Project Coordinator – SRH Alliance (Sekota)
Location: Sekota, Ethiopia
Company: Plan International
Job Description
The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.
For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.
We won’t stop until we are all equal.
The Opportunity
The Global SRHR Alliance New pilot programme is being implemented across eight countries in three regions: East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda), West Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger), MENA (Jordan, Lebanon).
The SRH Alliance Project Coordinator provides overall regional/zonal and woreda level coordination for the planning, implementation and monitoring of SRH Alliance program led by PIE and implemented by Alliance members including PIE, Amref Ethiopia and local implementing partners, ensuring the achievement of agreed objectives, results, and quality standards. The Alliance Program is integrated in to PIE’s SRH Programme Framework and contributes to the SRHR Alliance New initiative funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), running from June 2026 to December 2028.
The role coordinates the delivery of a multi-actor SRH alliance program that addresses gaps in sexual and reproductive health service utilization, harmful social norms, and health system constraints, with a strong focus on conflict-affected and hard-to-reach areas. The SRH Alliance Project Coordinator ensures the effective implementation of high-impact SRH in the implementation areas that improve the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality (3AQ) of services, expand access to comprehensive SRH information and education, and strengthen social norm change and enabling environments through community engagement, regional SRH related research and policy advocacy.
The SRH Alliance Project Coordinator is responsible for effective alliance coordination and partnership management, providing operational support to SRH Alliance Platform members, implementing partners, and project teams. This includes regional/sub-national joint planning processes, ensuring timely and high-quality implementation, overseeing financial planning and budget management, coordinating partnerships, and ensuring accurate reporting in line with grant agreements, donor compliance, and Plan International policies and procedures. In addition, the role facilitates strong collaboration with local regional-,zonal-woreda level institutions and other SRH stakeholders for effective implementation of the project, while leading efforts in engaging young people , grassroot community structures, youth-led and women-led networks, CSO capacity strengthening, monitoring, evaluation, documentation, and learning. The role will contribute to promoting gender equality, disability inclusion, and climate-sensitive approaches in regional implementation, and will support the delivery of survivor-centered interventions, community engagement, peer education, facilitate trainings and other project strategies. Through effective coordination, partner support, and field-level problem solving, the SRH Project Coordinator will play a key role in ensuring quality implementation and contributing to inclusive and sustainable project outcomes at regional level.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- 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.
The Individual
- 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
- In addition, Knowledge of Regional Languages is essential
Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)
- Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
- Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
- Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.
Location: Amhara Program Area, Sekota
Type of Role: SRH Alliance Project
Reports to: Project Manager – SRH Alliance
Closing Date: August 14, 2026
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.
We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.
We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.
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A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
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