Project Manager – STAND FOR HER LAND Project – Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia
Development and Project Management, Economics, Social Sciences and Community
Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia
Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia (HFHE) is a non-profit organisation, affiliated to Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) headquartered in Atlanta – Georgia (U.S.A), is an ecumenical Christian ministry that welcomes to its work all people dedicated to the cause of eliminating poverty housing.
HFHE has provided simple, affordable shelter for over 14,600 families in Ethiopia while also working to improve Water, Sanitation & Hygiene and empower Vulnerable Groups throughout the country.
HFHI is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best qualified personnel for all our positions in a manner that does not unlawfully discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, gender, marital status, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, veteran/reserve national guard status, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.
Internal/External Vacancy Announcement
Organizational Overview
Driven by the vision that everyone needs a decent place to live, Habitat for Humanity began in 1976 as a grassroots effort on a community farm in southern Georgia. The organization has since grown to become a leading global nonprofit working in nearly 1,400 communities throughout the U.S. and in nearly 70 countries. Families and individuals in need of a hand-up partner with Habitat for Humanity to build or improve a place they can call home. Through financial support, volunteering, or adding a voice to support affordable housing, everyone can help families achieve the strength, stability, and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves.
Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia (HFHE) started operation in 1993 as a branch of Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI). HFHE has provided simple, affordable shelter for families in Ethiopia while also working to improve Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and empower Vulnerable Groups in the country.
Job Summary
The Project Manager-Women’s Land Right (PM-WLR) under the direct supervision of the Program Director leads a five year project that focuses on Women Land Rights (WLR) Landesa funded project entitled “STAND FOR HER LAND »: Collective Advocacy to Realize Women’s Land Rights in Ethiopia”. The project target operational areais in Ethiopia, based in Addis Ababa with frequent trave to HFHE Project sites. The position holder will deal holistically with policy and advocacy strategy documents formulation and program design and implementation, including leading/ strenthening the establishment of Country Coalitions in partnership with Civil society organizations by developing a coalitions’ strategies documents and working with the MEAL collegues to monitor the implementation of the project..
The Project Manager (PM-S4HL) will be leading a team that comprises Advocacy and communication Specalist and represent Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia (HFHE) at the community, Government office, in the designing all advocacy works to meet the project objectives and enhance project accountability with key partners and the community members.
The Project Manager will work closely with the Habitat for Humnaity Area Office advocacy manager to achieve the overall goal of the SFHL project.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Through strategic direction from the Program Director, the PM will ensure that mapping of existing laws and policies and customary practices relevant to land, women rights, and climate ressilience against Civil Society Organizations (CSO) actions is carried out to identify mutual priorities of coalitions and CSO collaborators roundtable gatherings to sensitize collaborators on the relevance of WLR to development priorities.
- The Project Manager – SFHL also coordinates trainings & workshops to advance action in mutual Women Land Right (WLR) priorities and do direct engagement with grassroots led organizations and regional and national CSOs. Train local and national government actors on specific WLR topics such as transformative leadership on women land rights
- work with the grassroot led women CSO, Coalition members by organisaing a round table policy dialogue targeting both the right holders and duty bearers to influence policy on Women Land Right (WLR) in the Ethiopia
- oversee the establishment of the communication strategy for the project while working with communication manager and Stand for Her Land Advocacy officer
- Conduct assessments on selection of target groups members of champions and collation members, ambassadors of WLR including selection of the ambassadors of WLR from and engage them in advocacy work
- Work with the coalition members by facilitating public speeches for WLR ambassadors in academic, government institution, and NGO/CSO-Ethiopia.
- Attend the regional advocacy meeting organized by regional bodies such as the Africa Union (AU), IGAD, UNECA, etc and provide reccomendation and update to the management on timely manner
- provide capacity building training for coalition members on WLR
- Ensure the project planning and implementation is carried out as per the project plan.
- Compiles periodic (monthly, quarterly, and annual reports), Management, Donor and Government reports.
- Develop policy briefs, blogs and position papers on women land rights
- Ensures managing relationships with a wide range of groups (including all project contributors, selected partner civil societies, Donors ) and relevants government organizations and advocacy ambassadors, collation members and other stake holders.
- Responsible for managing and supervision of the quality of all the project activities and manages the work of advocacy and communications officer; provides leadership and overall coordination and supervision, allocating and utilizing resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a co-operative, motivated and successful team.
- Ensure that all data and information is updated, well organized and easily accessible; and those lessons learnt, and best practice are capitalized
- Identify and monitor risks, constraints, or escalating issues, and inform the hierarchy accordingly.
- Liaison with MEAL Manager and program Director for technical support and coordination of MEAL activities.
- Review documents for payments to services and consultants for of the project activities
- Work with Finance Department about budget utilization as project budget holder and monitor financial expenditures on regular basis and also preparation of annual planning and budgeting
- Prepare and submit status and progress reports of Donors and Government Agencies to the National Director for review and approval.
- Organizing and leading Project kick off calls and briefings at the project level with the donors and SFHL committee
- Work with the HFH knowledge management team by ensuring ownership and management of project materials consolidating and up keeping, and documenting,
- Represent/liaise HFHE in discussions or meetings related to women land right advocacy work and also coordinate meetings related to SFHL.
- Other related duties as assigned by supervisor
Duration of the contract: Two years, Renewable based on performance and availability of funding.
Duty station: Addis Ababa with travel to project target areas
Required number: – 1
Minimum Required:
- University degree in fields relevant to the tasks including governance, human rights, civic studies , gender, law or Social sciences,.
- A minimum of five (5) years of experience withland tenure and administration, systems, , gender issues in land tenure and property rights including research, project planning and design, and implementation oversight.
- Very good knowledge and experience of Pan-African women rights/human rights instruments and mechanisms, the operating environment and political climate.
- Very good understanding of, or experience in, implementing and monitoring women rights/human rights in a Pan Africa context, including very good knowledge and experience of work related to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) on the Rights of Women in Africa (RWA) and its mechanisms, and other relevant human rights instruments and mechanisms
- Proven excellent communication, presentation and report writing skills essential.
- Experience in planning and conducting public consultations with a wide range of stakeholders in government and civil society, and in analyzing and communicating results;
- Capability to manage complex tasks with minimal supervision, and to work under time pressure;
- Native speaker fluency in English is required. Fluency in Amharic highly desirable;
- Ethiopian National
- Female applicants highly encouraged
Negotiable
