Job Description

Young Africa Zimbabwe is implementing the Skills 2 Live project as part of its Integral Youth Development Program (IYDP) The project seeks to promote sustainable livelihoods, reduce vulnerabilities, and enhance resilience of young people to realise their Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) outcomes in Zimbabwe through a compendium of economic empowerment and SRHR interventions.

Reporting to the Skills to Live Project Manager, the SRH officer is responsible for ensuring the implementation of sexual reproductive health education and wellness activities under the IYDP; Running of youth friendly wellness spaces in collaboration with Skills 2 Live project partners; create linkages with health facilities to enable full referrals of young people to HIV and SRH services where needed; coordinate and facilitate life skills and SRH education and edutainment. The Sexual and Reproductive Health Officer will be contracted up to 31 December 2024 with possible contract renewal depending on performance and available project funding.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct community engagement and mobilization for SRH services.
• Promote activities to improve SRH and wellness among young people.
• Ensure continuous functioning of the youth friendly wellness spaces at Young Africa centers and mobile training sites.
• Establish a strong network of support with stakeholders at different levels.
• Responsible for the promotion of Sports, Arts and wellness programs.
• Develop and maintain relationships within the local health facilities and other departments within MOHCC and partners to foster productive collaboration towards accomplishment of objectives.
• Support the implementation of young people’s sexual and reproductive health program activities including training, supervision, mentoring, development of tools, revision of guidelines and building strategic partnerships with clinical and management staff at all levels.
• Contribute to documentation and reporting needs (e.g., technical reports, monthly/quarterly/annual reports, lessons learned documents, etc. of the project.
• Work with the different Young Africa project teams to support integration of SRH services into other initiatives, as appropriate.
• Devise strategies to reach underserved (Mobile training sites) populations with SRH services.
• Ensure that integrated SRH services address gender issues, including considering SRH and other support needs of survivors of physical violence or sexual assault.
• Contribute to regular programmatic and donor reports and document programmatic lessons learned.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in Public Health/ Social Sciences/Education/or equivalent in a related discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years of proven experience within the development sector in SRHR (experience in both development and humanitarian setting desirable).
• Proven progressive track record of at least 3 years working with young people in community engagement, mobilisation, and advocacy.
• Experience in Counselling and behavioural change management.
• Ability to plan work and meet deadlines when working under pressure.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken; ability to speak local languages is an asset.
• Computer literate, with strong knowledge of MS Office.
• Ability to work in a challenging and stressful environment with unexpected challenges.
• Ability to interact and work effectively with others at all levels.
• Ability to prioritize work effectively for execution with limited resources.
• Ability to work independently without close supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• High levels of empathy and emotional intelligence.
• Knowledge on methods of youth engagement.
• Experience in facilitating training, mentorship and development of tools is a strong asset.
• Good planning and organizing skills.
• Discreet, honest, trustworthy (trusted), proactive, methodical, diplomatic, task-oriented and team player.
• Excellent oral and written English.

How to Apply

Young Africa is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or job applicant based on race, political affiliation, religion, tribe, national origin, gender, physical or mental disability, health status or age.
Interested candidates should send one-page motivational letter including expected salary, and a detailed CV to [email protected] by Friday 29 December 2023. All applications for this post must be clearly marked " Sexual Reproductive Health Officer" in the subject line. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.