Chimwemwe Teens!
Job Description – Program Officer
About Project Concern Zambia (PCZ)
Project Concern Zambia (PCZ) is a local Zambian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that was established in 2019. PCZ work focuses on contributing to the achievement and sustenance of HIV epidemic control and addressing the upstream vulnerabilities that impede progress towards this achievement such as poverty, inadequate access to education particularly among adolescents and young people and addressing emerging epidemics that might further hinder progress such as COVID-19. PCZ collaborates with grassroot community-led organizations, the local government, and the private sector to serve targeted populations.
PCZ seeks to recruit a Program Officer
Project Summary
Funded by the Neeley Foundation through Global Communities, the Chimwemwe Teens! Program supports complementary activities to the Empowered Children and Adolescents Program—USAID ECAP II. Through this program, PCZ has partnered with Restless Development to integrate into the USAID ECAP II program in Kapiri Mposhi district a youth engagement proof of concept aimed at engaging youths in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of adolescent-focused HIV prevention programs. Youths known as Adolescents Agents of Change are using program data to hold services providers accountable for the quality delivery of HIV prevention programs for adolescents and young people at risk of HIV acquisition.
Job Summary
The Program Officer will directly report to the Program Director and will liaise closely with Restless Development, Government Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), Ministry of General Education (MOGE) and their decentralized provincial and district offices in Kapiri Mposhi; S/he will be proactive in assisting the Program Director to ensure the program is implementing evidence-based and high-quality adolescent-focused HIV interventions. The Program Officer will have skills required to write quality project reports and should have good budget management and analytical skills. S/he will also be required to represent the Program Director in high level virtual and in-person meetings, and hence should have good presentation and communication skills and be able to eloquently communicate program achievements and best practices to external audiences. The Program Officer will be knowledgeable about evidence-based and state-of-the-art HIV biomedical and structural prevention interventions for adolescents and young people and interventions needed to address social determinants of health in these populations.
Job responsibilities
Required Skills and Experience
To apply for this job email your details to HumanResources@pcz.org.zm
Closing Date : 13th October, 2022.
