Position 1: Senior Programme Manager
Essential qualifications, skills and experience
- A strong and credible leader, who delivers through others.
- A strong understanding of FCDO Programme and Project management (PPM) processes, procedures and best practice, including the PrOF.
- Experience of delivering complex programmes in an access-constrained and FCAS context.
- The resilience to manage multiple projects/programmes concurrently, with the ability to take the initiative and manage own workload.
- Proven financial and risk management knowledge, to support effective programme delivery.
- Ability to work with a range of stakeholders, both internal and external, and challenge implementing partners when required.
- Effective line-management and commitment to personal development of team-members to build capability within the programme delivery profession.
- Expert written & spoken English
Desirable qualifications, skills and experience
- Experience working in or on Sudan
- Proficiency in the Arabic language.
- Completion of FCDO’s Practitioner Level Accreditation or evidence of practitioner-level project delivery qualifications (APM’s Project Management Qualification, PRINCE2 Practitioner, MSP, PMI PM Professional or others)
Salary: USD 2,198.28 (Base salary is subject to tax and other statutory deductions)
Position 2: Deputy Country Director SEO, Department for Business and Trade
Essential qualifications, skills and experience
- Postgraduate degree and/or undergraduate degree and other relevant professional qualification
- Experience of supporting businesses to win commercial opportunities.
- Relevant professional work experience in the private sector, or within a private-sector orientated part of Government or International Organisation
- Experience of working in or with government departments, NGOs, and similar institutions
- Proven track record of leadership as well as cross-team collaboration
- Proven client-facing experience, for example with an investment promotion agency or professional services firm.
- Fluency in the language of business and investment
- A positive, resilient, flexible and adaptable “can-do” attitude that can see way through challenges.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, ability to work successfully in multicultural teams and across boundaries, to build networks across the region
- Excellent drafting skills
- Fluency in English and Amharic
Desirable qualifications, skills and experience
- Experience of the following: business development, understanding issues and developing and pursuing strategies together, investment appraisal, deal pipeline preparation, deal brokering, advisory
- Knowledge of the UK and Ethiopian economic and business environment.
- Experience in managing budgets
- Knowledge of the investment services contract and delivery mechanisms
- Knowledge/experience of international development, or a willingness to learn
Salary: USD 2,198.28 (Base salary is subject to tax and other statutory deductions)
Location (City): Addis Ababa
Application deadline: 19 April 2026
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