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About Saving Lives and Livelihood (SLL) Project
The Saving Lives and Livelihoods (SLL) initiative is a Partnership between the Mastercard Foundation and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). It is designed to save the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Africa and hasten the recovery of economies across Africa. The Program has entered its second phase during which phase the Program will among other activities focus on completing the vaccination of healthcare workers and vulnerable groups; integrating COVID19 vaccinations into routine immunization; preparing countries for the next pandemic particularly through the training and development of community health workers; and strengthening the capacity of Africa CDC as is incidental to delivery of the same. The activities under Phase 2 are a continuation of the activities under Phase 1 and like Phase 1 are intended to maintain and safeguard lives and livelihoods.
Job Summary:
Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia is seeking to hire a Project officer for the Saving Lives and Livelihood (SLL) Phase II project. This position will be based at Oromia region with frequent woredalevel field visits required. The Project officer will report directly to the Project Manager.
Under the supervision of the Project Manager the Project officer will lead the program operations and implementation at the assigned region / cluster or field office level. He/she will serve as the primary contact for the Amref Ethiopia SLL program at the subnational level including the coordination with regional zonal and woreda health offices.
The Project Officer will be responsible for project planning implementation monitoring evaluation and reporting of achievement at the assigned region or cluster. He/she will ensure that the project is delivered on time and meets its requirements through developing a regionallevel acceleration plan daily activity monitoring and guidelines set forth by the Amref Health Africa Africa CDC and the MasterCard Foundation.
- Develop and implement activity operations plan 45
- Prepare a detailed project implementation and operation plan at the regional level
- Ensure project resources are timely availed and activity plans are aligned RHB schedules
- Plan and cascade woreda/ zonal level activities using local government health structures like Immunization related trainings micro plans campaigns and supportive supervision
- Prepare activity TORs advance and participant payments in compliance with approved plans
- Ensuring effective acceleration of the project targets while boosting the burn rate in collaboration with the finance team
- Ensure compliance to logistics procurement finance and communication procedures as per Amref and donor requirements
- Review the implementation work plan regularly with regional and woreda stakeholders
- Ensuring project coordination and networking 30
- Establish strong partnerships and relationships with subnational level health and other sectors
- Ensure the regional health bureau and its lower structures are wellcommunicated and regularly updated about the progress of the project
- Actively network with subnational stakeholders for effective delivery of projectrelated events and platforms
- Undertake regular consultation and collaboration with country office project teams technical assistants and regional/woredalevel EPI focal persons.
- Ensure targeted woreda and health facilities received periodic technical support in collaboration with regional technical TA personnel
- Ensure that field schedules/plans are coordinated and completed timely and give support in the project target zones/woredas under the project managers direction
- Ensure project team (Project Assistants) comply with the project plan with clear deliverables
- Facilitate Monitoring and evaluation of the project 25
- Facilitates and undertakes routine monitoring and evaluation activities in collaboration with the M&E team
- Conduct periodic project review meetings and supervision with local stakeholders
- Facilitate periodic supervision and mentorship at woreda health center and health postlevel
- Document lessons success stories and best practices in collaboration with the Knowledge management team
- Prepare and timely submit periodic quality project reports for internal and government purposes
- Deliver other duties as per directed by project manager
Qualifications :
- Minimum Degree in public health or equivalent education with at least 5 years of work experience in a health and immunizations program
- Experience in coordinating project operations including running intensive training coordinating campaigns collaboratively with woreda local health and community structure
- Experience working in conflictaffected regions including fragile and hardtoreach communities
- Excellent coordination and communication skills;
- Strong monitoring and reporting skills; Ability to work effectively under pressure
- Spoken and written fluency in English Amharic and local language additional advantage
Additional Information :
Your application should include a cover letter detailing why you are the best fit for this position and your CV with relevant skills and experience. Closing date will be on Monday 24 February 2025.
Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any money at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process and has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment. Although Amref may use different job boards from time to time to further spread its reach for applicants all open vacancies are published on our website under the Vacancies page and on our official social media pages. Kindly also note that official emails from Amref Health Africa will arrive from an @amref address.
Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is is dedicated to diversity and is an equalopportunity employer with a nonsmoking environment policy.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
