SRH Coordinator - SRH Alliance Project

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

The Global SRHR Alliance New pilot programme is being implemented across eight countries in three regions: East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda), West Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger), MENA (Jordan, Lebanon).

The SRH Coordinator will lead the planning, coordination, implementation, and monitoring of the SRH Alliance Project at regional, zonal, and woreda levels. The role ensures the delivery of high-quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) interventions through effective collaboration with alliance partners, government stakeholders, and local implementing organizations.

The position is responsible for coordinating project activities, managing partnerships, supporting budget and grant compliance, and ensuring timely reporting in line with donor and organizational requirements. The Coordinator will promote access to quality SRH services and information, strengthen community engagement, support youth and women-led networks, facilitate capacity-building initiatives, and contribute to research, advocacy, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and documentation. The role also promotes gender equality, disability inclusion, and sustainable project outcomes in conflict-affected and hard-to-reach communities.

Key Accountabilities

A. Regional Project Coordination, Planning, Implementation, and Reporting

• Coordinate and oversee the implementation of SRH Alliance project activities at regional and woreda levels.
• Support quality SRH service delivery, SRH education, evidence generation, advocacy, and CSO strengthening initiatives.
• Contribute to project planning processes, including DIPs, annual plans, and quarterly work plans.
• Coordinate project staff, implementing partners, and government stakeholders to ensure timely and quality implementation.
• Manage regional budgets, monitor expenditures, and support financial forecasting and compliance.
• Prepare and submit quality reports, project documentation, and donor-required information.
• Facilitate partnerships and agreements with regional government offices and stakeholders.
• Organize and deliver trainings, workshops, and capacity-building initiatives for partners and government actors.
• Lead project reviews, monitoring visits, and joint partner meetings.
• Represent the project in regional coordination forums, technical working groups, and alliance platforms.
• Provide supervision, coaching, and technical support to project staff.

B. Quality Implementation, Monitoring, and Documentation

• Support monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning activities in collaboration with MERL and MEAL teams.
• Ensure timely collection, analysis, and reporting of project data and performance information.
• Document lessons learned, best practices, and implementation challenges.
• Maintain organized project records and documentation in compliance with audit and accountability requirements.
• Strengthen partnerships with research institutions, universities, and technical agencies to promote evidence-based programming and quality SRH services.

C. Program Integration and Cross-Cutting Themes

• Promote gender equality, youth participation, disability inclusion, and engagement of marginalized communities across project activities.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures.
• Align regional project interventions with organizational strategies, government policies, and project objectives.
• Support community engagement approaches, including peer education, champions of change, survivor-centered programming, and intergenerational dialogue.

Safeguarding Children and Program Participants (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
• Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
• Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
• Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

The Individual

Qualifications/ Experience/Skills Essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Reproductive Health, Sociology, Development studies, or related social science field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in regional project management, especially alliance or consortium programs, with strong sectoral expertise on SRH with good understanding of regional and local contexts.
• Good team player with agility and problem-solving capability
• Experience of working on complex projects that involves diversified local implementing partners.
• Knowhow of SRH and GBV strategies/policy frameworks, teenage pregnancy roadmap, child marriage, FGM.
• Experience in planning, budget management, delivering trainings
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Languages required:

• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both orally and in writing is essential
• In addition, Knowledge of Regional Languages is essential or Local language is mandatory

Location: Afar Program Area ,Chifra

Type of Role: SRH Alliance Project

Reports to: Project Manager - SRH Alliance

Closing Date:September 02, 2026

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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