Fund Office Resource Mobilization Expert – The Amhara National Regional State
Business and Administration, Economics
The Amhara National Regional State
The Amhara National Regional State Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Fund for People in Conflict Affected Area (ARRF):
Background
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 resource mobilization expert works in identifying what agreed resource for the ARRF are demanded and enable ARRF to have enough financial and non-financial resources to implement the aimed fund offices.
Task Description:
- Identify the resource demanded by ARRF
- Map the financial and non-financial resources, which are applicable for ARRF
- Develop different tools with the resource mobilization team, based on the identified resources need
- Organize resource mobilization ambassador’s all over the world, for ARRF
- Design different events to raise fund for identified and selected programs/fund offices
- Involve in the fund office designing and writing process
- Come up with different fund office and program ideas, with high funding capacity
- Work closely with sector coordinators to use different sectors capacity (human, expertise, machineries, cars, finance, working space and other resources)
- Negotiate with different international organizations to support the humanitarian and developmental support
- Enable organizations to include ARRF inconsideration in their annual plan, promote ARRF for all international and local organizations
- Design funding tools which have a potential to reach the mass public individual level
- Work closely with the private businesses to support the ARRF as their corporate social responsibility
Competencies
- Capacity in identifying potential resources and expertise in how to approach identified resources
- Integrate different resources for specific ARRF
- Integrity/commitment to mandate, knowledge sharing/continuous learning
- Managing relation with all targeted organizations in target source of resource
- Strategic and analytical thinking, Results orientation/Commitment to excellence, Appropriate and transparent decision making.
The Position is 1 year contract base, which has the possibility of renewal.
Required Skill and expertise
- Master’s in business administration or economics or other related fields
- 5 years’ experience directly in resource mobilization and grant related works
- Strong interpersonal skill, in working with different international and local organizations
