Under the general direction of the SMART START SCALE-UP & DMPA SC SI Project Manager, the Cluster Officer is responsible for ensuring the project implementation of the SMART START SCALE-UP project at the Woreda level. He/She is responsible for strategy and detailed activities implementation at the woreda level in congruence with the SMART START SCALE UP project plan and donor requirements. He/She is the field level FGAE’s contact person for the Woreda’s public health facilities (Health Centres & Health Posts). He/she works with the woredas to ensure SMART START SCALE-UP & DMPA SC SI project work plan implementation, monitoring, and reporting.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Coordinates SMART START SCALE-UP & DMPA SC SI Project activities in the assigned project areas/woredas;

• Under the close supervision of the areas office and Project Manager at the head office, the cluster officer plans, implements, and supervises the performance of the woredas and health facilities under them;

• Conducts facility gap assessment prior to the initiation of partnership with potential facilities to be clustered and, as may be required, develops follow-up action in discussion with his immediate supervisor and partners to address gaps identified;   

• Provide technical mentoring and management support to the woredas’ facilities under him/her; 

• Works with the project manager to plan the training of clustered facility providers on SMART START, DMPA SC SI, Data Quality, and others. The manager also follows up on the initiation of SMART START SCALE-UP & DMPA SC SI activities following the training of providers. 

• Exercises a closer look at the availability of trained providers in each of the facilities in his/her woreda’s facilities and communicates with his supervisor on the event that trained providers resign for planning replacement through training;   

• Liaise with the Woreda level project partners, including local administrations, women, children, and sport affairs offices, health offices, etc, so as to garner support for the smooth execution of project activities; 

• Review performance with facility-level service providers, Health Extension workers, community representatives, etc, for enhanced communication with target audiences and to boost their service uptake; 

• Ensures that data-capturing tools and systems are available and properly used at woreda’s facility levels;   

• Follows up closely to ensure that QOC standards are met by clustered facilities. Adheres to the requirements of the QoC guideline to ensure that self-assessments are done, 

• Follows up to make sure that planned action items developed following self and external assessments and supportive supervision visits are addressed by those who are responsible, as indicated in the action plan. 

• Makes sure that health facilities report adverse events timely in line with QOC standards. 

• Collects, consolidates, analyzes, and shares the data captured at the facility level to the SMART START SCALE-UP & DMPA SC SI  project’s Senior M and E officer at the area office; 

• Prepares and submits periodic programmatic reports about his/her woredas’ performance to the START SCALE-UP & DMPA SC SI Project Manager.

• Closely works with clusters in his designated Woredas for designing culturally acceptable, gender specific community mobilization strategies and referral systems to enhance SRH service up take;     

• Closely monitor and support targeted public health facilities to make sure that they don’t run out of stock of FP and other supplies and commodities;

• Provides support and implement planned activities in line with agreed manuals, policies, standards guidance he/she receives from his immediate supervisor;

• Collects and documents practices and lessons and share to the START SCALE-UP & DMPA SC SI Project Manager.

• Perform other duties as assigned by its immediate supervisor.

Job Requirements

Qualifications:

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

• MPH/MSc/BSc 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2 Years’ experience for MPH/MSc or 4 years for BSc after graduation, shall possess Extensive experience in same or similar position in the NGO sector or public/private /hospital/Health centres or SRH clinics

Skills:-

• Good team player and willing to work extra hours; 

• Energetic and enthusiastic to work and willing to travel to project sites as may be required;

• Advice on appropriate intervention, ability to design models and implement program review and evaluation; ability to make logical and timely decisions 

• Familiarity with key national and donor organizations SRH/Family Planning programs and services;

• Familiarity and experience with mentoring, networking and partnership development.

OTHER PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Supportive; 

• Pleasant and polite attitude; 

• Ability to act as part of multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team; 

• Dynamic and highly self -motivated; 

• Able to work with minimal supervision and ability to withstand pressure 

• Good communication and Interpersonal skills

Attitude and Values:

• The candidate must adhere to the safeguarding reporting and monitoring requirements of this role

• The candidate must be pro-choice

• Analytical, resourceful, organized, patient but persistent, detail- and solution-oriented, and able to work collaboratively across teams.

How to Apply

Interested applicants should send no-returnable applications with CV, copies of credentials, and other supporting documents within 10 calendar days of this announcement to the following address:-

Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia, North West Area Office

P.O. Box: 174, Bahir Dar

Or

Apply through THIS LINK

You can apply also in person by presenting your CV & the necessary documents to Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia , NWAO Area Office, Bahir Dar, Gondar & Debre Markos

Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia is an equal opportunity employer and female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.

For more information about the Association, Please visit www.fgaeet.org (http:/www.fgaeet.org/)