Adolescent Girls Program Officer

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Mercy Corps

  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: Not Disclosed
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 13/07/2025
  • Location: Ethiopia
Child protection/ Children’s rights Youth
About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, hardship, and in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action—helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within—now and for the future.  Mercy Corps Ethiopia exists to alleviate suffering and poverty by helping people build secure, productive, and sustainable livelihoods. Since 2004, we have worked in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in five regional states - Somali, Oromia, Afar, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, Amhara, and the capital city of Addis Ababa. 

General Position Summary

Adolescent girls program Officer plays a crucial role at Mercy Corps Ethiopia by implementing a strategic, curriculum-based intervention for adolescent girls and their male and female care givers. This position is responsible for ensuring the technical quality and integration of these and addressing related concerns through direct service and referrals.  Adolescent girls program officer plays a key role in Mercy Corps Ethiopia by providing a separate privational intervention for adolescent girls. The position holder will ensure these activities technical quality and integration across humanitarian programs and identify and address related concerns through direct service and referral.  The Adolescent girls program officer will contribute to providing curriculum-based life skill sessions for adolescent girls, capacity-building training, lead organizational and staff transformation on protection related concerns, and represent Mercy Corps in relevant coordination forums and platforms.  Adolescent girls program Officer will also provide to capacity-building training, facilitate curriculum-based Psychosocial support, and discussions and skill building sessions in the Women Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS) for Adolescent girls and their care givers. Additionally, they will lead the organizational and staff transformation on protection and represent Mercy Corps in relevant coordination forums and platforms at the field office level.  The position holder will participate in assessments and concept note writing. They are also responsible for developing effective and timely budget and activity reports. They also develop work plans, managing procurement plans that include prompt initiation of Purchase Requests (PR), overseeing procurement processes, and ensuring timely delivery to the target participants. If necessary, the position holder may travel to other field offices to provide support in similar and related protection roles.


Minimum Qualification and Transferable Skills
  • BA degree in Sociology, Psychology, Social work, or other similar social science field of studies.
  • Minimum four years’ work experience in protection, and VAWG/CRSV-related roles both in development and humanitarian settings.
  • Demonstrated experience in different Adolescent girls program strategies, Girl shine and report writing,
  • Demonstrated experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis methods and Microsoft word and excel.
  • Experience conducting training and mentorship for other team members and other partners.
  • Must be fluent both local language and English.

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