District Economic Strengthening Officer x1 Gweru
Ngo & Social Services Jobs
- CeSHHAR Zimbabwe
- Expires 21 Jan 2025
- Gweru
- Full Time
Job Description
CeSHHAR Zimbabwe is an organisation that specialises in population health research and programming, including on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. CeSHHAR has an extensive national, regional, and international academic and community partnership network. CeSHHAR has a diverse range of funders which include the Wellcome Trust, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, United States NIH, UK Medical Research Council, Templeton World Charity Foundation, USAID, Global Fund for AIDS TB and Malaria, UNICEF and UNFPA. We partner very closely with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK), Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health and Childcare and international and regional centres of research excellence to evaluate national programmes and determine the impact, uptake, and cost effectiveness of novel reproductive health interventions.
Duties and Responsibilities
The District Economic Strengthening Officer is responsible for supporting Young Women Selling Sex (YWSS) to undertake economic strengthening activities. S/he will support ESC by providing training, accompaniment, and technical support to YWSS focusing on implementing and managing micro- enterprises, employment opportunities, financial education, market opportunity identification/assessment, and entrepreneurship and business development services. The District Economic Strengthening Officer is responsible for delivering the DREAMS Program Economic strengthening package at community level. They help establish, support and monitor ISAL Groups to thrive. Their primary responsibility is to support YWSS to identify and successfully follow a pathway of their choice. They work under the guidance and supervision of the Regional Coordinators.
Key responsibilities include: -
• Overall planning and implementation of DREAMS economic strengthening program at district level in collaboration with Outreach Workers, Regional Coordinators, Site Outreach Leads and SIE Team.
• Identify and nurture strategic partnerships to support program to meet its economic strengthening goals.
• Strengthen collaborations with DREAMS Implementing Partners, Local Authorities, Government departments and Private Companies amongst others.
• Develop and maintain linkages with governments, organizations, and projects that support economic strengthening activities.
• Use appropriate project management tools to plan, review, and track progress on project implementation.
• Ensure high quality facilitation of training and systematic post-training supportive supervision and mentoring to YWSS.
• Foster a culture of accountability and learning through regular monitoring to project sites, providing oversight of studies and assessments, and proper documentation of tools and promising practices to contribute to learning and building the evidence around graduation, transition, and economic strengthening.
• Document project results and impacts in various forms, including media stories, lessons learned, case studies, client satisfaction, etc.
• Supports Community Based Facilitators (CF) identify, mobilize and recruit YWSS into ISALS clubs as well as identifying those eligible for the Economic Strengthening pathways.
• Ensure program quality through use of program standard operating procedures and guides in clubs.
• Supporting the implementation of the Economic Strengthening activities ensuring that sessions meet program quality standards.
• Directly supports program monitoring through tracking weekly targets and mobilizing project data.
• Ensure timely reporting of program activities using CeSHHAR weekly, monthly, biannual, and annual reporting formats.
• Any other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Qualifications and Experience
A Degree in Social Science ,Economics or a closely related field, A minimum of 3 years’ experience in youth health interventions and/or economic strengthening programming, Demonstrated experience in design and delivery of training and mentorship in youth focused interventions, Experience in program planning, community mobilization, implementation of program activities and capacity building, Knowledge of health and development interventions, including HIV/AIDS, key populations and mental health, Understanding of the DREAMS program aims, principles, values and rights-based approaches for young people, Fluency in local languages a distinct advantage, Strong interpersonal communication skills and sense of confidentiality, Ability to work effectively within a team, to network and to work under pressure, Strong strategic planning, administrative and financial management skills, Excellent verbal and written communication skills
How to Apply
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Step 2: If you are interested in the above position, please email your CV and application cover letter addressed to Human Resources and send to vacancies@ceshhar.co.zw. Indicate the position and duty station you are applying for in the subject line. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
CeSHHAR Zimbabwe is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, sexual orientation, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply.
The successful candidate will undergo relevant background checks and will be required to commit in writing to comply with the CeSHHAR Zimbabwe safeguarding guidelines.
