Woreda Facilitator

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SNV is a global development partner, deeply rooted in the countries where we operate. We are driven by a vision of a better world: a world where across every society all people live with dignity and have equitable opportunities to thrive sustainably. To make this vision a reality, we need transformations in vital agri-food, energy, and water systems. SNV contributes by strengthening capacities and catalyzing partnerships in these sectors.

We help strengthen institutions and effective governance, reduce gender inequalities and barriers to social inclusion, and enable adaptation and mitigation to the climate and biodiversity crises. Building on 60 years of experience, we support our partners with our technical and process expertise and methodological rigor. We do this in more than 20 countries in Africa and Asia with a team of approximately 1,600 colleagues.

By being adaptable and tailoring our approaches to these different contexts, we can contribute to impact at scale, resulting in more equitable lives for all.

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SNV Ethiopia is recruiting an experienced Woreda Facilitator for Realizing Aspiration of Youth in Ethiopia through Employment (RAYEE II) program in Sidama Region, Eastern Sidama, Bensa Woreda.

Realizing Aspiration of Youth in Ethiopia through Employment (RAYEE II) is a five-year (August 2025 to August 2030 inclusive) youth employment creation project which is being implemented in collaboration with Mastercard Foundation. The program aims to secure 800,000 dignified and fulfilling job opportunities for rural young women. The program will embrace a market system approach in high-potential value chains (horticulture, poultry, dairy and complementary value chains), grounded in seven regional clusters.

It will deliberately integrate Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) transformative approaches and safeguarding mechanisms across all program interventions, empowering young women to secure jobs through initiatives on market and socio-economic barriers and on location-specific gendered root causes.

SNV will implement the program jointly with five other Ethiopian/international NGOs, who will deliver their work in specific clusters. Together, these clusters will integrate technical expertise, and they will support the program’s ecosystem to achieve longer-term systems change for youth employment in agriculture.

The Woreda Facilitator is responsible for providing technical and organizational support to program implementation at the woreda, kebele level and plays a facilitation role in the community and establishes partnerships at woreda and kebele level with one stop service/youth centres and A/TVETs. The role ensures that proper targeting of young women including the disadvantaged groups (persons with Disabilities, returnees, internally displaced groups and others) are made as per the program criteria through active participation of the community and local institutions like One Stop Service Centres (OSSCs) and/or Farmer Training Centres (FTCs).

The position plays key role in the implementation of awareness creation, provision of information on business and employment opportunities to unemployed youth and formation of YSLA, youth Advisory groups and MSEs. She/he will closely work with cluster advisors to ensure the skill development interventions are carried out through selection of appropriate training centres with due consideration of GESI, safeguarding principles and protocols.

She/he will facilitate peer-to-peer coaching and learning process and experience sharing among young women led MSEs to be able to grow their business. She/he will be responsible to provide field level monitoring to ensure the activities are implemented as planned. The woreda facilitator will closely work with zonal coordinator and cluster-level advisors in skills development, agribusiness advisory, market linkage facilitation, financial inclusion, GESI, safeguarding and youth engagement to ensure consistent information sharing and coordinated technical assistance is provided to rural young women led MSMEs, private actors and other service providers within woredas under her/his responsibility.

• Ensures the program criteria for targeting of young women (90%) and disadvantageous groups (5% with persons Disabilities and 5% others like returnees and internally displaced groups) is followed and implemented
• Closely work with one stop service centres and woreda and kebele level taskforces for the identification of unemployed youth through active…