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About the role:

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

Economic Strategy & Opportunity Development

Continuously scan the economic landscape to identify new opportunities, emerging sectors, and partnership potential relevant to the Ethiopia CP’s strategic priorities and programming areas
Develop and refine the Ethiopia CP’s approach to economic programming, ensuring interventions are grounded in market realities, responsive to emerging opportunities, and positioned for sustainable impact across the portfolio
Lead structured market and sector assessments, translating findings into actionable strategic directions, programme adaptation, and the development of new initiatives across the CP.
Facilitate access to finance for target groups and market actors, brokering relationships with banks, microfinance institutions, and impact investors to develop tailored financial products and instruments.

Strategic Partnerships & Business engagement

Lead the Ethiopia CP’s business engagement and its related partnership agenda
Manage and grow a portfolio of high-value strategic partnerships, ensuring mutual accountability, active co-investment, and commercially sustainable collaboration models.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with TVET institutions, facilitating skills pipelines and employer-linked incubation and placement programmes.
Engage government stakeholders at regional and national levels to secure buy-in, align with policy priorities, and advocate for market-enabling reforms.

Programme Delivery & Technical Oversight

Oversee the quality and coherence of programme delivery across economic and market-facing interventions, working closely with implementing partners and the Consortium or Project Managers.
Provide strategic and technical guidance to partners and field teams, ensuring interventions reflect sound market systems principles and achieve intended outcomes.
Drive youth and women's integration into priority value chains, focusing on value-added participation, distribution roles, and entrepreneurship pathways.
Champion green and climate-smart approaches across value chains, supporting private sector actors in adopting environmentally sustainable practices aligned with national climate commitments.
Identify and test innovative models and approaches, including circular economy and regenerative solutions, that strengthen the commercial and environmental sustainability of interventions.

Monitoring, Adaptation & Reporting

Contribute to the establishment of monitoring frameworks that track both programme delivery performance and strategic partnership milestones.
Lead adaptive management, using data and market intelligence to identify new opportunities and refine the programme's strategic direction.
Prepare high-quality reports and strategic briefs for the Consortium or Project Managers and donors, highlighting progress, emerging opportunities, risks, and recommendations.
Track systemic change indicators, including crowding-in actors, behaviour shifts among market actors, embedded service uptake, and post-project continuation of market functions and use these to inform strategic decisions

Strategic positioning, Influence and Learning

Represent the Ethiopia CP in key external forums, industry events, and policy dialogues, positioning PIN as a credible and strategic actor in economic development, market systems, and inclusive livelihood
Contribute to the Ethiopia CP’s thought leadership, visibility, and strategic positioning, translating programme learning into policy-relevant insights, publications, and advocacy materials.
Facilitate cross-learning across consortium partners and stakeholders, ensuring best practices in market systems and business partnership are shared and embedded.
Actively contribute to new business development, donor engagement, and proposal development, drawing on evidence, partnerships, and market insights from across the CP to pursue new funding opportunities.
Support evidence-based advocacy by translating market insights into actionable policy recommendations, contributing to government and industry dialogues on market-enabling reforms.

Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in economic development, livelihoods, market systems development, private sector engagement, or partnership management
Strong understanding of market systems approaches, inclusive economic development, and private sector partnership models
Demonstrated experience in developing and managing partnerships with private sector actors, financial institutions, investors, and other market stakeholders in Ethiopia
Experience in programme design and implementation, business development, and resource mobilisation, ideally including donor engagement and proposal development
With excellent spoken and written English
Reliable and self-reliant personality with a responsible and systematic approach to work;
Dynamic and result-oriented profile, critical analysis skills;
University degree in a relevant field;

Standard work schedule of 40 hours per week from Monday to Friday
Salary: 1,020 - 1,451 USD (depending on experience)
Per diems for working and Accommodation outside of the duty office depending on the location
Transport Allowance
Bank loan facilities
20 days of paid annual and after 5 years of work an extra paid day for every year
Extra days of paid leaves for selected holidays
Medical insurance, including spouse and children
Accident insurance for all injuries during work time based on the law
Pension contribution of 11 % from PIN
Living cost adjustment allowance
Paternity leave of extra 2 paid days above the mandatory 3 days
Maternity leave according to the law and extra financial motherhood support
Monthly mobile phone hybrid tariff
PIN supports fast career growth and internal mobility
International environment with opportunities to learn from other PIN’s country programs
Extensive Capacity Building program, both internal and external trainings, including the Induction training
Internal online learning opportunities, such as access to PIN’s e-learning platform and webinars