Project Officer – Community Level Amhara region Full Time NEW

Job Description: Project Officer – Community Level Amhara region

Required no: Three

Location: Tarmaber (1), Hageremariyam (1), Basona Worana and Angolela Tera (1)

Reports to: Program Manager, Willows International Ethiopia
Travel: Up to 75% travel to program sites

Job Type: Full Time

Organization Background

Since 1997, Willows International (WI) has developed and implemented the Willows Box System, a client management approach that strengthens community-level health services and improves access to tailored reproductive health information, referrals, and follow-up. Over the past three decades, WI has supported more than three million women and their partners to make informed reproductive health and family planning decisions.

In Ethiopia, WI is working with the Ministry of Health to strengthen the Health Extension Worker (HEW) program in Oromia, Amhara, and Sidama regions. The project focuses on improving client management systems, enhancing HEW effectiveness, and institutionalizing the Willows Box System to deliver personalized services, improve follow-up, and strengthen referral linkages—ultimately aiming to improve family planning and reproductive health outcomes.

Position Summary

The Project Officer (PO) will be responsible for ensuring high-quality and timely implementation of WI program activities in the assigned region and woreda. Working closely with the Program and M&E team, the PO will strengthen project implementation, supervision and monitoring systems, support capacity building efforts to HEWs and their supervisors, and ensure data quality and program accountability.

The PO will also support budget management, documentation of best practices, and coordination with regional and district health offices to ensure program alignment with WI and MoH standards.

Over all program coordination and implementation

• Provide FP/SRHR-related technical support to regional, zonal, and district health teams, and ensure HEWs receive training and supervision to effectively implement the Willows Box System.
• Lead the planning and coordination of training sessions, mentorship, supervision visits, and program review meetings in the assigned district.
• Conduct intensive field monitoring visits and provide on-the-spot technical support to HEWs and HEW supervisors.
• Organize joint supportive supervision visits with local health officials and ensure consistent feedback and follow-up with HEWs.
• Monitor and manage program expenditures in alignment with approved budgets and donor guidelines.

Monitoring Support to HPs and HEW

• Work closely with the Program and M&E team to implement a robust project implementation, monitoring and supervision system, including regular data quality checks and district-level data analysis to inform timely actions.
• Ensure timely data entry into the Willows database and conduct routine performance analysis to track progress toward deliverables.
• Facilitate monthly and quarterly review meetings with CHW supervisors to evaluate implementation progress and share lessons learned.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports, and document lessons learned and best practices for program adaptation and scale-up.

Partnership and coordination with Woreda Health offices and Health Centers

• Support the preparation and review of district-level budget forecasts and report any financial variances promptly.
• Supports functional referral linkages between community and Health centers by engaging HCs service providers
• Provide TA to Woreda officers on joint supportive supervision

Skills and Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and negotiation abilities.
• Experience in health, preferably reproductive health program monitoring and performance evaluation.
• Competence in data collection, data entry, and analysis with keen attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Effective team-building and performance coaching skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.
• Strong time management and organizational skills.
• Preferably with motorbike drivers’ license

Work conditions and place

• The position is based in one of WI Ethiopia’s operational Woredas embedded in woreda Health Offices
• Full-time position with frequent travel to health posts and community sites for supervision and mentorship.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Nursing, midwifery, or related Health Sciences fields
• Minimum five years of relevant professional experience, in FP/SRHR program implementation and management.
• Strong technical knowledge of family planning and reproductive health programs.
• Demonstrated experience in training, supportive supervision, and mentorship of the health extension workers.
• Excellent documentation and report writing skills.
• High level of initiative, integrity, and commitment to Reproductive Health and Rights and quality community health delivery.
• Fluency in English and Amharic is required