SRH Officer – SRH Alliance Project
Location: Amhara, 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 Officer provides overall woreda level coordination for the planning, implementation and monitoring of 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 SRH Officer coordinates woreda-level implementation of a multi-stakeholder SRH Alliance programme in Amhara with a focus on conflict-affected and hard-to-reach areas where young people face significant unmet SRH needs. The role supports delivery of high-impact interventions that improve the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of SRH services, expand access to SRH information and education, enabling environment through positive social norm change, and strengthen community engagement, local research, and advocacy efforts. The Officer ensures that gender equality, disability inclusion, climate and conflict-sensitive programming, and survivor-centred approaches are integrated across all activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and support the implementation of SRH, SGBV, and gender equality project activities.
- Provide technical assistance, mentoring, and capacity building to partners, service providers, and community structures.
- Strengthen community engagement and promote the participation of women, youth, and people with disabilities.
- Facilitate collaboration with government institutions, CSOs, community groups, and other key stakeholders.
- Support the integration of survivor-centered, child-friendly, gender-transformative, and rights-based approaches across project interventions.
- Monitor project performance, support data quality and reporting, and document lessons learned and best practices.
- Participate in coordination forums, technical working groups, and referral mechanisms to enhance service delivery and accountability.
The Individual
Qualifications/ Experience/Skills Essential:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Reproductive Health, Nursing, Sociology, Social work or related social science field.
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in SRH and SGBV sectors with good understanding of regional and local contexts.
- In-depth knowledge of GBV, SRH, gender equality, girls’ rights, and their relevance in their protection
- Good knowledge and understanding of development and humanitarian principles and established international child protection and CP/GBV and SRHR policies, strategies, programs and priorities, and NGO Code of Conduct.
- Knowledge and experience of SRH strategies/policy frameworks, teenage pregnancy reduction roadmap, costed roadmap to end child marriage, FGM/C, and SGBV
- Experience in planning, budget management, and 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, Sehala
Type of Role: SRH Alliance Project
Reports to: Project Coordinator – SRH Alliance
Closing Date: August 28, 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.
Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.
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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