Economic Programming and Private Business Partnerships Advisor

About the role:

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

Main Requirements:

• 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;

We offer:

• 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