Company Description
Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest African-based international health development organisation; currently implementing more than 180 programs, reaching more than 40 million people across 35 African countries; and a staff complement of over 2,000. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa has offices in ten countries in Africa – Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea (Conakry), Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. An additional eleven advocacy and fundraising offices are located in Europe and North America.
Amref Health Africa is driven by its vision of ‘Lasting health change in Africa’ and its mission ‘To catalyze and drive community-led and people-centred health systems while addressing social determinants of health’. We believe that the power to transform Africa’s health lies within its communities, and therefore strive to ensure that health systems are not only functional but that communities are empowered to hold these systems accountable for the delivery of quality and affordable health care.
Job Description
Job Summary:
Under the supervision of the Project Manager, the Project Assistant will support the day-to-day management and technical implementation of the GBV and MHPSS Project. The primary responsibility of this role is to ensure the timely achievement of specific project deliverables and targets by planning, coordinating, implementing, and supervising field-level activities. The Project Assistant will work closely with the Project Officer to implement activities related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services (MHPSS), with a focus on mitigating the impact of these issues within the community. The role involves direct engagement with community-based structures and local stakeholders, with frequent travel to operational kebeles.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Developing Project Activity Work Plans:
- Prepare implementation work plans that align with the overall project strategy.
- Submit plans for approval to ensure alignment with the Project Officer and Project Manager.
- Review and update the implementation work plan regularly.
- Conduct needs assessments with project beneficiaries.
- Collect necessary information from partners.
- Ensure resource availability for timely activity implementation.
- Prepare budgets according to current prices.
- Ensuring the Implementation of Project Activities:
- Develop and adapt reporting formats to collect relevant grassroots-level information.
- Collect and compile periodic reports.
- Document best practices from community-level implementation.
- Facilitate training sessions for target groups.
- Organize community conversations and ensure proper follow-up on their implementation.
- Actively engage in community-based mental health and GBV interventions.
- Ensure beneficiaries are supported by microenterprise and related sector offices.
- Facilitate implementation activities with supporting partners.
- Develop and adapt relevant community-based materials to support field activities.
- Manage necessary payments (preparing schedules, payment sheets, attendance sheets, etc.).
- Monitor partner activities based on MOUs.
- Monitoring and Evaluating the Program:
- Conduct monthly and quarterly review meetings with cooperative groups and stakeholders.
- Carry out site supportive supervision in collaboration with health and women social affair offices.
- Ensuring Timely and Accurate Reporting:
- Collect, compile, summarize, and submit monthly, quarterly, and annual activity reports in a timely manner.
Duty Station: Asayita, Afar
Qualifications
- BSC/BA degree in public health, psychology , social work or a related field, with at least 4 years of work experience.
- Experience in coordinating interventions related to GBV and mental health in communities affected by crises, with a minimum of 1 years required.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in Afar language for Afar region
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 Tuesday, 16 May 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.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 is dedicated to diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer with a non-smoking environment policy.
More Information
- Address Asayita, Ethiopia
- Qualification BA/BSc
