, Addis Ababa
Pathfinder International Ethiopia
Overview of Pathfinder International: Pathfinder International is a global leader in sexual and reproductive health. We place reproductive health care at the center of all that we do—believing that it is not only a fundamental human right, but is critical for expanding life opportunities for women, families, communities, and nations, and paving the way for transformations in environmental stewardship, decreases in population pressures, and innovations in poverty reduction. Pathfinder provides women, men, and adolescents with a range of quality health services—from contraception and maternal care to HIV prevention and AIDS care and treatment. Pathfinder strives to strengthen access to family planning, advocate for sound reproductive health policies, and, through all of our work, improve the rights and lives of the people we serve. Project overview: Currently, Pathfinder Ethiopia is preparing for an upcoming project opportunity aimed at supporting adolescent girls to achieve a healthy transition into an adulthood. The project would be implemented jointly by Pathfinder Ethiopia and Care Ethiopia in Amhara, Oromia, and Tigray regions. Pathfinder would have lead responsibility for activities in Amhara region, South Gondar Zone, in five woredas: Ebinat, Libo Kemkem, Tache Gayint, Lay Gayint and Simada. Pathfinder will lead responsibility in Tigray, with exact zones to be determined in the future. Job Summary/Position Summary: Under the guidance and close supervision of the Country Project Manager and with technical support of the Pathfinder International-Ethiopia country office team, the System Strengthening Officer is principally responsible for aligning and integrating project strategies and activities with existing systems, including women and child affairs, health, education and others, with which adolescents interact. The purpose is to sustain the program as part of larger country responses, and to create additional system capacity for adolescent-friendly services alongside existing strategies, policies and programs. This work will be an integral part of larger project efforts focusing on research uptake and making policy and program recommendations based on project findings and evidence, and in this capacity the Systems Strengthening Officer will work hand-in-hand with global project, partner organization and country office teams. Duties and Responsibilities: Work with multi-sectoral, multi-ministry systems responsible for delivering services to adolescent girls to promote close coordination across the ministries at national, regional, and district level and activate referral systems for adolescents to access a range of services that they want or needSupport adolescent girls to engage in processes to hold the government accountable for adolescent-responsive systems and the provision of key services for adolescentsProvide input to the Country Project Manager in the development of annual plans and budgets ensuring there is proper allocation of resources for system strengthening activitiesTravel throughout the region to provide technical assistance to systems representatives and project staff at the Zonal, Woreda and Kebele levelsBuilds the capacities of project woreda coordinators and kebeles supervisors advance systems strengthening efforts in line with project prioritiesHelps in the assessment of the project performance of the woreda and zone from quarterly reports in collaboration with M&E OfficerStrengthen networks and partnership in the Zone and attend relevant government and partners’ meetings to further develop collaboration among different stakeholders and conduct systems strengthening activities  Develop project reports and proposals that are coming from woredas and zone and make sure the planned activities are accomplished and provide the necessary feedback.Strengthen project networking and represent the organization in relevant government and partners’ meetings Performs other related duties and responsibilities assigned by the immediate supervisor Opportunity: Adolescent Health ProjectReports to:   Country Project Manager