Adolescent and Youth Coordinator

Job Description

Title: Adolescent and Youth Coordinator

Company Name: Pathfinder International

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Cox's Bazar (Teknaf)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor's degree in public health, adolescent/youth services, gender, social science or related discipline.

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 3 year(s)

Job Responsibilities:
∎ Strategic Leadership: Supports and contributes to strategic technical leadership to project on the implementation of high quality AYSRH interventions integrated with gender. Supports development of strategies and plans for integration of comprehensive adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health to address the unmet FP needs. Provides support to gender-centered AYSRH programming aimed at building the capacity of stakeholders.
∎ Programming Design and Implementation: Provide support in the design, development and implementation of innovative, effective, context appropriate adolescent and youth programming.
∎ Build capacity: Support development and scale up of efforts to achieve gender responsive adolescent and youth friendly gender service provision at facility level as well as community-level. Ensure quality of care for A&Y services through ongoing monitoring and evaluation.
∎ Technical Assistance: Supports AY Manager and Specialist in design of strategies for scaling up successful models and identifying new ways to help improve services and information for young people.
∎ Quality Assurance: Provides support to project team to ensure that best practices for adolescent and youth services and service integration are well documented, evaluated and poised for scale up.
∎ Brand Ambassador: Represents project to external organizations as assigned.

Additional Requirements:
∎ 3 years' experience working in development, preferably implementing programs and adolescent and youth, family planning in Bangladesh
∎ Prefer: Experience with international donor funded projects
∎ Country Specific Public Health System: Advanced knowledge of the Bangladesh health system.
∎ Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Foundational knowledge of family planning and reproductive health principles, adolescent health practices and services of programs, including program strategies and indicators, and the latest professional developments. Foundational skills in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating development and intervention activities, preferably with USAID, WHO, or other donor organizations working in the health sector.
∎ Program Operations and Development: Foundational skills in implementing similar programs.
∎ Program and Project Planning and Management: Foundational skills in program and project management and planning to fulfill performance objectives, including the timely implementation and reporting of donor-funded program activities.
∎ Change Leadership: Ability to demonstrate a high degree of flexibility in managing change across a broad group of stakeholders in an inclusive manner.
∎ Presentation Skills: Ability to make presentations on results and products to small and large groups.
∎ Community Relations: Foundational skills in facilitating work relationships between partners, government officials, and communities
∎ Software Applications: Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook.
∎ Languages: Proven ability to write and speak using Bangla and English language.
∎ Communication and Influencing Skills: Proven ability to influence others through diplomacy and proven oral and written communication skills.
∎ Passion for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Commitment to family planning, reproductive health services, gender, maternal, child health services, and eradication of harmful traditional practices.
∎ Self-Management and Teamwork: Ability to work independently or as a member of the team, ability to be detailed-oriented, and ability to manage stress effectively in a fast-pace environment.
∎ Confidentiality: Ability to maintain confidentiality on work related matters
∎ Travel required
∎ Must be willing to travel in public transportation
∎ Uses cellular and desk phone; laptop or desktop computer

Application Deadline: 20 Jul 2020

Company Information:
∎ 2 Jul 2020
∎ Pathfinder International
∎ Business : Pathfinder is driven by the conviction that all people, regardless of where they live, have the right to decide whether and when to have children, to exist free from fear and stigma, and to lead the lives they choose.

Since 1957, we have partnered with local governments, communities, and health systems to remove barriers to critical sexual and reproductive health services. Together, we expand access to contraception, promote healthy pregnancies, save women’s lives, and stop the spread of new HIV infections, wherever the need is most urgent.

Our work ensures millions of women, men, and young people are able to choose their own paths forward. Change lives with us.

Category: NGO/Development