Deputy Country Director for Ethiopia

**Country Programme**: Ethiopia

**Countract lenght**: 2 years

**Base**: Addis Abeba

**Line Manager**: Country Director

**National posting**

**People in Need (PIN)** is an international, non-profit organization providing humanitarian assistance and development cooperation worldwide. PIN adopts a triple nexus approach, linking humanitarian, development and resilience programming, with a strong focus on systems strengthening, locally led action and support to civil society.

Present in Ethiopia since 2003, PIN works in partnership with communities, local organisations and public institutions to support sustainable development and improve people’s well-being across the country. Through integrated programming, PIN combines immediate assistance with longer-term, systems-oriented approaches aimed at strengthening resilience, expanding access to essential services and economic opportunities, and enabling locally led solutions.

Guided by its Relief and Development strategy, PIN operates across multiple regions and works with a diverse portfolio of institutional donors and partners.

## ***About the role:***

The Deputy Country Director Programmes (DCD Programmes), a key representative of People in Need (PIN) at the country level, is responsible for strategic leadership in ensuring the quality, relevance and compliance of PIN´s programmes and their sustainable and efficient impact. The role also entails strong external engagement, including proactive positioning of PIN within the humanitarian and development community, cultivating strategic relationships with donors, authorities and partners, and contributing to policy dialogue and coordination platforms. The DCD Programmes represents, together with the CD, PIN towards the national authorities, donors, partners and other stakeholders. The DCD Programmes is part of setting the strategic agenda, participates in identifying and pursuing new opportunities for funding and partnerships, and ensures proactive alignment with national and international priorities.

The DCD Programmes supports the Country Director (CD) in ensuring compliance with PIN values, policies and the strategy of the Relief and Development Department (RDD). The DCD Programmes manages risks and, along with the Programme Managers, Advisors, and Consortium Managers, supervises the quality of programme design and implementation. The DCD Programmes oversees the management of human resources (HR) and staff development within the Programme unit. In the absence of the CD, the DCD Programmes acts as the legal representative of the organisation within the country.

## **Main Duties & Responsibilities:**

**As a strategic leader, the DCD Programmes:**

- Together with the CD, leads in fulfilling the strategy, vision and mission of the RDD and compliance with core values and strategic flagships of PIN;
- Provides strategic direction to PIN’s programming presence in the country;
- Together with the CD, leads in the formulation of the country’s strategy in line with the RDD strategy and its dissemination and implementation through the team;
- Ensures that medium-term and short-term plans agreed with the headquarters (HQ) are implemented;
- Strives for the diversification of financial resources and leads or supervises proposal development processes;
- Together with the Regional direction, CD, Business Development Manager, Program Managers, Advisors, Consortium Managers, she/he initiates new programmes and interventions in new sectors according to the country strategy;
- Coordinates the engagement of both development and emergency programme teams to provide a nexus and systems-strengthening approach to PIN’s programme development, and coordinates this effort with representation towards donors, authorities and partners;
- Provides strategic leadership on locally led action and civil society strengthening;
- Leads the MEAL development and ensures appropriate CFRM mechanisms and Safeguarding and Protection mainstreaming mechanisms are in place and functional;
- Reports on the country’s programme performance to the HQ

### **Representation & External Relations**

**As a representative of PIN, the DCD Programmes:**

- In collaboration with the CD formally represents PIN towards current and potential donors, partners, embassies;
- In collaboration with the CD formally represents PIN towards national and local authorities;
- Is formally as well as informally networking and developing partnerships with all relevant stakeholders for the development and implementation of programmes, including the authorities, local partners, relevant networks and platforms, and the Alliance 2015;
- Supports the CD and Communication department in promoting the PIN brand at the country level, visibility and external communication;

### **Human Resources & Capacity Development**

**As a leader of the team, the DCD Programmes:**

- Promotes team spirit, a culture of respect, personal responsibility, transparency and openness;
- Ensures all staf