Internal & External Vacancy Announcement
INTRODUCTION
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Save the Children is an organization for talented people with different backgrounds and perspectives. We are proud that our people are representative of the children we work with and we thrive on our diversity. We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity. Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behavior towards children both in their private and professional lives.
Save the Children, offers sound employment conditions with opportunities for personal growth and development. If you are interested to work in an organization that is determined to achieve dramatic change for the most vulnerable children, we encourage you to look through the job profile below.
Job Title | Reproductive / Family planning/ Project officer |
Code | SCI/SWH/010/18 |
Place of Work | Bale Zone-Robe |
Program/Unit | RESET II |
Monthly Salary in ETB | As per the scale of the organization |
No. of Positions | 02 |
Length of Contract | One year (with possible Extension) |
ROLE PURPOSE:
The job holder will be responsible for the successful implementation of the EU funded “Family Planning for Resilience Building amongst youth and women in drought prone and chronically food insecure areas of Bale zone” project at Woreda level and ensure linkage and integration with RESET II program. This will include working closely with RESET II program team, Woreda sector offices and other stakeholders. The project officer will ensure proper project operations in a timely fashion.
The position is under the line management of the RESET II health & Nutrition project manager and is directly reporting to this post. This post has direct coordination role of all program activities at Woreda level and closely works with RESET II program team, key government sector offices and other stakeholders in order to get project activities performed appropriately so as to contribute in achieving the organizational goal and objectives.
JOB SPECIFIC ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1 Specific tasks:
· Oversees the implementation of family planning project at Woreda level and ensuring that the quality standards are met.
· Ensures effective, management, implementation, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of the RESET II project family planning activities in areas assigned by the FOs.
· Contribute to strengthening multi-sector coordination for better access to quality SRH/FP services in RESET II consortium and implementing Woredas
· Ensures quality SRH/FP services, availability and accessibility to women, adolescents and youth in all targeted health facilities
· Ensures that capacity of women, youth and adolescent boys and girls empowered to make informed SRH and FP decisions in implementation areas
· Participating in family planning and /SRH project assessments as required.
· Ensure for production and distribution of appropriate and culturally sensitive IEC/BCC materials
· Ensure proper preparation of key messages to be propagated via local radio that can improve community’s awareness on FP/SRH and increase demand on services for FP/SRH
· Conducts regular field visits to health posts and health centres to provide supportive supervision to the project.
· Provides technical support on Family planning project for government woreda MNCH coordinator and health extension workers.
· Ensures indicators for quality implementation of family planning project services are met at health facilities
· Increases demand and providing quality service on consolidated family planning practices
· Strengthen the link between family planning, gender and resilience
· Assist operational research to show the importance of mainstreaming family planning into resilience interventions in project areas
· Ensures that the health staff, HEWs and HDAs, have adequate training on FP/RSH to integrated with all RESET II intervention
· Mentors and provides on-job training for health professionals and HEWs on FP/SRH
· Create and maintain a smooth relationship with partners and other authorities, and try to link program with the existing health structure smoothly,
· Support and facilitate the availability of family planning commodities in a timely manner,
· Performs other related tasks as required by immediate supervisor
2. Other KPIs:
· Providing orientations on Child Safeguarding for partners and project beneficiaries;
· Ensure timely reporting of any suspected/concerns on fraud and child safeguarding issues;
· Ensure timely reporting of the security situations in program implementation area;
· Ensure child participation in project monitoring and evaluation through invitation for meetings, joint supervision, workshops etc.;
· Ensure for complaint are appropriately received and responded timely;
· Ensure for consistent reporting of any humanitarian situations in project implementation area;
3. Reporting:
· Organizes monthly project progress report and report on time to the line manager and provides updates when needed
· Provides a regular monthly overview of supplies and drug stock;
· Monthly basis produce activities conducted on child safeguarding and report to line/project managers;
· Monthly basis produces humanitarian situation report and submit line/project managers;
· Monthly basis produce complaints received and managed and report to line/project managers;
· Prepare and submit regular activities achieved on child participation in project implementation, monitoring and evaluation and report to line manager’s/project manager;
Prepare and submit feedback reports submitted to partners;
MINIMUM QUALFICATION, EXPEREINCE, COMPETENCIES
Desirable
Ø Qualified Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply
COMPETENCIES
SC Values are: Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity. To meet the value system the post holder is expected to demonstrate the following Competencies on ongoing bases ( this varies according to the position please consider the below as example)
Delivering result: Takes personal responsibility and holds others to account to deliver our ambitious goals for children, continually improving own performance or that of the team/ organisation.
Applying technical and professional expertise: Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest standards; promotes and shares best practice within and outside the organisation.
Working effectively with others Works collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people and perspectives; knows when to lead and when to follow and how to ensure effective cross-boundary working.