Project Officer, Project ACCESS

St. Paul Institute for Reproductive Health and Rights (SPIRHR) is a locally registered non-profit organization (NGO) established on September 10, 2019. Since its establishment, SPIRHR has worked to strengthen sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) by improving clinical services, training, research, and advocacy. The organization has supported the implementation of major program activities jointly planned with the Ob/GYN faculty at Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) and has taken a leading role in the administration and coordination of reproductive health infrastructure development.

SPIRHR aims to contribute to the reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity through coordinated sexual and reproductive health and rights clinical services, training, research, and advocacy (“TRAC pillars”), enabling girls and women to reach their full potential.

As part of its ongoing efforts to expand access to quality SRH information and services, SPIRHR is implementing a call center–based initiative designed to provide confidential counseling, information, and referral support on a broad range of sexual and reproductive health issues.

Position Title: Project Officer, Project ACCESS
Number of Positions: 2

Project Period: July 2026 to June 2027
Project Zones: Konso Zones in South Ethiopia; Dawuro Zones in Southwest Ethiopia
Duty Station: Knos and Dawuro Zones
Reporting To: Zonal Project Coordinator

Background: Project ACCESS requires strong zone-level implementation support to ensure that planned activities are translated into practical action at health facilities, outreach sites, youth centers, and communities. Project Officers will serve as the day-to-day implementation focal persons within each assigned zone, supporting service delivery, peer education, referral linkages, data collection, community engagement, and coordination with zonal and facility-level stakeholders.

The Project Officer will support effective implementation, monitoring, documentation, and coordination of Project ACCESS activities in the assigned zone. The role will ensure that AYCH clinic strengthening, outreach service delivery, peer-to-peer education, referral systems, digital SRHR linkages, and safeguarding requirements are implemented consistently and in line with the approved project work plan.

Each Project Officer will be assigned to one of the selected health centers. The officer will support activities in the selected health centers, associated AYCH clinics, nearby hospitals or Michu clinics, youth centers, outreach sites, and community mobilization locations within the assigned zone.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support daily planning, implementation, and follow-up of Project ACCESS activities in the assigned zone.

• Work closely with the Project Coordinator to translate regional work plans into zone-level monthly activity plans and schedules.

• Coordinate with zonal health departments, facility heads, AYCH clinic focal persons, youth center managers, health extension workers, and community representatives.

• Support the functionality of AYCH clinics, outreach service points, and referral linkages between outreach sites, health centers, Michu clinics, psychosocial support providers, legal support providers, and the Michu Call Center.

• Follow up on duty rosters, outreach schedules, availability of basic commodities, client flow, privacy arrangements, and youth-friendly service standards at assigned service delivery points.

• Support peer educators and youth center focal persons in organizing youth dialogues, community sensitization sessions, referral activities, and documentation of peer-led activities.

• Conduct routine field visits to health centers, youth centers, outreach sites, and community activity locations to identify implementation gaps and provide immediate follow-up.

• Collect, check, and compile zone-level service data, referral data, outreach reports, peer educator reports, attendance sheets, supervision notes, and success stories.

• Support implementation of gender-responsive activities at AYCH clinics and youth centers, including menstrual hygiene kit distribution, book corner activities, and youth-friendly recreational activities.

• Assist in organizing training, review meetings, supervision visits, community dialogues, and quarterly reflection sessions at the zone level.

• Identify risks related to stigma, confidentiality, referral breakdowns, commodity shortages, low service uptake, security, and community resistance, and report them promptly with proposed mitigation actions.

• Ensure that all zone-level activities respect confidentiality, informed consent, safeguarding, child protection, GBV survivor-centered principles, and applicable Ministry of Health guidelines.

Expected Deliverables:

• Zone-level monthly activity plans and schedules prepared and submitted to the Project Coordinator.

• Updated list of service delivery points, youth centers, peer educators, referral contacts, and key stakeholders in the assigned zone.

• Regular field visit notes, supervision checklists, and follow-up action points were documented and shared.

• Monthly zone-level implementation reports including service statistics, outreach activities, peer education progress, referrals, challenges, and corrective actions.

• Complete and verified documentation for meetings, training, youth dialogues, outreach sessions, material distribution, and community activities.

• Documented success stories, lessons learned, implementation challenges, and risk updates from the assigned zone.

• Inputs provided for quarterly review meetings, project monitoring reports, endline evaluation, and sustainability planning.

Level of Effort and Duration: The assignment is full-time for the Project ACCESS implementation period from July 2026 to June 2027, subject to performance, funding availability, and organizational requirements. The Project Officer may be required to support weekend or after-hours activities, such as outreach services, youth dialogues, or community sensitization.

Salary: Based on project scale.

Safeguarding, Confidentiality, and Ethical Requirements: The Project Officer must comply with SPIRHR policies and applicable national guidelines on safeguarding, confidentiality, data protection, child protection, adolescent and youth-friendly services, GBV survivor-centered care, and ethical conduct.