Adaptive Management Director, USAID Ethiopia Highlands Resilience Platform for Adaptive Learning (R-PAL) Activity, Ethiopia

Job Description

Adaptive Management Director, USAID Ethiopia Highlands Resilience Platform for Adaptive Learning (R-PAL) Activity, Ethiopia

Social Impact is a global development management consulting firm. We provide monitoring, evaluation, strategic planning, and capacity building services to advance development effectiveness. We work across all development sectors including democracy and governance, health and education, the environment, and economic growth. Since 1997 we have worked in over 100 countries for clients such as US government agencies, bilateral donors, multilateral development banks, foundations, and nonprofits.

Proposal Objective:

SI is pursuing a five-year USAID Ethiopia Highlands Resilience Platform for Adaptive Learning (R-PAL) Activity to lead learning within USAID’s $740 million Transitioning into Graduation through Enhanced Resilience (TIGER) Project. The primary purpose of the Highlands Resilience Platform for Adaptive Learning (R-PAL) is to lead learning within USAID’s TIGER Project. R-PAL will enable TIGER’s collective impact serving as a coordination focal point and streamlining collaboration across its partners, and providing relevant research to the TIGER Learning Agenda. The project will have 4 Objectives:

• Objective 1: Collaboration and coordination among USAID Ethiopia Highlands Resilience partners and investments is established and facilitated to support collective impact.
• Objective 2: Highlands resilience investments are informed by learning, evidence, and research.
• Objective 3: Adaptive management processes and solutions for USAID Highlands Resilience investments are adopted and employed towards evidence-based program iteration (and ingrained in the Partnership’s culture).
• Objective 4: Innovation within USAID’s Highlands programming drives early adoption and scaling of new rigorously tested approaches.

Position Description:

SI is seeking a full-time Adaptive Management Director with experience leading adaptive management processes and building capacity in partners to embrace change. This position will report to the Chief of Party, to be based in Addis Ababa for the duration of the contract.

Anticipated start date would be fall 2021.

Responsibilities:

· Lead R-PAL’s support to adaptive management processes and solutions in coordination with partners to ensure integration at the national, regional, and woreda level

· Oversee capacity building of partners to increase relevant knowledge and skills and enhance organizational change readiness for programmatic adaptations.

· Collaborate with partners to ensure use of data-driven programmatic adaptations.

· Lead program leaning activities to inform decision making.

Qualifications:​

· Minimum of a Master’s degree in a related field.

· 10 years or more experience in leading adaptive management and learning approaches with USAID, USG and development clients and partners.

· Experience and strong results in designing, implementing, and assessing the effectiveness of capacity building interventions and/or organizational development interventions.

· Demonstrated experience in leading collaborative, dynamic, and multi-cultural teams.

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to establish relationships with diverse stakeholders.

· Knowledge of USAID’s CLA Framework and practices or another organizational learning framework and experience translating that framework into practical solutions for implementing partners and other stakeholders.

· Strong preference for candidates with experience in resilience, agriculture, or food security area.

· Fluency in English is required.

Come join our energetic and innovative team! We offer you the opportunity to play a leading role in the growth of our company, work as part of a creative and committed team, and make a difference in the well-being of our world.

To learn more about Social Impact, please visit our website: http://www.socialimpact.com

SI is an EEO/AA/ADA Veterans Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Only selected candidates will be contacted for an interview. Please, no phone calls.

About the Organization

SI was founded upon the growing global desire-and pressure—to make international development more effective in improving people's lives. The world's most pressing challenges-widespread poverty, HIV/AIDS, environmental degradation, civil war and conflict-call for new ways to manage societies and social and economic change. Foreign aid is increasingly a catalyst for development, and is helping to create conditions to remove people from poverty. Better policies in developing countries, improvements in aid allocation with the end of the Cold War, and learning about aid effectiveness and participation, make aid more effective today at reducing poverty than ever before. Social Impact's mission is to create dramatic improvements in the performance of organizations and programs working to enhance the social and economic wellbeing of people around the world. SI's unique approach-drawn from global "best practices" in managing positive social change—harnesses the participation, collective knowledge and commitment of diverse groups to accomplish measurable and enduring development results. SI provides a full range of innovative management consulting, technical assistance and training services to strengthen international development programs, organizations and policies. SI works across sectors to reduce poverty; improve health, education and the lives of women and children; promote peace and democratic governance; strengthen civil society; foster economic growth; and protect the environment. SI's clients include public and private aid agencies, civil society organizations and governments at various levels.