Project Officer – Early Childhood Development (ECD), Ethiopia

About the role

PATH Ethiopia is implementing a project on workforce capacity building for early childhood development (ECD) scale-up, integrating parental coaching into Ethiopia's Health Extension Program. The Project Officer supports planning, coordination, implementation, monitoring, documentation and reporting of project activities in prioritized regions, working closely with Regional Health Bureaus, PATH teams, the African Centre for Early Childhood Development (ACfECD) and local stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Support the design, planning and implementation of ECD activities, develop workplans and track progress against approved workplans, timelines and budgets
• Act as a key contact with Regional Health Bureaus and government counterparts, representing the project in technical meetings and workshops
• Support adaptation of ECD training materials and facilitate or co-facilitate training, orientation and workshops for health extension workers, supervisors and trainers
• Coordinate logistics for trainings and workshops, including printing and distribution of materials
• Monitor project activities, collect implementation data, document lessons learned and case studies, and contribute to knowledge management
• Prepare project reports, meeting minutes, presentations and donor reports, and communicate progress and risks to the Project Manager
• Work with PATH technical, M&E, finance, operations and communications teams

Required profile

• Master's degree in Public Health, Health Sciences, Early Childhood Development, Child Development, Social Sciences, Education or a related field
• Demonstrated experience in ECD, child health, maternal and child health, health systems or related programs
• Experience with government health systems (Federal Ministry of Health and/or Regional Health Bureaus) strongly preferred
• Experience in planning, coordinating, implementing, monitoring and reporting on health or development projects
• Experience facilitating training, workshops and technical meetings
• Willingness to travel frequently to project implementation areas

Required skills

• Proficiency in English; fluency in one or more local languages of the project regions is highly desirable
• Strong writing, documentation, reporting and knowledge-management skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)