District Economic Strengthening Officer (DESO)

About CeSHHAR Zimbabwe

CeSHHAR Zimbabwe is an organisation that specialises in Population health research and programming, including on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. CeSHHAR has an extensive national, regional, and international academic and community partnership. CeSHHAR has a diverse range of funders which include the Wellcome Trust, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, United States NIH, UK Medical Research Council, Templeton World Charity Foundation, USAID, Global Fund for AIDS TB and Malaria, UNICEF and UNFPA. We partner very closely with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK; opportunities for joint appointment exist), Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health and Child Care and international and regional centres of research excellence to rigorously evaluate national programmes and determine the impact, uptake, and cost effectiveness of novel reproductive health interventions. See more of CeSHHAR’ s work on its webshttp://ceshhar.org/

The Economic Strengthening Officer (ESO) will report to the Site Manager and Site Outreach Lead. Working closely with the Community Based Facilitators (CBFs), DREAMS Ambassador, Microplanners and Outreach Team, the ES Officer will oversee delivery of the DREAMS economic strengthening package in DREAMS districts.

Duties and Responsibilities

• The ES Officer will support Young Women Who Sell Sex (YWSS) to undertake economic strengthening activities.
• Overall planning and implementation of DREAMS economic strengthening program at district level in collaboration with Outreach Workers, Regional Coordinators, Site Outreach Leads and SIE Team.
• Identify and nurture strategic partnerships to support program to meet its economic strengthening goals.
• Develop and maintain linkages with governments, organizations, and projects that support economic strengthening activities.
• Use appropriate project management tools to plan, review, and track progress on project implementation.
• Ensure high quality facilitation of training and systematic post-training supportive supervision and mentoring to YWSS.
• Document project results and impacts in various forms, including media stories, lessons learned, case studies, client satisfaction, etc.
• Supports Community Based Facilitators (CF) identify, mobilize and recruit YWSS into ISALS clubs as well as identifying those that are eligible for the Economic Strengthening pathways.
• Ensure program quality through use of program standard operating procedures and guides in clubs.
• Directly supports program monitoring through tracking weekly targets and mobilizing project data.
• Drafts project reports as required.
• Do any other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences, Economics or a closely related field.
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in youth health interventions and/or economic strengthening programming.
• Demonstrated experience in design and delivery of training and mentoring in youth focused interventions.
• Experience in program planning, community mobilization, implementation of program activities and capacity building.
• Knowledge of health and development interventions, including HIV/AIDS, key populations and mental health.
• Understanding of the DREAMS program aims, principles, values and rights-based approaches for young people.
• Be non – judgmental when engaging beneficiaries and stakeholders and have a sense of confidentiality.
• Good team player and ability to work under pressure.
• Good interpersonal and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good in languages and proficiency in Ndebele is a distinct advantage.
• Good in planning and administrative duties.