Project Coordinator - SRH Alliance (Raya Alamata)

The SRH Alliance Project Coordinator provides overall regional and woreda level coordination for planning, implementation, and monitoring of the SRH Alliance program in Ethiopia. The role ensures achievement of objectives, quality standards, partnership management, and supports community engagement and capacity building to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the implementation of Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) project activities at regional and woreda levels, ensuring quality delivery, donor compliance, and achievement of project targets.
• Support planning, budgeting, reporting, partnership management, and stakeholder engagement with government institutions, CSOs, and other key partners.
• Provide technical guidance, capacity building, supervision, and support to project staff and implementing partners.
• Oversee monitoring, evaluation, learning, documentation, and evidence generation to promote quality programming and informed decision-making.
• Strengthen collaboration with regional authorities, service providers, academic institutions, and community stakeholders to improve SRH outcomes.
• Ensure the integration of gender equality, youth participation, disability inclusion, safeguarding, and other cross-cutting themes across project activities.
• Represent the project in regional coordination forums, technical working groups, and partnership platforms.
• Support community engagement initiatives, policy influence efforts, and innovative approaches that improve access to quality SRH information and services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Reproductive Health, Sociology, Development studies, or related social science field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in regional project management, especially alliance or consortium programs, with strong sectoral expertise on SRH with good understanding of regional and local contexts.
• Good team player with agility and problem-solving capability.
• Experience of working on complex projects that involves diversified local implementing partners.
• Knowhow of SRH and GBV strategies/policy frameworks, teenage pregnancy roadmap, child marriage, FGM.
• Experience in planning, budget management, delivering trainings.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both orally and in writing is essential.
• Knowledge of Regional Languages is essential.
• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC).
• Ensures staff are properly inducted on safeguarding and GEI policies.
• Ensures embedding of safeguarding and GEI policies in day-to-day work.
• Contributes to Plan International’s global efforts on safeguarding and GEI including reporting and data submission.

Skills

• Project Management
• Alliance Program Management
• Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Gender-Based Violence Strategies
• Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
• Child Marriage Prevention
• Female Genital Mutilation Awareness
• Budget Management
• Training Delivery
• Communications Skills
• Facilitation Skills
• Safeguarding Implementation
• Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
• Consortium Management
• Community Engagement
• Capacity Building
• Regional Context Knowledge
• Data Reporting
• Staff Induction
• Independent Work

Languages

English