Senior Mentor (2 Positions)

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

CCRDA Global Fund GC7 HIV Prevention Program

Position: Senior Mentor

Number Required: Two (2); One (1) position – Hawassa & One (1) position – Addis Ababa

Employment Type: Full-time

Reports To: Implementing Partner Project Manager, with technical oversight from CCRDA

Duration: 10 Months, renewable based on performance and project availability

Salary: As per the organization’s salary scale

Job Purpose

CCRDA is implementing Senior High Risk Adolescent Girls and Young Women (HR-AGYW) mentorship interventions across 22 universities, with a designated mentor assigned to each university. The Senior HR-AGYW Mentors will provide technical support and oversight to the university-based mentors within their assigned cluster, strengthen the quality and consistency of mentorship services, support performance monitoring and learning, and ensure effective implementation of approved HR-AGYW HIV prevention interventions.

The Senior HR-AGYW Mentor will provide technical leadership, mentorship, coaching and supportive supervision for the implementation of HIV prevention interventions targeting HR-AGYW in higher learning institutions and other program settings.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Mentorship

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to HR-AGYW mentors assigned to universities within the designated program cluster.
• Support implementation of HR-AGYW HIV prevention interventions across the assigned universities.
• Provide regular coaching, mentoring and supportive supervision to university-based mentors.
• Support mentors to effectively apply approved mentorship models, curricula, session guides and program tools.
• Promote consistent, high-quality and beneficiary-centered delivery of HR-AGYW interventions.
• Identify technical and implementation challenges and provide practical solutions.
• Support mentors to document good practices, innovations and lessons learned.

Supportive Supervision and Quality Improvement

• Conduct regular supportive supervision visits to assigned universities.
• Review the quality of mentorship sessions, activities and documentation.
• Assess implementation against approved program standards, plans and targets.
• Identify gaps in program quality, mentor performance and service delivery and support development of corrective actions.
• Follow up implementation of agreed improvement actions.
• Provide technical feedback and coaching based on supervision findings.
• Contribute to continuous quality improvement of the HR-AGYW mentorship program.

Program Monitoring and Performance Management

• Monitor implementation progress and achievement of HR-AGYW program targets and indicators across assigned universities.
• Review mentor activity reports, session records, referral documentation and other program reports.
• Support mentors to maintain accurate, complete and timely program documentation.
• Identify performance gaps and emerging implementation issues and recommend appropriate corrective measures.
• Support data quality improvement and timely reporting.
• Contribute to routine program performance reviews and analysis.
• Support documentation and dissemination of program results, lessons learned and good practices.

Coordination and Referral/Linkage

• Coordinate with higher learning institutions, implementing partners, university-based mentors and relevant health facilities.
• Strengthen collaboration between mentors, university structures and HIV prevention and health service providers.
• Support effective referral and linkage of HR-AGYW to appropriate HIV prevention, testing, treatment, care, psychosocial and other relevant services.
• Participate in  review meetings, coordination meetings, supportive supervision activities and learning events.
• Facilitate timely communication and resolution of implementation issues between university mentors, implementing partners and CCRDA.

Capacity Building

• Identify capacity-building needs of university-based HR-AGYW mentors.
• Organize and facilitate training, coaching, mentoring and experience-sharing sessions for mentors.
• Support mentors to strengthen facilitation, communication, coaching and beneficiary engagement skills.
• Develop or adapt practical learning and mentoring materials in line with approved tools.
• Promote peer learning and exchange of good practices among university-based mentors.

Community and Beneficiary-Centered Programming

• Promote meaningful participation, dignity, confidentiality and respectful engagement of HR-AGYW throughout program implementation.
• Support mentors to identify barriers affecting access to HIV prevention information and services.
• Encourage appropriate use of beneficiary feedback to improve mentorship and program quality.
• Promote safeguarding, confidentiality and appropriate referral mechanisms within HR-AGYW activities.
• Ensure mentors understand and comply with relevant safeguarding, PSEA and program accountability requirements.

Partner Resource Mobilization and Sustainability

• Support implementing partners to identify opportunities for resource mobilization to sustain and strengthen HR-AGYW mentorship interventions.
• Provide technical input to partners in developing concept notes, proposals and funding applications related to adolescent girls and young women HIV prevention programming.
• Support partners to document programme achievements, evidence and lessons learned for use in resource mobilization and donor engagement.
• Identify potential partnerships and opportunities for collaboration with relevant institutions, development partners and other stakeholders.
• Contribute to development of sustainability and resource mobilization strategies for HR-AGYW mentorship activities.
• Support partners to strengthen their capacity to communicate programme results and demonstrate value to potential funders and partners.

Reporting, Learning and Documentation

• Prepare regular technical and supervision reports for the implementing partner and CCRDA.
• Consolidate key findings, challenges, achievements and recommendations from assigned universities.
• Support documentation of lessons learned, promising practices and program innovations.
• Contribute to program review reports, learning activities and performance improvement plans.
• Ensure timely communication of critical implementation issues requiring management or technical attention.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and  Public Health with HIV Multisectoral response exposure
• Minimum 4 years of relevant professional experience in HIV prevention, adolescent and youth programming, mentorship, community health or related areas.
• Demonstrated experience working with adolescent girls and young women, youth or key/high-risk population HIV prevention program is highly desirable.
• Experience providing technical mentorship, coaching, supportive supervision or capacity building to program staff or peer mentors.
• Experience working with higher learning institutions, youth program or community-based HIV prevention interventions is an advantage.
• Experience in program monitoring, reporting and data quality improvement.
• Strong interpersonal, coaching, facilitation, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with universities, implementing partners, health facilities and program teams.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple institutions and competing priorities.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly within assigned program areas.