District Economic Strengthening Officer 246 views

Bantwana Zimbabwe seeks a suitably experienced District Economic Strengthening Officer to be based in Nkayi for a CDC/ZimTTECH-funded DREAMS program. The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe women (DREAMS) program aims to reduce new HIV infections amongst adolescent girls and young women and will be implemented in the above-mentioned Matabeleland North districts. Bantwana will implement four core sets of interventions namely, i) HIV prevention, condom education, gender norms change, social assets building, and sexual violence prevention; ii) Education Subsidies including primary, secondary and Part-Time and Continuing Education support; iii) Combination of socioeconomic approaches for caregivers layered with positive parenting; and iv) Economic empowerment for AGYW (financial literacy, work readiness and employability trainings, vocational training for market-driven technical skills, internships).

The Economic Strengthening Officer will be responsible for all Economic Strengthening activities at district level.

Roles and responsibilities

In liaison with the Programs Manager, coordinate program implementation following donor, organizational and program guidelines; Assist in developing and monitoring annual work plans and budgets, as well as associated deliverables and results/outputs; Prepare, coordinate review, edit, and disseminate project-related reports and documents, including progress updates, curricula, and other documents and reports; Provides technical support in management of the service contracts; Coordinate the timely identification and addressing of program implementation challenges; Coordinate program documentation (Reports, Success Stories, Support in the development of IEC Materials); Perform clerical and administrative support tasks, including creation and editing of program correspondences, purchasing documents, reports, program handbooks, and other publications.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science or related field, and a minimum of 3-5 years relevant experience working on adolescent and youth health related interventions; Master’s Degree in any related field is an added advantage; Experience of HIV/GBV program planning and implementation at the community, provincial and district levels working with NGO sectors; Demonstrated knowledge of strategic planning, administrative, and financial management systems; Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, health systems, decentralization of services and related issues specifically targeted for adolescent girls and young women; Strong writing and interpersonal communication skills; Ability to gather and analyse statistical data and generate reports; Ability to travel to implementation sites within the province a minimum of 25%; Extensive knowledge of health and development programming in a developing country is preferred; Prior experience in implementing DREAMS programs an added advantage.