This role is subject to funding
The starting salary package for this position is £80,786 GBP / approx. $106,800 USD including all allowances.
About MAG:
MAG (Mines Advisory Group) is an international humanitarian organisation based in Manchester, UK, and working in 32 countries. We remove landmines and unexploded ordnance to release safe and productive land for communities, and work to reduce the threat of armed violence by supporting governments to safely manage weapons and ammunition. In 1997, MAG was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for our work campaigning for the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention.
About the role:
Reporting to the Country Director, you will lead and implement all aspects of technical humanitarian mine action operations and related tasks in our Ethiopia programme, in accordance with our Standard Operating Procedures, policies, and mandate. You will train, assess, monitor, and manage staff carrying out technical operations to ensure safe practice and effective capacity building for local humanitarian mine action activities. You will act as a representative for MAG, and will also support the Country Director with the development of project plans, strategy, proposals and budgets. You will ensure the overall safe execution of all MAG technical activities within the country of operation.
About the Ethiopia programme:
MAG is establishing a growing humanitarian mine action programme addressing extensive explosive ordnance contamination in northern Ethiopia, particularly in Tigray. The programme is already operational, delivering Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) through national partners to reach conflict-affected communities with life-saving information while strengthening local capacity.
MAG is now entering a critical scale-up phase, expanding into clearance, survey, and community liaison activities. Planned operations include multi-task clearance teams conducting non-technical and technical survey, EOD, marking, and clearance of high-impact areas such as farmland, residential zones, and key access routes, alongside continued EORE and targeted capacity development. MAG is working in close partnership with the Ethiopian Mine Action Office (EMAO) and national organisations to build technical and operational capacity, supporting progressive localisation and a transition towards nationally led mine action.
Operating in a complex post-conflict environment, the programme combines immediate life-saving interventions with longer-term recovery outcomes—enabling safe returns, restoring livelihoods, and integrating mine action within broader humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding efforts. This is a dynamic and technically demanding programme at an early but rapidly expanding stage, offering a unique opportunity to shape operations and deliver high-impact mine action in a complex context.
