With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience the fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!
The AU Advocacy and External Engagement Graduate Intern will provide administrative, research, planning, note-taking, and policy analysis support.
The role is aligned with the African Union Liaison Office Partnership Strategy and aligned with the objectives of the MoU signed between the AU.
Position 1: Technical Lead/WASH/
Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification
- Master’s degree in a relevant technical discipline (e.g., Public Health, Education, Agriculture, Social Work, International Development).
Required Professional Experience
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in technical leadership roles within international development or humanitarian contexts.
- Proven track record in resource mobilisation and donor engagement, with experience leading technical input for large, competitive proposals.
- Demonstrated expertise in:
- Technical strategy development
- Program quality assurance and evidence-based programming
- Innovation and adaptive management
- Localisation and systems strengthening
- Strong external representation and negotiation skills with donors, government, and global networks.
- Excellent leadership, people management, and communication skills
- Strong understanding of Ethiopian policies, strategies, and regulatory requirements.
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and manage diverse teams.
- Strong report writing, analytical, and presentation skills in English.
Required Language(s)
- Amharic
- English
Required travel and/or work environment accommodations
- Based in Addis Ababa or project location, with frequent travel to field offices and project sites.
- Regular external engagement with donors, government, UN agencies, and INGO consortia.
- Willingness to travel internationally as required.
- Field conditions may include challenging terrains, limited infrastructure, and security-sensitive areas.
- Extended hours may be required during donor submissions, evaluations, or emergency responses.
- Role requires strong representation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills in diverse settings.
Preferred Experience, Knowledge and/or Key Competencies
- Be Safe and Resilient
- Build Relationships
- Learn and Develop
- Partner and Collaborate
- Deliver Results
- Be Accountable
- Improve and Innovate
- Embrace Change
- Proven track record of securing and managing large-scale donor funding (bilateral, multilateral, foundations, corporates, and private donors).
- Demonstrated success in working collaboratively with Resource Acquisition and Management (RAM) teams to design and win complex, multi-sectoral proposals.
- Experience representing an organisation at high-level donor forums, technical working groups, and multi-stakeholder platforms.
- Previous experience leading technical teams across multiple sectors (Health & Nutrition, WASH, Education, Livelihoods, Child Protection, Gender, Climate/Environment, Faith and Development).
- Experience in fragile, conflict-affected, or complex humanitarian-development nexus contexts
- Strong understanding of donor priorities and funding modalities (USAID/BHA, FCDO, EU, UN agencies, World Bank, GAC, foundations, corporates).
- In-depth knowledge of program quality standards, evidence-based approaches, and innovation in development and humanitarian programming.
- Familiarity with localisation frameworks, partnership models, and systems-strengthening approaches.
- Applied knowledge of cross-cutting themes: gender equality, safeguarding, conflict sensitivity, faith and development, do no harm, social inclusion, and climate resilience.
- Solid grounding in monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) and its use for acquisition and adaptive management.
Place of Work: Addis Ababa
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Position 2: Senior Gender Advisor
Required Education, training, license, registration, and/or Certification
- University degree at least M.Sc. in gender and related field of study.
- Training and deeper knowledge in gender
- Training in publication & developing story
Required Professional Experience
- At least 7 years working experience in leading reducing environmental shocks, improving livelihoods, and innovatively empowering rural women and girls
- Must have deeper understanding of RESILIENT WE project
- Must have a clear understanding of major donors’ perspectives, requirements and standards
- Must have proven analytical/ problem solving abilities Last updated: June 2024
- Familiarity with standard gender analysis framework is an asset.
- Verifiable proven research experience in gender and rural development Excellent communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, with the ability to work with diverse teams.
- Strong report writing, analytical, and presentation skills in English.
Required Language(s)
- Amharic
- English
Required travel and/or work environment accommodations \
- Based in Addis Ababa HO, with 20% travel to project sites.
- Regular external engagement with WFP, partner NGO, Private sector and government
- Field conditions may include challenging terrains, limited infrastructure, and security-sensitive areas.
- Extended hours may be required during report submissions and whenever required.
Preferred Experience, Knowledge and/or Key Competencies
- We prefer to replace the position from WVIE internal staff since RESILIENT WE project is on its last year & left with 9 months as it will be ending March 31st, 2027. Bringing staff outside WVIE would not add value to the project at its final year.
- Excellent interpersonal skills – builds good relationships with internal and external stakeholders and maintain effective collaboration with all staff.
- If possible, WV’s experiences on Gender Transformative development projects/programs
- Excellent skill in producing quality & timely report
- Appropriate skills and experience in the gender-based capacity building and training of staff and partners;
- Rich experience in handling productive meeting Rich experience communication good knowledge of oral and written English language.
Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Deadline : June 26th, 2026