Job opportunities at Hamlin Fistula (HFE) Ethiopia
Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia Vacancy Announcement and Application Form
Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia (HFE) is a world leading organization committed to the treatment and reintegration of patients suffering from Obstetric Fistula and the training and deployment of qualified midwives to prevent Obstetric Fistula and other childbirth injuries.
HFE which was established in 1974 G.C by Drs. Catherine and Reginald Hamlin has been caring for the women of Ethiopia for almost 60 years. Including our main Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa we have 5 regional hospitals, rehabilitation and reintegration center and The Hamlin College of Midwives.
We deploy midwives into rural health centers across the country and provide mentoring and other support services to these facilities.
01. Admin Assistant – Project Zero
- Location: Addis Ababa or Regional Offices (when needed)
- Deadline: November 3 2025
About Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia
Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia (HFE) is a pioneering organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of obstetric fistula and related maternal health issues. Founded on compassion and excellence, HFE strives to restore health and dignity to women across Ethiopia through treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation programs.
One of our key initiatives, Project Zero, aims to achieve fistula eradication woreda by woreda, ensuring that no woman suffers needlessly from this preventable condition.
We already launched this program in some parts of the country. We also want to ensure this project in Sidama Region, central Sidama zone, Arbeguna Woreda, and in Central Ethiopia, Western Gurage Zone, Gedebano Gutazer Wolene Woreda.
For the successful implementation of the program, HFE needs to employ an experienced candidate as per the given job title and responsibilities.
Vacancy Information
- Job Title or Position : Admin Assistant – Project Zero
- Reports to : Project Zero Coordinator
- Duty Station : Addis Ababa or Regional Offices (when needed)]
- Mode of Employment : Contract for one year
- Salary : As per the scale of the organization
- Number of Candidates : One
- Gender : Male or Female
- Announcement Date : November 24, 2025
- Deadline for Application : 7 working days from the date of announcement
Position Summary
The Admin Assistant will provide comprehensive administrative, human resource, and financial support to Project Zero. The role involves assisting in the day-to-day management of administrative and financial operations, supporting project staff, ensuring smooth coordination between departments, and maintaining compliance with organizational and donor requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Administrative Support
- Manage daily office operations, correspondence, and filing systems.
- Organize project meetings, workshops, training sessions, and travel arrangements for staff and visitors.
- Maintain office supplies, inventories, and service contracts.
- Prepare letters, minutes, and administrative reports as required.
- Ensure timely submission of reports and proper documentation of project activities.
Financial and Accounting Support
- Handle all financial transactions related to Project Zero, including per diem, advances, and reimbursements.
- Follow up on efficient and effective utilization of project funds as per approved plans.
- Collect, review, and submit all financial documents to the Finance Department on time.
- Record and file all receipts, invoices, and financial transactions properly.
- Assist in petty cash management, budget tracking, and monthly expense reporting.
- Making Payments of different procurement transactions as needed.
Human Resource Support
- Support HR functions including staff attendance, leave tracking, and record keeping.
- Liaise with HR, Finance, and Project Zero teams.
- Maintain confidentiality of HR and financial information at all times.
- Perform other duties when assigned by the Project Zero Coordinator and prevention & PZ manger.
About You
Education Requirement:
- BA Degree in Management, Business Administration, Accounting, or related fields.
Work Experience
- Minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience in administrative and financial roles within project settings.
- Experience working with NGOs, development projects, or health programs is a strong advantage.
Skills and Competencies
- Strong understanding of basic accounting principles and financial management.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and accounting software (e.g., Peachtree or equivalent).
- Excellent organizational, time management, and multitasking abilities.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- High level of accuracy, attention to detail, and proactive problem-solving ability.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information appropriately.
- Capacity to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Good command of spoken and written English, Amharic and proficiency in other local language(s) is an asset.
Key competencies and professional expertise required
- Integrity, honesty, and professionalism.
- Strong commitment to Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia’s mission and values.
- Positive attitude and strong team spirit.
- Responsible, reliable, and service-oriented.
- Willingness for frequent travel.
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Financial management
How to Apply
Pay Attention to this Section
Interested applicants are required to fill the following Vacancy FORM carefully and submit it through mail/ Email: hr@hamlinfistula.org / to the Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia Human Resources Management Department within (7) seven working days of this announcement.
Applications submitted without completing this form will not be accepted
NB: Please Note That Only Shortlisted Candidates Will Be Contacted and required to submit copies of their non-returnable application CV in hard copy in Person.
02. Midwife Mentor
- Location: Sidama or Central Ethiopia
- Deadline: November 3 2025
Mandatory: Applicants must indicate their Preferred Region (Sidam or Central Ethiopia) location or Place of Work or project site under Applicant Information. If not indicated it will be automatically rejected.
Vacancy Information
- Job Title or Position : Midwife Mentor
- Reports to : The Team Leader of the Project Zero Program
- Duty Station : Addis Ababa or Regional Offices (when needed)]
- Mode of Employment : Contract for one year
- Salary : As per the scale of the organization
- Number of Candidates : One
- Gender : Male or Female
- Announcement Date : November 24, 2025
- Deadline for Application : 7 working days from the date of announcement
Job Summary
The Mentor will work to realize that the Hamlin model of Care and the latest global standards of health care will be practiced in the region. A Midwife Mentor must have depth and breadth of technical expertise and experience in the delivery of maternal, neonatal, child, and reproductive health services. In addition, this position requires quality improvement approaches as well as current trends in service delivery, training, and capacity building approaches that are based on scientific evidence.
Major Duties and Responsibilities of Midwife Mentor include the following, but are not limited to:
- Ensure that the program is technically sound, evidence-based, and responsive to the needs of the countries.
- Work in collaboration with the Regional Health Centers, focusing on the project site health centers where Hamlin Midwives are deployed to support aspects of the strategic direction and leadership of the maternal and child health programming guiding linkages and integration within the overall health sector.
- Communicate with the team leader, project coordinator, and project and prevention manager to provide regular updates on progress of achievements against set targets, program challenges and successes, as well as ways forward for ongoing implementation.
- Provide needed technical support for woreda health offices and other stakeholders in the prevention of obstetric fistula, identification and referral of historic fistula patients and facilitate their treatment.
- Actively participate in the Fistula Patient Identification Process, in collaboration with patient identification officer and other stakeholders in awareness creation, strengthen the existing referral system, and facilitate their treatment.
- Submit report of mentorship to the Team leader and to other concerned bodies when necessary.
- Promoting community involvement of midwives’ activities.
- Is Responsible for the implementation and coordination of the Mentorship, facility, and community-based assessment and other project activities.
- Collaborate with the health extension workers and other involved groups in network creation during recruitment of pregnant women to the cohort.
- Participate in baseline assessments, midterm and end-of-term evaluations of the project.
- Travel between health facilities and woreda health office as needed
- Ensures the best documentation for the project activities.
- Perform other related duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor, team leader, PZ coordinator and PZ and prevention manager.
About You
Education Requirement:
- BSc in Midwifery or MSc in Maternal & Child Health-related fields
Work Experience
- 4+ years in maternal and newborn health management or coordination
Key competencies and professional expertise required:
- Excellent skills in computer software packages; previous experience with District Health Information System (DHIS) database packages preferred.
- Fluent in English, Amharic, and other local languages, and able to communicate in other local languages is preferred.
- Strong interpersonal, intercultural communication skills, able to work well both within a team and independently under stressful conditions.
- Proven clinical experience, working in the delivery of maternal and child health services.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing service delivery protocols, norms, and standards.
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Acute care
- Financial management
- Clinical knowledge
How to Apply
Pay Attention to this Section
Interested applicants are required to fill the following Vacancy FORM carefully and submit it through Email: hr@hamlinfistula.org to the Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia Human Resources Management Department within (7) seven working days of this announcement.
Applications submitted without completing this form will not be accepted
NB: Please Note That Only Shortlisted Candidates Will Be Contacted and required to submit copies of their non-returnable application CV in hard copy in Person.
03. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer
- Location: Sidama or Central Ethiopia
- Deadline: November 3 2025
Vacancy Information
- Job Title or Position : Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer
- Reports to : The Team Leader of the Project Zero Program
- Mode of Employment : Contract for one year
- Salary : As per the scale of the organization
- Number of Candidates : One
- Gender : Male or Female
- Announcement Date : November 24, 2025
- Deadline for Application : 7 working days from the date of announcement
- Mandatory: Applicants must indicate their Preferred Region (Sidam or Central Ethiopia) location or Place of Work or project site under Applicant Information. If not indicated it will be automatically rejected.
Job Summary
Reporting to the Project–Zero team leader. The M&E Officer will lead the design, implementation, and operation of project, M&E systems from project initiation to close out. She/he will oversee the monitoring, evaluation, analytics, and reporting of performance and results, providing regular project reports to the Program team Leader. She/he will provide technical leadership and supervise staff experts and oversee data management, analysis, and ongoing training to other staff who participates in the project. She/he will conduct regular project data analysis and identify methods to use results for program improvement. She/he will lead activity efforts to strengthen monitoring and evaluation and performance reporting within the geographic area of Activity. This position is contingent upon award.
Job Description
- Assisting the project team leader with development of the M&E Plan for the project, including indicator selection, target setting, reporting, database management, and developing M&E and/ performance monitoring plans.
- Lead role in overseeing data collection, collation, storage, analysis, and reporting, ensuring that data is of high quality and audit worthy.
- Responsible for supporting the preparation and review of project reports in collaboration with project team.
- Provide training and mentoring to partners and staff to ensure the implementation of strong M&E systems.
- Work on data management and the database system.
- Communicating with relevant partners (from multiple sites) on data management to support smooth data collection and transfer of information.
- Keeping a log (mapping) of research activities undertaken.
- Supporting the coordination of data collection (tracking), including scheduling and undertaking field visits.
- Performing quality checks on data, including data cleaning and verification of data
- Managing research databases for the project.
- Processing data and providing information for reporting.
- Ensures consistency of information in different reports.
- Actively participate in Fistula Patient Identification Process, in collaboration with patient identification officer and other stakeholders in awareness creation, strengthen the existing referral system, and facilitate their treatment.
- Does other work related activities as assigned by the team leader, PZ coordinator and PZ and prevention manger.
About You
Education Requirement:
- Bachelors or Master’s degree in M&E, or Health informatics, public health or other related fields.
Work Experience
- Minimum of three years of professional experience in M&E position responsible for implementing health activities on development projects.
Key Key competencies and professional expertise required:
- Excellent skill of computer software packages; previous experience with District Health Information System (DHIS) database packages preferred.
- Fluent in English, Amharic and other local languages and able to communicate with other local languages is preferred.
- Strong interpersonal, intercultural communication skills, able to work well both within a team and independently under stressful conditions.
- Proven clinical experience, working in the delivery of maternal, and child health service.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing service delivery protocols, norms and standards
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Financial management
How to Apply
Pay Attention to this Section
Interested applicants are required to fill the following Vacancy Form carefully and submit it through mail/ Email: hr@hamlinfistula.org to the Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia Human Resources Management Department within (7) seven working days of this announcement.
Applications submitted without completing this form will not be accepted
NB: Please Note That Only Shortlisted Candidates Will Be Contacted and required to submit copies of their non-returnable application CV in hard copy in Person.
04. Prevention Officer
- Location: Sidama or Central Ethiopia
- Deadline: November 3 2025
Mandatory: Applicants must indicate their Preferred Region (Sidam or Central Ethiopia) location or Place of Work or project site under Applicant Information. If not indicated it will be automatically rejected.
Vacancy Information
- Job Title or Position : Prevention Officer
- Reports to : The Team Leader of the Project Zero Program
- Mode of Employment : Contract for one year
- Salary : As per the scale of the organization
- Number of Candidates : One
- Gender : Male or Female
- Announcement Date : November 24, 2025
- Deadline for Application : 7 working days from the date of announcement
Job Summary
To collaborate and work as a team with PZ team and other stakeholders in the prevention of obstetric fistula, Identification and referral of hidden obstetric fistula patients and facilitate their treatment. Actively participate in project –Zero Fistula Eradication project team activities.
Major Duties and Responsibilities of a prevention Officer includes the following, but are not limited to:
- As a member of the Project-Zero team, coordinate Zonal Health desk, Woreda Health Offices, Health Centers, health posts, and other stakeholders to identify hidden fistula cases, raise awareness creation and strengthen the existing referral system.
- Coordinate activities for patient identification and facilitate treatment in collaboration with the project –Zero team at Yirgalem or Addis Ababa Hamlin fistula center and other partners as per the action plan of the national fistula task force.
- Submit timely report providing details of patient identification, trainings, and other activities.
- Organize training for the Health Center staff and health Extension Workers on fistula patient identification and referral linkage.
- Participate in organizing resources to make sure that individual plans for patient reintegration and livelihood care are appropriately implemented.
- Participate in the project Zero pregnant women cohort study and other surveys as part of fistula prevention.
- Participate in Monitoring and evaluation activities of the project.
- Actively participate in the Fistula Patient Identification Process, in collaboration with Prevention officers at Yirgalem and Addis Ababa Fistula hospitals and other stakeholders in awareness creation, strengthen the existing referral system, and facilitate their treatment.
- Perform other related tasks as requested by the team leader, the project team leader
About You
Education Requirement:
- BSc in Midwifery, public health, or MSc in Maternal & Child Health-related fields
Work Experience
- 3+ years of clinical experience at the health center level in mobilizing community-based programs.
Key competencies and professional expertise required:
- Fluent in English, Amharic, and other local languages, and able to communicate in other local languages is preferred.
- Strong interpersonal, intercultural communication skills, able to work well both within a team and independently under stressful conditions.
- Proven clinical experience, working in the delivery of maternal and child health services.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing service delivery protocols, norms, and standards.
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Financial management
How to Apply
Pay Attention to this Section
Interested applicants are required to fill the following Vacancy Form carefully and submit it through Email: hr@hamlinfistula.org to the Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia Human Resources Management Department within (7) seven working days of this announcement.
Applications submitted without completing this form will not be accepted
NB: Please Note That Only Shortlisted Candidates Will Be Contacted and required to submit copies of their non-returnable application CV in hard copy in Person.
05. Team Leader of Project Zero
- Location: Sidama or Central Ethiopia
- Deadline: November 3 2025
Mandatory: Applicants must indicate their Preferred Region (Sidam or Central Ethiopia) location or Place of Work or project site under Applicant Information. If not indicated it will be automatically rejected.
Vacancy Information
- Job Title or Position : Team Leader of Project Zero
- Reports to : The Project Zero Coordinator
- Mode of Employment : Contract for one year
- Salary : As per the scale of the organization
- Number of Candidates : One
- Gender : Male or Female
- Announcement Date : November 24, 2025
- Deadline for Application : 7 working days from the date of announcement
Job Summary:
The team leader will coordinate the overall project- Zero, Fistula eradication program in collaboration with Project Zero coordinator PZ and prevention manger and nearby Hamlin Fistula center.
In addition, he/she will also be involved in technical support for the team as deemed. This position also requires quality improvement approaches as well as current trends in service delivery, training and capacity building approaches that are based on scientific evidence.
Major Duties and Responsibilities of The team leader includes the following, but are not limited to:
- Serve as the main technical interface between HFE-project zero local stakeholders as it applies to Maternal and Child Health.
- Liaise with technical steering groups, Project Coordinator and Prevention and project zero manager and Woreda technical working groups for project –Zero Fistula free Program.
- Oversee and work with the team and motivate them to conduct their activities efficiently through planning and providing daily activities for the team.
- Prepare analyses, recommendations, briefing notes, and assessments of the project in relation to delivery.
- Anticipate and provide timely solutions for the identified challenges during the project.
- Address inefficient performances and provide timely feedback, as a team or individually, to improve the gaps.
- Work in collaboration with the Health Centers where Hamlin Midwives are deployed to support aspects of the strategic direction and leadership of the maternal and child health programming guiding linkages and integration within the overall health sector.
- Coordinate meetings with Project Zero b Coordinator to provide regular updates on progress of achievements against set targets, program challenges and successes, as well as ways forward for on-going implementation.
- Be involved in analysis of data collected during project implementation to obtain evidence based trends and follow program progress against set targets;
- Lead and support the team to utilize data for informed decision making on program direction.
- Provide any technical support to Midwife mentors, woredas health offices and other stakeholders in the prevention of obstetric fistula, identification and referral of fistula patients and facilitate their treatment.
- Leads the planning and implementation of the project in line with the organization’s mission, policies, strategies and available resources.
- Submit timely report of the project, patient identification and progress of the project strategy, to concerned body when necessary.
- Explores best mechanisms and make ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the project.
- Actively participate in Fistula Patient Identification Process, in collaboration with patient identification officer and other stakeholders in awareness creation, strengthen the existing referral system, and facilitate their treatment.
- Perform other related duties as assigned by the project Zero Coordinator or PZ and prevention manager.
About You
Education Requirement:
- BSc in Midwifery, public health, or MSc, MPH in Maternal & Child Health-related fields.
Work Experience
- 5+ years of related work experience as a Team leader and coordinator in community based activities, such as managing health related programs/projects.
Key competencies and professional expertise required:
- Excellent skill of computer software packages; previous experience with District Health Information System (DHIS) database packages preferred.
- Fluent in English, Amharic and other local languages and able to communicate with other local languages is preferred.
- Strong interpersonal, intercultural communication skills, able to work well both within a team and independently under stressful conditions.
- Proven clinical experience, working in the delivery of maternal, and child health service.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing service delivery protocols, norms and standards.
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Financial management
How to Apply
Pay Attention to this Section
Interested applicants are required to fill the following Vacancy Form carefully and submit it through Email: hr@hamlinfistula.org to the Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia Human Resources Management Department within (7) seven working days of this announcement.
Applications submitted without completing this form will not be accepted
NB: Please Note That Only Shortlisted Candidates Will Be Contacted and required to submit copies of their non-returnable application CV in hard copy in Person.
