Quality Assurance and Mentoring Officer

World Learning is 82-year-old global non-profit organization with operation in 77 countries.  World Learning Inc. is an international non-Government Organization conducting educational, Health and development projects in the above mentioned number of countries.

World Learning Ethiopia (WLE) was established in 1996 basing its Country Office at Addis Ababa and currently implementing HIV combination prevention interventions targeting workforces serving in development sites and corridors of the country.   World Learning Ethiopia (WLE) has an immediate opening for MULU Worksite Project.

MULU Worksite: This project will support policies and programming to strengthen the HIV/AIDS response in at least one hundred workplaces within various sectors of Ethiopia’s economy including construction, mining, agriculture and manufacturing among others.  Within and around workplaces, the project will aim to improve health -seeking behaviors, increase access to quality reproductive health and HIV prevention services, and strengthen the capacity of public and private organizations to develop policies and mainstream HIV prevention into the core business of their institutions.

Job purpose: To ensure health peer educators are providing high quality, accurate and comprehensive educational sessions as per program manuals and training and the project’s standard operational procedure. Quality assurance, program activity supervision, mentoring and admin for MULU Worksite partners.

Key competency requirements:

§  Ability to motivate worksite management and local implementing partners/sub-grantees (LIPs/SGs)  on various levels through consultation and supportive supervision

§  Ability to motivate worksite based health peer educators through consultation and supportive supervision

§  Ability to utilize initiative, innovation and strategy in HIV combination prevention interventions

§  Excellent knowledge about the HIV combination prevention and the Workplace context

§  Training and understanding of SBCC theory, concept and practice

§  Training and experience with health peer education

§  Experience and proficiency in supportive counselling in HIV

§  Capacity to operate in challenging fieldwork conditions

§  Capacity to communicate appropriately and effectively with a wide range of partners including sub-grantee management and Worksite management

§  Ability to compile reports in Amharic and English

§  Demonstrated ability to multi-task

§  Capacity to work under pressure in achieving multiple set objectives

§  Excellent organizational skills; administrative, time management and program management

§  Fluency in English and other national or local languages

Excellent computer skills: Windows XP Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, internet and e-mail use)

Key performance areas:

·         Provision of QA and support visits to Worksites (both management, site coordinators and health peer educators) and LIPs/SGs

·         Liaising with and supporting Worksite staff and LIPs/SGs in mainstreaming HIV combination prevention.

·         Ensuring the maintenance/distribution of updated, distributed and comprehensive local referral directories.

·         Compilation of weekly, monthly, and quarterly quantitative and narrative reports on MULU HIV prevention activities conducted.

·         Maintaining organized and complete hard and soft files.

·         Conduct and train to conduct IPC sessions focusing on main drivers of the HIV epidemic.

·         Ensure that community mobilization activities focus on  MARPS and increase testing numbers within these groups

·         Take part in and support trainings for Worksite staff and LIPs/SGs

·         Maintain close collaboration with worksite staff  and LIPs/SGs in to support all aspects of MULU Worksite services and QA upon roll-out

·         Ensure compliance with MULU/Worksite’s SOPs

·         Ensure adherence to the branding and marking requirements of the project

 

Tasks: To be accomplished in conjunction and at the request of the MULU Work Site coordinator

·         Develop worksite based mentoring and supervision schedule

·         Organize and manage logistics and procurement for trainings and meetings

·         Maintain QA tools and forms and files

·         Work closely with HQ M+E staff to ensure tight and proper M+E compliance on prevention work and with Worksites and LIPs/SGs including the reaching of targets by partners

·         Organize, maintain and populate computer and hard copies of files regularly

·         Compile and circulate QA documents to partners in a timely manner as a result of QA visits

·         Compile reports

·         Complete travel requests, vehicle requests, timesheets, and trip reporting in a timely manner

·         Compile training reports and maintain clean, orderly training files (hard and soft)

·         Liaise, with, support and communicate regularly with MULU-l regional coordinators and LIPs/SGs on prevention issues

·         Maintain contact details for all partner prevention staff

·         Provide training in various prevention related topics to Worksite prevention partners

·         Conduct quarterly QA/supervision/mentoring site visits to Worksites (unless more is requested)

·         Compile and submit requested/required reports to MULU Worksite regional coordinator

·         Conduct on the job mentoring and skills building for Worksite health peer educators and others on site

·         Perform any other duties as assigned by the MULU Workplace regional coordinator

Special job requirements:

§  Willingness and ability to transition from desk and admin work to travel and challenging fieldwork conditions

§  Ability to work independently and with fidelity to World Learning and care for organizational assets

§  Willingness to work odd hours through agreement with supervisor

§  Ability to respond to ever changing, fast paced and constant requests for action and documents

§  Knowledge of local language is a plus

 

Qualification/Experience:

§  Tertiary qualification in social sciences, health or education (required)

§  5-6 years’ experience in HIV/AIDS program implementation, peer education, community and social mobilization

§  2-3 years counselling experience-HIV focus an advantage

§  Program management qualification or experience (advantage)

Terms of Employment:  Six months or less

Salary:  As per the scale of the organization

Closing Date:     Jul 24, 2016

Qualified and interested applicants are invited to submit their credentials to Humera area office or apply online through

strictly as follows:

(i)                 One page cover letter,

(ii)               CV (maximum 4 pages), and

(iii)             In PDF format.

To MULU Worksite Humera Area Regional Office, Kebele: 01 Ketena: 05, Ato kendeya Building, Around Tesit Humera Elementary School or Nearby Green Hotel, Tel: 034 248 00 43, Attention Ato Gebrelibanos: 0910 21 66 92.