About Restless Development.

Restless Development is a global non profit agency. We support the collective power of young leaders to create a better world. We are independently registered and governed in nine countries (India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, UK, USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe) bound together by our vision for youth power. We run youth-led programmes to tackle the issues that young people care about the most as well as running a growing global Youth Collective.

We know young people have the power to solve the challenges we face in our world, but they are being side-lined. We are the agency that works with young people so they can lead in solving those challenges. Whether that means supporting communities to end child marriage or prevent HIV, we work with young people to change their lives and the lives of people in their communities.

Our programmes are genuinely life-changing, but we can’t do any of this without talented, creative individuals at every level of our organisation.

Our approach to safeguarding

Restless Development considers the welfare and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults to be an organisational imperative with primacy over the success of programmes or strategic objectives. We recognize that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and we expect all of our staff, volunteers and partners to ensure we protect the communities in which we operate from harm and abide by our Safeguarding Policy.

About the Role.

Restless Development will be implementing a Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Project in Chadiza, Kasenengwa, and Mambwe in Eastern province. The Project Targets to put out of school  adolescent girls’ needs and rights at the centre of all project activities. This target group has been selected  because they are consistently left out of traditional adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights  (ASRHR) programming, are difficult to reach, and often have the greatest need.

The Projects also seeks to Increase enjoyment of health-related human rights by the most marginalized and vulnerable women and girls’ rights holders, particularly out of school adolescent girls in target areas. Increase equitable use of SRHR health services by diverse groups of women, adolescent girls, and  children’s rights holders, particularly out of school adolescent girls, Improved provision of gender and  adolescent responsive, inclusive and accountable health services by health care providers for diverse  groups of women adolescent girls and children’s rights holders, particularly out of school adolescent girls.

Improved effectiveness of key stakeholders, particularly women and girls’ rights organizations to advocate  for evidence-based, accountable and equitable ASRHR policies, legal frameworks and services. Restless Development therefore seeks to recruit for the project dynamic, inspired and innovative Zambians to fill the roles of Programme Officer. The Programme Officers will be based in Chadiza and Kasenengwa respectively, they will be responsible for the programme implementation, day to-day project operations, establishing linkages with stakeholders at provincial and district levels in targeted  schools and communities.

About You.

Essential and Desirable skills and experience

• Graduate-level Degree, Diploma in relevant area, or equivalent work experience.
• Good IT skills with competence in Word, Excel and PowerPoint essential.
• Belief in the values of Restless Development and ability to uphold them personally.
• A strong personal commitment to the values, code of conduct and methods of Restless Development.
• Proven facilitation and training skills.
• A high level of motivation and ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Leadership skills.
• Team builder.
• Relationship building.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal), fluency in written and spoken English essential and excellent IT skills.
• Experience working Government Institutions (MOGE) and conversant with their systems and operations.
• Experience in community mobilization.
• A clear understanding of contemporary development issues particularly those related to economic opportunities for youth, sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Educational Background

Minimum:  Graduate-level Degree, Diploma in relevant area, or equivalent work experience