British Embassy Vacancy 2024
Position: Humanitarian Advisor
The main goal of a job
- FCDO Ethiopia is a big, dynamic and high-performing workplace – implementing the UK’s largest assist programme. Ethiopia has delivered exceptional development outcomes during the last 25 years. FCDO companions with Government, multilateral companions and native organizations throughout a spread of sectors.
- Our Development Partnership Summary units out our growth priorities inside a quickly growing ODA budget and coverage agenda. We have a various, skilled and dedicated team which are encouraged to work throughout groups and with colleagues across the community to deepen partnerships with Ethiopia.
- This position sits inside the Resilience and Humanitarian Team (RHT). RHT leads UK Aid’s efforts to build the resilience of the poorest and most weak in Ethiopia by means of strengthening nationwide programs, selling local weather adaptation, and humanitarian reform. We additionally lead the UK’s response to humanitarian emergencies in Ethiopia and try to implement modern and cost-effective humanitarian response modalities.
- This is an exciting and difficult time to hitch our workforce as a humanitarian adviser. You will work on the coronary heart of the UK’s response to one of the most advanced humanitarian conditions on the planet.
- With a selected focus on a number of humanitarian sectors – including emergency well being, diet, WASH, training, safety and humanitarian money – you can be liable for influencing humanitarian coverage at senior ranges, delivering excellence in our UK financing and making certain that we draw on global finest apply in our work.
- You will work carefully with skilled humanitarian advisors, programme management workers, and different specialists from British Embassy (including human growth, battle and governance specialists). You shall be anticipated to provide humanitarian advice and evaluation to the management of the British Embassy in Addis Ababa, in addition to visiting Ministers and senior officers. You will even want to maintain an efficient exterior network inside the humanitarian group in Ethiopia.
Roles and responsibilities
In this role, you can be expected to:
- Provide technical advice to tell FCDO humanitarian policy and programming.
- Lead for a number of elements of the Embassy’s flagship ‘Ethiopia Crisis to Resilience’ multi-sector programme overlaying emergency well being, diet, WASH, safety, training and humanitarian money. You will make sure the programme delivers successfully through UN and NGO implementing companions whereas providing a transparent sense of path and making certain excellence in programme administration.
- Keep the embassy up-to-date on the humanitarian sectors you lead, and feed into the formation of humanitarian policy
- Represent the UK in coordination forum (together with related clusters) and with the Government of Ethiopia (related ministries and and the Ethiopia Disaster Risk Management Committee) and key worldwide companions. You ought to be able to preserve an efficient community inside the Ethiopian humanitarian group.
- Provide cross-cutting evaluation and recommendation to RHT and the broader embassy within the sectors you lead on, as required.
- Ensure safety risks and a give attention to the most weak civilians (including ladies, kids, folks with disabilities, and IDPs) are thought-about in all FCDO humanitarian programme and coverage work.
- Undertake common area visits (at least 20 days per yr) to monitor FCDO programmes and feed into scenario assessment and coverage growth.
Essential {qualifications}, skills and experience
- Knowledge and experience of working on a number of of the sectors coated by the Ethiopia Crises to Resilience Programme: emergency health, diet, WASH, protection, education and humanitarian money
- Evidence of offering humanitarian analysis and advice to government, worldwide or nationwide humanitarian organisations and/or donors.
- Relevant expertise working on humanitarian programmes in Ethiopia and powerful understanding of Ethiopian humanitarian policies and structure.
- Experience in influencing insurance policies.
- Excellent interpersonal and workforce working expertise, with a capability to work flexibly and adapt to rising points.
- A proven capacity to speak clearly and confidently, verbally and in writing.
Language requirements:
- Language: English
- Level of language required: Fluent oral comprehension, reading, writing
Desirable {qualifications}, skills and experience
- FCDO assessment is competency-based rather than on years of expertise, however previously most profitable candidates have drawn on not less than 5-10 years of related humanitarian expertise to show ample proof of the required competencies.
- Knowledge and expertise of working in fragile and conflict-affected environments and on safety points.
- Masters stage qualification in a relevant area, or extra relevant expertise in lieu of Master.
- Amharic and different native languages spoken in Ethiopia
Required behaviours
Seeing the Big Picture, Changing and Improving, Working Together
Grade: Grade 7 (G7)
Type of Position: Permanent
Region: Africa
Country/Territory: Ethiopia
Location (City): Addis Ababa
Type of Post: British Embassy
Salary: USD 25,465 – USD 38,139 per annum, taxable
Start Date: 1 June 2024
Other benefits and conditions of employment
Learning and development opportunities:
- Professional growth is an important a part of being an FCDO advisor, and the Resilience and Humanitarian Team is dedicated to supporting your humanitarian career growth. You shall be expected to maintain abreast of the proof of what works and make a 10% humanitarian cadre contribution supporting groups elsewhere in the FCDO world network.
Additional info
- This is a re-advertisement. Previous applicants needn’t apply
- Please full the application type in full as the information supplied is used throughout screening.
- Please check your software fastidiously earlier than you submit it, as no changes will be made as soon as submitted.
- The British Embassy will never request any cost or charges to use for a place.
- Employees recruited domestically by the British Embassy are topic to Terms and Conditions of Service according to native employment regulation.
- All candidates have to be legally capable of work and reside in the nation of the emptiness with the right visa/work allow standing or exhibit eligibility to acquire the related allow.
The responsibility lies on the successful candidate to:
- The British Embassy does not sponsor visas/work permits except the place it could be native apply to take action.
- Employees who are not liable to pay native revenue tax on their Mission wage might have their salaries lowered by the equal native revenue tax quantity.
- Information about the Civil Service Success Profiles will be discovered on this hyperlink: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles
- Reference checking and safety clearances shall be performed on profitable candidates.
- Appointable candidates who have been unsuccessful could also be placed on a ‘reserve list’. If throughout the reserve interval of 12 months the identical or a largely related position becomes accessible, that position may be offered to the second or subsequent candidate.