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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 OFFICER -DEO/LIVESTOCK CROP
Duty Station: Dire Dawa ( Sitti zone-Somali)
Open Position:? 1
Duration: - One Year
?The Position
The Market Systems development officer will be responsible for leading implementation of the market system related activities of the Diversified Economic Opportunity Component (Component 2) and Livestock and crop component (component 3). 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
? Participate in the planning, implementing, monitoring, evaluation and reporting MSD activities within the cluster;
?Provided technical support in the area of responsibilities for MSD activities to ensure the planned activists are implemented timely and with required deliverable quality;
?Work closely with field team on the identification of the innovate ways/opportunities to support Market systems development activities and facilities the innovate ideas to ideas in to action through creating the enabling environment for exchange of information within the MSD team and actors;
?Facilitate and coordinates markets systems assessment, organizing validation workshop