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The program
Mercy Corps has been operating in Ethiopia since 2004, working in rural, peri-urban and urban areas in five regional states - Somali, Oromia, Afar, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Amhara - and the capital city of Addis Ababa. We engage in both development and humanitarian work, and seek to integrate approaches, programs and geographies as much as possible.? Our partners include government, academic institutions, development and private sector actors, civil societies and communities.
Resilience in Pastoral Areas (RIPA) program is a five-year USAID-funded initiative that aims to improve the resilience capacities of households, markets, and governance institutions across 22 woredas in the Somali, Afar and Oromia regions. RIPA includes a Crisis Modifier component that allows us to pivot our approach and respond to humanitarian needs in ways that support, not undermine, long-term development and resilience objectives. In relation to this, Mercy Corps is planning to implement a $10 million Crisis Modifier in response to the drought and Global Food Crisis impacting Ethiopia.
?Position Title: MARKET SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST -DEO
Duty Station:?Dire Dawa ( Sitti zone-Somali):
Open Position:? 1
Duration: - One Year
?The Position
The Market Systems development specialist will be responsible for leading implementation of the market system related activities of the Diversified Economic Opportunity Component (Component 2) including supporting the execution of the Crisis Modifier 2 response activities under component 2. He/she will be responsible to facilitate the project ranging from undertaking assessment validation, activities selection,intervention design and planning implementation of activities to providing recommendations to scaling up and rolling out activities across the project sites.? He/she will contribute analytical thinking and innovative approaches and will support integration and harmony of approaches across all Mercy Corps Ethiopia market-driven programming.?
?Essential Responsibilities
Project implementation
?Leads the implementation of high impactful activities to support diversification of economic opportunities to facilitate employment opportunities for youth, women and job seekers pastoral and agro-pastoral locations
?Develops intervention, activity concept notes and overall implementation plans for carrying out activities that strengthen good linkages between market actors such as technical skills training providers, Business development/Mentoring service providers, Banks, MFIs, and VSLA?s, last mile business solutions, Women Cottage Enterprises, Agricultural Processors, Solar Energy service providers, inputs supplier