Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia (HFE) is a world leading organization committed to the treatment and reintegration of patients suffering from Obstetric Fistula and the training and deployment of qualified midwives to prevent Obstetric Fistula and other child birth injuries.

HFE, which was established in 1974 G.C by Drs. Catherine and Reginald Hamlin, has been caring for the women of Ethiopia for almost 60 years. Including our main Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa we have 5 regional Hospitals, Rehabilitation and Reintegration center and The Hamlin College of Midwives. We deploy midwives into rural health centers across the country and provide mentoring and other support services to these facilities.

Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia in collaboration with Stakeholders is going to implement a Partnership program called Woreda by Woreda (W by W) PZ project; to enable Woredas to be free of obstetric Fistula. The W by W program as a pilot will be applied at Oromia Region (Mettu), Buno Bedelle Zone, Didessa Woreda. This W by W strategy will be used to identify historic cases of obstetric fistula and continue to implement quality intervention for prevention of new obstetric fistula cases. For the successful implementation of the program, HFE wants to  employ experienced Midwife Mentors to be part of the program interventions, trainings, and mentorship in the areas as per the given job responsibilities.

Job Summary:

The Mentor will provide strategic and technical leadership by ensuring that proposals and projects are technically appropriate and methodologically sound, adhering to the Hamlin model of Care and the latest global standards of care and practice. Midwife Mentor must have depth and breadth of technical expertise and experience in the delivery of maternal, neonatal, child, and reproductive health services. In addition, this position requires quality improvement approaches as well as current trends in service delivery, training and capacity building approaches that are based on scientific evidence

Major Duties and Responsibilities of Midwife Mentor includes the following, but are not limited to:

• Ensure that the program is technically sound, evidence-based, and responsive to the needs of the countries and applicable donors

• Work in collaboration with the Health Centers where Hamlin Midwives are deployed to support aspects of the strategic direction and leadership of the maternal and child health programming guiding linkages and integration within the overall health sector.

• Conduct meetings with the project team and other HFE staff to provide regular updates on progress of achievements against set targets, program challenges and successes, as well as ways forward for on-going implementation.

• Provide needed technical support for woreda health offices and other stakeholders in the prevention of obstetric fistula, identification and referral of historic fistula patients and facilitate their treatment.

• Actively participate in Fistula Patient Identification Process, in collaboration with patient identification officer and other stakeholders in awareness creation, strengthen the existing referral system, and facilitate their treatment.

• Submit report of prevention project, patient identification and survey of available pregnant women to the Team lead and to other concerned body when necessary.

• Promoting community involvement of midwives’ activities.

• Are Responsible for the implementation and coordination of the project with the project team

• Collaborate with the health extension workers and other involved groups in network creation during recruitment of pregnant women to the cohort.

• Participate in base line assessments and end evaluations of the project

• Travel between health facilities and woreda health office as needed

• Explores best mechanisms and make ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the project

• Ensures best documentation for the project activities

• Perform other related duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Reports to: The Team Lead of Woreda by Woreda Program 

Mode of Employment :Contract for One year.

Number of Candidate: One

Deadline for application: 10 days from the date of announcement.

Gender: Male or Female.

Job Requirements

Education Requirement

• BSc Degree  in Midwifery and/or MSc in maternal and child health related fields

Work Experience

• 4 + years’ experience in managing and coordinating maternal and newborn health system or program.

Key competencies and professional expertise required:

• Excellent skill of computer software packages; previous experience with District Health Information System (DHIS) database packages preferred.

• Fluent in English, Afaan Oromo, Amharic languages and able to communicate with other  local languages is preferred 

• Strong interpersonal, intercultural communication skills, able to work well both within a team and independently under stressful conditions.

• Proven clinical experience, working in the delivery of maternal, and child health service.

• Proven experience in developing and implementing service delivery protocols, norms and standards.

• Ability to coach, train, and mentor teammates from diverse technical and cultural backgrounds in the areas of maternal and newborn health.

• Proven facilitation, team building, and coordination skills.

• Willingness and ability to travel for extensive field trip.

• Proven analytical and strategic planning skills and ability to prepare evidence based reports

• Being an active listener and critical thinker is recommended.

How to Apply

Fill the following form CLIK HERE and Submit via email: hr@hamlinfistula.org to the Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia Human Resources Management Department. For further information contact Tel. +251113716544/ 46. Other than this template, other form of Application Submission is not accepted.

Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia which is located at Kolfe Keraneo Sub City, K. 09, House No. 920; around Torhayloch, Behind the Swiss Embassy (behind Augusta Shirt Factory) Jimma Road Addis Ababa.

 P.O. Box 3609

Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia

(Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital)

NB: Please Note That Only Shortlisted Candidates Will Be Contacted and required to submit copies of non-returnable application CV in hard copy in Person.