Embassy of Ireland jobs 2024

Embassy of Ireland Vacancy 2024 Embassy

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Ireland has loved bilateral relations with Ethiopia since 1994 , when its Embassy in Addis Ababa was first opened. Ireland’s engagement in Ethiopia is guided by the Government of Ireland’s normal overseas coverage which seeks to advertise a safer, simply, honest and sustainable world.

Irish Aid, Ireland’s programme for worldwide improvement, envisages a world the place persons are empowered to beat poverty and starvation, and absolutely understand their rights and potential. Irish Aid in Ethiopia due to this fact goals to learn the poorest and most weak sections of society.

The embassy of Ireland, Addis Ababa is in search of to recruit a extremely motivated, hardworking, proactive and versatile particular person with glorious communication and interpersonal expertise to fill the place of Finance supervisor

Position: SENIOR PROGRAMME MANAGER

Overview of Role

The Senior Programme Manager will report back to the Deputy Head of Development Cooperation and can have explicit duty for managing The Horn of Africa Child Wasting Initiative by means of the oversight of grant funding throughout the three nations of operation; advancing and mainstreaming Ireland’s worldwide improvement coverage precedence areas (together with gender and local weather); grant administration and, monitoring, analysis and studying. The position contains duty for assessing programme companions’ proposals and monitoring of agreed programme outcomes utilizing an entire of embassy strategy.

The profitable candidate may also contribute substantively to the event of a brand new, five-year mission technique and would require demonstrable strategic planning and improvement expertise. A important understanding of the determinants of excellent governance, gender equality and human rights and their software and relevance to the political and governance context in Horn of Africa is important.

Role

• Support the implementation of Ireland’s overseas coverage and improvement methods, together with The Global Island: Ireland’s Foreign Policy for a Changing World; Ireland’s worldwide improvement coverage A Better World and Global Ireland: Ireland’s Strategy for Africa to 2025 within the area.
• Working intently with the lead implementing accomplice of the Child Wasting Initiative, the Senior Programme Manager will monitor and contribute to the implementation of the CWI throughout the three nations of intervention – Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
• Work with the embassy groups in Addis Ababa and Nairobi to implement and assessment the Child Wasting Initiative, in addition to Ireland’s broader commitments within the subject of meals safety, public well being and vitamin within the Horn of Africa Region.
• Participate within the administration workforce of the Embassy and contribute to the general planning and work of the Mission, together with by offering coverage recommendation, briefings and proposals to senior administration – in Embassies Addis Ababa, Nairobi and in HQ.
• Support robust institutional partnership administration with key companions and lead on the administration of the Child Wasting Initiative programme, together with shut collaboration with the consortia engaged in implementation of the CWI.
• Effectively contribute to general strategic planning, annual enterprise planning and reporting in addition to employees efficiency and improvement.
• In coordination with Senior Management in Ireland’s Embassies in Addis Ababa and Nairobi, monitor and encourage the mainstreaming of the Government of Ireland’s International Development Programme coverage precedence points all through the CWI together with Gender, Good Governance Environment and Climate Change and Human Rights along with greatest apply in programming throughout the nexus in scenario of battle and fragility.
• Other duties as could also be required.

Essential necessities candidates should have the ability to reveal:

• Academic qualification at master’s level and a minimum of 5 years progressively responsible senior management experience in areas of public health, nutrition, food security, health or fields related to the necessities of this position  Candidates must have related experience working in a senior management role within a development organisation in an international and/or regional setting. International management experience will be recognised as advantageous.
• Excellent written and spoken English and Amharic – capability in languages related to the implementation of the CWI will likely be thought-about advantageous, eg Somali and Swahili
• Knowledge and understanding of theories, ideas and approaches related to little one losing, vitamin programming and meals safety (utilizing work primarily based examples)
• Excellent understanding of the political economic system and the socio-cultural setting within the Horn of Africa, in addition to a very good information of the determinants of excellent governance, gender equality and human rights and their software and relevance to the political and governance context within the Horn of Africa.
• Familiarity with key nationwide insurance policies, establishments and programmes of the nations of implementation of the Child Wasting Initiative within the Horn of Africa.
• The candidate ought to present examples of being solutions-oriented, and dedicated to delivering outcomes and taking duty for high quality outcomes.
• Demonstrable information of main strategic planning and monitoring/analysis/studying initiatives leading to well-defined and achievable work plans, methods and evaluation.
• Demonstrable expertise (by means of examples) of monetary evaluation and finances administration at a administration stage.
• The candidate should reveal utilizing work primarily based examples of offering glorious interpersonal & communications expertise, being persuasive, working in a workforce but additionally dealing successfully with individuals in exterior organisations;
• Proficient with MS Office Suite together with Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint; further IT functions could be useful (e.g. working with datasets);
• A willingness and skill to journey incessantly, to Kenya, Somalia and distant areas in Ethiopia.
• The profitable candidate will need to have a authorized entitlement to stay and work in Ethiopia previous to recruitment

Gross Salary: €3020 per 30 days, paid in native forex. Salaries are paid direct to a checking account, due to this fact, the profitable candidate will need to have a checking account

Location Embassy of Ireland, Addis Ababa with frequent journey to Kenya and Somalia

Deadline : January 15, 2024

HOW TO APPLY

Start date: February/March 2024

Contract duration: The profitable candidate will be employed on a 3 yr contract with probation period of 60 days
Working hours: Monday to Thursday, with standard workplace hours from 8:00am – 5:00pm, Friday from 8:00am – 2:00pm with whole working hours not exceeding 48 hours per week as per native labour law Annual Leave Entitlement Annual go away allowance is 20 working days per yr

Eligibility Candidates must have a everlasting, authorized proper to reside and work in Ethiopia and will likely be topic to employment and taxation legislation in Ethiopia

Closing date: Monday the 15th of January, 2024 @ 17 hrs Application kind: An software form to use for the position may be obtained on the Embassy’s web site: https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/Ethiopia/ or www.eire.ie/Ethiopia through e mail request to AddisAbabaRecruitment@dfa.ie or in individual from reception desk, Ireland Embassy (hard copy).
Application course of: Please ship a completed software kind and Curriculum Vitae (CV) ONLY earlier than the time limit;
• By e mail to AddisAbabaRecruitment@dfa.ie, with “Application for Senior Programme Manager Child Wasting Initiative” within the topic line or;
• To the postal deal with: Ireland Embassy, P.O.Box 9585 Addis Ababa, or;
• In individual, to the reception desk of the Embassy
• Depending on response charges the deadline could also be prolonged. Please observe that solely brief listed candidates will likely be contacted.
• NOTE: Submissions with out accomplished software kinds won’t be accepted

Selection Process:

• Depending on the variety of functions acquired, a short-listing of candidates to be referred to as for a competency-based interview could also be undertaken primarily based on the Essential/Key Requirements above.
• It is deliberate that interviews will likely be held early February 2024.
• A expertise take a look at could also be included within the recruitment course of;
• A second interview could also be included within the recruitment course of; and
• A panel could also be arrange relying on the calibre of candidates;

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

All private data acquired will likely be saved in step with GDPR tips.

Security Clearance for Local Staff

Police safety clearance will likely be sought in respect of people who come into account for appointment. Enquiries may be made with the police pressure of any nation during which the applicant into account for appointment resided. If unsuccessful this data will likely be destroyed. If the applicant subsequently comes into account for one more place, they are going to be required to produce this data once more.

Please observe that canvassing will disqualify candidates.