Project Assistant - Core Group Partners Project

Amref Health Africa in Ethiopia is recruiting Project Assistants for its Core Group Partners Project (CGPP) in South Omo Zone. This opportunity is ideal for public health professionals with hands‑on experience in immunization, surveillance, and community health systems. Joining Amref means contributing to Africa’s largest health development organization, working directly with communities to strengthen disease surveillance, eradicate polio, and expand immunization coverage. If you’re passionate about grassroots health impact and have the technical expertise to support health extension workers and volunteers, this role offers both challenge and purpose.

Company Description

Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest African-based international health development organisation; currently implementing more than 180 programs, reaching more than 40 million people across 35 African countries; and a staff complement of over 2,000. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa has offices in ten countries in Africa – Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea (Conakry), Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. An additional eleven advocacy and fundraising offices are located in Europe and North America. 

Amref Health Africa is driven by its vision of ‘Lasting health change in Africa’ and its mission ‘To catalyze and drive community-led and people-centred health systems while addressing social determinants of health’. We believe that the power to transform Africa's health lies within its communities, and therefore strive to ensure that health systems are not only functional but that communities are empowered to hold these systems accountable for the delivery of quality and affordable health care.

Job Description

Background:

Amref Health Africa through its strengthening the capacity of partners and community on polio eradication efforts and outbreak preparedness and response project, Amref will work to strengthen the immunization and disease surveillance systems in line with the ministry of health strategy and plan. More focus will be given on approaches that ensure active community-based disease surveillance and access to and utilization of immunization services through trained community volunteers and improve the linkage of Health post and community volunteers. 

Amref Health Africa would like to recruit a Project Assistant for its Core Group Partners Project (CGPP). The job holders will be based in South Ethiopia Region South Omo Zone stationed at Hammer (1), Dasenech (1) and Bena-Tsemay (1). The Project Assistants will reports to Project Zonal Coordinator/Regional Manager.  

Required No.: - 3 (1 Hammer, Dasenech, and Bena Tsemay Woredas)

Job Summary:

Under the direct supervision of Program Zonal Coordinator, the project Assistants are responsible to the overall project intervention in the Zones and is accountable to the delivery of set results. S/he engage in the project planning, implementation, and reporting. S/he also works and support M&E team the monitoring and evaluation activities of project.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare periodic activity plans (details implementation work plan) and submit to coordinator.
• Prepare and submit bi-weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports.
• Implement the project activities at grassroot level in collaboration with woreda health office, health centers and health extension workers
• Use readily available materials, guidelines, manuals, and others to ensure quality of the project implementations
• Collect results/outcomes of the project daily from grassroot level
• Update CGPP digital M & E regularly 
• Compile and submit periodic internal and government reports
• Facilitate and participate in regular meeting with project team and government and other relevant stakeholders
• Organize and facilitate project relevant workshops, and trainings to health extension workers and volunteer health leaders (VHLs)
• Conduct post training follow up, mentorship and coaching regularly
• Facilitate, participate and represent Amref/the project in meeting and workshops to ensure strong partnership and collaboration at all level
• Participate and support project monitoring and evaluation activities
• Develop and document best practices, lessons, cases stories and pictures properly
• Perform any other assignment as requested by the supervisor.

Specific responsibilities to Immunization and Surveillance:

• Work with the ZHD, Woreda, and HFs to identify their needs, develop a joint plan, and provide ongoing technical assistance based on those needs related with routine immunization and surveillance.
• Support development of micro-planning to identify and map zero-dose children and missed communities in selected high priority woredas and HFs
• Conduct regular follow up and support in identification of how many zero-dose children are reached, in each specific priority woredas and PHCUs and provide regular feedback by analyzing local level data
• Provide technical support including in planning and monitoring of catch up vaccination campaigns and other campaigns.
• Provide technical support in any demand creation activities specially advocacy by designing tailored materials to the context using local data, and awareness creation to address barriers for RI, including addressing gender-related barriers.
•  Provide support in any new vaccine introduction and switch (IPV2, Rota, Yellow fever and scale up of Hep B)
• Provide technical support in micro plan, implementation, conducting rapid convince survey
• Support planning, implementation and monitoring of COVID 19 and HPV vaccinations in the low performed Woredas and PHCUs
• Support and monitor vaccine stock availability and cold chain management at woreda and health facility
• Participate in TWG-One Health, EPI task force and cross border health meetings regularly and contribute technically and support the Zones and woredas per the gaps on the ground
• Participate on capacity building activities related with immunization service (Training, mentorship and advocacy meetings and      orientations)
• Provide ongoing technical support to ZHDs, Woredas and PHCUs through participating in supportive supervisions, review meetings
• Actively participate in key zonal and Woreda technical meetings, such as technical working group, task forces and EOC meetings to stay informed and provide input on Program Officer immunization efforts.
• Regularly provide update and reports on performance

Qualifications

Required Academic Qualification

• Minimum of BSc in Public health/ health science, or relevant disciplines.
• Optional Diploma in health science 

  Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum of five years working experience in immunization and public health. Should have at least two years of experience in routine immunization and surveillance experience
• Able to conduct immunization data analysis and presentation to stakeholders including familiarity with DHIS-2
• Familiar with big-catch-up and other national-level immunization initiatives
• Demonstrated experience working within the Zone or woreda and familiarity with the zone and woreda
• Proven ability to use adult learning techniques to facilitate training, supportive supervision, and technical assistance
• Strong organizational, management, and communication skills to influence partners and decision-makers at the zonal, and woreda level
• Demonstrated ability to be a team player, to lead teams, and to organize multiple activities simultaneously; ability to communicate and negotiate competing demands on time from managers and work effectively with distributed teams.
• Computer skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and familiarity with DHIS2
• Fluency in English and Amharic and one of the local language is added value
• Training taken on IIP and IPC
• Willingness and ability to invest 80% of his/her time in supporting HEWs and VHLs
• Licensed motorbike riding

Additional Information

Your application should include a cover letter detailing why you are the best fit for this position and your CV with relevant skills and experience. Closing date will be on Friday, 16 January 2026. 

Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any money at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process and has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment. Although Amref may use different job boards from time to time to further spread its reach for applicants, all open vacancies are published on our website under the Vacancies page and on our official social media pages. Kindly also note that official emails from Amref Health Africa will arrive from an @amref.org address.

Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is is dedicated to diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer with a non-smoking environment policy.