Lead Community Facilitator

JOB SUMMARY:The Lead Facilitator for Empowerment (Lead FFE) provides technical leadership and supervisory oversight for the Community Healthy Entrepreneurs (CHEs) pilot project at woreda and kebele levels. S/he ensures quality implementation of health entrepreneurship activities, supervises FFEs, and strengthens institutional linkages with local health systems. The Lead FFE systematically identifies program quality gaps, guides FFEs in planning and execution, and ensures accountability, gender equity, and inclusion across all interventions. S/he consolidates reports, documents lessons, and represents CARE in zone and woreda-level coordination platforms related with the CHEs project. S/he will closely work with health centers’ pharmacies to ensure stock management, replenishment of healthcare products to community healthy entrepreneurs (health extension workers and women development army leaders).RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS:  Job Responsibility #1: Program Quality Implementation and Technical Leadership Provide technical guidance to FFEs on facilitation, health commodity distribution, and entrepreneurship training. Ensure program activities meet CARE standards, donor requirements, and government health extension protocols. Conduct supervision visits, coaching, and performance reviews of FFEs and CHEs. Validate kebele-level health action plans and ensure integration with woreda health systems. Monitor adoption of new health practices and technologies, ensuring equity and inclusion.% of Time:  40%            Job Responsibility #2: Supervision and Capacity Building of FFEsDirectly supervise FFEs, assign responsibilities, and monitor progress against targets. Facilitate peer learning, refresher trainings, and professional development initiatives for FFEs. Ensure accountability mechanisms (gender equity, participatory approaches, non-discrimination) are consistently applied. Support FFEs in documenting case studies, lessons learned, and best practices.% of Time:  30%Job Responsibility #3: Partnership and Accountability   Representing CARE EHFO in zone and woreda-level health coordination meetings related to the CHEs project. Strengthen collaboration with zone and woreda health offices, cluster health centers, kebele health task forces, and community-based organizations. Promote institutional integration of CHEs activities into government health structures.Support coaching and mentoring initiatives of the project. Ensure productive relationships are established and maintained with stakeholders. Ensure health centers’ healthcare products management, restocking, and replenishment% of Time: 5%Job Responsibility #4: Reporting, Learning and DocumentationReview and consolidate weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports from FFEs before submission to the Project Manager. Document CHE profiles, performance data, and household outreach results. Facilitate innovation fairs, knowledge-sharing platforms, and experience exchange visits. Collect and package evidence for d...