Job Summary
The Youth-Powered Ecosystem to Advance Urban Adolescent Health Activity (referred to as YPE4AH) is a five-year (2020 – 2025) USAID funded project implemented YEDI and its partners. The primary goal of the project is to improve the health and well-being of urban, underprivileged adolescents age 15–19 by increasing voluntary family planning (FP) upta
- Minimum Qualification:Degree
- Experience Level:Mid level
- Experience Length:3 years
Job Description/Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Under the supervision of the Program Manager/State Coordinator, develop a schedule for activities in the Youth Hubs and monitor delivery.
- Responsible for day-to-day monitoring of the use of all assets, equipment, and furniture
- Responsible for coordinating the smooth running of the Hubs: SKILLZ, leadership, livelihood.
- Responsible for providing health-related information/counselling, coordinating Referrals and other services for adolescents in the Hubs.
- Responsible for documentation of all Hub activities into designated tracking tools (collecting and filing service data and collating SKILLZ data from Youth coaches, Hub attendance register and feedback forms).
- Complete and submit monthly reports using approved monitoring and evaluation templates, including success stories.
- Deliver bi-weekly mentoring sessions for SKILLZ Coaches.
- Support monthly Hub check-in and quarterly learning meeting.
- Monitor participation of Adolescents in interventions by tracking their daily/regular attendance.
- Collate and supervise the pre-and-post intervention test.
- Monitor and Supervise program delivery for quality, identify gaps and make recommendations for improvement.
- Monitor completion of deliverables by SKILLZ Coaches.
- Operationalize referral protocols for FP/RH services to out-of-school adolescents aged 15 – 19.
- Offer group counselling sessions and one-to-one private sessions for Adolescent boys and girls needing FP and other program-related health areas.
- Provide contraceptive services to adolescents as appropriate.
- Coordinate receipt and documentation of FP Commodities from assigned public or private sector facilities.
- Facilitate FP service provision during outreach activities and events.
- Responsible for the commodity logistic management system of contraceptives and consumables at the hub.
- Maintain all health data collection tools as designed by the project.
- Provide necessary and relevant health-related information to Coaches and the YEDI Team for program purposes.
- Serve as a link between YPE4AH/YEDI staff and the SKILLZ Coaches.
- Be a role model for adolescents in the community by demonstrating best practices for leadership, livelihoods, and accessing/adhering to family planning services.
- Stand against all forms of abuse and exploitation of project participants. A Coach will immediately report any suspicion or acts of abuse to the Hub Coordinator for action and referral.
- Participate in all training activities for the project- SKILLZ, Leadership, M&E.
- Undertake periodic training on US Abortion and FP Requirements
- Ensure compliance of SKILLZ Coaches with Child Protection policies.
- Deliver and facilitate sessions using the YPE4AH SKILLZ curriculum and other curricula as necessary.
- Together with YEDI YPE4AH Program and Training Managers/ State Coordinator, conduct training and refresher training for Coaches on the YPE4AH SKILLZ curriculums.
- Together with the Program Manager/ State Coordinator, lead community engagement efforts,s including stakeholder engagement, SKILLZ Holiday Camps, community, and mobile health outreaches.
Requirements:
- A certified nurse, midwife or healthcare provider recognized under the law to offer FP counselling, over-the-counter and invasive contraceptive methods, as well as counselling in other YPE4AH health-related areas.
- Experience of 3 years in NGO health development programs will be an added advantage.
- Experience of 3 years in conducting and coordinating community outreaches.
- Ability to interact with adolescents in their unique environments.
- Experience in monitoring and evaluation or capturing learning for projects.
- Experience designing and implementing programs targeted at adolescents.
- Young at heart with the ability to communicate in a local language preferred by young people.
- Prior experience engaging with young people will be an advantage.
- Good organizational and planning skills.
- Ability to write concise, analytical, and accurate reports to meet agreed deadlines.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Good negotiation and interpersonal skills, ability to relate well and build a rapport with diverse people.
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