• Conduct relevant evidence-based advocacy to garner stakeholder support for young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights
• Work with university authorities to institutionalize Life-skills and Health Education, Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) service provision and prevention/response to sexual and gender-based violence for young people in tertiary institutions.
• Support the capacity building of the Higher and Tertiary Education Institutions (HTEIs) to deliver quality and effective SE through training of health care workers, lecturers, and peer educators/mentoring programs.
• Facilitate capacity strengthening of campus health facilities to offer a trusted standard package of youth-friendly health services for students, along with sustained referral mechanisms to specialist care and support services as needed.
• Re-invigorate existing structures to ensure students have access to quality life skills and Health education services through strengthening collaboration between HTEIs, relevant ministries, Civil Society organisations facilitating mobile health services and ‘in-reach’ programs by external service providers
• Support health facilities to implement the scorecard to routinely assess the quality-of-SRH services at HTEI health facilities and others that offer services to students

• Support operationalization of the whistle blower mechanism to enhance response to sexual and gender-based violence that students may encounter in and around campus.
• Establish a system of a knowledge-sharing platform, providing an opportunity for institutions to collaborate, network, share knowledge and provide collective suggestions on issues related to health and well-being, practice and programs and evidence-based research.
• Sustain functionality of the existing O3 PLUS Project Institutional Level Technical Working Groups to ensure well-coordinated implementation of the project.
• Lead the compilation of SRH/SE/GBV innovations, stories of change and learnings for sharing in relevant local, national and international Education, HIV, SRH, Gender and other important platforms.
• Coordinate Implementation of O3 PLUS project at 2 participating universities and lead efforts to consolidate outputs to inform project scale up.
• Support operations research, monitoring & evaluation around SE/SRH for young people in tertiary institutions to enhance evidence-based planning and implementation of programmes.

• University degree (Bachelor) in Education, Social Sciences, Public Health or related Field.
• At least three (3) years of progressively responsible, professional work experience in developing, coordinating, implementing, and monitoring projects on sexual and reproductive health, Gender Based Violence Prevention, Sexuality Education, HIV and AIDS programmes for young people.
• Extensive professional knowledge and experience on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, including GBV, SE, HIV and AIDS programming
• Experience in Project management
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation.
• Excellent strategic and analytical skills.
• Good computer and other IT skills including proficiency in MS office packages.
• Experience working with Government ministries, international/national Non-Governmental Organizations and UN Agencies.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced university degree (Masters) in Education, Social Sciences, Public Health or a relevant field
• Experience working in higher and tertiary education sector

Skills and competencies

• Strong knowledge of the country context, with a particular focus on education and public health
• High level of technical writing skills on issues related to SRH programmes for young people.
• A track record in programme coordination, ability to manage budgets and report on implementation
• Excellent organizational, networking and partnership building skills, tact and discretion.
• Experience in training, coordination and/or institutional and human capacity building.