong project cycle management and adaptive management skills.
· Excellent coordination, negotiation, and representation skills.
· Strong analytical, report-writing, and presentation skills.
· Experience in budget monitoring and grant management.
· Excellent people management and coaching skills.
· Strong understanding of safeguarding, PSEA, gender, disability inclusion, and conflict sensitivity.
Required Language(s)
Required travel and/or work environment accommodations
Position’s physical requirements
Preferred Experience, Knowledge and/or Key Competencies
World Vision is a child-focused organization that is committed to safeguarding all children as well as adult beneficiaries, and has zero tolerance for incidents of violence or abuse against children or adults, including sexual exploitation or abuse, committed either by employees or others affiliated with our work. Therefore, World Vision does not hire staff whose background is not suitable for working with children or vulnerable adults, even if their role does not interact directly with them.
Disclaimer: World Vision Ethiopia is a reputable organization that values transparency and fairness in its recruitment process and does not solicit any money for any job application. We encourage all job seekers to be cautious of any job ads that require payment or personal information upfront. If you have any questions or concerns about our job ads or recruitment process, please do not hesitate to contact us directly
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only
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