Disaster Risk Management Advisor for Ethiopia

**Contract Length:** 6 months with a possibility of extension

**Country Programme**: Ethiopia

**Base**: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

**Line Manager**: Country Director

**National posting**

*People in Need (PIN) is an international, non-profit organization providing humanitarian and development assistance around the world. Present in Ethiopia since 2003, PIN has directly implemented numerous humanitarian and development projects across five regions of the country, mainly focusing on emergency and development WASH, Shelter, Food Security, Agriculture, Education, and Job creation interventions (funded by BHA (USAID); DG ECHO; FCDO; UN OCHA; Czech government, etc.). The overall annual budget of Ethiopia country programme is about 4.7 mil. EUR, and it has 130 staff.*

## **About this role:**

The Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Advisor is a senior strategic leadership position responsible for shaping and advancing PIN Ethiopia’s DRM, Early Warning System (EWS), and Anticipatory Action (AA) agenda. The role focuses primarily on strategic positioning, sectoral leadership, and high-level engagement with national systems, donors, and partners, while providing technical oversight and quality assurance across programmes.

The Advisor supports the Country Director and Senior Management Team in positioning PIN as a credible and influential actor within Ethiopia’s DRM ecosystem, ensuring alignment with national priorities, donor strategies, and PIN’s global DRM framework. He/she is responsible for strategic guidance and follow-up on the developments in the Ethiopian’s DRM sector (with the respective agenda on EWS and AA), ensuring the quality and compliance of PIN’s programmes, values, policies and the strategy of the Relief and Development Department (RDD). He/she will represent PIN at EDRMC’s EWS and AA Technical working groups (TWGs) and other working groups and community of practice. He/she will support the Country Director in strategic planning within this sector and follow-up