Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 31 Oct 2017
Link Community Development Ethiopia is recruiting a Programme Officer Gender and Adolescence to co-ordinate implementation of LCD Ethiopia’s programmes in Wolaita Zone with a specific focus on Gender and Adolescence. Based full-time in Wolaita Soddo, the successful candidate will work as part of the LCD programme team supporting school improvement, girls’ education and language competence across 126 schools and four woredas in partnership with the Regional Education Bureau and Wolaita Zone Education Department.
Key accountabilities include:
· Coordinate delivery of 'Girls Reading to Learn' project output with 4 woredas and up to 139 schools, with a focus on:
* Access to academic, social-emotional, ‘basic needs’, life skills and hygiene inputs
* Better opportunities for girls to catch-up on missed learning
* Improved wellbeing, self-esteem, and self-confidence
· Responsibility for following activities: Cost-effective tutorial programme; Life skills, financial literacy & careers advice; Provision of uniform, textbooks, stationery & bursaries for vulnerable secondary girls; Sanitary packs, SRH advice; Social Emotional Learning: Guidance & Counselling ; Mentoring via alumni networks & Role Models; Gender Clubs and Girls’ Clubs; Training in SRGBV / reporting mechanisms Awards for high-performing girls
· Work closely with 4 woreda office heads and all cluster supervisors to ensure output delivery as per workplan and report on implementation progress to Programme Manager
· Coordinate and oversee woreda and school level training and all capacity building aspects of output
· Coordinate and oversee resource production, distribution and usage
· Responsible for ensuring girls receive materials that the project offers at the appropriate time and that remaining materials are stored and carefully monitored
· Reporting to LCDE Programme Manager regarding all aspects of output 4 implementation
· Foster positive working relationships with Wolaita Zone Education Department, four woreda education offices, schools and communities (in consultation with Programme Manager).
· Participate in Project Management committee meetings
· Work very closely with LCDE F&A team to ensure effective and timely monthly payments of service deliveries at school level
How to apply:
Applicants must complete a form. Forms can be obtained from www.lcdinternational.org/jobs-volunteering. Please submit completed application forms to lcd@lcdethiopia.org. Closing date for applications:**5pm, 31/10/2017**