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Development Department Supervisor

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Deadline: September 20, 2025

Job Description

  • Organizational Unit (Field Office)
  • Unit Affiliation (Administration) Geographic Regions
  • Scope of Supervision: Development Projects and Programs

Tasks

  • Conduct field visits.
  • Provide the department with field data to select and identify target villages.
  • Determine the type of need and the type of development projects.
  • Meet and interview beneficiaries
  • Develop plans to target villages in need by creating a database.
  • Collect and study requests.
  • Review the government’s development plan and coordinate with relevant authorities.
  • Establish partnerships with the government and local and international associations.
  • Establish strong relationships with beneficiaries and form local management committees.
  • Involve beneficiaries in preparing projects and exploiting their potential and resources to develop projects.
  • Train beneficiaries to manage and run projects collectively.
  • Coordinate with technicians and specialists in all areas of the department’s intervention (agriculture, animal production, fish farming).
  • Communicate and coordinate with the Ministry of Women and Children.
  • Study the local market and request quotations.
  • Managing risk and developing appropriate solutions to mitigate or avoid them before and during recovery.
  • Adopting environmental sanitation, preserving the environment, and exploiting natural resources to reduce the carbon footprint when planning or preparing for any development project.
  • Preparing feasibility studies for proposed projects.
  • Raising the office and center’s needs for development projects within the annual plan.
  • Supervising project implementation according to the study, technical specifications, and approved budget on time.
  • Monitoring project progress and developing an evaluation mechanism.
  • Documenting influential positions.
  • Media preparation for the project, including banners and posters for the launch or handover ceremony.
  • Measuring beneficiary satisfaction through a beneficiary satisfaction questionnaire.
  • Measuring the project’s impact on beneficiaries and the environment.
  • Uploading literary and media reports to the system. Implemented projects…
  • Iktifa’ Project and Muwaqabah Project.
  • Communicating with office and center managers to determine development project needs.
  • Coordinating with the departments involved in the Muwaqabah Project.
  • Establishing a database for orphans, the elderly, and those struggling academically to target them with development projects through direct interviews with them and their mothers or guardians..
  • Holding periodic meetings with the center directors and the director of the development office, the Sufficiency Project.
  • Supervising and following up on projects within the centers (the Sufficiency Project).
  • Submitting periodic reports on Sufficiency Projects and Integrated Farms.
  • Submitting project rotation requests, accompanied by a report on the current status of the projects.
  • Participating in preparing and submitting the annual plan to the department based on the centers’ needs.
  • Receiving construction development projects and developing an operational plan for them.
  • Large farms and supervising and technically following up on large farms.
  • Managing and running the farms and major development projects affiliated with the association.
  • Submitting periodic reports on the progress of projects to the department.
  • Continuous development and improvement of production by submitting studies to the department to ensure the quality of outputs and the continuity of the project.
  • Product Storage Management.
  • Product Marketing Management.

About You

Competencies

  • Develop development plans by following up on the state’s strategic plan and sustainable development trends.
  • Develop poverty eradication plans based on the United Nations’ sustainable development.
  • Empower poor villages and raise their economic level.
  • Follow up on the Iktifa’ and Integrated Farms Project (management, divorce, projects, centers).
  • Follow up on the Ta’amabah Project (supporting orphans and their mothers, preachers, people with special needs, and elderly employees).
  • Develop a training program according to the target groups (orphans, families, women’s cooperatives).
  • Adopt and disseminate a culture of environmental sanitation and environmental conservation in all development projects.
  • To build and develop field partnerships in the development field.
  • Measure the impact of development projects periodically.

Speaking, writing, and reading Arabic is a MUST since the reports will be written in Arabic

Required Skills
  • Time management
  • Analytical skills
  • Adaptability
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Attention to detail
  • Problem solving

How to Apply

Apply through Email: ethiopia.hr@direct-aid.org.