Job title: Project Assistant – SRH Next Alliance Project
Location: Chifra, Afar Region, Ethiopia
Employment type: Full-time
Company Description
Amref Health Africa, founded in 1957, is the largest African-based international health development organisation. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref implements programmes across 35 African countries, reaching more than 40 million people, with a strong operational presence in Africa and advocacy and fundraising offices in Europe and North America.
Guided by its vision of lasting health change in Africa, Amref’s mission is to catalyse community-led, people-centred health systems and address the social determinants of health. Amref believes sustainable health transformation is driven from within communities and works to strengthen health systems while empowering communities to demand and access quality, affordable healthcare.
Job Description
I. Job Summary
The Project Assistant will support day-to-day implementation of the SRH Next Alliance Project at field level, working closely with local government structures, health facilities, schools, youth and women-led groups, community actors, and project partners. The role will contribute to improving access to quality, youth-friendly, gender-responsive and disability-inclusive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and information, while strengthening community engagement, referral systems, accountability and local coordination.
The Project Assistant will also support routine monitoring, documentation, reporting, activity logistics and follow-up of agreed actions across the assigned woredas. Frequent field travel is an essential part of the position.
II. Project Context
The Ethiopian SRH Next Alliance, led by Plan Ethiopia and comprising six organizations, focuses on urgent SRH needs in Amhara, Tigray and Afar. The project prioritizes equitable, gender-responsive, disability-inclusive and youth-friendly services, local leadership, youth and women-led civil society organizations, stronger accountability, and coordinated action.
Its three core outcome areas are: (1) increased availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of SRH services; (2) increased access to and use of comprehensive, age-appropriate and disability-inclusive SRH information and education; and (3) a stronger enabling environment for the SRH of women, young people and marginalized groups.
III. Roles and Responsibilities
A. Project implementation and field coordination
- Support planning, organization and implementation of approved project activities in the assigned duty station and woredas, in line with workplans, budgets, technical guidance and Amref procedures.
- Maintain regular working relationships with woreda health offices, health facilities, schools, youth structures, women- and youth-led organizations, community leaders and other relevant stakeholders.
- Assist with coordination of meetings, trainings, dialogues, community events, outreach activities and review sessions, including participant mobilization, venue and material preparation, attendance documentation and action tracking.
- Conduct frequent field visits to assigned implementation sites and provide timely follow-up on agreed actions, implementation bottlenecks and emerging needs.
- Support conflict-sensitive and context-adaptive implementation, and promptly communicate access, operational or security concerns to the supervisor.
B. Support to youth-friendly SRHR services and referral pathways
- Support health facilities and local stakeholders in the establishment, strengthening and routine follow-up of youth-friendly, confidential and integrated SRH service delivery arrangements, including youth-friendly service corners where applicable.
- Assist project teams to organize capacity-strengthening activities for SRH service providers on respectful, non-judgmental, adolescent- and gender-responsive, disability-inclusive and survivor-centred care.
- Support mobile and community outreach activities intended to reach remote, marginalized, out-of-school and conflict-affected adolescents and young people.
- Facilitate and follow up functional referral linkages among SRH, HIV/STI, SGBV response, psychosocial support, legal aid and other relevant services, in accordance with approved project approaches and safeguarding requirements.
- Support youth and community feedback mechanisms, service monitoring and other accountability activities aimed at identifying and addressing service gaps.
C. SRHR information, education and youth engagement
- Support peer education, structured youth dialogue, safe-space and youth club activities, including linkages between education activities and youth-friendly services.
- Assist schools and community structures in implementing approved age-appropriate SRH education activities, including relevant life-skills and menstrual health components.
- Support dissemination and use of approved SRH information through project channels, including digital and community-based approaches, while ensuring content is appropriate, inclusive and consistent with project guidance.
- Promote meaningful participation of adolescents and young people, including girls, young women, persons with disabilities and other marginalized groups, throughout activity planning, implementation and feedback processes.
- Support engagement of parents, caregivers, boys and men, religious leaders, elders and community influencers in dialogue activities designed to address harmful social and gender norms and strengthen acceptance of SRH.
D. Monitoring, documentation and reporting
- Collect, verify and organize routine project monitoring information, attendance records, activity reports, referral follow-up information and other required documentation using approved tools.
- Support timely data entry and submission to project information systems and contribute to data quality checks in coordination with the project and MEAL teams.
- Prepare concise field updates, activity reports, case examples, lessons learned and implementation challenges for review by the supervisor.
- Maintain well-organized electronic and hard-copy project files and ensure supporting documents are complete and retrievable.
- Contribute to periodic review meetings by presenting field-level progress, gaps and follow-up actions, and support documentation of good practices and learning.
E. Operational and administrative support
- Support preparation of activity requests, participant lists, logistical arrangements, procurement follow-up and settlement documentation in accordance with Amref procedures and assigned responsibilities.
- Coordinate closely with finance, logistics, administration and program colleagues to facilitate timely implementation of field activities.
- Use project resources responsibly and support proper documentation, custody and distribution of project materials and supplies.
- Perform other project-related duties reasonably assigned by the supervisor that are consistent with the purpose and level of the position.
Qualifications
IV. Job Requirements and Qualifications
Educational background
- Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Nursing, Midwifery, Health Promotion, Sociology, Social Work, Development Studies or another relevant field.
Experience
- At least two years of relevant experience supporting community-based health, SRH, adolescent/youth, gender, protection or development projects; experience in NGO-supported programming is an advantage.
- Practical experience working with local government structures, health facilities, schools, community organizations and/or youth groups is highly desirable.
- Experience supporting field monitoring, documentation, basic data management, training/event organization and report preparation.
Technical and functional skills
- Good understanding of adolescent and youth SRH, youth-friendly services, gender equality, inclusion and community engagement principles.
- Ability to communicate respectfully and effectively with adolescents, young people, service providers, government counterparts and community leaders.
- Basic competence in data collection, record keeping, report writing and use of MS Office applications.
- Strong organization, follow-up, problem-solving and time-management skills.
- Ability to work independently in field settings while maintaining close communication with the project team.
- Commitment to confidentiality, safeguarding, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, and respectful conduct when working with young people and vulnerable groups.
V. Additional Requirements
- Willingness and ability to undertake frequent travel within the assigned project woredas and, when required, to other project locations.
- Ability to work effectively in dynamic and potentially insecure operating environments and to comply with Amref safety and security procedures and alerts.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team and maintain a non-partisan, professional approach.
- Results-oriented, accountable and responsive to feedback, with a constructive attitude under pressure.
- Demonstrated respect for diversity, gender equality, disability inclusion and the rights and dignity of adolescents and young people.
VI. Language Skills
- Good written and spoken English.
- Fluency in the relevant local language(s) of the assigned duty station is strongly preferred.
VII. Duty Station and Travel Expectations
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 Thursday, 29 October 2026.
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.org 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 dedicated to diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer with a non-smoking environment policy.