Bid Preparation Officer

HEAD OF PROGRAMS — ETHIOPIA

• Job Title: Head of Programs — Ethiopia
• Organization: ForAfrika
• Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (with regular travel to field locations up to 40%)
• Division: Ethiopia Country Office
• Job Level: Mid-Senior / Management
• Contract Type: Contract
• Post Date: October 28, 2026
• Application Deadline: November 11, 2026

ABOUT FORAFRIKA

ForAfrika is an African-rooted, globally connected organisation dedicated to empowering communities across the continent through sustainable development and humanitarian aid. With over 40 years of operational experience, ForAfrika works in environments that vary from emergency relief settings to long-term development, ensuring that every initiative is contextually aligned with the needs of the people it serves. Through a deep love for Africa and unwavering commitment, ForAfrika delivers programmes that transform lives by embracing an integrated approach to development. This includes enhancing education, health and nutrition, water and sanitation, food security and livelihoods, economic empowerment, and more, building environments where all Africans can thrive.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Head of Programs is responsible for leading all programmatic functions across the organization's operations, ensuring high-quality, accountable, and sustainable programming that aligns with strategic objectives and responds to community needs. This senior leadership role encompasses oversight of program implementation, quality assurance, community integration, Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (DMEAL), and emergency response coordination. The successful candidate will provide visionary leadership to drive program excellence while building organizational capacity and fostering partnerships that amplify impact.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

• Solid-Line Reporting: Country Director
• Dotted-Line Reporting: Director of Programs, Global Support Office (provides technical oversight, guidance, and capacity building on programmatic matters)

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Program Leadership & Quality Assurance

• Provide strategic direction and oversight for all programmatic activities across multiple sectors including health, education, WASH, food security, livelihoods, and emergencyresponse.
• Establish and maintain program quality frameworks ensuring adherence to international standards including SPHERE, Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS), and donor compliance requirements.
• Lead the development and implementation of the country program strategy in alignment with organizational mission and donor requirements.
• Ensure all programs are designed and implemented in ways responsive to community needs, cultural contexts, and beneficiary feedback.
• Champion innovation in program design and implementation methodologies to enhance effectiveness and sustainability.

Program Implementation Management

• Oversee portfolio of programs with collective budgets and ensure efficient resource allocation across initiatives.
• Monitor program performance against targets, timelines, and budgetary allocations, implementing corrective measures as needed.
• Lead program proposal development processes, ensuring technical quality, contextual relevance, and competitive positioning.
• Coordinate with finance team on budget variance analysis (BVA) and financial reporting to ensure fiscal accountability.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key donors, government partners, and implementing partners.

Community Integration & Partnership Development

• Ensure meaningful community participation in all phases of the program cycle from design through evaluation.
• Establish and maintain strategic partnerships with local organizations, government entities, and community leaders.
• Lead the development of community engagement strategies that promote local ownership and sustainability.
• Oversee capacity-building initiatives for community-based organizations and local partners.
• Ensure cultural sensitivity and conflict-sensitive programming approaches across all interventions.

Emergency Response & Humanitarian Coordination

• Lead organizational preparedness for emergency response including development and regular updating of contingency plans.
• Coordinate rapid response to humanitarian crises, ensuring timely and effective assistance delivery.
• Represent the organization in humanitarian coordination forums and cluster meetings.
• Maintain emergency supply stocks and ensure readiness of response teams and equipment.
• Lead needs assessments and response strategy development during humanitarian emergencies.

Team Leadership & Organizational Development

• Provide leadership and mentorship to program managers, MEAL officers, field coordinators, and technical specialists.
• Build organizational capacity through staff development planning, training coordination, and performance management.
• Foster a collaborative work environment that promotes professional growth and high performance.
• Establish clear performance expectations and accountability mechanisms for all program staff.
• Champion organizational values and ensure adherence tothe code of conduct and safeguarding policies.

External Relations & Representation

• Serve as primary liaison with donors, government officials, and partner organizations on programmatic matters.
• Represent the organization at national and international forums, conferences, and coordination meetings.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships that enhance program effectiveness and organizational profile.
• Lead resource mobilization efforts and contribute to fundraising strategy development.
• Ensure compliance with government regulations and maintain positive relationships with authorities.

Roles and responsibilities 

The WASH and Shelter Project Manager is responsible to lead and coordinate the planning, implementation, and monitoring of WASH and Shelter projects across NRC’s areas of operation, ensuring that interventions respond to the needs and priorities of affected populations and meet established quality standards. The role is keenly responsible for assessing and analyzing WASH and Shelter needs, developing project proposals and concept notes (CNs), managing project budgets, providing technical oversight, supervising project teams, representing NRC in strategic engagements with donors, partners, and coordination platforms and developing and implementing capacity-building plans.  

 Generic Responsibilities 

1. Adherence to NRC policies, guidance, and procedures. 
2. Contribute to the development of the country-wide ToCs and key workstream priorities in WASH and Shelter core competence, and initiate, and participate in the development and implementation of WASH and Shelter response 
3. Coordinate and support the Sub-national WASH and Shelter cluster and refugee response coordination platforms on the formation and smooth functioning of the CCs Programming 
4. Work with WASH and Shelter staff and support the implementation of timely, quality, and inclusive WASH and shelter programs in the project location in line with the strategies, proposals, and donor requirements. 
5. Provide technical support and ensure high technical quality of the WASH and Shelter projects in the target area 
6. Provide regular progress reports on the WASH/Shelter project to the WASH and Shelter Specialist to assess emerging WASH and Shelter needs for advocacy and resource mobilization 
7. Ensure that the project’s target beneficiaries are protected and explore and assess new and better ways for assistance.  
8. Ensure capacity building plans are made at the beginning of the year in coordination with the WASH/Shelter Specialist for WASH and Shelter project staff and transfer key skills. 
9. Oversee and be responsible for mainstreaming protection guidelines for the WASH and Shelter projects as per NRC’s Protection Mainstreaming Guidelines and ensure that all breaches/concerns reported are properly resolved. 

Specific responsibilities: 

• Assess trends and changes in the context of the displacement-affected population, identify emerging WASH and Shelter gaps and indicate ways for timely and quality CC specific responses. 
• Contribute to the development of the NRC WASH and Shelter and Settlement strategy and macro-log frame, theories of change and ensure their link to other NRC Core Competencies.  
• Work with and represent NRC on the sub national Shelter cluster and refugee coordination meetings 
• With close coordination with the UNHCR, RRS and Sub-national WASH and SLSC Cluster, coordinate and contribute to the coordination outcomes.  
• Work with the respective stakeholders and relevant authorities sub-national WASH and SLSC clusters and advocate for the harmonization of the WASH and S&S response in Ethiopia 
• Build the capacity of the WASH and Shelter technical team for the smooth, timely, and quality implementation of WASH and Shelter programming according to the prioritized need. 
• Promote and support the WASH and Shelter team to properly place gender-appropriate and inclusive housing and settlement solutions across the target operations. 
• Monitor and evaluate WASH and S&S projects, using NRC evaluation tools and donor and NRC indicator.  
• Conduct regular monitoring visits to project locations and provide technical support to ensure program quality. 
• Ensure that sustainable systems are set in place for longer-term operation and maintenance of all WASH and Shelter infrastructure, including the provision of all necessary training for designated teams and relevant stakeholders involved  
• Follow up and support the smooth and proper implementation of the WASH and S & S programming in close coordination with stakeholders  
• Report monthly to the WASH/Shelter specialist on the implementation progress, challenges, and lessons learned of WASH and Shelter projects 
• Liaise and coordinate with other NRC CCs, the Sub-national WASH and SLSC cluster, RRS, UNHCR, and other international and local NGOs and woreda Bureau of Social affairs offices on areas of complementarity  

Internal/External Vacancy Announcement for Anticipated position

 DISTINCT FUTURE OF CVDA

 CVDA has been re-registered and licensed by the Ethiopian Ministry of Justice, Charities and Societies Agency, on November 30, 2009 as an Ethiopian Residents charity in accordance with the Charities and Societies proclamation No. 621/2009 with registration No. 0588. As per 1113/2019 proclamation also re-registered on July 30, 2019.

 CVDA has permission to work at the national level however so far operates marginal parts of Benshangule Gumuz Region, Sidama region, South Ethiopia Region, Central Ethiopia region, South west Ethiopia region, Oromiya region, Afar region and Addis Ababa City administration.

It is member of Consortium of Reproductive Health Association (CORHA), Union of Ethiopian Women Charitable Association (UEWCA), Ethiopian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative/EEITI/, Ethiopia Civil Society Coalition for Scaling up Nutrition/ECSC-SUN/ and Afar Region Health Partner Forum. 

 The following are CVDA’s vision, mission, goals, principles and values:

Vision

 CVDA envisions a poverty-free Ethiopia where equity and equality are ensured.

Mission:

CVDA’s mission is to enhance socioeconomic development in health, education, agriculture, environment, livelihood, and WaSH, humanitarian responses, community-based peace-building, and good governance through holistic approaches and working with the community to contribute towards sustainable development and an improved standard of living in Ethiopia.

Overall goal:

CVDA’s goal is to contribute to poverty alleviation through community-based approaches by implementing programs for development, good governance, and humanitarian responses in different regions of the country.

CORE VALUES

CVDA and its operations enshrine the following values.

• Integrity: Upholding the principles of honesty and responsibility and maintaining the highest ethical standards possible.
• Courage of conviction: CVDA’s pledge is to fight against poverty and hunger and always take sides with the poorest and most disadvantaged groups and help them bring about positive changes in their lives.
• Accountability: This espouses CVDA’s ongoing commitment to be accountable for its actions and to respond periodically to questions concerning its activities or answer to those who will be affected by our decisions or actions.
• Transparency: CVDA takes decisions and implements them in a manner that follows the rules and regulations. Moreover, CVDA shall provide key stakeholders with reliable, relevant, and timely information on matters that concern them.
• Sensitivity: CVDA is sensitive to conflict, gender, resources, culture, and social values in all of its program design, implementation, monitoring, and reporting and hence it wishes to be impartial and equitable in all its actions and activities

5.5       PRINCIPLES

CVDA adheres to the following principles:

• Real-time and change-oriented performance
• Belief that results can be achieved if the process is sound and suitable
• Trustworthiness
• Team spirit
• Ownership
• Volunteerism
• Compliance and commitment
• Do no harm
• Value for money\
• Sustainability

PROGRAMSANDACTIVITIES

1. Reproductive and Primary Health Program
2. Water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Program
3. Food Security, Livelihood Diversification and Natural Resource Conservation Program
4. Education Program 
5. Emergency and Relief Program

Description of the Vacancy

Common Vision for Development Association (CVDA) is on the process of starting project focuses women economic empowerment in 7 woreda of somali region and announced the following anticipated Project on women economic empowerment in collabrtion with PSI=Ethiopia

Position: Buisness Development Specialist

Reports to: Regional Project Lead

Duty Station: Jigjiga

Requred Number : 01

Vacancy opening Date:-27/10/2026G.C

Vacancy Closing Date:-02/11/2026G.C

Duration of employment: one year with high possibility of extension based on performance and availability of fund.

Salary:  As per the scale of the organization

Main duty and Responsibility

Buisness Development Specialist will have the following duty and responsibility but not limted to listed below:

• Oversee all technical support for youth and woman-led business development initiatives of the Step Up to Dignified & Fulfilling work project, including market landscaping analysis, business partner assessment, GIS mapping and analysis, training programs, and sales data collection throughout the project.
• Identify and build business team capacity to introduce methods that have the potential to strengthen supply chain to low-income consumers, including guidance on distribution and sales.
• Create sustainable business models that lay out product promotion, distribution channels, pricing and sales models, profit and loss calculations.
• Lead assessments needs, opportunities, challenges and gaps in access to finance for youth and women-led enterprises/entrepreneurs and facilitate the development of appropriate financing products to ensure financial inclusion.
• Build relationship with public and private finance institutions including Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), to enablee youth and women to develop saving habits, access small loans, and build financial confidence.
• Support woreda level project team in identifying, vetting, and incubating private sector business partners (specially group-based enterprises) by co-developing toolkits and coaching guides for effective mentorship.
• Establish curricula and materials for life skills and financial literacy training tailored for low-literacy learners in collaboration with relevant public/ private training institutions.
• Contribute to the development of metrics and establishment of a monitoring and evaluation framework for tracking project progress, specifically around market linkages, income growth, and sustainability of women-led enterprises.
• Engage with relevant government and other actors to foster coordination and private sector partnerships with private sector for market system development.
• Contribute to the adaptation of market-based approach and tools into government programs and systems to promote sustainability and scale.
• Review and analyze data to improve management decision and optimize business models under implementation.
• Work closely with the Gender and Inclusion Advisor to ensure all business development approaches are inclusive and responsive to diverse participant needs.
• Oversee field team efforts related to private sector partnerships, market assessments, and governance of group enterprises for new product introduction.
• Provide regular reporting on business activities, including documentation and sharing of key learnings related to private sector engagement.
• Review, approve, and submit business development reports to the Program lead and program Director.

Description of the Vacancy

The American state Department Funded Family Focused HIV Prevention Care and Treatment Services (FFHPCT) is aimed to strengthen local HIV epidemic management in order to accomplish the three 95 targets/goals. HIV mitigation services for children at risk concentrate on case finding and connecting undiagnosed children living with HIV to treatment, improving health outcomes through HIV viral load suppression, and creating interpersonal, family, and community norms to achieve HIV and violence prevention.

To serve families infected or affected with HIV who are newly diagnosed, at high risk of default, or do not achieve viral suppression. American state Department Funded Family Focused HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Service award represents a transition from two unique programs OVC & HIV Care and treatment to one integrated program. To serve families infected or affected with HIV who are newly diagnosed, at high risk of default, or do not achieve viral suppression. Hence, this TOR is to employ social service worker to closely oversee OVC Service package activities at the implementation site, and health-related activities.