Economic Programming and Private Business Partnerships Advisor

**Contract lenght**: 1 year, with the possibility of extension

**Base**: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

**Line Manager**: Deputy Country Director

**Terms**: National posting

**People in Need** (PIN) is a Czech-based international non-governmental organization (NGO) that has provided humanitarian and development assistance across more than 20 countries since 1992. Today, PIN stands as one of the largest organizations of its kind in Central and Eastern Europe, supporting vulnerable communities in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. PIN empowers civil society, advocates for human rights, and promotes social inclusion both at home and abroad.

PIN is present in Ethiopia since 2003, 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 Economic Programming and Private Business Partnerships Advisor will play a central role in shaping and strengthening People in Need Ethiopia’s economic and private business programming portfolio. The position combines strategic oversight, programme delivery support (with the EU Empower project as a current priority), partnership development, and external positioning, with a strong focus on identifying new opportunities, building relationships, and supporting the design and growth of market-relevant interventions across the Country Programme. While grounded in market systems thinking, the role goes beyond technical advisory to support business engagement, adaptive programming, resource mobilisation, and the translation of programme learning into wider strategic opportunities.

## **Main Duties & Responsibilities:**

***Economic Strategy & Opportunity Development***

- Continuously scan the economic landscape to identify new opportunities, emerging sectors, and partnership potential relevant to the Ethiopia CP’s strategic priorities and programming areas
- Develop and refine the Ethiopia CP’s approach to economic programming, ensuring interventions are grounded in market realities, responsive to emerging opportunities, and positioned for sustainable impact across the portfolio
- Lead structured market and sector assessments, translating findings into actionable strategic directions, programme adaptation, and the development of new initiatives across the CP.
- Facilitate access to finance for target groups and market actors, brokering relationships with banks, microfinance institutions, and impact investors to develop tailored financial products and instruments.

***Strategic Partnerships & Business engagement***

- Lead the Ethiopia CP’s business engagement and its related partnership agenda
- Manage and grow a portfolio of high-value strategic partnerships, ensuring mutual accountability, active co-investment, and commercially sustainable collaboration models.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with TVET institutions, facilitating skills pipelines and employer-linked incubation and placement programmes.
- Engage government stakeholders at regional and national levels to secure buy-in, align with policy priorities, and advocate for market-enabling reforms.

***Programme Delivery & Technical Oversight***

- Oversee the quality and coherence of programme delivery across economic and market-facing interventions, working closely with implementing partners and the Consortium or Project Managers.
- Provide strategic and technical guidance to partners and field teams, ensuring interventions reflect sound market systems principles and achieve intended outcomes.
- Drive youth and women's integration into priority value chains, focusing on value-added participation, distribution roles, and entrepreneurship pathways.
- Champion green and climate-smart approaches across value chains, supporting private sector actors in adopting environmentally sustainable practices aligned with national climate commitments.
- Identify and test innovative models and approaches, including circular economy and regenerative solutions, that strengthen the commercial and environmental sustainability of interventions.

***Monitoring, Adaptation & Reporting***

- Contribute to the establishment of monitoring frameworks that track both programme delivery performance and strategic partnership milestones.
- Lead adaptive management, using data and market intelligence to identify new opportunities and refine the programme's strategic direction.
- Prepare high-quality reports and strategic briefs for the Consortium or Project Managers and donors, highlighting prog